Beyers Naudé Sentrum: Seminaar oor Sionisme – NG Wes-Kaapland Sinode
Beyers Naudé Sentrum: Seminaar oor Sionisme
SIONISME, PROFETIESE TEOLOGIE EN DIE UITDAGING AAN SUID-AFRIKAANSE CHRISTENE
12 September (8:30-17:00) – 13 September 2018 (8:30-12:00)
Kamer 2004, Fakulteit Teologie, Dorpstraat 171, Stellenbosch
Die Beyers Naudé Sentrum vir Publieke Teologie aan die Fakulteit Teologie nooi u graag uit na hul eerste seminaar oor Sionisme
Fooi vir twee dae (verversings ingesluit): R100 per persoon.
RSVP asseblief teen 31 Augustus 2018 na momberg@sun.ac.za om jou plek te bespreek.
Sluit aan by Mark Braverman, ‘n Joodse Amerikaner en outeur van Fatal Embrace (met voorwoord deur Walter Brueggemann) en A Wall in Jerusalem en Marthie Momberg vir ‘n insiggewende bespreking.
Waarom die dringendheid en belang van hierdie onderwerp?
Oorvleueling (intersectionality) tussen die Palestynse stryd en ander konflikte wyer as hierdie smal gebied in die Midde-Ooste: Hoe kan die studie van Sionisme kwessies soos oorheersing, sistemiese geweld en kolonialisme in ander dele van die wêreld na vore bring?
Christen-skuldgevoelens oor Joodse lyding: Kan ‘n analise van die Christendom se aandeel in die onderdrukking van Palestyne lei na ‘n nuwe verstaan van die kerk se na-oorlogse fokus op versoening en antisemitisme?
Verby dialoog tussen gelowe: Ongeskrewe reëls verbied kritiek van Israel en diegene wat Sionisme kritiseer word anti-Semiete genoem. Hoe kan die kerk hierdie uitdaging konfronteer? Hoe kan Christene dieper, meelewende verhoudinge met Jode op institusionele en persoonlike vlak bou, ten spyte van heftige weerstand vanuit die geledere van mede-Christene en Joodse kollegas wat kritiek teen Israel teenstaan?
‘n Ekumeniese Beweging vir die 21ste Eeu: Ons keer terug na die fundamentele vraag wat deur Barmen en Belhar gevra word, naamlik hoe manifesteer kerkteologie in hierdie tye? Hoe kan dit ons aanmoedig om opnuut die betekenis van ekumenisme te vind?
Deel gerus hierdie uitnodiging met vriende en kollegas wat mag belangstel.
Fooi vir die twee dae (verversings ingesluit): R100 per persoon.
RSVP teen 31 Augustus 2018 by momberg@sun.ac.za om jou plek te bespreek.
ZIONISM, PROPHETIC THEOLOGY AND THE CHALLENGE TO SOUTH AFRICAN CHRISTIANS
12 – 13 September 2018, Stellenbosch
Mark Braverman, PhD: Mark is Executive Director for Kairos USA and has been appointed Research Fellow in Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at Stellenbosch University. He serves on the Advisory Board of Friends of Sabeel North America and is a cofounder of Friends of Tent of Nations North America, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting Palestinian land rights. As a Jew Braverman has been closely involved in the international church movement for Palestinian human rights. In 2009 he participated in the launch of the Kairos Palestine document in Bethlehem. He has lectured in the U.S.A., Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the UK, South Korea, South Africa, and Lebanon. In 2011 he spoke at the Kairos Southern Africa-Palestine Encounter in Johannesburg and Cape Town and in 2015 at the “Dangerous Memory” 25th Anniversary Conference of the Kairos South Africa document in Johannesburg. He served on the Steering Committee of the WCC’s Palestine Israel Ecumenical Forum, and as a consultant to the Public Affairs Committee of the World Communion of Reformed Churches. Braverman is the author of Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land (2011) and A Wall in Jerusalem: Hope, healing, and the struggle for peace in Israel and Palestine (2013) and articles and chapters on Zionism, ecumenism, and the role of the global church in the Palestinian struggle. His writings can be found at www.markbraverman.org.
Marthie Momberg, PhD: Marthie holds degrees in literature, education and theology. She currently serves as a post-doctoral research fellow in Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at Stellenbosch University. She obtained the interdisciplinary MPhil in Religion and Culture in Practical Theology on the dynamic interaction between various interpretations of religious notions and humanity’s multiple responses in 2010. Her doctoral dissertation in empirical ethics (2017) explored the self-perceived motivations of Jewish Israeli and South African civilians who are activists in the Palestinian struggle. She serves on the leadership group of Kairos South Africa, she is a member of Kairos for Global Justice and she plays an active role in both the ongoing South African struggle and in the Palestinian cause. In 2017 she served as a consultant to the World Communion of Reformed Churches’ Public Witness Committee at the General Council in Leipzig. Examples of her views on the Palestinian struggle are available on http://marthiemombergblog.com. She has authored two books (2000, 2004) and since 2010 also several scholarly publications and opinion articles in newspapers. She has presented papers in South Africa, Germany and Mexico. Before 2010 Marthie worked in the corporate and the educational sectors.