An upbeat conversation between two voices about Hilton Scott and Casparus J. Wepener, “Healing as Transformation and Restoration: A Ritual-Liturgical Exploration”, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 73, no. 4 (2017), a4064. Week 5 reading for Faith in a Fractured World. About 22 minutes.
Covered: the authors and the article’s origin in a Pretoria master’s dissertation; Grimes on sickness and illness, cured and healed; Osmer’s four tasks and participatory action research; the ten co-researchers and their stories (the recovering alcoholic, hymn 371 in January 1979, the restoration couple); rites of passage versus ritual practice, rites of exchange and the Hillsong detour, conversion then ongoing restoration; shalom, inculturation (A + B = C) and the open invitation, specific and non-specific services; a critique of the sample, the leading question and the thin description of the liturgy; and how to use the frame and the interview method for a renaming rite and for Task 3.
Sources
- Scott and Wepener, HTS 73(4), 2017 (open access)
- Cas Wepener, author biography, Reformed Worship
- University of Pretoria, “Tuks Theology welcomes Prof Cas Wepener”
- Ronald L. Grimes, Deeply into the Bone: Re-inventing Rites of Passage (University of California Press, 2000)
- Catherine Bell, Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions (Oxford University Press, 1997)
- Richard R. Osmer, Practical Theology: An Introduction (Eerdmans, 2008)
- Anscar J. Chupungco, Liturgical Inculturation (Liturgical Press, 1992)
- Cas Wepener, From Fast to Feast: A Ritual-Liturgical Exploration of Reconciliation in South African Cultural Contexts (Peeters, 2009)
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