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Transforming congregational culture : suburban leadership perspectives within a circuit of the DRC
(OASIS Publishing, 2015)On 27 April 2014 we celebrated twenty years of democracy in South Africa. Celebrating this important day in our history also afforded us the opportunity to reflect on what has transpired in our country during the past two ...
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Die Hermannsburgse sending-genootskap in Suid-Afrika met 'n beskouing oor hul beleid en metodes op die sendingstasies Ramaliane en Bethel in Wes-Transvaal
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1947)No abstract available.
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Mediated religion : implications for religious authority
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)The relationship between media and religion seems to be a well established research topic today. Themes like identity formation and community with regard to digital religion are well researched, but religious authority is ...
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Lyflikheid en liturgie : prakties teologiese perspektiewe op die interbeliggaming van aanbidding
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study researches, from the perspective of gender-related body theology considerations, to what extent is intercorporeal worship realised within the DRC worship services and specifically in contemporary ...
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Mission as prophetic dialogue in Christian-Muslim encounters in Northern Nigeria
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-14)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since receiving its independence in 1960, Nigeria has struggled to unite its many people, ethnic and religious groups under one national identity. In recent decades, religiously motivated encounters between ...
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Peacebuilding amongst Christian and Muslim in Nigeria : a critical study of "a model of and for" religion leaders as peace brokers
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-14)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: We live in a world where religious diversity is increasingly affecting and changing everything around us and ourselves as well. No religious community is exempt from the pressures of diversity. The crisis ...
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Empowerment by hope : a phenomenological study on the health and wellbeing of African refugee migrants
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Ours is a century of migration. It has become more necessary for people to migrate than ever before in human history due to a variety of reasons including political instability and economic opportunities. ...
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Geloofsonderskeiding in die Oostelike Sinode van die NG Kerk tydens die besluitnemingsprosesse oor die wysiging van Artikel 1 van die Kerkorde
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-14)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During 2014, the DRC came to a point where they had to decide whether they would amend their confessional base to include the Belhar Confession as part of their official doctrine. The General Synod ...
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The tension between being and becoming in worship : a liturgical study on deification from a trinitarian perspective
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Worship is a place of encounter for the divine God and depraved human beings. Human beings express their desire to become like God through diverse liturgical orders. However, due to their sinful nature, ...
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The fear of death among Korean Christians : a pastoral hermeneutical study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation aims for a clearer understanding of the meaning of death and the fear of death for Korean Christians. Theoretical and empirical research was employed to indicate that Korean Christians ...
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'n Ondersoek na die waarde van liggaamsteologie om 'n inklusiewe verstaan van seksualiteit te bevorder tydens adolessensie
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines the value that body theology can add to an inclusive understanding of sexuality in adolescence. Sexuality was understood differently throughout different periods in time, but even today ...
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Social media as a source of self-identity formation : challenges and opportunities for youth ministry
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Social media are technological media (websites) that create a digital environment for networking between network users who interface and share information with each other. Social media network users use ...
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Transformational development as theological challenge: an evaluation of the ECWA people oriented development programmes
(Stellenbosh : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores various community development theories and practices and, using the holistic criteria proposed by Myers, the study evaluates the impact of ECWA‘s People Oriented Development (POD) ...
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Spiritual intelligence and the content of faith: a post-foundational, interdisciplinary and hermeneutical dialogue between Danah Zohar and Dallas Willard
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research process wanted to ask questions about the responsible integration of faith content within the construct of Spiritual Intelligence. This integration process is important to add meaning and ...
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"Alle kaarte op die preek?"
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2014)In hierdie artikel word kortliks gelet op drie grondlyne van die Reformasie, naamlik die vertroosting van die beangste mens tydens die laat Middeleeue, die hunkering na vryheid en die behoeft e aan fundamentele verandering. ...
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“Rise up and walk” : tracing the trajectory of the Carnegie discourse and plotting a way forward
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2014)Th is article will provide a comparative analysis of the findings of the first Carnegie Commission on the Poor White Problem, 1932, and the second Carnegie second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern ...
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Theological education in Africa : messages from the fringes
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2014)The article asserts that the quest for power is one of the debilitating cultural impediments that keep theological education caught in an outdated paradigm. It uses case studies to illustrate the hypothesis as well as the ...
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The Missional Church movement
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2013)At the beginning of the 21st century, many different voices have been drawing our attention to two realities that are shaping the future of Christianity: the centre of gravity for the Christian faith has shifted to the ...
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Human rights : the tension and conflict between church and state in Malawi : 2004-2012
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2014)In this paper, I show the critical role played by the Protestant and the Roman Catholic Churches with regard to the government’s abuse of human rights in Malawi in the years 2004 to 2012. I argue that the Protestant and ...
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An exploration of fresh expressions as missional church : some practical-theological perspectives
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2014)The mainline churches in Europe and North America are on the decline. Mainline denominations are struggling to reach the unchurched in a fast changing world. New ways of being church and doing mission are on the rise all ...
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Mentoring as a supportive pedagogy in theological training
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-03)This article contends that theological training supported by effective mentoring can contribute to the shaping of theology students in terms of their spiritual growth, character development and ministry formation. It is ...
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Preaching from the pews : a case study in vulnerable theological leadership
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-04)When explaining vulnerability as a theme for the conference of the Societas Homiletica, the organisers referred to two ways in which the concept can be interpreted. On the one hand, it can refer to preachers themselves ...
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The Binga outreach : a critical reflection on the reformed church in Zimbabwe's cross-cultural ministry
(University of South Africa, 2013-11)This article describes the first cross-cultural outreach of the Reformed Church in Zambia (RCZ) to a non-Shona speaking group. This Church founded preaching posts and, eventually, a congregation among the Tonga people ...
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Teaching leadership and administration at a faculty of theology : practical-theological reflections
(Stellenbosch University, 2014)he on-going processes of decline taking place in mainline churches all over the world in combination with developments in the direction of pluralism, consumerism and globalization pose many challenges to the teaching of ...
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A royal waste of time? : perspectives on liturgy as space against waste
(Stellenbosch University, 2014)In this article a brief look is taken at the so-called ‘functionality’ and ‘non-functionality’ of the worship service. It is argued that both these notions are necessary if the worship service is to play a meaningful role ...
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Die ikoniese waarde van kuns : estetika en die poetiese faktor van spiritualiteit in ver-beeld-ende kunste en ver-beeld-ingryke teologisering
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2014-03)Die hipotese dat kuns meer behels as ’n soort kunsvlyt of meganiese handvaardigheid, (maakmoontlikheid), en dat estetika ten diepste ’n spirituele kategorie is wat verwys na die mens se soeke na transendente raamwerke ...
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Missional theological curricula and institutions
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2014-08)The article argues in favour of an all-embracing missional framework for curriculum development for theological institutions. When the curriculum of a subject such as ecclesiology has a missional hermeneutic, it will ...
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Are we wasting theology in our continent
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2014-09)The 2014 conference theme of the society for Practical Theology in South Africa was ‘Practical Theology in Africa and human waste’. The article asks the question whether we can do theology in Africa in such a way that ...
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Identity and dignity within the human rights discourse : an anthropological and praxis approach
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2014-08)The theological discourse mostly focuses on the moral and ethical framework for human rights and human dignity. In order to give theological justification to the value and dignity of human beings, most theologians point ...
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Social cohesion and social capital : possible implications for the common good
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2014-08)The main objective of the article is to identify the possible implications of social cohesion and social capital for the common good. In order to reach this overarching aim the following structure will be utilised. The ...
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