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The Impact of the 2007 synod resolution of the Dutch Reformed Church on gay ministers : a postfoundational narrative perspective
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/44330 The Impact of the 2007 synod resolution of the Dutch Reformed Church on gay ministers : a postfoundational narrative perspective Müller, Julian Van Loggerenberg, Maria Petronella (Marietjie) Dutch Reformed Church Homosexuality Gay ministers Gay candidate ministers Legitimation Prejudice Discrimination Gay marriages The Constitution of South Africa Practical theology Postfoundational theology Narrative UCTD Theology theses SDG-03 SDG-03: Good health and well-being Theology theses SDG-05 SDG-05: Gender equality Theology theses SDG-10 SDG-10: Reduced inequalities Theology theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2015. At the 2007 General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church a compromise resolution was accepted regarding homosexual members. This resolution, inter alia, requires of gay ministers to remain celibate as a prerequisite to be legitimated. This research is a qualitative inquiry to evaluate the impact which this resolution has on the lives of gay ministers and gay candidate ministers. Narrative and postfoundational perspectives were obtained by interviewing six gay ministers and/or candidate ministers as coresearchers, and also by engaging in dialogue with inter-disciplinary experts from Sociology, Psychology and Law. This research traced the history of the Resolution, while the patriarchal and heteronormative discourses underlying the formulation were discussed. These discourses still sustain the Resolution. Interwoven in the Resolution are contradictions and double standards based on prejudice, leading to discrimination against gay ministers and gay candidate ministers. A literature study on prejudice and discrimination revealed many of the negative impacts these have on people on the margins of society. A literature review on gay marriages suggested that gay unions and gay marriages were known from pre-modern times. With the changing of the socio-political climates since pre-modern times till today, attitudes towards gay unions/marriages seemed to havethat the Bible does not categorically say anything about committed, monogamous gay unions or gay marriages. The focus of this research was to determine the impacts of the Resolution on gay ministers and gay candidate ministers. From their stories certain themes revealing the impacts were co-constructed by the co-researchers and the researcher. According to a negotiated meaning-making process a fragile and incomplete understanding of the gay ministers’ and gay candidate ministers’ immense suffering due to their experience of rejection and humiliation by the DRC was formulated. This reiterated the Shame of being gay. In terms of the discrimination levelled against gay ministers, it could, according to the Constitution of South Africa, be regarded as fair. This research suggested that the fairness of the discrimination should be revisited. changed. A study of the biblical texts led to the tentative and incomplete understanding gm2015 bs2025 Practical Theology PhD Unrestricted SDG-03: Good health and well-being SDG-05: Gender equality SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions 2015-04-13T12:18:59Z 2015-04-13T12:18:59Z 2015-04-28 2015 Thesis Van Loggerenberg, MP( 2015, The Impact of the 2007 synod resolution of the Dutch Reformed Church on gay ministers : a postfoundational narrative perspective, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44330> D15/4/10/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44330 en © 2015 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 | Dutch Reformed Church Homosexuality Gay ministers Gay candidate ministers Legitimation Prejudice Discrimination Gay marriages The Constitution of South Africa Practical theology Postfoundational theology Narrative UCTD Theology theses SDG-03 SDG-03: Good health and well-being Theology theses SDG-05 SDG-05: Gender equality Theology theses SDG-10 SDG-10: Reduced inequalities Theology theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions The Impact of the 2007 synod resolution of the Dutch Reformed Church on gay ministers : a postfoundational narrative perspective |
| title | The Impact of the 2007 synod resolution of the Dutch Reformed Church on gay ministers : a postfoundational narrative perspective |
| title_full | The Impact of the 2007 synod resolution of the Dutch Reformed Church on gay ministers : a postfoundational narrative perspective |
| title_fullStr | The Impact of the 2007 synod resolution of the Dutch Reformed Church on gay ministers : a postfoundational narrative perspective |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Impact of the 2007 synod resolution of the Dutch Reformed Church on gay ministers : a postfoundational narrative perspective |
| title_short | The Impact of the 2007 synod resolution of the Dutch Reformed Church on gay ministers : a postfoundational narrative perspective |
| title_sort | impact of the 2007 synod resolution of the dutch reformed church on gay ministers a postfoundational narrative perspective |
| topic | Dutch Reformed Church Homosexuality Gay ministers Gay candidate ministers Legitimation Prejudice Discrimination Gay marriages The Constitution of South Africa Practical theology Postfoundational theology Narrative UCTD Theology theses SDG-03 SDG-03: Good health and well-being Theology theses SDG-05 SDG-05: Gender equality Theology theses SDG-10 SDG-10: Reduced inequalities Theology theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/44330 |