Dit is vandag "Thanksgiving Day" in Amerika. Afgesien daarvan dat ek nou nie vreeslik mal is oor kalkoen nie, is dit nogeens 'n gesekulariseerde kommersialisering van 'n gebruik wat tradisioneel eeue gelede ontstaan het as 'n godsdienstige geleentheid van...
Herwin Hoop in die Batebouer
Ek het aan die volgende aanhaling van Douglas John Hall, in sy The Cross in Our Context (p.195), gedink: “A theology that confesses hope, not finality or consummation, will certainly have a mission in the midst of a despairing world, but it will be a mission that recognizes an expansiveness of divine grace that far exceeds its own grasp and representation of this mission. For in the first place it will be hope in God, not in its own always-limited appropriation of God’s redemptive work. Christian mission is a particular, ongoing attempt faithfully to comprehend and participate in the missio Dei… Christians are those who have glimpsed in faith something of the reality and depth of this divine labor and who strive to involve themselves in it. But they know that it is not their work, and they know that its end eludes them and in its advent may utterly surprise them. Therefore they do not, may not, present themselves as a community for which all is finished – a body uniquely knowledgeable of the divine economy, in possession of secret truth concerning God’s closure of history, etc. (they are not Gnostics!).”