Leef Vrygewig
Self-ontlediging – kenosis - is die teenoorgestelde van selfhandhawing en selfvervulling. Dit is ‘n gesindheid om ter wille van ander, of in die plek van ander, te gaan staan en leef – soos wat Christus mens geword het, slaaf geword het en in ons plek gesterf het, om só ‘n nuwe gemeenskap met God moontlik te maak.
Die aard van die gemeenskap binne die Drie-eenheid is dié van ontlediging. Die Vader gee (offer) die Seun, die Seun gee (stuur) die Gees, die Gees gee gawes aan die kerk om ‘n inklusiewe gemeenskap van self-ontlediging te wees. Gasvryheid teenoor die vreemdeling is daarom wesenlik tot die geloofsgemeenskap. (Frederick Marais)
We must relinquish die social status that belongs to our past: the comfortable relationships with ruling classes; the continuous confirmation of accepted social values and norms by means of which we sustain those relationships; the espousal of “charities” that ease our guilty consciences while allowing us to maintain neutrality with respect to the social structures that make such “charities” necessary; the silent acceptance of racial, sexual, gender and economic injustices, or their trivialization through tokenism; the failure to probe die depths of human and creaturely pathos by confining sin to petty immorality or doctrinal refinements drawn from die past, and so on. We must disengage from the dominant culture. This is the necessary precondition for a meaningful engagement of that same dominant culture or society. (Douglas Hall)
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