spirit and healing in africa - University of the Free State
spirit and healing in africa - University of the Free State spirit and healing in africa - University of the Free State
3.1 MODERN MISSIONARY MOVEMENT 70 3.2 CHRISTIAN MEDICINE 71 3.2.1 Illness 72 3.2.2 Treatment 75 3.3 TRANSFORMING POWER 79 3.3.1 Disciplinary power 79 3.3.2 Body 80 3.3.3 The gaze technique 81 3.3.4 Disciplinary power and transformation 81 3.4 MISSIONARY MEDICINE’S POWER REGIME REVISITED 85 3.5 TRANSFORMATION 87 3.5.1 Spiritual transformation 87 3.5.2 Bodily transformation 88 3.5.3 Transformation without superiority 91 3.6 CONCLUSIONS 92 CHAPTER 4. DISCOURSE ON HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA 94 4.1 DISCOURSE ON HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA 95 4.1.1 History of HIV/AIDS in Africa 96 4.1.2 HIV/AIDS as an African epidemic 97 4.2 BIOMEDICINE AND HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA 98 4.2.1 Colonial medicine 99 4.2.2 Biomedical methods and the HIV epidemic 100 4.2.3 Critical evaluation of the Western biomedical paradigm 103 4.3 BEYOND EPIDEMIOLOGY 104 4.3.1 Social representations of HIV/AIDS 105 4.3.2 Christian religion informing social representations of AIDS 106 4.4 QUALITY OF LIFE 113 4.4.1 Quality of medical life 114 4.4.2 Quality of social life 115 4.4.3 Quality of spiritual life 116 4.5 CONCLUSIONS 118 CHAPTER 5. CHURCH-BASED HEALING DISCOURSE 121 5.1 CHURCH-BASED HEALING DISCOURSE IN GENERAL 122 5.1.1 Typology of churches 122 5.1.2 HIV/AIDS and church-based healing 123 5.1.3 Exorcism: an introduction 124 5.2 ACADEMIC DISCOURSE ON HEALING IN THE BIBLE 126 5.2.1 Old Testament understandings of healing 126 5.2.2 New Testament understandings of healing 128 5.2.3 Biblical roots of healing ministries 129 5.3 HEALING AND DELIVERANCE 132 5.3.1 Rapprochement with African world views 132 5.3.2 Spiritual warfare 135 5.3.3 Power of the Holy Spirit 137 5.3.4 Jesus the great physician 138 5.3.5 Healing rituals 139 5.4 POWER 142 5.4.1 Power as existential need for human life 143 5.4.2 Power as religious parameter 144 5.4.3 Power as an agency of transformation 145 5.5 CONCLUSIONS 148 8
PART II. EXPLORING A REFORMED PNEUMATOLOGY FOR AFRICA: FRAGMENTS ON SPIRIT AND HEALING 151 CHAPTER 6. A REFORMED PNEUMATOLOGICAL MATRIX 154 6.1 DILEMMA OF ARTICULATING A REFORMED MATRIX 155 6.2 REFORMED PNEUMATOLOGIES 157 6.2.1 John Calvin 158 6.2.2 Abraham Kuyper 164 6.2.3 Karl Barth 169 6.2.4 Arnold van Ruler 174 6.2.5 Jürgen Moltmann 179 6.2.6 Michael Welker 186 6.2.7 Jan Veenhof 189 6.2.8 Heidelberg Catechism 193 6.3 CONTOURS OF A REFORMED PNEUMATOLOGICAL MATRIX 197 CHAPTER 7. THE SPIRIT AND RELATIONALITY 206 7.1 RELATIONALITY AND THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE 206 7.2 GOD’S RELATIONAL LIFE 209 7.2.1 Bond of love 209 7.2.2 Ecstatic spirit 211 7.3 THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HEALTH 214 7.3.1 Embedded in God’s relational life 215 7.3.2 Participation in God’s relationality 217 7.4 CONCLUSIONS 219 CHAPTER 8. THE SPIRIT AND TRANSFORMATION 221 8.1 TRANSFORMATION AND THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE 221 8.2 TRANSFORMATION IN REFORMED PNEUMATOLOGY 222 8.2.1 Justification and spiritual transformation 222 8.2.2 Transformation as a spiritual union with Christ 224 8.2.3 Spirit of adoption 225 8.2.4 Physicality and transformation in Reformed pneumatology 227 8.3 TRANSFORMATION, SPIRIT AND HEALING 231 8.3.1 Disorienting Spirit of God 231 8.3.2 Counter-cultural charismata 233 8.4. CONCLUSIONS 236 CHAPTER 9. THE SPIRIT AND QUALITY OF LIFE 239 