RT Article
T1 Blue Theology and Watershed Discipleship in South Africa
JF Acta theologica
VO 39
IS 2
SP 31
OP 47
A1 Houston, Peter
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1693209705
AB In an era increasingly shaped by escalating water crises, Ched Myers calls the church to watershed discipleship, arguing that watershed discipleship is a faithful response to Christian mission amidst a looming environmental catastrophe. The practical application of a traditional creation care paradigm can remain abstract, a-contextual and cosmetic; insufficiently radical in its diagnosis - remaining located in the political geography of dominant cultural ideation rather than in the topography of creation. Watershed discipleship has the potential to offer a postcolonial interpretation of the great commission as the incarnational yet missional re-inhabiting of the places in which we reside. In South Africa, a region beset with severe droughts and where water demand is outstripping supply, the work of Myers is hardly known. Building on Myers, the argument and application of watershed discipleship to a South African context will be demonstrated.
DO 10.18820/23099089/actat.v39i2.3