Research Articles (Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology)
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Towards a visionary and historical consciousness : Rowan Williams’s four quartets lectures (1974–1975)
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2017)The aim of this essay is to provide a critical exposition of Rowan Williams’s unpublished lectures on T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. A thorough examination of these texts has been lacking in various interpretations of Williams’s ... -
British imperial wars and the strengthening of the Dutch Reformed Church's mission : Mashonaland in the late 19th to early 20th centuries
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2017)This focus is on conflicts in which the British South African Company (BSAC) had a direct hand, and in which British forces were victorious. Three specific conflicts will be highlighted: the First Matabele War (1893-1894), ... -
From England to under African skies : the quest for an African Anglican liturgical voice
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2017)The prayer book of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa is currently being revised. The slogan “Under Southern Skies—In an African voice” is the rallying cry of this liturgical consultative process. It captures one of ... -
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 ... -
Colloquium on Youth Day 16 June 2017 : the Commission of Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches in association with the Faculty of Theology of the University of Pretoria and its centennial celebration in 2017
(AOSIS Publishing, 2017)This article represents the contributions of ecclesiastical and academic office bearers participating in the centennial celebration of the Faculty of Theology of the University of Pretoria on Youth Day 16 June 2017, in ... -
Why faith makes sense : on Graham Ward’s unbelievable
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2017)Ward’s recent volume on the entwining of belief and perception, while not being an explicitly theological monograph, nonetheless evinces a subtle texture that displays his continuing fidelity to certain aspects of Radical ... -
The boundaries of transitional justice Jean Amery and Johan Degenaar on the tension between survival and justice
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2017)What can political philosophy, interested in the field of ‘transitional justice’ learn from dissident voices in states who try to define their future while dealing with a past where human rights were severely violated? In ... -
Mentoring and the ministerial formation of seminary students
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2017)In this article I shall look at the role of mentoring and its relational nature in the ministerial formation of seminary students. Incorporating the relational nature of mentoring in ministerial formation it facilitates ... -
Karl Barth’s interpretative construal of the anhypostasis and enhypostasis of Christ’s human nature in relation to historical Protestant Orthodoxy
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2017)While it is generally agreed that the anhypostasis and enhypostasis of Christ’s human nature have a place in Karl Barth’s Christology, there is little agreement over Barth’s interpretative construal of these concepts, ... -
The growth of the holiness of Mary : from flat character to theological construct
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2017)This article deals with how a flat character in a biblical narrative could grow and assume a life of its own that becomes the example par excellence of holiness for many believers throughout the ages. Inspired by the work ... -
The cinematic hidden Christ – His invisible divinity and his visible humanity
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2017)If we want to reflect upon the impact of the many ‘hidden Christ’-images in modern films at a theologically responsible way, we need to incorporate that reflection into our doctrine of revelation. That will imply that we ... -
Protestantism and economic ethics : an example for the interaction of faith and fabric?
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2017)This text addresses a specific religious and ethical tradition, namely the protestant version of Christianity, and a specific field of what is currently referred to as ‘applied ethics,’ specifically economic ethics, in ... -
Decolonizing theology
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2017)In this essay, the author aims to deal with two questions, namely (1) how decolonized is South African theology? And if there is a sense that South African theology needs to decolonized, then the second question is (2) how ... -
Celebrating the Reformation as transformation to dignity
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2017)South Africa is on an urgent journey of transformation toward a life of dignity for all. Dignity is at the heart of the South African Constitution of 1996. Some essential building-blocks of dignity are reconciling justice, ... -
A department under siege : how Philosophy at Stellenbosch was split in order to survive
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2017)This article discusses the extraordinary history of the teaching of philosophy at Stellenbosch University, with a particular focus on the events that led to the split of the department in 1967, and its later reunification ... -
Glocalisation in the service of resistant discourses : towards reading with Volker Kuster
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2018)‘Talking back’ in a non-confrontational way, this essay engages the German theologian Volker Küster’s ‘reading’ of what it views as resistant discourses from the global South. In the first instance, the essay attempts to ... -
Uitverkiesing en evangelikaalse spiritualiteit : die neocalvinisme in Suid-Afrika
(LitNet, 2017)Hierdie artikel ondersoek die verhouding tussen die calvinistiese uitverkiesingsleer en die evangelikaalse spiritualiteit in die NG Kerk. Die uitverkiesingsleer van Calvyn het implikasies wat in stryd is met die evangelikaalse ... -
Die hermeneutiek van die geloof
(LitNet, 2017)Een van die vrugte van die Verligting is die neiging om ons denke te reduseer tot kennisverwerwing. Die gevolg hiervan is dat religieuse geloof geïnterpreteer word as ’n soort kennis wat na die maatstawe van die wetenskap ... -
Radical orthodoxy : its ecumenical vision
(University of the Free State, 2017)The first book in the Series Radical Orthodoxy (RO) was not meant to be programmatic or set out to change the direction of modern theology. There are certain shared sensibilities among its authors and, principally, an ... -
#Rainmustfall - a theological reflection on drought, thirst, and the water of life
(University of the Free State, 2017)his article focuses on the rhetorical interplay between drought, thirst, and the water of life in a time of drought. The negotiation of meaning that occurs in the interaction between Jesus and the Samaritan woman (John 4) ...
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