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Acting liturgically: Wolterstorff's philosophical reflections on religious practice
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)This review article offers an engagement with Nicholas Wolterstorff's recent publication, Acting liturgically: Philosophical reflections on religious practice. It begins by contextualising the project, tracing Wolterstorff's ... -
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 ... -
Adorn the cross with roses? Justice and human dignity, beauty and human flourishing
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2020)What does beauty have to do with justice, justification, and salvation? Can the world be saved by beauty? In this contribution, some theological and rhetorical convergences and differences between the discourse on human ... -
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 ... -
African urbanims : reinterpreting the marks of the church
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2015)This essay presents a broad analysis of African “cityness” and brings this analysis in relation to an ecumenical interpretation of the marks of the church. The aim is to construct an “urban ecclesiology” where the realities ... -
Afrikaner Reformed missionary enthusiasts and the Voortrekkers : with special reference to Dingaansdag/Geloftedag and also the 1938 Eeufees
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2015)The missionary discourse in Afrikaner Reformed Christianity has been controversial, because it is implicated in the development of early apartheid policies, which were subsequently implemented by National Party governments. ... -
Afrikaner socio-theological discourse in the early twentieth century : war and mission in J.F. Naude and J. Du Plessis
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2014-11)Wars and their subsequent interpretations have shaped twentieth century Afrikaner public discourse profoundly. The remembered trauma, particularly of the Anglo-Boer War might have been a contributing factor to the late ... -
Allan Boesak, black theology and apartheid : a theological-historical approach
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2018)In this article I will give specific attention to the reciprocal relationship between Black Theology and Allan Boesak based on his lived experience of apartheid from a theological-historical perspective. It is my ... -
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 ... -
Always reforming? : nurturing a church for human rights in South Africa
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2018)This article explores the post-apartheid call to South African churches to play an ongoing theological role in the shared task of building a human rights culture for all. It seeks a counter-hegemonic human rights praxis ... -
And Zaccheus remained in the tree : reconciliation and justice and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(Aosis OpenJournals, 2008-03)South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has been praised the world over for its work and its example is being followed by many countries, in Africa especially. In South Africa the TRC has raised hopes and ... -
The anhypostasis and enhypostasis: Barth's Christological method in view of Chalcedon - its nuance and complexity
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Karl Barth departs from historical Protestant orthodoxy in his unique adoption of the dual formula anhypostasis and enhypostasis to explain the union of divine and human natures in the person of Jesus ... -
Anti-Judaïsme in ’n joodse teks? die geval van openbaring
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2011)This article offers a critical discussion of Peter Tomson's approach to Anti-Judaism in the New Testament (see his 'If this be from Heaven...' from 2001). Tomson rightly defines Anti-Judaism as hatred of Jews and characterizes ... -
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 ... -
An architectonics of desire : the person on the path to Nada in John of the Cross
(University of the Free State, 2013)The strenuous ascetic that is established in The Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night by John of the Cross, frequently, and not illegitimately, is viewed as the purging of desire, but often to the extent that desire ... -
The awkward positioning of a Dutch Reformed "missionary" in apartheid South Africa : Rev. D. P. Botha and the Cape "coloured" question
(The Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2020)The Rev. D. P. (David) Botha was a lifelong apartheid critic and minister in the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) and later the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA). Early in his career, he served as a ... -
Beauty appears in sadness, misery and folly an ethical perspective
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2019)This chapter focuses on the beauty that often appears in and from (extreme) sadness, misery and folly. It argues that the experience of beauty is an ancient impulse, and that one need not progress through the lower ... -
Being human in the shadow of racism
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2018)This paper is inspired by the experience of a black student who underwent racist treatment in Brazil. Nowadays, racism may appear in any societal structure. Misuse of power is one of the causes of violence and racism. A ... -
The Belhar Confession in its historical context
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2014)In this article I work with the presupposition that the time has arrived that the Belhar Confession should be detached from being a document utilized for advocacy perusal only. The Belhar Confession should rather be ... -
The Bible and the justification of apartheid in Reformed circles in the 1940's in South Africa : some historical, hermeneutical and theological remarks
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2015)This article focuses on the way the Bible was used in the 1940s in some Reformed theological circles in South Africa as part of the discourse to justify apartheid. Attention is also given to some voices critical of this ...