EMBODYING COLLECTIVE MEMORY: TOWARDS RESPONSIBLE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ‘OTHER’

Authors

  • Christo H Thesnaar Stellenbosch University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7833/112-0-75

Keywords:

Collective Memory, Trauma Fatigue, Church, Dealing with the Past, Pastoral Hermeneutics

Abstract

 In view of the current challenges to reconciliation and unity between the DRC and the URCSA this article attempts to join in the transdisciplinary discourse on cultural trauma and collective memory in order to find a way of dealing collectively with past traumas in a constructive way. It argues that the concepts of cultural trauma and collective memory are significant in dealing with distresses of the past, in order to create a collective memory, which implies taking responsibility for the present and the future. It further introduces a collective pastoral hermeneutics to assist both churches to take responsibility for the past by embodying collective memory shared with the ‘other’ in order to transform the past in the present for the future.

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Author Biography

Christo H Thesnaar, Stellenbosch University

 Practical Theology and Missiology Lecturer

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Published

2013-12-06

How to Cite

Thesnaar, C. H. (2013). EMBODYING COLLECTIVE MEMORY: TOWARDS RESPONSIBLE ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ‘OTHER’. Scriptura: Journal for Biblical, Theological and Contextual Hermeneutics, 112, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.7833/112-0-75

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Vol. 112 (2013)

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