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Black Pain is a White Commodity : moving beyond postcolonial theory in practical theology : #CaesarMustFall!
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)Postcolonialism and decolonising campaigns are expressions of human pain on the level of identity confusion (inferiority), ideological abuse (cultural discrimination) and structural oppression (imperialistic exploitation). ...
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'n Praktiese teologiese ondersoek na kontemporêre jeugkultuur en depressie in tienerdogters
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsingstudie fokus op die invloed van kontemporêre jeugkultuur op depressie onder tienermeisies. ’n Praktiese teologiese ondersoek is gedoen, spesifiek in die veld van jeugbediening. ’n ...
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Offender reintegration : a challenge to the Uniting Reformerd Church in SA, Porterville, in its ministry of reconciliation, restoring and healing to the relaesed offender in the local community
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: People re-entering society after a period of incarceration often experience an identity crisis regarding their life orientation. Society is reluctant to receive perpetrators back into the community after ...
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God at work : an exploration of the dynamic inter-relationship between the reign of God and the people of God
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)In this article, it is argued that we must take seriously the missional invitation of the Triune God to communion and fellowship. Further, it is argued that it is this invitation which informs, shapes and forms the nature ...
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Exploring the voices of children and youth : a plea for renewal in Church structures for child and youth ministries
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)Various trends in Children and youth ministries indicate that the church is struggling to engage with and to serve children and youth effectively. This then impacts negatively on efforts to succeed in this strategic ministry. ...
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Subordination vs. agency/resistance in South Africa : virgins bargaining their way through higher education
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)Oppression manifests itself in various ways, such that intersections between different forms of oppression can be identified. This is also true for women living in South Africa, a country that has for years been plagued ...
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Preaching between affirmation and anticipation : contours of a paradoxical homiletic
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)Taking the many paradoxes that the South African society is currently facing as point of departure, this article sets out by defining the notion of paradox, followed by the drawing of a few contours of a homiletic that ...
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Broken wholeness : a critical analysis of Henri JM Nouwen's spirituality of vulnerability and its possible value for the current discourse on health and wholeness
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)This essay investigates whether the counter-cultural spiritual formation theology of Henri Nouwen could make a significant contribution to the current discourse on an inclusive, gender-equitable, spirituality-based approach ...
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Some missiological imperatives of the christianisation of Cinamwali as Cilangizo in the Reformed Church in Zambia
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2016)This study deals with the adaptation of the traditional Ngoni girls’ initiation rite of Cinamwali into Christian Cilangizo in the Women’s Guild in the Reformed Church in Zambia. It highlights the role of the Women’s Guild ...
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Evangelisasie deur sport- en rekreasiebediening : 'n prakties-teologiese ondersoek
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die uitvoering van die missio ecclesiae (Matt 28:16–20), wat Christus aan sy dissipels en kerk toevertrou het, word weens die kerk se gebrek aan evangelisasieperspektief, aan bande gelê. Dit het onder ...
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Against all odds : Alphaeus Zulu and racism in church and society
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2015)This article examines the response of Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu to the racism that was prevalent in both the church and society when he was elected as the first African Bishop of the Anglican Church in South Africa. ...
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Technology and education : challenges and opportunities
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)This article seeks to contribute to the continuous reflection on the integration of technology into education. In order to accomplish this aim, the use of technology in the form of blended learning and online education ...
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Decolonising youth ministry models? : challenges and opportunities in Africa
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)Anyone involved in youth ministry will be able to testify to the fact that no perfect youthministry model exists. Youth ministry models employed should consider the vision, missionand needs of the contexts in which they ...
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In search of meaning : moving from the prophet's voice to prophecy in community, a South African perspective
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2009)During the times of ‘Apartheid South Africa’ prophetic preaching played an enormous part in bringing about the changes this country experienced throughout the last three decades. The prophetic preaching of exponents such ...
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Restoring the circle of courage in the lives of youth at risk through mentoring
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: All youth are at risk. Some youth are just more at risk than others. The concept of youth-at-risk has received substantial attention in literature within various different disciplines and sciences. Sociology, ...
