During the last decade there has been an intense public debate in the South African society on the issue of ‘whiteness’ or ‘whiteliness’. In this article the challenges whiteness and the debate surrounding it pose for practitioners of public theology in South Africa are explored. In the first part some of the origins of the debate on whiteness, as well as some of the main features of whiteness researchers identify, are traced. In the second part a brief sketch is provided of two different kinds of critical response to whiteness in the present South African society, namely critical responses to structural whiteness and critical responses of a more personal nature. In the third part the challenges the present debate on whiteness pose to public theology in South Africa are identified and discussed.

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公共神学和当前关于民主南非白人的辩论

在过去十年中，南非社会就“白人”或“白人”问题展开了激烈的公开辩论。本文探讨了白人问题及其对南非公共神学实践者的争论。第一部分追溯了关于白度的辩论的一些起源，以及研究人员确定的白度的一些主要特征。在第二部分中，简要概述了当前南非社会对白人的两种不同类型的批判性反应，即对结构性白人的批判性反应和更个性化的批判性反应。第三部分确定并讨论了当前关于白人的辩论对南非公共神学构成的挑战。