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Browsing Centre for Contextual Ministry by Author "De Beer, Stephan F."
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De Beer, Stephan F. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-09-13)This essay is reflecting on frailty, the university and the city, in relation to each other. It seeks to transcend the binary concepts of presence and absence, proposing remembrance as the frail work of making absence ...
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De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2014-08-01)This article reflects on the unfinished task of liberation – as expressed in issues of land – and drawing from the work of Franz Fanon and the Durban-based social movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. It locates its reflections ...
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De Beer, Stephan F.; De Beer, Wilna (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-11)We reflect on living and doing ministry in a (post)apartheid South African city, negotiating ongoing demographic and sociopolitical transitions and discerning appropriate faith responses. We speak about the inevitability ...
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Ribbens, Michael; De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-27)This article sets out to describe how churches have responded and continue to respond to fastchanging urban environments in Pretoria Central and Mamelodi East, animating Henri Lefebvre’s sociological perspective of ...
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De Beer, Stephan F. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-08-06)This article considers the topical issue of social cohesion. It seeks to demythologise the issue bringing it into critical conversation with eight related categories. It proposes that a vision of a socially cohesive ...
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De Beer, Stephan F.; Yates, Hannelie (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-12-12)This article serves as an introduction to a collection of articles that explores emancipatory methodologies for doing theology and research with children. We focus on both the agency and the participation of children as ...
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Swart, Ignatius; De Beer, Stephan F. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)This article serves as the introductory, first contribution to a special collection of articles on the theme, ‘Doing urban public theology in South Africa: Visions, approaches, themes and practices towards a new agenda’. ...
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De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-12-13)After attending to shifts in the landscape of theological education at a public university in South Africa, this article explores the re-imagination of theological education as fostering faithbased agency. With reference ...
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De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-22)The Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF) was constructed as a ‘new deal’ for South African cities and towns. It outlines a vision with four overarching goals and eight priorities or policy levers meant to overcome ...
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Van der Walt, J.P. (Hannes); Swart, Ignatius; De Beer, Stephan F. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)This article highlights important dimensions of public theology and shows how the identified dimensions are relevant to the specific situation of informal early childhood development (ECD) facilities in a South African ...
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De Beer, Stephan F. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)Jesus’ option for the poor should be reclaimed in a clear theological and ecclesial option for the dumping sites of our cities and towns. That is the basic proposal of this article. Reflecting upon three different dumping ...
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De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-12-09)This article was an attempt to (re-)read Psalms in the context of fractured cities, marked by socio-economic inequalities, woundedness, migration and exclusion. It explored urban motifs in selected psalms and considered ...
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De Beer, Stephan F.; Swart, Ignatius (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)This article proposes a ‘fusion of horizons’ in constructing urban public theologies in South Africa. This is done through the introduction of five interrelated themes that have emerged from the on-going knowledge and ...
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De Beer, Stephan F.; Smith, R.D. (Drew); Manyaka, Semape Jacob (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-27)In this article, we are exploring a methodological approach to research on faith and religious expressions in urban Africa. We are committed to trans-disciplinary work that pursues research methods mutually liberating ...
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Transforming curricula into the next century : doing theology collaboratively with local communities De Beer, Stephan F.; Van Niekerk, Attie (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017)The FT at the UP celebrates its first century of existence in 2017. This chapter is an attempt to draw from the emerging approach in both the CCM and the CSC, asking whether it perhaps offers clues for transforming curricula ...
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De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-06-26)This article is reading ubuntu in the light of homelessness in the cities and towns of South Africa. It suggests that ubuntu itself is homeless and displaced as a way of being human together. Instead of the mediation of ...
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The university, the city and the clown : a theological essay on solidarity, mutuality and prophecy De Beer, Stephan F. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-09-30)This essay is informed by five different but interrelated conversations all focusing on the relationship between the city and the university. Suggesting the clown as metaphor, I explore the particular role of the activist ...
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Urban social movements in South Africa today : its meaning for theological education and the church De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-27)In the past decade, significant social movements emerged in South Africa, in response to specific urban challenges of injustice or exclusion. This article will interrogate the meaning of such urban social movements for ...
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De Beer, Stephan F. (Unisa Press, 2012-11)This article proposes the city as an opportunity and resource for liberating theological education. It explores going beyond adding “urban” to theological education as an addendum, but rather to consider “urbanizing” ...
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De Beer, Stephan F. (Pretoria University Law Press, 2014)Wie se Kennis(se) Vorm ons Stad? Op Soek na ’n Gemeenskapsgedrewe Stedelike Praxis In die artikel word verskillende plekke van kontestasie en hoop in die middestad van Pretoria/Tshwane geidentifiseer, en die moontlike ...
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