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Activating moral imagination : EXPOSED 2013 as a fourth generation faith-based campaign?
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2015)David Korten proposes a Fourth Generation approach (1990) to development that is value driven and sees social movements take centre stage in promoting a more just global society. Theologian Ignatius Swart (2006) has ... -
African relational ontology, individual identity, and Christian theology : an African theological contribution towards an integrated relational ontological identity
(Sage, 2010-08)African theology has a great deal to contribute to the theological discourse on human identity. Relationships are central to the formation, expression and understanding of who an individual person is. The African ... -
An appreciative contextual response to Jean-Pierre Wils, ‘Is there a future for “medical ethics”?’ Just health as a public theological concern
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016-12-02)This article takes the form of an appreciative contextual response to the notion of ‘just health’ that is formulated in Jean-Pierre Wils’ article, ‘Is there a future for medical ethics?’ It approaches the notion of just ... -
Called to work : a descriptive analysis of Call42’s research on faith and work in South Africa
(Scriber Editorial Systems, 2014-11-21)Very little empirical research has been conducted into faith and work, particularly as it relates to the experience and expectations of Christians in the world of work in South Africa. This article discusses the most recent ... -
The church has AIDS : towards a positive theology for an HIV+ church
(Methodist Publishing, 2010-05)One of the most controversial statements in the contemporary Church is surely the assertion that ‘The Church has AIDS’! This statement challenges Christians to recognize that it is impossible to do theology and engage ... -
A generous ontology : identity as a process of intersubjective discovery - an African theological contribution
(AOSIS Publishing, 2010-07)The answer to the question ‘who am I?’ is of fundamental importance to being human. Answers to this question have traditionally been sought from various disciplines and sources, which include empirical sources, such as ... -
The (im)possibility of forgiveness? : an empirical intercultural Bible reading of Matthew 18:15-35
(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2017)"This book deals with contested and topical matters. Biblical hermeneutics has always been contested – how to read and understand Biblical passages. Things become even more contested when such passages are read inter-culturally; ... -
Justice and the missional framework document of the Dutch Reformed Church
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)This article engages with the Missional Framework Document of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) from the perspectives of solidarity with the poor and justice for South African society. The democratic South Africa continues ... -
Mandela and the Methodists : faith, fallacy and fact
(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2014)The death of Nelson Mandela has once again focused the spotlight on his religious convictions and faith affiliation. Numerous academics, journalists, and interested members of faith communities have asked what Mr Mandela's ... -
More red than green : a response to global warming and the environment from within the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
(Methodist Publishing, 2008)Sadly, environmental concerns have not been high on the agenda of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA). The same can be said of most of the mainline denominations in the region. Whilst the effects of global warming ... -
Nelson Mandela and his faith
(Stellenbosch University, 2015)The death of Nelson Mandela on 5 December 2013 put the spotlight on his religious convictions and faith affiliation. Academics, journalists, and interested members of faith communities asked what his faith perspective ... -
On the 250th anniversary of a plain account of Christian perfection : a historical review of Wesleyan Theological Hybridity and its implications for contemporary discourses on Christian Humanism
(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2018)In recent decades, there has been a resurgence of interest in discourses of secular and Christian humanism. This interest engages the question of what it means to be truly human, and what the implications of true humanity ... -
A politics of forgiveness? Engaging the ontological and the structural in the dialogical theology of John de Gruchy
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2019)Forgiveness is a deeply contested theological notion in contemporary South African theology and society. The same could be said for South African theologies of reconciliation, of which forgiveness is considered to be a ... -
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 ... -
A public theological approach to the (im)possibility of forgiveness in Matthew 18.15-35 : reading the text through the lens of integral theory
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017-01-31)Some 20 years after the dawn of participative democracy there is little noticeable or substantial change in the living conditions of the average South African. The country remains divided by race, class and economics. ... -
Reflecting on the nature of work in contemporary South Africa : a public theological engagement with calling and vocation
(AOSIS Publishing, 2020)This article argues for a rediscovery of a theology of work in South Africa that is based on the Protestant notion of calling and vocation. Such a view has the primary intention of emphasising obedience and faithfulness ... -
The religious linguistic characteristics of the presence of the Kingdom in the light of Speech Act Theory : Christian ethical implications
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2017)This article presents a novel Biblical ethical hermeneutic approach that emerges from an understanding of the presence of the kingdom of God in the Biblical text. The approach is predicated upon the use of speech act theory ... -
A state church? : a consideration of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in the light of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ‘Theological position paper on state and church’
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2016)This article considers whether South Africa’s largest mainline Christian denomination, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, is in danger of embodying or propagating a contemporary form of ‘state theology’. The notion ... -
Towards an (im)possible politics of forgiveness? Considering the complexities of religion, race and politics in South Africa
(African Sun Media, 2020)This chapter engages the complexity of a politics of forgiveness in South Africa some 24 years after the end of political apartheid. We shall do so by considering contested understandings of forgiveness among Black and ... -
Translation and a politics of forgiveness in South Africa? : what Black Christians believe and White Christians don’t seem to understand
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2018)Why would white South Africans want to be forgiven? Is it in order to secure their future, or to escape from their past? Why is it that some black South Africans find forgiveness to be impossible in the current social and ...
