Europe's Role in a South African Methodology: A Sideline and Female Perspective

Product Description This work consists of essays on the so-called Middle Ages, seen from two perspectives. Writing from a sideline perspective, as opposed to the perspectives of historically mainstream theologies, in the first part of the book the author proposes a method for reading religious political texts with European philosophical insights but with a relevance for South Africa. This is done by comparing so-called Medieval texts with South African texts and situations within the demands of liberation, contextualisation, and communalism.In the second part of the book, from a female perspective, the author reevaluates the post-Biblical history of Christianity, criticising the terms «Patristics» and «Middle Ages». A South African women's theology is then offered as the outcome of the sideline perspective on the Bible, history and theology discussed in this book. About the Author The Author: Christina Landman was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1956. She studied theology and classical languages at the Universities of Pretoria and South Africa. Between 1976 and 1987 she was awarded six degrees (cum laude). In 1980 she was awarded a M.A.-degree in Classics with a dissertation on the Jewish sources of Eusebius of Caesarea, and in 1986 a D Th.-degree with a dissertation on the political theory of Hugo of Fleury. Presently she is a senior lecturer at the University of South Africa, a world-reknowned multi-racial university. She also leads a project on the method of writing and interpreting church history in South Africa.