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Keynote speaker: Marius Nel (North-West University)

WEDNESDAY 25 JANUARY 2023 (15:30-16:15 CAT) Keynote speaker: Marius Nel (North-West University) Theme: "The crisis and ethics of War! A Practical Theological response" Title: Church and war: A change in hermeneutical stance among Pentecostals. Turn the other cheek: Pacifism, passive resistance or nonviolence? Abstract: For the first forty years of its existence, Pentecostalism was mostly a pacifist movement proclaiming that disciples of Christ should support nonviolence and non-retaliation. It changed its stance due to the changes that occurred when its members became socially and economically mobile and the movement strove to be accepted in society. These changes were, however, essentially due to a change in its hermeneutical viewpoint in accordance with Evangelicals literalist-fundamentalist interpretive strategies. After the 1970s, several theologians within the Pentecostal movement formulated a hermeneutic that concurred to a large degree with the way early Pentecostals viewed and interpreted the Bible, leading inter alia to Pentecostals’ rethinking their non-pacifist stance. It is argued that the movement should change its ethical stance on and discourse about war and violence due to its renewed hermeneutical viewpoint, making the church more relevant in a society where most Christians seemingly accept the Augustinian just war doctrine. If Pentecostals see themselves as being the contemporary restoration of the New Testament church, it should distance itself from political establishmentarianism. Biography: Marius Nel has been a research professor in the chair of Pentecostalism and Neo-Pentecostalism since 2016 at the Faculty of Theology of the North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Since he has been employed at NWU, he has published on various issues from the perspective of pentecostal hermeneutics. He has published more than 120 peer-reviewed articles, 13 monographs and 36 chapters in edited books.