• Beweeg van diakonaat van welsyn na herstellende geregtigheid : ’n gevallestudie – COVID-19 

  Marais, Janneke A. (AOSIS, 2023-07-10)

  During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, the Dutch Reformed congregation Toringkerk in Paarl longed to reach out to people within the local community who were in extreme need. The congregation felt powerless because of the ...
• Lost in translation? Religious elements and concepts in youth climate movements 

  Van Vliet, Geke; Beukes, Jacques W. (AOSIS, 2023-11-14)

  Climate change represents the most significant challenge facing the global community. The issue in question has an impact on the younger generation, whose prospects may be jeopardised. Both younger and older generations ...
• Soteriology in evangelical practice : a view from the street 

  Paas, Stefan (Brill Academic Publishers, 2022-12)

  This article discusses the difficulties experienced by evangelical missionary practitioners in the West from the perspective of soteriology. This is done ‘from below,’ that is, based on recent empirical studies. First, the ...
• Diakonale reis van die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk 

  Jansen van Rensburg, Marthinus Jacob (AOSIS, 2023-06)

  The aim of this article is to look at the development of the deacon’s position in the Dutch Reformed Church of Africa by investigating the founding, development, and management of the deacon’s position in the church. It ...
• Diakonaat en jeug in Afrikaanssprekende Gereformeerde gemeentes in Suid-Afrika 

  Beukes, Jacques W. (AOSIS, 2023-07-31)

  South Africa is characterised by various socio-economic and socio-political challenges (fractures) not easily met (or healed). ‘Fractures’ refer to social, economic, religious, spatial, ecological, environmental, and ...
• Sinawe’ [we are with you] : local churches as change agents in the lives of traumatised youth 

  Knoetze, Johannes Jacobus; Black, Timothy Jay (AOSIS, 2023-04)

  The church has a key role to play in addressing the chronic levels of grief and trauma experienced by the youth in South Africa. It has a biblical mandate to bring hope and healing and has a unique station within South ...
• (Practical) theology : a story of doubt and imagination 

  Muller, Julian C. (AOSIS, 2023-04)

  Theology as a story of doubt and imagination is to be understood against the background of interdisciplinary social science and in contrast to the traditional paradigm of theology as a system of propositional certainty. ...
• Diens van barmhartigheid of diakonaat – hoe belangrik is ’n naam? 

  Van der Merwe, Willlie (AOSIS, 2023-06)

  Churches hold different views regarding the office of deacon and role of deacons in the church. Churches also use different terms for their social ministries. This lack of a common language regarding the church’s ...
• Enkele teologiese uitdagings rakende diakonia in van die Afrikaanse Suid-Afrikaanse kerke 

  Knoetze, Johannes Jacobus (AOSIS, 2023-06)

  This article attends to the theological foundation of the diaconate from the missio trinitatis Dei and its implications, especially for the Afrikaans-speaking Reformed churches. The missio Dei, of the Father, Son, and ...
• Evangelism as an invitation to missional discipleship in the kingdom of God 

  Coetzee, Frederik Rudolf Lodewikus; Nel, Malan; Knoetze, Johannes Jacobus (AOSIS, 2023-02)

  Evangelism, for various reasons, is once again back on the agenda of the church and theology. As a result of negative experiences and practices of evangelism in the past, it is now necessary to rediscover evangelism in a ...
• Women in Zimunya and the musha mukadzi or umuzi ngumama philosophy for sustainable livelihoods 

  Chirara, Tracey; Chisale, S.S. (Sinenhlanhla) (AOSIS, 2023-04)

  The musha mukadzi (Shona) or umuzi ngumama (Ndebele) is an African gendered philosophy that means women make up the home. This philosophy has been researched in African traditional religions (ATRs) and is interrogated from ...
• Drie Dreyers, twee kerklike kwessies – ’n klein kroniek 

  Dreyer, Yolanda (AOSIS, 2023-08)

  Three Dreyers, two ecclesial issues – a brief chronicle. The three Dreyers to whom this article refers are firstly, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) Dreyer, church history scholar, to whom this volume of the HTS Theological Studies ...
• Rethinking the identity and economic sustainability of the church : case of AOG BTG in Zimbabwe 

  Tagwirei, Kimion; Masango, Maake J.S. (AOSIS, 2023-03)

  With burgeoning economic challenges that have been hard-pressing Zimbabwe for more than a decade, most Zimbabwean classical Pentecostal churches who do not strategically multiply their revenue in reciprocal correspondence ...
• Hell : educationally in post-secular societies 

  Firth, Walter B. (AOSIS, 2023-04-04)

  Many countries around the world, including Australia, have secularism expressed in their identity. However, as these secular nations (as they understand themselves) shift into postsecular societies, it raises questions ...
• Weibliche Führungskräfte nachhaltig führen 

  Kessler, Martina (AOSIS, 2023-06)

  Woman lead differently than men. In order for them to be able to lead sustainably as leaders, it is necessary to reflect on typical female traits. In doing so, the way of typical female leadership, which is biologically ...
• Missionale diakonaat : van fragmentasie naintegrasie en impak 

  Venter, Nioma (AOSIS, 2023-06)

  The Dutch Reformed Church has a history of social care and development through its professional social service organisations, and of goodwill through its congregations and members. Since 2002, declarations of intent for ...
• Mobilising towards environmental sustainability – challenges and chances for churches in Germany 

  Kroeck, Thomas (AOSIS, 2023-05)

  The current ecological crisis is considered a major challenge for humanity. Various scholars suggest that Christian congregations may contribute to the changes of mind-set and behaviour necessary to meet this challenge. ...
• Voorwoord : diakonaat herontdek? 

  Knoetze, Johannes Jacobus (AOSIS, 2023-04-24)

  Hierdie spesiale uitgawe het ten doel om vas te stel wat is die verstaan en teologie wat verband hou met die diakonale bediening binne vyf van die Afrikaanssprekende kerke in Suid-Afrika. Dit is ’n navorsingprojek van ...
• Pentecostal preaching and Christology : an empirical study 

  Mogoane, Motsepe Lawrence; Nel, Malan; Dreyer, Yolanda (AOSIS, 2023-01)

  Preaching is an important part of congregational worship in various church traditions globally. Through the years, there has been vast literature on preaching but not much about the phenomenon as it happens specifically ...
• Mission as ‘being with’ in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa 

  Knoetze, Johannes Jacobus; Mkhize, Thabani (AOSIS, 2023-04)

  This research investigated the impact measures (such as lockdowns) used to combat the spread of the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) have on the church’s mission. When people face travel and assembly restrictions, ...

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