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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Recent Submissions
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Time out of joint and future-oriented memory : engaging Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the search for a way to deal responsibly with the ghosts of the past
(MDPI, 2017)This article explores in conversation with some of the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer the question of how the experience of the dislocation of time and the visitation of “the ghosts of the past” (also in contexts marked ...
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Lecture three : from empathy to embodied faith : interdisciplinary perspectives on the evolution of religion
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)In a series of three articles, presented at the Goshen Annual Conference on Science and Religion in 2015, with the theme ‘Interdisciplinary Theology and the Archeology of Personhood’, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen considers the ...
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Lecture two : the evolution of morality: the emergence of personhood
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)In a series of three articles, presented at the Goshen Annual Conference on Science and Religion in 2015, with the theme ‘Interdisciplinary Theology and the Archeology of Personhood’, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen considers the ...
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Lecture one : rediscovering Darwin for theology – rethinking human personhood
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)In a series of three articles, presented at the Goshen Annual Conference on Science and Religion in 2015, with the theme ‘Interdisciplinary Theology and the Archeology of Personhood’, J. Wentzel van Huyssteen considers the ...
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The vision of dry bones in Ezekiel 37:1–28 : resonating Ezekiel’s message as the African prophet of hope
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)Against the background of a disenfranchised and hopeless exilic Israel, Ezekiel received the vision of ‘Dry Bones’, predicting an eschatological resuscitation and resurrection to life and restoration to the land of Yahweh’s ...
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From conciliar ecumenism to transformative receptive ecumenism
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)This article attends to ecumenicity as the second reformation. The ecumenical organisations and agencies hugely influenced the theological praxis and reflection of the church during the past century. The First World Council ...
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Black Pain is a White Commodity : moving beyond postcolonial theory in practical theology : #CaesarMustFall!
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)Postcolonialism and decolonising campaigns are expressions of human pain on the level of identity confusion (inferiority), ideological abuse (cultural discrimination) and structural oppression (imperialistic exploitation). ...
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Reformed theology and politics
(Stellenbosch University, 2013)The Reformed tradition has always been involved in political issues. In terms of this perspective the views of two major Reformed theologians, John Calvin and Karl Barth, are compared with opinions in early Christianity ...
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D.F. Malan en die hoer kritiek
(Stellenbosch University, 2013)The primary aim of this paper is to bring to light an important unpublished paper from 1910 by Dr DF Malan on the so-called Higher Criticism. My paper throws light on Malan’s own theological position as pupil of the Dutch ...
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"Jesus" en "Politiek"? : Christologiese literatuur en publieke teologie vanuit 'n Suid-Afrikaanse perspektief
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2013)The article deals with potential ethical implications of contemporary Christological studies. In a first section the argument is made that doctrine and ethics belong together. In the central section, this claim is illustrated ...
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'n Praktiese teologiese ondersoek na kontemporêre jeugkultuur en depressie in tienerdogters
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsingstudie fokus op die invloed van kontemporêre jeugkultuur op depressie onder tienermeisies. ’n Praktiese teologiese ondersoek is gedoen, spesifiek in die veld van jeugbediening. ’n ...
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Offender reintegration : a challenge to the Uniting Reformerd Church in SA, Porterville, in its ministry of reconciliation, restoring and healing to the relaesed offender in the local community
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: People re-entering society after a period of incarceration often experience an identity crisis regarding their life orientation. Society is reluctant to receive perpetrators back into the community after ...
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The enslaved Paul in an imperial context : 1 Corinthians 8:1-11:1
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In 1 Corinthians 8:1-11:1, I attempted to address Paul’s response to his Corinthian audience concerning their eating of meat sacrificed to idols in temples. The main concern Paul addresses is the strong ...
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Hospitality and its ironic inversion in Genesis 18 & 19 : a theological-ethical study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is a study of hospitality and its ironic inversion in Genesis 18 and 19 towards a theological-ethical understanding of the concept in the Old Testament. Hospitality is one of the patterns ...
