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HOUSTON, P.. Blue Theology and Watershed Discipleship in South Africa. Acta theol. [online]. 2019, vol.39, n.2, pp.31-47. ISSN 2309-9089.  https://doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.v39i2.3.

In an era increasingly shaped by escalating water crises, Ched Myers calls the church to watershed discipleship, arguing that watershed discipleship is a faithful response to Christian mission amidst a looming environmental catastrophe. The practical application of a traditional creation care paradigm can remain abstract, a-contextual and cosmetic; insufficiently radical in its diagnosis - remaining located in the political geography of dominant cultural ideation rather than in the topography of creation. Watershed discipleship has the potential to offer a postcolonial interpretation of the great commission as the incarnational yet missional re-inhabiting of the places in which we reside. In South Africa, a region beset with severe droughts and where water demand is outstripping supply, the work of Myers is hardly known. Building on Myers, the argument and application of watershed discipleship to a South African context will be demonstrated.

Palavras-chave : Water; Blue theology; Bioregionalism; Ched Myers.

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