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Woza Albert! Performing Christ in apartheid South Africa
(The Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2020)This article investigates the important South African anti-apartheid protest play, Woza Albert!, written and performed in 1981 by Percy Mtwa and Mbogeni Ngema, which retells the story of Jesus Christ so that it takes place ... -
Worship as primary ethical act : Barth on Romans 12
(AOSIS, 2020)Following the centenary year of the publication of the first edition of Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief, this article attempts to look at what a contemporary South African audience could potentially learn from Barth’s reading ... -
Whose land is it anyway? : a historical reflection on the challenges URCSA encountered with land and property rights
(The Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2020)The proposal to amend the Constitution of South Africa 1996 regarding the expropriation of land without compensation has invigorated a robust discourse with regard to the land issue in South Africa. Cognisance should be ... -
Towards redeeming marriage custom from triangular captivity : the missional dilemma of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe
(AOSIS Publishing, 2020)Marriage in the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe (MCZ) is under siege. This scenario was bequeathed by the British imperialists. This siege is evident because the ecclesiastical theology of marriage in the MCZ is fastened on ... -
Towards an engaged systematic theology?
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2020)This article explores the question of what the scope and focus of theology should be, by considering two closely connected suggestions in this regard. The first suggestion comes from a group of theologians from the ... -
Towards a Platonic critique of ideology: On method and metaphysics
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Plato is accused by some of being a totalitarian, "top-down" thinker, a claim that is linked not just to his politics but to his philosophical proclivities more generally. This essay will argue that Plato's ... -
The tension between "risk" and "guilt" in the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer's exploration of responsible life
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)This article discusses the two definitions for a responsible life and action that the theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer provides in his book Ethics, which suggest that accepting Schuld - taking on guilt, debt, or an obligation ... -
Rewriting the narrative of the infertile female body
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This article will explore the possible reimagining of the infertile female body through the lens of theology. The rise of feminist movements and socio-political influence has impacted both men and women's ... -
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 ... -
Recognition of LGBTIQ bodies in the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa: An indecent proposal?
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)The human dignity of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people are threatend on the African continent. The sexual orientation, gender identity, expressions and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) of LGBTIQ ... -
The Pniel land dispute of the early 20th century
(The Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2020)In 1834 the slaves of the Groot Drakenstein area were emancipated. They continued to work for farmers in the surrounding area and this resulted in the formation of a community where these farm workers, now able to leave ... -
The Palestinian struggle, South Africans and Jewish Israelis: Crosslines between solidarity, faith, spirituality and agnosticism
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)What role does religion play (or not play) in transnational activism in the context of prolonged violence? The narrow strip of land known as Palestine and Israel has special significance to three of the world's largest ... -
The modern state as mortal God. On rogues and rogue states
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)Prisoners are confined in the name of the state as the holder of the monopoly of coercion and violence. To delegitimize religion as a political factor, the modern European state has often been upgraded to a divine authority, ... -
Leadership, corruption and the dignity of humans : some reflections from the Nigerian context
(AOSIS Publishing, 2020)Leadership inadequacy in Nigeria has contributed to the rise in corruption, which has undermined human dignity through insufficient provision of basic human needs. This happens because the leadership venerates self-interest ... -
The importance of early Christian thought for theology today. The church in the world
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)Early Christianity is not only a source of historical interest, it also challenges the systematic theology and Christian ethics of today. Early Christians saw themselves as a community of life with the Eucharist at its ... -
Hilary of poitiers and theological language
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2020)Hilary of Poitiers deals with the question concerning our knowledge of God. Knowledge of God will never be attained by human efforts. God is only known through Jesus who is God in the human flesh. We learn this not from ... -
Christianity, art and transformation
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2020)In this article, two papers, previously published in A Theological Odyssey. My Life in Writing (2014a), both based on Christianity, Art and Transformation (2001), are conflated. The first is a paper on "Christianity and ... -
Christ as performance: On Hans Urs von Balthasar’s dramatic Christology from below
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)This essay will explore Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Christology as performance from below. It will begin by introducing Balthasar’s theodramatic project as presented in his five-volume work Theo-drama. Here, it will be shown ... -
Children of God : exploring URCSA's catechetical sexual ethic
(The Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2020)Human sexuality has been on the agenda of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA's) General Synod since at least 2005. Since then, at each respective General Synod, the discussion has been set forth to ... -
Building blocks of free will : in conversation with Dick Swaab
(AOSIS, 2020)The issue of free will is a complex one that has occupied the minds of many theologians and philosophers through the ages. The two main aspects of free will are the freedom to do otherwise and the power of self-determination. ...
