Avowing Truth, Embodying Justice

ISBN-13: 9783534407705 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str.

Ryno Louis van der Riet

Opis

This book presents a theological inquiry into telling the truth for justice. An analysis is made of the hermeneutical and ethical challenges of truth-telling in the pursuit of justice within the context of transitional justice in South Africa. These challenges are explored as enacted in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and in Reformed public theologies in South Africa, in conversation with the work of Michel Foucault and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. The practice of confession is shown to be a quintessential form of avowing truth and embodying justice, with implications for public theology engaging issues of Christian anthropology.

This book presents a theological inquiry into telling the truth for justice. It engages the hermeneutical and ethical challenges of truth-telling in conversation with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, Reformed public theologies, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Michel Foucault.

O autorze

Ryno Louis van der Riet (PhD, Stellenbosch University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is an ordained minister in the Dutch Reformed Church and a Research Associate in the Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.