CONTEXT

The world context and culture is used regularly at COTT. This is unsurprising as there’s 11 official languages of S.A. and so also just as many, if not more, different cultures. On passing it may seem there are 2 cultures, the white and coloured more Western people and the black more traditionally African people. This could not be further wrong though! Each of the black communities has its own distinct culture, different from one another, i.e. the Xhosa culture is different to Tswana culture, which is also different to Swazi culture, and so on. At COTT then, each student is encouraged to do theology from within their own context. I thought this was certainly a positive thing, as without doing so theology would face the danger of being irrelevant.

With this in mind then, I find it odd that S.Ans don’t want us English people to do theology in our context –see above post.