Exploring Jubilee as a Paradigm for Liberation and Flourishing
Tue Jun 23, 19:30 - Tue Jun 23, 21:00
Event is online
ABOUT
Every fifty years, ancient Israel was called to do something extraordinary: cancel debts, free the enslaved, return land, and break the intergenerational cycles of poverty and exclusion. But this radically subversive vision of Jubilee was never meant to be economic policy alone. It was a declaration of who God is, what God’s world is meant to look like, and what it means to be God’s liberated people.
In Part One, John Scheepers traces this Jubilee thread through Scripture, from its ancient Near Eastern roots, through the prophets, to the explosive Nazareth sermon of Luke 4 and the radical economic sharing of the early church in Acts. In Part Two, Thandi Gamedze brings this paradigm to bear on urgent contemporary realities, such as apartheid spatial planning, land restitution, educational disparities, and the crisis in Gaza. Join us for this online seminar where we explore what this ancient, radical vision demands of us in this present moment.
Presenters: John Scheepers & Dr. Thandi Gamedze.
Date: Tuesday, 23 June
Time: 19:30-21:00
Cost: Pay what you can - suggested donation R100
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Speaker Bios:
John Scheepers is a writer, theological educator, and critical thinking catalyst. As Adjunct Faculty at Cape Town Baptist Seminary, he teaches church history, biblical justice, and missiology. He holds an M.Th from Stellenbosch University. His work involves catalysing critical conversations that challenge inherited narratives and promote contextual engagement and biblical interpretation.
Dr. Thandi Gamedze is a South African educator, theologian, cultural worker, and poet based at the University of the Western Cape’s Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice as a Senior Researcher. Her interests include black theology, liberation theology, social justice, education, and the arts, particularly poetry