WEERKAATSENDE WOORDE: ’N (OUTO)BIOGRAFIESE REFLEKSIE VAN ’N (PRAKTIESE) TEOLOOG

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7833/119-3-1762
Keywords: Autobiography, Narrative, Reflection, Academic writing

Abstract

This article discloses, in an intimate personal manner and based on an (auto)biographical journey, some of the secrets and treasures of a (practical) theological academic author. Drawing on an initial casual contact with a practical theologian’s personal living-space, it presents a trajectory for charting the development of academic writing. Unexpected milestones along the path of documented practical theological research include aspects of a local, concrete and embodied description. Each of these milestones describes the steep elevation and gradient along the course. In viewing these milestones, one discovers that both writer and reader share in the most personal matters and that this intimacy has general significance. An analysis of the reflecting words of a (practical) theologian reveals potential coordinates for future writing and charting of other personal theological academic secrets and disclosures.

Author Biography

Jan Albert Van den Berg, Department of Practical and Missional Theology, Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of the Free State
ProfessorDepartment of Practical and Missional Theology, Faculty of Theology and ReligionUniversity of the Free State
Published
2020-10-30
Issue
Vol. 119 No. 3 (2020)
Section
Articles

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