INTERVIEW WITH ROTHNEY S. TSHAKA

Martin Laubscher

doi:10.18820/23099089/actat.v37i1.1

Abstract

From text: I started my theological training at the Faculty of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape in 1997. After completing my BTh, I moved to the University of Stellenbosch to further my theological studies. The move to Stellenbosch happened as a result of a move of the URCSA to a different centre for the training of her candidates for the ministry. I completed an MDiv – cum Laude – as well as a Licentiate in Theology. I spent a brief period at the Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam where I completed a Masters in Theology. I returned to the university where I completed my Doctorate in Theology. I have taught briefly at the Murray Theological College in Morgenster, Zimbabwe. My move from Zimbabwe was necessitated by a call to the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey, where I occupied the position of Associate Professor of Community and Ethics as well as the Global Scholar on Ethics at the mentioned institution. Currently, I am at the Department of Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology at UNISA.

Highlights

RST: First and foremost, I believe we are being disingenuous if we want to create the impression that the situation that we find ourselves in (the situation of having the majority of Black people across the globe struggling more than White people, for instance) as ordained by God
RST: First and foremost, I believe we are being disingenuous if we want to create the impression that the situation that we find ourselves in as ordained by God
RST: Since my latest interest in theology intersects with issues of epistemologies of the South, I have started to read myself into the methodologies propagated by the likes of Enrique Dussel, Bonaventura De Sousa Santos and others in that trajectory towards attaining a decolonial context, in which the alternative epistemologies are brought to the core of public discourse

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Introduction

RST: First and foremost, I believe we are being disingenuous if we want to create the impression that the situation that we find ourselves in (the situation of having the majority of Black people across the globe struggling more than White people, for instance) as ordained by God. I started my theological training at the Faculty of Religion and Theology at the University of the Western Cape in 1997.

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