عنوان

Reconciliation as Public Theology:

شماره

LA113234

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Reconciliation as Public Theology:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Christian Thought in Comparative Indigenous Politics

نام نخستين پديدآور

Dominic O'Sullivan

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Christian public theology extends reconciliation beyond its principal sacramental concern for relationships between God and penitent to the construction of 'socially just' public relationships for the settlement of intra-national conflict. In theological terms, reconciliation brings public relationships into what Hally calls 'the Christ narrative of passion, death and resurrection' in which the perpetrators of injustice repent and seek forgiveness. This article introduces the conflicts that these discourses aim to resolve in Australia, Fiji and New Zealand and explains and contrasts reconciliation's relative importance in each of these jurisdictions. Moreover, the article's cross-jurisdictional comparison shows reconciliation's limits and possibilities as public theology, and argues that in Australia and New Zealand it has helped to create political environments willing to admit indigenous perspectives on a range of policy issues. On the contrary, however, the article also shows that the Fijian churches have distorted the concept of reconciliation to support political imperatives that are difficult to rationalize theologically, even though they are presented by the churches as being concerned with religious goals. Christian public theology extends reconciliation beyond its principal sacramental concern for relationships between God and penitent to the construction of 'socially just' public relationships for the settlement of intra-national conflict. In theological terms, reconciliation brings public relationships into what Hally calls 'the Christ narrative of passion, death and resurrection' in which the perpetrators of injustice repent and seek forgiveness. This article introduces the conflicts that these discourses aim to resolve in Australia, Fiji and New Zealand and explains and contrasts reconciliation's relative importance in each of these jurisdictions. Moreover, the article's cross-jurisdictional comparison shows reconciliation's limits and possibilities as public theology, and argues that in Australia and New Zealand it has helped to create political environments willing to admit indigenous perspectives on a range of policy issues. On the contrary, however, the article also shows that the Fijian churches have distorted the concept of reconciliation to support political imperatives that are difficult to rationalize theologically, even though they are presented by the churches as being concerned with religious goals.

تاريخ نشر

2014

توصيف ظاهري

5-24

عنوان

International Journal of Public Theology

شماره جلد

8/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1569-7320

اصطلاح موضوعی

reconciliation and indigeneity

اصطلاح موضوعی

reconciliation as public theology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Dominic O'Sullivan

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15697320-12341327

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y