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Annette Potgieter Khegan M Delport

Experiencing God in Everything and Nothingness

Negativity, Embodiment, and Spirituality--South African Perspectives

Annette Potgieter, Khegan M Delport

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English

Pickwick Publications
03 May 2024

Religious ethics; Christianity; Christian life & practice; Personal Christian testimony & inspirational works

"COVID-19 has impacted the way we see the world and the way we view spirituality; in times of crisis, people turn or return to religion or spirituality. Most of the South African population identifies as Christian. This brings to the fore what is meant by """"spirituality"""" in a country crippled by the remains of apartheid structure, rampant corruption, poverty, and various systemic problems. Overall, there is a lack of scholarship investigating """"spirituality"""" and """"spirituality studies"""" from the global South. This book aims to bridge the gap. New avenues are investigated of thinking about God in difficult circumstances, as ideologies of hope and prosperity are reshaped. This book links text and context, spirituality and material culture, self and society, the analogue and the digital, contemplation and action, saying and unsaying; in short, the question of experiencing God in both everything and nothingness comes under the scope of this book."

Edited by: Annette Potgieter, Khegan M Delport
Imprint: Pickwick Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 490g
ISBN: 9781666764369
ISBN 10: 1666764361
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 03 May 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Annette Potgieter is a senior lecturer in New Testament and related literature at the University of Pretoria. She is the author of Contested Body: Metaphors of Dominion in Romans 5-8 (2020) and the editor of Resilience in a VUCA World: Reflections on Teaching, Learning and Health in Turbulent Times (2022). She completed her doctorate in theology at Humboldt Universit�t zu Berlin (2019). Khegan M. Delport is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pretoria and a lecturer at Huguenot College. He is also an incoming postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung at the Otto-Friedrich-Universit�t Bamberg, and the author of On Tragedy and Transcendence: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Donald MacKinnon and Rowan Williams (2021).

Reviews for Experiencing God in Everything and Nothingness: Negativity, Embodiment, and Spirituality--South African Perspectives

"""The growth in publications classified as 'spiritual' has, in recent years, been exponential. Much can be classified as 'popular' rather than 'scholarly' or 'scientific.' This book is a remarkable exception. Most of its contributors are both scholars and practitioners in the field connected to South African academic institutions where they specialize in a variety of theological disciplines. Each chapter could stand alone; together they complement each other and demonstrate the complexity of the discipline. This is a rare and rich resource for those engaged in spiritual formation and leadership."" --John de Gruchy, professor emeritus of Christian studies, University of Cape Town ""The book is a powerful reminder that spirituality serves as a counternarrative to the type of binary thinking that leads to the polarization that currently pervades our world. In a time where we are able to better articulate the complexity of our reality and existence, there is a simultaneous resistance to reconciling diversity. Spirituality connects all and everything and has the potential to help us embrace the paradoxical nature of our existence, between 'everything and nothingness.' A valuable and necessary collection of essays!"" --Tanya van Wyk, associate professor of systematic theology, Christian ethics, and spirituality, University of Pretoria"