This article seeks to interrogate critically and problematize the silence on the suburb in urban theology: in the process the article seeks to illustrate the importance of the suburb through examining it considering the soteriology underpinning apartheid spatial planning and its persistent quasi-soteriological envisioning of the good life in the ongoing spatial imagination of the South African city. While this proposal does not present a fully developed contextual or public theology in response to the complex place of the suburb in the city, it highlights the persistence of this silence and illustrates key theological questions that could underpin such a focus in the future.

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来自郊区的神学：整个城市的生活挑战

本文试图对城市神学中郊区的沉默进行批判性的质询和问题化：在这个过程中，本文试图通过考虑支撑种族隔离空间规划的救世论及其对善的持久准救世论愿景来审视郊区，从而说明郊区的重要性。南非城市不断的空间想象中的生活。虽然该提案没有针对城市郊区的复杂地位提出充分发展的背景或公共神学，但它强调了这种沉默的持续存在，并说明了可能在未来支撑这种关注的关键神学问题。