Partnership for Missional Churches

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20-23 September 2009: 5 Missional Years

The Partnership for Missional Churches started their journey in Southern Africa 5 years ago.  Diarize this date so long when we will celebrate this journey together and dream about the road ahead.

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PMC Southern Africa at 5 years! By Patrick Keifert

Chance encounters that later appear the work of the Holy Spirit leave me filled with wonder and gratitude. Take for instance a chance encounter at the Center for Theological Inquiry in 2000. My dear friend of blessed memory, Donald Juel, was taking a leave of absence from his teaching New Testament at Princeton, to work on his continuing project of messianic exegesis, the origins of messianic expectations in the various forms of Palestinian Jewish religion before the life and work of Jesus, our Lord and how they help us understand the New Testament record. He and I were working on a ten year project on the Bible and Theological Education funded by the Lilly Endowment through CTI. I was visiting him for our continuing work and he introduced me to Coenie Burger, a member of the faculty at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Donald, in his usual unassuming but gleeful way suggested Coenie and I might have some things in common. So, while Donald did some other work on our project, Coenie and I sat in Don's office and talked.
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Ritual in liturgical and missional perspective

Geskryf deur Cas Wepener on . Posted in PMC - News

Ritual in liturgical and missional perspective.

Professor of Liturgical and Ritual Studies at the University of Tilburg and director of the Institute for Liturgical and Ritual Studies, Prof. Paul Post, will be presenting a paper on liturgy in the context of modern sacred domains. This topic is not only of interest to liturgists thinking about the worship service, but to many others, especially also those interested in missional theology and praxis. Prof. Post will be doing a presentation whereafter there will be an open discussion with him. The morning will conclude with a book presentation where refreshments will be served. Date: April 2nd 2009

Time: 9:00-11:30

Place: Communitas, Faculty of Theology

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9:00 – Welcome and introduction (Frederick Marais and Cas Wepener)

9:30 – Liturgy in the context van modern sacred domains: the heterotopy perspective. (Prof. dr. Paul Post)

10:00 – Open discssion

11:00 – Coffee/Tea and Book presentation: Wepener, CJ. 2009. From fast to feast. A ritual-liturgical exploration of reconciliation in South African cultural contexts. Liturgia Condenda 19. Leuven: Peeters Pers.

 

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