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Revista Eletrônica do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisa do Protestantismo (NEPP) da Escola Superior de TeologiaVolume 09, jan.-abr. de 2006 – ISSN 1678 6408Reconsidering the Roads to Reconciliation: Looking Back at‘die Wende’ with Theologians From the Former DDRBy Kjetil Hafstad *Thinking about ReconciliationOne of the advantages of doing theology is that we can raise the greatquestions of life without people being much surprised – that is our job anyway. Inthe academic world, the great questions are often substituted by a lot of very smallones, because small questions are possible to handle in a more secured scientific way.I will now try, not only to raise a huge question on reconciliation, but also allow for acritical examination of the deep structures of reconciliation between individuals andpeople. I will humbly ask whether our thinking on this field is dominated byestablished habits and heavy traditions, and perhaps in this way is kept at a certaindistance from everyday experiences. Is it possible, at least in some cases, to simplifythe very way we think about reconciliation?I am well aware of that only raising this question will call for a host ofobjections, well established in moral discourse and church preaching and praxis. Iwill not be able to discuss the objections in this chapter. I want to discuss limitedparts of the field. As a start I will only present an argument in favour of trying andexperiencing some ways to reconciliation, much simpler than the traditionaltheological understanding of penitence, through confession, repentance, judgement,sacrifice, forgiveness and reconciliation.* Kjetil Hafstad is Professor of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo. E-mail:kjetil.hafstad@teologi.uio.noDisponível na Internet: http://www3.est.edu.br/nepp 104
Revista Eletrônica do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisa do Protestantismo (NEPP) da Escola Superior de TeologiaVolume 09, jan.-abr. de 2006 – ISSN 1678 6408Questioning the Master StoriesThe Bible represents an age old insight: Stories create and construct identity.By telling important stories, you can unite people - witness the growth of the earlychurch. By coming together and listening and taking part in preaching and liturgy,the church was created - and changed the lives of ever more people. Today, we maydescribe these changes as construction through formulation and reformulation of themaster stories that we build our community and society upon. I want to question oneof the dominant master stories that have had an immense impact on our constructionof church and society.Let me illuminate what I have in mind by telling a short story I experiencedsome years ago. By our committee of ecumenical questions in the NorwegianLutheran Church I was elected member of the national Lutheran-Catholic dialoguegroup. We worked together for eight years and diligently produced a couple ofdocuments, one of which was actually mentioned with appreciative regard by PopeJohn Paul II, as he visited Norway in 1989. We had many good and very educatingmeetings in the commission. Our work ended in a positive, very limitedrecommendation of mutual exchange in preaching and praying between thechurches. Yet we also found that for the further development of ecumenical dialogue,this group would do better if it by then ended its work. We were in fact not solvingquestions; we were recreating them!We had tried to understand the problems in communication between ourchurches by going back to where all of our problems were defined, the time of theReformation and the Counter-Reformation. As we retold in our group the argumentsraised by the Reformers and Counter-Reformers, I remember what excellentarguments I judged the first protestants to have made. I hadn’t until then really gonedeeply into the conflicts between our churches. But as I did, I found them veryDisponível na Internet: http://www3.est.edu.br/nepp 105
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