Abstract
A holistic pastoral methodology is sought in transforming the socio-economic and systemic pathologies of poor families and local communities. Missional pastoral ministry is proposed from a critical hermeneutical and contextual perspective for the empowerment and liberation of people living with complex and multiple forms of pathologies. A transversal rationality model is applied merging the complexity and divergence of cross-disciplinary and intradisciplinary approaches between missional theology, practical theology, contextual theology, religious pedagogy and ethics. Practical theology in South Africa should be applied from and within the contemporary socio-economic, systemic and ecclesiological pathologies.
Highlights
Original ResearchThe dilemma of traditional and 21st century pastoral ministry: Ministering to families and communities faced with socio-economic pathologies
The objective of this article is not just the reconstruction of pastoral theology and practices, but the deconstruction of pathological ecclesial and socio-economic systems through a hermeneutical methodology of liberation (Patton 1988:31; cf. Wilson & Ramphele 1989)
Suffice it to argue that practical theology is ‘deeply contextual in terms of ecclesial, social, cultural interconnections, relationships and systems’ (Osmer 2008:17)
Summary
The dilemma of traditional and 21st century pastoral ministry: Ministering to families and communities faced with socio-economic pathologies. Affiliation: 1Department of Practical Theology, University of the Free State, South Africa. How to cite this article: Dames, G.E., 2010, ‘The dilemma of traditional and 21st-century pastoral ministry: Ministering to families and communities faced with socioeconomic pathologies’, HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies 66(2), Art. Note: This article was initially presented as a paper at the Joint Conference of Academic Societies in the Fields of Religion and Theology, Stellenbosch University, 23 June 2009
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