Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology) by Title
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The Papacy as ecumenical challenge : contemporary Anglican and Protestant perspectives on the Petrine Ministry
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2004-12)This dissertation explores how Anglican and Protestant church perspectives on the papacy are increasingly changing, as they identify the need for and value of a universal ministry of unity that may potentially be recognised ... -
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 ... -
The poor and the public : an exploration of synergies between black theology and public theologies
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2010-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The title of this study is . The Poor and the Public: An Exploration of Synergies between Black Theology and Public Theologies. In Chapter One, which is the introduction, the research question is posed ... -
'n Praktiese-teologiese besinning oor die betekenis van Artikel 4 van die belydenis van Belhar as grondslag vir die vestiging van 'n teologie van ontwikkeling in die Vereniging Gereformeerde Kerk in Suider-Afrika(VGKSA)
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this study, the researcher studied the Belhar Confession of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA), which gained shape following the social injustices that resulted from the policy of ... -
Prayer : the chief exercise of faith : the centrality of prayer in faith and obedience according to Karl Barth
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is an attempt to show the centrality of prayer in the Christian life, in faith and obedience, according to Karl Barth. It is argued that the Christian life was not the focus of Barth’s ... -
The priesthood of believers : a critical analysis and evaluation of developments in the Ecclesiology of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is a critical analysis and evaluation of the teaching of the priesthood of believers and the development of ecclesiology in the Seventh-day Adventist church. The study analyses this ... -
Prof. B.B. Keet, 1885 tot 1974, leraar en hoogleraar in die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1992)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This scientific biography deals with the life of Prof. Barend Bartholomeus Keet. An attempt is made to penetrate to the fundamental characteristics of his life, and to establish why Prof. Keet found it ... -
A public theologian : a critical study of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen’s postfoundationalist facilitation of interdisciplinarity
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: See item for full-text. -
The quest for unity between the Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa and the Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa, 1959-1973
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Nineteenth century Presbyterian witness in South Africa provides us with a wonderful testimony of close work relationships between ministers that served independent colonial congregations and missionaries ... -
Recollection and Confession : the Heidelberg catechism as a site of memory in the Dutch Reformed Church, 1862-1963
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is an analysis of the Heidelberg Catechism as site of memory in the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in the period 1862 to 1963. It assumes that there is a dynamic entanglement between recollection ... -
Recovering the Calvin of "Two Kingdoms"? : a historical-theological inquiry in the light of church-state discourse in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is a historical-theological inquiry into the social thought of John Calvin through the lens of the “Calvin” of the church struggle with the purpose of recovering his doctrines of two kingdoms ... -
The reformed tradition always reforming? : a historical-theological study of the doctrine of justification in the works of John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards and N.T. Wright
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines the work of John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards, and N.T. Wright on the doctrine of Justification. As a comparative study in theology, this work aims to discover areas of continuity and ... -
Revelation as divine testimony : a philosophical-theological inquiry
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The dissertation examines, on the basis of insights from contemporary analytic philosophy of testimony, the intellectual viability of the traditional Christian conception of revelation as divine testimony. ... -
Selfloos en sosiaal? : 'n ontleding van Michael Welker se teologie van die gees
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is undertaken in the wake of an increase in publications on the work of the Holy Spirit, on the one hand, and Analphabetisierung, an inability to think and talk about the Spirit on the other. ... -
Sosialisering as modus van morele vorming in die kerk
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)The title of the study is “Socialization as a modus of moral formation in the church.” Specific attention is paid to the work of Johannes van der Ven on moral formation. Appreciation is expressed for Van der Ven’s ... -
Sovereignty and the event in John D. Caputo’s radical theology
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The notion of sovereignty is the fundamental idea informing democratic society insofar as it defines the principle that a nation or a people have the ‘right’ or ‘force’ to decide their own actions without ... -
Suffering and God : a theological-ethical study of the war in the Sudan, 1955-
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is a theological-ethical study of suffering and God in relation to the war in Sudan. It examines historical, political, socio-economic and religious factors behind one of the longest ... -
Towards an evangelical theology of the individual-in-community : a theoogical analysis and proposal
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Within evangelicalism there has and continues to be a growing awareness of the seminal benefit of a theology of community. For some time now, there have been signs within evangelicalism of a growing ... -
Triniteit, antropologie en ecclesiologie : een kritisch onderzoek naar implicaties van de godsleer voor de positie van mannen en vrouwen in de kerk
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation concerns the implications of the doctrine of the Trinity and the debate about women in ministry. The first chapter serves as introduction to the debate regarding men and women in the ... -
Union with Christ? : re-reading Calvin as constructive proposal for Korean Calvin reception
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The starting point of this dissertation is the presence of a theological deficit regarding the reception of Calvin’s “union with Christ (unio cum Christo)” thought. It is argued that the notion of “union ...
