Calvinism and the use of scripture in South Africa
This article argues that black and white Calvinists in South Africa will not, in their use of Scripture, move closer to a solution for their differences from a fundamentalist stance. A (black) clinging to the Exodus-story does not gain on a (white) fixation on Genesis 10. The article offers as a ste...
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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SA ePublications
1986
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Old Testament essays
Année: 1986, Volume: 4, Pages: 111-124 |
Classifications IxTheo: | HB Ancien Testament |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Völkertafel
B Sortie d’Égypte B Alttestamentliche Hermeneutik B Fondamentalisme |
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Résumé: | This article argues that black and white Calvinists in South Africa will not, in their use of Scripture, move closer to a solution for their differences from a fundamentalist stance. A (black) clinging to the Exodus-story does not gain on a (white) fixation on Genesis 10. The article offers as a step towards a solution a willingness from both sides to share in each other's experience as an extra-Biblical enterprise, and then to develop metaphors from the Bible to guide this joint experience. |
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ISSN: | 2312-3621 |
Contient: | Enthalten in: Old Testament essays
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Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10.10520/EJC-cfbea635b |