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Operationalising cluster foster care schemes as an alternative form of care
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Social Work, 2016)Although South African policy and legislation make provision for cluster foster care schemes (CFCSs) as a form of alternative care that provides children with care within a family context, clear guidelines regarding their ...
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Theological complexity and the blindness of theory-barbarism in a pastoral hermeneutics : towards the infiniscience of God in processes of hoping and faithful knowing (epistemology)
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2016)Theory formation in theology is often directed by the rationalistic principle of simplification. In pastoral caregiving, it leads to the tendency to offer instant answers to the very complex notion of ‘meaning in suffering’. ...
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Film as medium for meaning making : a practical theological reflection
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)The reflection on film will be situated within the framework of popular culture and livedreligion as recognised themes within the discipline of practical theology. It is argued that theperspective of viewers is of importance ...
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Christian discipleship as power encounter with South Korean indigenous leaders : an intercultural theological study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores how appropriate Christian discipleship can be carried out in the Korean indigenous religious context, which encompasses belief systems such as shamanism, Buddhism, and Neo-Confucianism, ...
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The English Church Women's Association (ECWA) : Empowering towards partnership in mission or entrenching gender inequality? : The case of St Mary's Anglican Church on-the-Braak, Stellenbosch 1875-2015
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The study discussed how the fundraising role of the Anglican Church Women's Association helped empower women to develop self-esteem, self-confidence and solidarity. It explores how women's fundraising ...
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A comparative discourse on Christian and secular distinctive features of transformational development
(Southern African Missiological Society, 2017)The primary objective of this article is to explore some distinctions between Christian and secular views of transformation, characteristics of transformational development and the holistic practitioner. To meet this aim, ...
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Women on leadership? : perspectives from postgraduate theology students through the lenses of social identity
(University of the Free State, 2015)South Africa has experienced a long history of patriarchal leadership in the spheres of politics, economics and culture as well as in the sphere of religion, in particular. Many factors influence the current state of ...
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"Anatheism" within the framework of theodicy : from theistic thinking to theopaschitic thinking in a pastoral hermeneutics
(University of the Free State, 2016)The Syrian and refugee crises, the violent radicalisation in Europe, and global xenophobia stir up anew the link between the human quest for meaning and hope within the realm of human misery and destructive acts of severe ...
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'Big, hard and up!' : a healthy creed for men to live by?
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)The social construction of reality is influenced extensively by the mass media. Commercialised images of masculinity, including discourses to interpret it, are continuously reflected and/or created by sources of mass media, ...
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Virtual leadership? : the echurch as a South African case in point
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)One of the most basic understandings of leadership relates to the fact that it is seen as the involvement of a person, group or organisation that influences and empowers enough people to follow and to bring about change ...
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African Initiated Churches’ potential as development actors
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)African Initiated Churches (AICs) are not yet recognised as relevant actors of community development interventions. While it has been acknowledged that many of them provide coping mechanisms in adverse environments, support ...
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Doing theology with children in a South African context : children as collaborators in intergenerational ministry
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)The vision of Child Theology Africa is to advance a child-friendly continent by doing theology with, for, about and through African children. In this article we would like to explore the voice, role and position of the ...
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Decolonisation and renewed racism : a challenge and opportunity for reconciliation?
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)the university campuses across South Africa have recently been challenged by significantstudent protests concerning issues such as the abolishment of study fees, aspects ofdecolonisation and language policies, to name but ...
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The tenderness of conscience : African renaissance and the spirituality of politics
(SUN PRESS, 2005)BOOK BLURB: With this book theologian and political observer Allan Boesak once again displays the strengths of his writings that were evident in the seventies and eighties: bringing Christian theology to bear on the ...
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The living voice of the Gospel : revisiting the basic principles of preaching
(SUN Press, 2004)BOOK BLURB: Preaching - described here in Johan Cilliers's groundbreaking new book as the heart and soul of the church - requires both constant revision and fidelity to principles. Hence this book's subtitle: 'Revisiting ...
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