Faculty of Theology
The Faculty of Theology is a faculty of Stellenbosch University. We are a faculty for theology, and through research, teaching and learning and community action we are a knowledge partner for other academic communities, various church denominations and institutions of broader society.
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Towards a visionary and historical consciousness : Rowan Williams’s four quartets lectures (1974–1975)
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2017)The aim of this essay is to provide a critical exposition of Rowan Williams’s unpublished lectures on T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. A thorough examination of these texts has been lacking in various interpretations of Williams’s ... -
St Paul’s Anglican Theological College during the transition towards a democratic South Africa, 1986–92
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2017)St Paul’s Theological College was established in Grahamstown, South Africa, in 1902 to train white Anglican students for the ministry. During the last six years of its existence, from 1986 to 1992, the college went through ... -
British imperial wars and the strengthening of the Dutch Reformed Church's mission : Mashonaland in the late 19th to early 20th centuries
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2017)This focus is on conflicts in which the British South African Company (BSAC) had a direct hand, and in which British forces were victorious. Three specific conflicts will be highlighted: the First Matabele War (1893-1894), ... -
From England to under African skies : the quest for an African Anglican liturgical voice
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2017)The prayer book of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa is currently being revised. The slogan “Under Southern Skies—In an African voice” is the rallying cry of this liturgical consultative process. It captures one of ... -
What of the night? : conceptions of night in Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2017)This article investigates the conceptions of night in the books of Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Song of Songs in the light of the theology of night in the book of Job and the Psalter. It is noted that though some levels of ... -
Ubuntu and leadership? : some practical theological perspectives
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2017)In discourses on leadership within the African context one regularly finds that scholars draw a distinction between so-called Western and African approaches to leadership. African leadership approaches are then often linked ... -
The religious linguistic characteristics of the presence of the Kingdom in the light of Speech Act Theory : Christian ethical implications
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2017)This article presents a novel Biblical ethical hermeneutic approach that emerges from an understanding of the presence of the kingdom of God in the Biblical text. The approach is predicated upon the use of speech act theory ... -
The Maasai and the ancient Israelites : an early 20th century interpretation of the Maasai in German East Africa
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2017)The idea that a certain ethnic or social group is historically related to the ancient Israelites is a widespread phenomenon in Africa. In some cases the identification is made from a ‘we’-perspective about ‘our’ group, ... -
In the greater scheme of things : creation and the human condition in Terrence Malick’s tree of life (2011)
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2017)The oeuvre of the American film writer, director and producer, Terrence Malick has consistently traced themes related to creation and natural phenomena. Nowhere is it quite as spectacularly clear as in the critically ... -
The fear of the Lord/God in context of the South Africa we pray for campaign
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2017)In the third year of my theological training I had lectures in wisdom literature by Professor Hendrik Bosman. Teaching the Book of Job, he lamented that commu-nities mainly use this book at funerals to console families of ... -
Preaching the Pentateuch : reading Jeremiah’s sermons through the lens of cultural trauma
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2017)This article seeks to investigate the rhetorical function of Jeremiah’s Temple, Covenant and Sabbath Sermons against the backdrop of cultural trauma. I propose that the three sermons found in Jeremiah 7, 11:1-14 and 17:19-27 ... -
Emma Murray : an investigation into her person as well as her contributions to mission and education in South Africa - a historical-biographical study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is written with the goal of providing an overview of Emma Murray’s life as well as the organizations and institutions with which she was involved. This study is being performed as a means to ... -
Performing Christ : a South African protest play and the theological dramatic theory of Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In the latter part of the 20th century, against the backdrop of incidents such as the Sharpeville Massacre and the Soweto Uprising, theatre became one of the principal means of ‘artistic resistance’ in ... -
On tragedy and transcendence : a critical exposition of Donald MacKinnon and Rowan Williams in the context of a modern debate
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is focused on the relation between Christian metaphysics and philosophies of the tragic. Its context is within a modern debate, a setting where this interrelation has become contested. ... -
The character of the purse : analyzing tax records and administrative policy from the perspective of Christology in 7th-8th century Egypt
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is a qualitative study of literary and documentary evidence driven by a proposition: “Did Historical-Contextual Christological perspectives in seventh and eighth century Egypt have a ... -
The Violence of Jesus and the justice of God : the life, death, resurrection, and Parousia of Jesus as exemplary of non-lethal violent resistance, and the implications for acts of protest by the subaltern
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Non-violence in personal and political life has become an unassailable pillar upon which the Christian church leans. The New Testament text, church tradition, and cultural mores converge in establishing ... -
An interdisciplinary engagement with the human dignity of the sexual minorities in Grace Bible Church, Soweto : a case study on gender, law and religion
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Pentecostal theological notion of being “born again” stems from the mainstream Evangelical doctrines of “sin,” “salvation” and “baptism in the Holy Spirit” that are inextricably interwoven into the ... -
The disabled God? : a citical analysis of disability theologies
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The subject of discourse and in question in this thesis is “the disabled God”: What does the image of the disabled God consist of and portray? Issues surrounding disability within the Christian church ... -
Church/state partnership in development? : the case of Mitchell's plain and Khayelitsha in post-apartheid Cape Flats
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since the Edict of Milan during the time of Constantine the Great, church and state relations were always antagonistic as Christianity was adopted as the state religion. The same is true for the South ... -
A critical evaluation of the gendered nature of HIV and AIDS programs in medical missions of the Church of Christ, Mashoko Mission in Zimbabwe
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Despite collective efforts by government, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and other key stake holders to eradicate gender inequalities in health issues, gender remains a determining factor that ...
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