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Seeing God’s voice in creation : a visio-spatial interpretation of Genesis 1
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/61551 Seeing God’s voice in creation : a visio-spatial interpretation of Genesis 1 Buitendag, Johan registrar@ctbs.org.za Rinquest, Lindsay Rabie-Boshoff, Annelien UCTD Contemporary Christians Creation Genesis 1 God's voice visio-spatial interpretation biblical creation story Theology theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education Theology theses SDG-13 SDG-13: Climate action Theology theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Theology theses SDG-17 SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2016. Contemporary Christians, evangelicals in particular, find it problematic to formulate and understand the relationship between the Christian faith tradition and natural science, with the result that they struggle in their understanding of the creation story in Genesis 1. The purpose of this study was to bring Christian theology and the science of linguistics into dialogue with each other in an attempt to understand the biblical creation story in modern-day terms. The motivation for the study is based on the belief and understanding that within the paradigm of the dialogue model disciplines other than theology, like linguistics, can bring insights to the world of the Bible and vice versa. The hypothesis for this thesis is based on the presupposition that God’s voice, believed to be inaudible sacred sound as Pretorius (2011:1-7) envisions it, can indeed be seen by humans as it becomes visible in creation, and interpreted in a way similar to the way deaf people communicate. This interpretation finds support from insights gained from the world of the Deaf and the basic principles of ‘Sign’, the language used to communicate within the deaf community. Two significant characteristics of Sign that strongly resonate with the picture of the natural world emerging from Genesis 1, are its unique and complex use of threedimensional space, and its rich modulation in time. This is explained in eloquent terms by renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks who says that, “…what occurs linearly, sequentially, temporally in speech, becomes simultaneous, concurrent, multileveled in Sign… and what looks so simple is extraordinarily complex and consists of innumerable spatial patterns nested, three-dimensionally, in each other” (Sacks 1991:88). These insights were fundamental in the development of the Divine Sign Language Model (DSL), which has proven to be a fruitful model to use in an effort to understand what it could possibly mean when the Bible talks of ‘God speaking’ or of ‘God’s voice’. Through the application of the DSL Model, ten basic image-concepts have been identified in Genesis 1, which form the foundation to a relational theology of Genesis 1. ae2025 Dogmatics and Christian Ethics PhD Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-13: Climate action SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals 2017-08-02T07:31:25Z 2017-08-02T07:31:25Z 2017 2016 Thesis Rabie-Boshoff, A 2016, Seeing God’s voice in creation : a visio-spatial interpretation of Genesis 1, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61551> A2017 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61551 en © 2017 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 | UCTD Contemporary Christians Creation Genesis 1 God's voice visio-spatial interpretation biblical creation story Theology theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education Theology theses SDG-13 SDG-13: Climate action Theology theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Theology theses SDG-17 SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals Seeing God’s voice in creation : a visio-spatial interpretation of Genesis 1 |
| title | Seeing God’s voice in creation : a visio-spatial interpretation of Genesis 1 |
| title_full | Seeing God’s voice in creation : a visio-spatial interpretation of Genesis 1 |
| title_fullStr | Seeing God’s voice in creation : a visio-spatial interpretation of Genesis 1 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Seeing God’s voice in creation : a visio-spatial interpretation of Genesis 1 |
| title_short | Seeing God’s voice in creation : a visio-spatial interpretation of Genesis 1 |
| title_sort | seeing god s voice in creation a visio spatial interpretation of genesis 1 |
| topic | UCTD Contemporary Christians Creation Genesis 1 God's voice visio-spatial interpretation biblical creation story Theology theses SDG-04 SDG-04: Quality education Theology theses SDG-13 SDG-13: Climate action Theology theses SDG-16 SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutions Theology theses SDG-17 SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/61551 |