![]() This is because previously in South Africa the Bible was made a servant to ideology (Lephakga 2012, 2013 Moodie 1975 Serfontein 1982) and thus domesticated for the purposes of subjection and control (Boesak & DeYoung 2012). However, it is important to point out that, the problem was not the theological word - that is 'reconciliation'- but the understanding and interpretation of it in South Africa. ![]() de Klerk on behalf of the National Party) to what was supposed to be the 'Truth Commission' (Boesak & DeYoung 2012 Stevens Franchi & Swart 2006) - was for the purpose of taming the work of this commission and using reconciliation to merely reach some political accommodation which did not address the critical questions of justice, equality, and dignity which are prominent in the biblical understanding of reconciliation (Boesak 2008 Boesak & DeYoung 2012:1 Lephakga 2015 Terreblanche 2002). This article seeks to point out that, the inclusion of a theological term - that is 'reconciliation' (at the request of F.W. ![]() Radical reconciliation: The TRC should have allowed Zacchaeus to testify?ĭepartment of Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology, University of South Africa, South Africa
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