Browsing by Author "Theron, P. F."

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    One Bible, two Testaments : convenant, ethnicity and new creation
    (Pieter de Waal Neethlingh Trust, 2002) Theron, P. F.
    Sola Scriptura implies tota Scriptura, that is both Old and New Testaments. This holds good for the Lutheran and the Reformed branches of the Reformation. The former, however, is inclined towards Marcionism at the expense of the Old Testament, whilst the latter gravitates towards an identification between Old and New lacking the critical character of the Cross. These tendencies were respectively manifested in the German Christians’ disposition towards Jewish Christians, and the Dutch Reformed Church’s attitude towards the (other) Gentile Christians. In both instances social considerations of race weighed heavier than theological reflections on faith.
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    Die oudheid van die letter en die nuutheid van die Gees : enkele opmerkings oor die Skrif as lewende Woord
    (Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of the Free State, 2002) Theron, P. F.
    The antithesis between letter (gramma) and Spirit (pneuma) should be understood within the eschatological contrast between the old passing age and the new eschatological kingdom. The eschatological tension between the old creation and the new re-creation is reflected in the dialectical tension between letter and Spirit. Since the letter is a creation of the Spirit and is at the same time judged by the Spirit, this tension is within the letter itself. Therefore a warning is sounded against identifying the law or the Old Testament as such, with the gramma. The contrast between gramma and pneuma, old and new, permeates the entire Bible (i.e. Old and New Testament). This tension is the work of the Spirit as the auctor primarius of Scripture, through which the “dead letter” is transformed into the living Word. “The new which God works makes itself similar to the old, and thereby makes the old into a parable of the new” (Jüngel). Therefore a pneumatological reading of Scripture implies that the literal sense is taken seriously, since it is from the latter that the meaning (respectively: significance) of the text arises. When, however, the pneuma is rejected the letter becomes not merely dead, but deadly.
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    Uitverkiesing en etiek
    (AOSIS Publishing, 2002-08-06) Theron, P. F.
    Die leerstuk van die uitverkiesing is van fundamentele belang vir die gereformeerde tradisie. Gedurende die vorige eeu het leidende teoloë baie aandag bestee aan hierdie dogma, wat ongelukkig dikwels onopgemerk verbygegaan het by predikers en gewone lidmate. In besonder word in hierdie artikel gefokus op die teologie van Oepke Noordmans. Die uitverkorenes is dit nie op grond van hulle uitstaande kwaliteite nie, want juis die uitverkiesing leer ons dat God hoegenaamd nie kieskeurig is nie. Sy keuse word gemotiveer deur ons ellende. Dogmatiek en etiek (respektiewelik: geloof en lewe) is ten nouste verbonde. Die oorgang van leer na lewe wat ons aantref aan die begin van Romeine 12, word geneem as uitgangspunt. Die bekende gereformeerde adagium, soli Deo gloria, word identifiseer as die hart van sowel die gereformeerde dogmatiek as etiek.