Hans Ferdinand Bürki's public engagement in Africa and Asia, on the mystery of human sexual maturity
Hans Bürki made scores of visits to Africa and Asia in the 1970s and 80s, and Christian maturity was the topic he engaged in "Maturity Courses" with students and graduates in the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. A haracteristic of these courses was Bürki’s circulation of h...
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| Language: | English |
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[2019]
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Journal of theology for Southern Africa
Year: 2019, Volume: 164, Pages: 37-60 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDG Free church NBE Anthropology NCF Sexual ethics |
| Summary: | Hans Bürki made scores of visits to Africa and Asia in the 1970s and 80s, and Christian maturity was the topic he engaged in "Maturity Courses" with students and graduates in the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. A haracteristic of these courses was Bürki’s circulation of his treatise, "Towards Human Sexual Maturity: A Ten Point Manifesto", and his inimitably Socratic invitation to students to dialogue with it. This literary analysis introduces Bürki’s contextual, theological anthropology in "A Ten Point Manifesto". Bürki’s theology of human identity is expounded for its biblical and interdisciplinary strengths, its relevance to his 1970s context, and its eschatological challenge to Christians to be a germinal of transformation. Third, Bürki’s theological anthropology is offered in a stark context where spiralling violence against women compromises the sustainability of South African society, as an enduring proof text for the Church, to liberate gender relations for prophetic witness, in the Spirit of Christ. |
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| ISSN: | 0047-2867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of theology for Southern Africa
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