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Church and society : the value of Perichoresis in understanding Ubuntu with special reference to John Zizioulas
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/23900 Church and society : the value of Perichoresis in understanding Ubuntu with special reference to John Zizioulas Buitendag, Johan jele2012@gmail.com Manganyi, Jele Samuel The worship of ancestors Christian faith Ubuntu African Traditional Religion (ATR) African Initiated Churches (AICs) UCTD Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012. The African Initiated Churches (AICs) are the custodians of the African Traditional Religion (ATR). In the South African census, the AICs are classified as Christian. Africans claim that long before the Christian faith came through missionaries there was some form of worship of God by Africans. This means Africans practiced ATR outside Christianity and after Christianity came through missionaries, they started practising it as Christians One of the reasons given for the Africans moving out of the missionary churches to start their own was a search for an African identity. There was a hunger for a place where the African culture could be accommodated. One of the features of African culture is the worship of ancestors. The question of monotheism encountering polytheism does arise in this kind of discussion. The doctrine of the Trinity is uniquely Christian. There is a historical background concerning the teaching and the foundation thereof. As the AICs responded to a situation, so did the Early Church Fathers who faced question of monotheism encountering polytheism. There was a need to redefine Jewish monotheism within the Christian faith in reference to the event of Jesus Christ. The Church Fathers struggled to defend and grappled with the Christian faith with reference to the scriptures in the light of Jesus Christ. They took the gospel from the Jewish setting into the Greek setting. Their efforts benefited the church throughout history. One may say the writings and the teachings of the early church stood the test of time. One may also say the writings and the teachings were based on the solid foundation being of Jesus Christ and the authority of the scriptures. Juxtaposition is the approach employed in this thesis. Two traditions are being critically assessed based on the notion of Perichoresis by the Cappadocian Church Fathers and the notion of Ubuntu in the ATR. Chapter one deals with the theological background with specific focus on the African church and contextualisation. Chapter two, deals with the debate concerning the position and nature of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. It also investigates the origin of the Nicene Creed. Chapter three investigates the terminology within the doctrine of the Trinity, while Chapter four explores the term ecumenical and communion with reference to Ubuntu. Chapter five analyses the work of Zizioulas, and the conclusion attempts to find an appropriate approach for the African church. Therefore the study concludes that the reference for Ubuntu should be found in the relationship with God through Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit and not in the veneration and worship of the ancestors. The benefits of the relationship with God through Jesus supersede all other relationship with any deity in the now and the future. Dogmatics and Christian Ethics unrestricted 2013-09-06T16:07:09Z 2013-04-18 2013-09-06T16:07:09Z 2013-04-15 2012 2013-04-09 Thesis Manganyi, JS 2012, 'Church and society : the value of Perichoresis in understanding Ubuntu with special reference to John Zizioulas', PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23900> D13/4/324/ag http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23900 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04092013-112029/ eng © 2012 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | The worship of ancestors Christian faith Ubuntu African Traditional Religion (ATR) African Initiated Churches (AICs) UCTD Church and society : the value of Perichoresis in understanding Ubuntu with special reference to John Zizioulas |
| title | Church and society : the value of Perichoresis in understanding Ubuntu with special reference to John Zizioulas |
| title_full | Church and society : the value of Perichoresis in understanding Ubuntu with special reference to John Zizioulas |
| title_fullStr | Church and society : the value of Perichoresis in understanding Ubuntu with special reference to John Zizioulas |
| title_full_unstemmed | Church and society : the value of Perichoresis in understanding Ubuntu with special reference to John Zizioulas |
| title_short | Church and society : the value of Perichoresis in understanding Ubuntu with special reference to John Zizioulas |
| title_sort | church and society the value of perichoresis in understanding ubuntu with special reference to john zizioulas |
| topic | The worship of ancestors Christian faith Ubuntu African Traditional Religion (ATR) African Initiated Churches (AICs) UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/23900 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04092013-112029/ |