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Sacralisation and the colonial-indigenous encounter in Southern African Christian history : the memory and legacy of Johannes du Plessis as case study
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2016)The role of the Dutch Reformed Church's mission policies in the development of apartheid ideology has in recent times come under increased scrutiny. In terms of the formulation of missionary theory within the DRC, the ...
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Die interpretasie van die vervullingsitate in Matteus aan die hand van ironie as pragmatiese taalkomponent
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Sien dokument vir opsomming
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Patriarchal ethics and narrative representation : ethics, values and morality of the biblical narrator in the Jacob’s story
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)The patriarch narratives have continually become stories of ethical embarrassment to the modern readers because of the participation and support of the patriarchs for unethical practices which directly undermine the ...
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On the reception of Bonhoeffer : a case study of South-South dialogue
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)This article, read as a paper during a consultation on South-South receptions of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, argues that the late Russel Botman, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch and well-known South African ...
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Religious education and nation-building in Nigeria
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2015)After the Nigerian Civil War in 1970, the federal government took over schools founded by religious groups because education was thought to be a huge government venture and no longer a private enterprise. Prior to this ...
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God at work : an exploration of the dynamic inter-relationship between the reign of God and the people of God
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)In this article, it is argued that we must take seriously the missional invitation of the Triune God to communion and fellowship. Further, it is argued that it is this invitation which informs, shapes and forms the nature ...
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The role of Matthew’s ἀφίημι-logia in the decisions of the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in post-apartheid South Africa
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)This article investigates the use of the verb ἀφίημι in selected pericopae in the Gospel of Matthew and the decisions of the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) on forgiveness in the post-apartheid South Africa. ...
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Exploring the voices of children and youth : a plea for renewal in Church structures for child and youth ministries
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)Various trends in Children and youth ministries indicate that the church is struggling to engage with and to serve children and youth effectively. This then impacts negatively on efforts to succeed in this strategic ministry. ...
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Reading Galatians 6:16 in line with Paul’s contrast between the new aeon in Christ and the old aeon before the Christ event
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)This contribution argues for viewing ‘the Israel of God’ in Galatians 6:16 as pointing to God’s people in the previous aeon before the Christ event. Prevalent interpretations of Galatians 6:16 are critiqued in view of the ...
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Christian ethical implications of the presence of the Kingdom as God's performative action in the light of speech act theory
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis engages some Christian ethical implications of the presence of the kingdom as God’s performative action by reconsidering the role of the linguistic character of the biblical text from the ...
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The future of the church : a forgotten article of Oepke Noordmans
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)An English translation of a recovered article by the Dutch theologian Oepke Noordmans, Kerk en Toekomst (Church and future) is presented. The relevance of this article for the present context, especially in South Africa, ...
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Subordination vs. agency/resistance in South Africa : virgins bargaining their way through higher education
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)Oppression manifests itself in various ways, such that intersections between different forms of oppression can be identified. This is also true for women living in South Africa, a country that has for years been plagued ...
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Salvation as healing? : an analysis of Jesse Mugambi and Mercy Oduyoye’s soteriologies in the context of African prosperity gospels
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a study of the doctrine of salvation with particular reference to therapeutic interpretations. Discourses about salvation often center on that which comes in the hereafter, with less ...
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The ethics of the penultimate in a situation of ambiguity : a possible and relevant interpretation of Bonhoeffer in Brazil today
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)This article explores Bonhoeffer’s ethics of the penultimate in view of his poem “Christians and heathens” in dialogue with the Brazilian movie “God is Brazilian”, a picture of reality in North-eastern Brazil with all its ...
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Prophets, faust, and first-years : Bonhoeffer and the language of charismatic experience
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)Across the Global South, contemporary Christian theology is grappling with the best way to understand and respond to the rise of neo-Pentecostalism and the associated emphasis on charismatic experience. Speaking from a ...
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Preaching between affirmation and anticipation : contours of a paradoxical homiletic
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)Taking the many paradoxes that the South African society is currently facing as point of departure, this article sets out by defining the notion of paradox, followed by the drawing of a few contours of a homiletic that ...
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