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HTS Theological Studies

versión On-line ISSN 2072-8050
versión impresa ISSN 0259-9422

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NEL, Reggie. 'Children must be seen and heard' - Doing postcolonial theology with children in a (southern) African Reformed church. Herv. teol. stud. [online]. 2016, vol.72, n.1, pp.1-7. ISSN 2072-8050.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v72i1.3565.

Taking theology to the African children needs to start with a serious engagement of the colonial experience that African Christianity, communities and families were subjected to - mostly in subdued silence. The often heard platitude of the stereotypical 'friendly' African children, who is so 'open to the gospel', needs to be deconstructed in terms of the real challenges, which leads to migration, abuse, xenophobic violence and a serious reduction in their capacity for growth and development. While one cannot reduce the notion of 'African children' to one experience, there remain common structural realities, which call for a serious dialogue with themselves on their own forms of theology. Children are not anymore merely seen and not heard; they speak - they disrupt hegemonic colonialist theologies. This contribution is based on a postcolonial dialogue with children's ministries in a particular (southern) African mission church, as they transform themselves towards being an African Reformed community.

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