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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 ... -
Die estetika van 'n skreeu-lelike, "weerlose God". Skilderkuns as medium in prosesse van teologiesparadigmatiese transformasie – ver-beeld-ende stank (skúbalon) vir skandalige on-dank (skandalon)
(LitNet, 2020)Die Christelike tradisie het dikwels in die Godsvraagstuk op die vraag gekonsentreer: Wie is God? Die Godskonsep, veral die al-mag van God, is in verskillende tradisies omskryf in statiese “omni”- of “almag”-kategorieë ... -
Die ikoniese waarde van kuns : estetika en die poetiese faktor van spiritualiteit in ver-beeld-ende kunste en ver-beeld-ingryke teologisering
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2014-03)Die hipotese dat kuns meer behels as ’n soort kunsvlyt of meganiese handvaardigheid, (maakmoontlikheid), en dat estetika ten diepste ’n spirituele kategorie is wat verwys na die mens se soeke na transendente raamwerke ... -
Images preaching : the significance of aesthetic experiences with artworks for the art of preaching
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2019)Art confronts us with seeing our seeing as well as with the ambiguity of the meaning of what we see. This is the double transcendence of art whereby it acquires its theologically productive function. In this article I ... -
Inter Alia : Johan Cilliers and the homiletical imagination
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2019)This essay will explore the homiletical imagination through one of Johan Cilliers’ favourite phrases: inter alia (“among other things”). The phrase captures the unsettled restlessness not only of Cilliers himself, but of ... -
Justice as beauty-in-action? insights from Hans Urs von Balthasar's aesthetics and dramatics
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2019)This essay explores the relation between beauty and justice by turning to the thought of the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. It begins by giving an exposition of Balthasar's theological aesthetics, as ... -
Lament in the aesthetic
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2019)The aim of this essay is to look at the function of lament in the aesthetic. The concept of lament cannot be looked at in isolation because what we experience emotionally influences our life in all its facets. Our understanding ... -
Die optiek van homiletiek : prediking as om-raming van perspektief
(Stellenbosch University, Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology, 2013-02)This article explores the notion of preaching as a form of perception, in particular as pertaining to viewing life through the lenses of Scriptures. The aesthetical concept of “reframing” is utilised to argue that preaching ... -
Power, space, and knowledge : theological-aesthetical perspectives on Michel Foucault's contribution to post-colonial theory
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2013)Although the somewhat enigmatic French philosopher Michel Foucault can be described as one of the most influential and debated French philosophers of the last four decades, and although the corpus of literature on his ... -
The unveiling of life : liturgy and the lure of kitsch
(AOSIS Publishing, 2010-11)This article probes the classic definition of religious aesthetics as related to the notions of beauty, goodness and truth. The phenomenon of kitsch, understood as simulation (or inversion) of beauty, goodness and truth, ...
