"Liturgy emerges from a wound": Initial observations of developing ecclesial life from an ethnographic study of the community supper at St Peter's, Mowbray, Cape Town. (24th May 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Aldous, Benjamin
• Is Part Of: International review of mission. Volume 110:Number 1(2021)
• Page Start: 41
• Page End: 54
• Publication Date: 2021-05-24
• Subjects: Fresh Expressions of Church -- liturgy -- South Africa -- woundedness -- emergence -- eucharist -- power; Mission of the church -- Periodicals; Missions -- Periodicals; 266.005
• DOI: 10.1111/irom.12353
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0020-8582

Abstract

Abstract: Serious academic reflection and scholarship on the Fresh Expressions of Church (FXoC) movement in the United Kingdom is developing significantly, but there exists almost no such work in South Africa. What has been produced deals with scholars reflecting on their experiences of Fresh Expressions in the United Kingdom (Ian Nell and Rudolph Grobler, "An Exploration of Fresh Expressions as Missional Church: Some Practical‐Theological Perspectives, " NGTT DEEL 55:3–4 (2017), 747–68). This is an unfortunate situation. While there has been a generous response by many churches, there has been little interest, by and large, from the Anglican Church of Southern Africa (ACSA). FXoC is, then, an under‐researched entity in South Africa. This article, part of a larger study, seeks to ask questions about how liturgy might develop from below in a new ecclesial community of marginalized people.