9.1 QUALITY OF LIFE AND THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE 239 9.2 CREATION AND QUALITY OF LIFE 241 9.2.1 Goodness of creation 242 9.2.2 Renewal of creation 244 9.2.3 Vulnerability of creation 245 9.3 QUALITY OF LIFE AS HEALTH 248 9.3.1 Vulnerability, creation and Spirit 249 9.3.2 Vulnerability and quality of life 252 9.3.3 Quality and beautification of life 254 9.4 CONCLUSIONS 257 CHAPTER 10. THE SPIRIT AND POWER 259 10.1 POWER AND THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE 259 10.1.1 Reformed struggle with power 260 10.1.2 Pentecostal understanding of power 263 10.2 POWER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT 265 9
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PART II. EXPLORING A REFORMED PNEUMATOLOGY FOR AFRICA:<br />
FRAGMENTS ON SPIRIT AND HEALING 151<br />
CHAPTER 6. A REFORMED PNEUMATOLOGICAL MATRIX 154<br />
6.1 DILEMMA OF ARTICULATING A REFORMED MATRIX 155<br />
6.2 REFORMED PNEUMATOLOGIES 157<br />
6.2.1 John Calv<strong>in</strong> 158<br />
6.2.2 Abraham Kuyper 164<br />
6.2.3 Karl Barth 169<br />
6.2.4 Arnold van Ruler 174<br />
6.2.5 Jürgen Moltmann 179<br />
6.2.6 Michael Welker 186<br />
6.2.7 Jan Veenh<strong>of</strong> 189<br />
6.2.8 Heidelberg Catechism 193<br />
6.3 CONTOURS OF A REFORMED PNEUMATOLOGICAL MATRIX 197<br />
CHAPTER 7. THE SPIRIT AND RELATIONALITY 206<br />
7.1 RELATIONALITY AND THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE 206<br />
7.2 GOD’S RELATIONAL LIFE 209<br />
7.2.1 Bond <strong>of</strong> love 209<br />
7.2.2 Ecstatic <strong>spirit</strong> 211<br />
7.3 THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HEALTH 214<br />
7.3.1 Embedded <strong>in</strong> God’s relational life 215<br />
7.3.2 Participation <strong>in</strong> God’s relationality 217<br />
7.4 CONCLUSIONS 219<br />
CHAPTER 8. THE SPIRIT AND TRANSFORMATION 221<br />
8.1 TRANSFORMATION AND THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE 221<br />
8.2 TRANSFORMATION IN REFORMED PNEUMATOLOGY 222<br />
8.2.1 Justification <strong>and</strong> <strong>spirit</strong>ual transformation 222<br />
8.2.2 Transformation as a <strong>spirit</strong>ual union with Christ 224<br />
8.2.3 Spirit <strong>of</strong> adoption 225<br />
8.2.4 Physicality <strong>and</strong> transformation <strong>in</strong> Reformed pneumatology 227<br />
8.3 TRANSFORMATION, SPIRIT AND HEALING 231<br />
8.3.1 Disorient<strong>in</strong>g Spirit <strong>of</strong> God 231<br />
8.3.2 Counter-cultural charismata 233<br />
8.4. CONCLUSIONS 236<br />
CHAPTER 9. THE SPIRIT AND QUALITY OF LIFE 239<br />
9.1 QUALITY OF LIFE AND THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE 239<br />
9.2 CREATION AND QUALITY OF LIFE 241<br />
9.2.1 Goodness <strong>of</strong> creation 242<br />
9.2.2 Renewal <strong>of</strong> creation 244<br />
9.2.3 Vulnerability <strong>of</strong> creation 245<br />
9.3 QUALITY OF LIFE AS HEALTH 248<br />
9.3.1 Vulnerability, creation <strong>and</strong> Spirit 249<br />
9.3.2 Vulnerability <strong>and</strong> quality <strong>of</strong> life 252<br />
9.3.3 Quality <strong>and</strong> beautification <strong>of</strong> life 254<br />
9.4 CONCLUSIONS 257<br />
CHAPTER 10. THE SPIRIT AND POWER 259<br />
10.1 POWER AND THEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE 259<br />
10.1.1 Reformed struggle with power 260<br />
10.1.2 Pentecostal underst<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>of</strong> power 263<br />
10.2 POWER AND THE HOLY SPIRIT 265<br />
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