Original Research

Reconciliation priorities for the Church: Some German remarks

Friedrich Wilhelm Graf
Verbum et Ecclesia | Vol 26, No 2 | a230 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/ve.v26i2.230 | © 2005 Friedrich Wilhelm Graf | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 03 October 2005 | Published: 03 October 2005

About the author(s)

Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany

Full Text:

PDF (201KB)

Abstract

Reconciliation has been a topic of major importance in both the German and South-African theological and political contexts. Political events involving the Christian Churches in these countries have prompted a renewed consideration of what is understood by the concept. This article examines some aspects of reconciliation in the contexts of Christian ethics and argues that, from a theological and historical perspective, the nature and practice of what was called reconciliatio is thoroughly religious, although what exactly is involved has been perceived differently over the course of Church history. Reference is also made to the New Testament understanding of the concept and in an attempt to actualise the biblical kerugma, several propositions regarding the significance of a religious view of reconciliation in an eschatological context are provided as a conclusion.

Keywords

No related keywords in the metadata.

Metrics

Total abstract views: 3098
Total article views: 2268


Crossref Citations

No related citations found.