It is a privilege to be invited to contribute to the Festschrift dedicated to Professor Johan Buitendag, Emeritus Dean, Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. While his own work often ...
Nthali, Micah Mhlupheki(University of Pretoria, 2023)
South Africa has been characterised by affliction of colonialism, apartheid and the failure to love other races, a Christian country which oppressed and forced blacks to embrace western style of life imparted by the ...
Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys)(AOSIS, 2022-11-21)
The Rustenburg Conference of churches that took place in 1990 was a critical turning point for Christianity in South Africa. Besides the important declaration at the end of the conference, a statement was also made by the ...
Van Oort, Johannes (Hans)(Brill Academic Publishers, 2023-06)
This brief note explains the curious word “substomachans” in conf. 3.21 from the Manichaean background of both Monnica’s bishop and Augustine. Based on this explanation, the note proposes a new translation of the phrase ...
Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys)(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2022)
Rev. Dr Andrew Murray Jr became a well-known theologian in the history of South
Africa. He wrote many books and played a founding role in establishing the Huguenot
College in Wellington in the Cape Colony. A lesser-known ...
Van Rooyen, Almarie; Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys); Van Wyk, Tanya(AOSIS, 2022-09-27)
Four case studies. Since the end of apartheid in South Africa, Afrikaner people have been faced with disentangling their culture from Afrikaner nationalism. This article argues that the transformation of the Afrikaner ...
Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys)(AOSIS, 2022-08-25)
Education in Africa is in a crisis. Some scholars go as far as to say that it is broken. This was also noted when the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, linked to the Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, were ...
Morris-Chapman, Daniel John Pratt(AOSIS, 2022-07-14)
Many writers have sought to outline Wesley's conception of how human beings obtain revelational knowledge. In this regard, the use of what has been dubbed the Wesleyan quadrilateral continues to remain widespread in both ...
Maseko, Xolani; Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim)(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2021)
This article is a critique of Reformed Ecclesiology, particularly as regarding
ministry and church polity. It is argued herein that a static ecclesiology results
in church ministry that is seemingly deficient in responding ...
Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys)(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2021)
The untimely death of Mary-Anne Elizabeth Plaatjies-Van Huffel challenges everybody who knew her to reflect on her life and work. One of the outstanding attributes of Plaatjies-Van Huffel was the way in which she “lived” ...
The article presents the preliminary results of the author’s study of the unedited homily De
transfiguratione et eleemosyna (CPG 5009; BHGn 1996t), ascribed to John Chrysostom. The
question of the manuscript tradition ...
Msiska, Godfrey; Duncan, Graham A.(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2020)
This article explores an emerging ecumenical church polity in Zambia from a
church historical perspective. While church polity and church unity literature
has acknowledged the role of church polity and church unity in ...
Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys)(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)
This contribution gives an overview of how four of the important reformed churches
in South Africa responded to the challenge of poverty from 1994 to 2019. Following
an introduction, the first part of the chapter defines ...
Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim)(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)
This article argues that “missional ecclesiology” in the last decades became a
new mission paradigm for churches in South Africa, especially after the demise of
apartheid. After an overview of the development of a “missio ...
Kruger, Pieter(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)
During the past nearly 30 years the epochs of democratisation and globalisation became
intertwined with the South African society, determining its spirit of the age. The
democratisation of South African since 1994 has ...
Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys)(AOSIS, 2021-06)
The Rustenburg Church Conference took place in 1990, 30 years after the historic Cottesloe
Church Consultation of 1960. Both these conferences had a huge influence on the history of
the churches in South Africa. Thirty ...
Benedikt Dreyer was ’n kunstenaar en beeldsnyer wat in die eerste helfte van die 16de eeu in
Lübeck gewoon en gewerk het. Dit was ’n tyd waarin die Renaissance, Humanisme van
Erasmus en die Kerkhervorming oor Europa ...
Vuyani Vellem was an outstanding Black Theologian of Liberation (BTL), who was approaching
the zenith of his career when he died at the age of 50 years in 2019. This paper begins with a
personal memoir to Prof. Vellem ...
The Synod of Emden: Cradle of the Netherdutch churches of South Africa. The Synod of
Emden, which took place from 04 to 13 October 1571 in the city of Emden, is of great
importance to the reformed churches in South Africa. ...
This contribution in the field of public theology explores two questions: (1) Could South Africa
be regarded as a traumatised society, presenting with acute symptoms of post-traumatic
disorder and (2) what would be an ...