Du Toit, Calvyn Clarence (2015) Biblical Spiritualities of the “City to Come”: Narratives of Meaning, Complexity, and Resistance. Masters thesis, University of South Africa.
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Abstract
“How does one develop an appropriate urban Christian Spirituality?” is the question this study asks. First, I develop a rigorous, yet open, theoretical framework with which to describe Christian Spirituality’s complexity: a description focused primarily on constraining the markers of Biblical Spirituality and City Spirituality. Within the limits placed on the complex system of Christian Spirituality, I begin exploring various, mostly minor, tropes of urban biblical spiritualities in the “Old” and “New” Testament. From these analyses, I evince the implications of these biblical spirituality tropes for the current city theater, and also construe a set of questions evaluating the appropriateness of mitigating urban communities. The study culminates in an imagined ideal mitigating urban community named an ekklesiastes: a wisdom teaching technology of urban meaning, complexity, and resistance.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Biblical Spirituality; City Spirituality; Christian Spirituality; Complexity; Urban |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BT Doctrinal Theology |
| Divisions: | Afro-Christiana |
| Depositing User: | Mr Jude Abhulimen |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2016 14:17 |
| Last Modified: | 15 May 2018 13:14 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/1293 |
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