Embodied freedom

Abstract

Embodied freedom

Faith in international agricultural development: Conservation Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

“…In this vein, the question as to the meaning of agricultural development beyond individual preference or profit has imposed itself. Also, as Geertsema (1993Geertsema ( , 2000Geertsema ( , 2011 has argued, the Cartesian subject-object scheme cannot account for our experience as finite and responsible beings, due to the emphasis on absolute and sure knowledge. Carefully we would like to suggest that the latter finds its equivalent in agricultural research when moral responsibilities are abdicated.…”

Teaching for a transformative engagement with our context: The importance of care in Christian pedagogical suggestions for higher education

“…One can appreciate how claiming God's Lordship over all of human life and viewing humans as homo respondens (Geertsema 1992(Geertsema , 2011Olthuis 1993;Stoker 1967:158-175 This emphasis on a Christian perspective has led to a rich conceptual structure to support scholarly work that acknowledges an integrative, coherent vision of reality in which our response to the law-structure of reality is central. Whilst the Reformational highlighting of learning as a perspectival enterprise is valuable in its denial of a 'neutral' science and the development of a unique Christian voice within the common human practice of scholarship 6 (see Wolterstorff 2004a:285-286), there are limitations to and dangers in such an approach to Christian teaching.…”