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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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Religions in the construction of the European Union
(Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University, 2012)Because of the importance of the increasing integration of European nation states into the European Union, this article describes the influence of this body on the variety of traditional relationships between religions and ... -
The (ir)relevance of biblical scholarship? : a challenge, and an opportunity
(Department of Old and New Testament, Stellenbosch University, 2021-10-28)Has biblical scholarship become irrelevant to modern secular societies? Are the threats to the viability of biblical scholarship of the same nature as the threats to other areas of the humanities (history, philosophy, ... -
Reading the New Testament stereoscopically
(Department of Old and New Testament, Stellenbosch University, 2021-09)This article investigates how the reading of the Bible in the segregated spheres of church, society and academy has been institutionalised in the way Biblical Studies is taught at most state universities and seminaries in ... -
Polish Catholic biblical scholarship : development and perspectives
(Department of Old and New Testament, Stellenbosch University, 2021)The article analyses the recent history and development of Catholic biblical scholarship in Poland. It points to the role of the pastoral situation and activity of the Catholic Church in this development. It presents the ... -
Crossing boundaries : the transformative potential of intercultural Bible reading in secular/post-secular contexts
(Department of Old and New Testament, Stellenbosch University, 2021-11)Intercultural biblical hermeneutics is a fairly recent development in biblical scholarship in general. It emphasises that biblical interpretation almost always takes place in contexts where an array of cultural values ... -
The African Church's application of anointing oil : an expression of Christian spirituality or a display of fetish ancestral religion?
(AOSIS, 2021-01-28)The content of Christian spirituality that made waves since the inception of the early church soon took on different contours as the faith got adapted to different gentile contexts. The expression of this faith, along ... -
Revelation as a discourse of language through speech act theory
(AOSIS, 2021-02-16)Systematic theology regards revelation as a divine discourse between God and us. However, it seems that it does not fully explain how God’s divine discourse transforms our life and what implications it has. Therefore, this ... -
Restriction of burial rites during the COVID-19 pandemic : an African liturgical and missional challenge
(AOSIS, 2021-08-27)Burial rites are very common among many Africa communities. In the African context, burials are not the end of life but rather the beginning of another life in the land of the ancestors. In spite of the importance of the ... -
Pentecostalism and migration : a contextual study of the migrant Ghanaian Classical Pentecostal churches in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2021-02-10)Pentecostal phenomenon from history has always moved with migration. Reading Acts 1:8, Jesus linked the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the migration of his disciples and the gospel from Jerusalem to Judea and Samaria ... -
Dum spiro – spero (terwyl ek asemhaal, hoop ek). Op reis met Elsa Joubert oor die "naakte waarheid" van die "menslike siel"
(LitNet, 2020)Die tergende vraag in ’n spirituele en religieuse benadering tot die betekenis van menswees is nie bloot die vraag na identiteit (wie is ek?) nie, maar die vraag na die wesenskern van die mens. Wat word met siel bedoel? ... -
The other side of whiteness : the Dutch Reformed Church and the search for a theology of racial reconciliation in the afterlife of apartheid
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2021-01-18)This article will provide an overview and analysis of developments in the Dutch Reformed Church's (DRC) General Synod concerning race, racism, and racial reconciliation from 1986 until 2019. It seeks to extend the multiple ... -
The fall and rise of King Oedipus : on sacrificial logic and "Proto-Christology"
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2021-03-31)This essay is placed within a continuing debate on the appropriateness of a Christian deployment of tragedy. According David Bentley Hart, tragedy legitimates a sacrificial and scapegoating logic that is in contradiction ... -
On theological aesthetics, decolonisation, and doing theology through the arts
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2021-01-18)Throughout history, works of art have often served as a prominent mode of theological expression – also, importantly, here in South Africa. In, thus, revisiting the history of theological inquiry in South Africa as part ... -
On politics of friendship
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2021-07-16)The paper distinguishes four dominant discourses in contemporary so-called politics of friendship, namely a politics of enmity (Schmitt), a politics based on the notion of friends as “another self” (Aristotle), a politics ... -
Mocking the just God? : a theological critique of President Mnangagwa’s use of the name of God to justify his rule in Zimbabwe
(AOSIS, 2021-10-12)Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa justified his unconstitutional ascendency to power after a military coup that dethroned former President Robert Mugabe in 2017 by claiming that ‘the voice of the people is the voice ... -
The Joint Declaration on the doctrine of justification and social ethics
(AOSIS, 2021-09-17)The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ) developed out of understanding of the doctrine of justification and how that doctrine relates to social ethics. The article briefly describes how the doctrine ... -
Memory, embodiment, ethics : in conversation with Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work on theological anthropology
(AOSIS, 2021-11-30)This article focuses on Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work on theological anthropology, attending especially to his emphasis on the temporal and narrative dimension of personal identity. In this regard, Van Huyssteen draws on ... -
Alone in the world? Imago Dei from theological anthropology to Christology
(AOSIS, 2021-11-16)In Princeton theologian Van Huyssteen’s (2006) major interdisciplinary work, Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology, human uniqueness is rhetorically coupled with human aloneness. A comparison with a ... -
The other's humanity with or without the other's religiosity? Reflections on the affirmation and limitation of human dignity in early Afrikaner missionary discourse in Central Africa
(AOSIS, 2021-09-27)Taking Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work on early human uniqueness in relation to symbolic or religious awareness as a starting point, this article raises a question whether an implicit connection between humanity and the ... -
Post-foundational theology and the contribution of African approaches to consciousness and identity
(AOSIS, 2021-10-21)How do we know who we are? What sources can we draw upon in order to explain and understand the complex notions of identity and consciousness? This article revisits this debate and argues that African approaches the ...
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