Books (Practical Theology and Missiology)
Recent Submissions
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Unfinished business? Faith communities and reconciliation in a post-TRC context
(African Sun Media, 2020)This publication takes one back to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Faith Communities’ Hearings in 1997 and the re-enactment of those hearings in 2014. Some communities revisit their support of those in power ... -
Mother Earth, Mother Africa & African indigenous religions
(African Sun Media, 2020)Africans embrace all of life, the humanity of each person, the world, and the creation of God. Consequently, African indigenous education reflects the completeness of life itself. The various chapters in this volume recount ... -
Grace upon grace : reflections on the meaning of life
(African Sun Media, 2020)In this deeply personal book, well-known Cilliers themes – including meaning-making, sermons, modern art, colours, Stellenbosch wines, and the Karoo – emerge in a surprisingly new way. They connect with intensely happy and ... -
Solank ek hier is : oor die soeke na sin
(African Sun Media, 2020)In hierdie diep persoonlike boek maak bekende Cilliers temas – insluitend die skep van sin, prediking, moderne kuns, kleur, Stellenbosse wyne, en die Karoo – op ’n verrassend nuwe wyse hulle verskyning. Hulle word verbind ... -
Childhood vulnerabilities in South Africa : some ethical perspectives
(African Sun Media, 2020)"This book addresses different challenges that endanger the lives of children in South Africa from an ethical perspective. The text is meant to position itself as a resource for specialists (and practitioners) in ethics ... -
Timing grace : reflections on the temporality of preaching
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2019)In this companion volume to A Space for Grace, Johan Cilliers delves into some of the most profound theological underpinnings of preaching. Drawing on his extraordinary depth and breadth of scholarship, Cilliers examines ... -
Interdisciplinary reflections on the interplay between religion, film and youth
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2019)The relationship between the media and religion in a contemporary world is not only obvious, but also complex. In a culture that increasingly focuses on visual media, film plays a salient role in forging notions of identity ... -
Preaching promise within the paradoxes of life
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2018)Paradoxes have become characteristic of the world we live in – poverty and privilege, empire and oppression, migration and enclaveseeking, war and peace, justice and injustice, reconciliation and revenge. During the 2016 ... -
Resistance to and acquiescence in apartheid : St. Paul's Theological College, Grahamstown, 1965-92
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2018)This book documents the history of a major Provincial Anglican theological college in Grahamstown – St. Paul’s Theological College – that existed against the backdrop of colonialism and apartheid. The author fundamentally ... -
The restoration of the dry bones in Ezekiel 37:1-14 : an exegetical and theological analysis
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2019)The visionary presentation of "Dry Bones" in Ezekiel 37 presupposes the possibility of the restoration of Yahweh’s covenant people to their ancestral land in ancient Palestine. What, therefore, is the underpinning theological ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The churches and the development debate : perspectives on a fourth generation approach
(SUN PReSS, 2006)BOOK BLURB: This book newly addresses the question about the Christian churches' participation in development. The innovative element of this reflection is the way in which the author finds meaning and significance, ... -
Making and sharing the space among men and women : some challenges for the South African church environment
(SUN PReSS, 2007)BOOK BLURB: The aim of this book is to explore how contemporary notions of reconciliation as a process of building, rebuilding and transorming relationships in the pursuit of a "just peace", or God's shalom, may be applied ... -
HIV/AIDS, poverty and pastoral care & counselling : a home-based and congregational systems ministerial approach in Africa
(SUN PReSS, 2007)BOOK BLURB: Statistical data confirms beyond a doubt that sub-Saharan Africa is a very poor region with the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence in the world. The region has poor and limited health facilities and resources (personnel ... -
God for us : an analysis and assessment of Dutch Reformed preaching during the apartheid years
(SUN PReSS, 2006)Preaching reveals, amongst other things, the state of the heart of the church – whether it be healthy or ailing. Sermons from the South African apartheid era, taken from the official mouthpiece of the Dutch Reformed ... -
Die vlug van Gods verbeelding
(SUN MeDIA, 2005)INLEIDING: Ons Afrikaanse koerante staan deesdae bol van lesersbriewe uit bepaalde kringe van die kerk wat reageer op artikels van en oor teoloë oor dinge wat vir ons geloof van fundamentele belang is: die skepping, die ... -
Die lewende stem van die evangelie : nuut gedink oor die basiese beginsels van prediking
(SUN PRESS, 2004)In hierdie hoofstuk word inleidend geluister na ’n aantal kritiese stemme wat teenoor die prediking opklink, naamlik vanuit: ■ Die sosiale wetenskappe, veral met betrekking tot die verskynsel van postmodernisme ■ Die ... -
Binne die kring-dans van die kuns : die betekenis van estetika vir die gereformeerde liturgie
(SUN PReSS, 2007)God lag op ’n koggelende wyse skreeusnaaks: dood waar is jou angel! Wie laaste lag, dit is die allerlaaste lag van vreugde. Johan wil in hierdie boek die gereformeerde teologie in die 21ste eeu laat lag. Want God se ...