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Editorial

Editorial This year South Africans celebrate twenty years of democracy. On 27 April 1994 they participated for the first time in elections in an inclusive, constitutional democracy. On 10 May 1994 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected president of South Africa. This special issue of the International Journal of Public Theology focuses on public theology and the issues and challenges it faces in South Africa after twenty years of democracy. There are, of course, various ways of describing and defining public theology. However, all these approaches share a threefold intellectual investigation into the following: First, the inherent public contents, thrust and nature of religious faith; secondly, the inherent public rationality, reasonability and plausibility of religious faith; thirdly, the public meaning and significance, implications and impact of religious faith. Various public theologians emphasize different questions. The contributions in this special issue portray or reflect either the issues that inform the content of public theology in South Africa or the manner in which public theology is practiced in our young democracy, or both. Public theology may be practised in an inter-, intra- or transdisciplinary way, all of which are represented in this small collection of articles. Public http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Public Theology Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Other
ISSN
1872-5171
eISSN
1569-7320
DOI
10.1163/15697320-12341363
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Abstract

This year South Africans celebrate twenty years of democracy. On 27 April 1994 they participated for the first time in elections in an inclusive, constitutional democracy. On 10 May 1994 Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected president of South Africa. This special issue of the International Journal of Public Theology focuses on public theology and the issues and challenges it faces in South Africa after twenty years of democracy. There are, of course, various ways of describing and defining public theology. However, all these approaches share a threefold intellectual investigation into the following: First, the inherent public contents, thrust and nature of religious faith; secondly, the inherent public rationality, reasonability and plausibility of religious faith; thirdly, the public meaning and significance, implications and impact of religious faith. Various public theologians emphasize different questions. The contributions in this special issue portray or reflect either the issues that inform the content of public theology in South Africa or the manner in which public theology is practiced in our young democracy, or both. Public theology may be practised in an inter-, intra- or transdisciplinary way, all of which are represented in this small collection of articles. Public

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International Journal of Public TheologyBrill

Published: Nov 25, 2014

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