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Professor Piet Miering to speak at Irish School of Ecumenics - 14th September 2006
The Hard Gospel and the Irish School of Ecumenics
Present
Professor Piet Miering
Can swords really be beaten into plowshares?
Reconciliation in post-apartheid South Africa
Irish School of Ecumenics (TCD),
Milltown Park,
Dublin 6.
(Free parking is available)
Thursday 14th September 2006
10:00-11:30 a.m.
For further details contact:
Mr Philip McKinley,
Mob: +353 (0)87 1325531
Piet Meiring is an ordained minister in the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, and professor of Missiology (Science of Mission) at the University of Pretoria. He was since his ordination in 1967 involved in the struggle against apartheid, challenging his own denomination in this regard. He has written extensively on issues of Mission and Ecumenism in South Africa and Africa. In 1996 he was invited to join Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where he was inter alia tasked with the co-ordination of the faith communities' hearings.