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- ItemApplying grounded theory to data collected through participatory research on African Independent Churches' liturgical rituals : a comparative study(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2011-10) Muller, Bethel A.; Wepener, CasThis article reported on two research projects, the first conducted in the early 1990s and the second, a project currently in progress. In essence, the article was an attempt to compare the theology of African Independent Churches in the two respective periods by making use of a grounded theory approach to their worship services. Significant similarities and differences were identified and reported on.
- ItemThe role of worship and ethics on the road towards reconciliation(AOSIS OpenJournal, 2009-09) Muller, Bethel A.Reconciliation in a divided society, like the South African one, is in dire need of a new moral discourse and praxis. This article argues that this moral discourse must also be conducted on an often forgotten level, namely in the worshipping praxis of the Church. The article describes the renewed interest of ethicists and liturgists in the relationship between liturgy and ethics and especially the role of rituals. The article then focuses on the renewal of basic Christian rituals like preaching and sacraments, prayer and praise to serve this much needed moral discourse.
- ItemSouth African radio and television as contexts for exegesis : a case study of interpretive practices in South African public worship(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 1991) Muller, Bethel A.; Smit, D. J.Religion – especially the Christian religion – has played, and still plays, and extremely important role in the structuring of public life in South Africa (78% of the population regard themselves as Christian; cf the decisive role Afrikaner churches played in the legitimation of apartheid as well as the role played by religion in the struggle against apartheid, HSRC Report 1985; Church and Society 1991; Kairos Document, The road to Damascus: Evangelical Witness in South Africa; Relevant Pentecostal witness.) This social role has obviously been ambivalent: religion either served to perpetuate the socio-political status quo by at least inhibiting, if not opposing, any process of change; or it acted as vanguard in the liberating and democratising process (De Gruchy 1979; Villa-Vicencio 1991). The religious witness was therefore also ambivalent: it acted simultaneously as both a unifying and as a conflict-generating force (Adonis and Smit 1991; Villa-Vicencio 1987; Nolan 1988; The things that make for peace).
- ItemTeologiese identiteit as missionale gerigtheid(AFRICA SUN MeDIA, 2009) Muller, Bethel A.; Conradie, Ernst; Lombard, ChristoINTRODUCTION: Die soeke na die ware, Skrifgefundeerde identiteit van die teologie en die kerk bly 'n blywende opdrag, veral in die beoefening van 'n Gereformeerde teologie. Dit is veral noodsaaklik in 'n tyd waarin allerlei sekulariserende modelle, byvoorbeeld van 'n "nuwe" hervorming, ontwerp word om ruimte te skep vir die sogenaarnde "post-modeme" denke. Die gevaar is egter dat hierdie "post" -modeme ontwerpe dreig om vervreemd te raak van die teologiese aard en identiteit van die teologie. Die uiteinde van so 'n teologie is wat Jaap Durand noem die "doodloopstrate van die geloof".