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Dr Nadia Marais wins prestigious prize
Author: Helette van der Westhuizen
Published: 18/10/2016

The $1,000 prize was awarded to her for her essay, "Lovelyn, Belhar, and Mary: Exploring the rhetoric of confession as resistance to injustice."

The Louise and Richard Goodwin Writing Prizes for Excellence in Theological Writing are given to graduate students in recognition of essays that demonstrate:

  • creative theological thinking,
  • excellence in scholarship,
  • faithful witness to the Christian tradition, and
  • engagement with the community of faith.

Nadia Marais, who amongst numerous other achievements was awarded the SU's chancellor's medal during her student years, was recently appointed as full-time lecturer in Systematic Theology in the Faculty of Theology. She is very active in both the University and Church publics. She has a wide range of responsibilities, being re-elected to the Convocation of Stellenbosch University in 2015. She also serves on a number of commissions in the ecumenical Church and within the Dutch Reformed Church, and remains active as one of a group of 'young ministers' and Reformed Theologians who are engaging the Dutch Reformed Church to include persons with a same-sex orientation and enact the decision of the previous Synod on persons with a same-sex orientation. She was ordained as a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church Welgelegen on 21 August 2016. She preaches regularly and writes for various publications (including LitNet).

Follow the link for an interview with Nadia on winning the prize: http://www.theologicalhorizons.org/theological-horizons/2016/10/11/interview-with-goodwin-prize-winner-nadia-marais