Browsing HTS Volume 61, Number 3 (2005) by Title

Browsing HTS Volume 61, Number 3 (2005) by Title

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  • The African concept of caring for life 
    Masango, Maake J.S. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    This article analyses the village concept of caring among African people. The old pattern of caring was based on the concept of ubuntu (humanity) which respects people, because they are created in the imago Dei. Then the ...
  • An Afro-Christian ministry to people living with HIV/Aids in South Africa 
    Manala, Matsobane J. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    The HIV/Aids pandemic is cause for great frustration to the developing countries in their attempts to improve the quality of life of their citizens. HIV/Aids in South Africa demands a specific approach to the Christian ...
  • Church and culture : a religio-theological perspective 
    Van der Merwe, P.J. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    The ethnic church (“volkskerk”) is central to the ecclesiology and Church Order of the Reformed Church in Africa (Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk). This article questions notions of culture, ethnicity, ethnic people (“volk”) ...
  • Church and government in Reformed perspective 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    The new political dispensation since 1994 requires the Reformed churches in South Africa to redefine their role in society and their relationship with the government. This short journey through history helps us to understand ...
  • The church's responsibility towards the social order : an Old Testament hermeneutic problem 
    Breytenbach, A.P.B. (Andries Petrus Bernardus), 1944- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    There is a widespread conviction among conservative groups in the Afrikaans speaking mainline churches in South Africa that the church has a responsibility towards the structuring of society. This conviction is based on a ...
  • Cultural criticism as an imperative for Christians 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    In this article cultural criticism is approached from an epistemological perspective, in other words from the viewpoint of a theory of knowledge that includes matters such as the nature of knowledge, its sources, criteria, ...
  • Ex Africa semper aliquid novi? 
    Duncan, Graham A. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    Elizabeth Isichei follows in a grand tradition of single-author one-volume histories of Christianity in Africa. It is written in the current ecumenical tradition from “an African perspective” and follows the canons of the ...
  • The forgotten children of Africa : voicing HIV and Aids orphans' stories of bereavement : a narrative approach 
    Richter, Amanda; Muller, Julian C. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005-09)
    This article looks at the bereavement of children left orphaned by the HIV and Aids pandemic that is crippling the continent of Africa. Their bereavement is examined by means of the narrative approach and by integrating ...
  • The Human Genome Project as a case study in the debate about the relationship between theology and natural science 
    Buitendag, Johan (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    The author presents a review article on the book, Brave new world? Theology, ethics and the human genome, edited by Celia Deane-Drummond and published in 2003 by T&T Clark International in London. After a rather elaborate ...
  • Implications of a technoscientific culture on personhood in Africa and in the West 
    Du Toit, Cornel W. (Cornelius Willem), 1953- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    This paper endeavours to converge on present-day experiences of self. This is done against the backdrop of the interdependence between person (organism) and environment (physical and cultural). The rich history of development ...
  • Jews and Christians 
    Venter, P.M. (Pieter Michiel), 1947- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    This review article of the collection of essays edited by M Van Campen and G C den Hertog deals with the question of the relationship between Jews and Christians. The publication, Israël, volk, land en staat, by the Centre ...
  • The political responsibility of the church : on the necessity and boundaries of the theory of the two kingdoms 
    Van Wyk, I.W.C. (Ignatius William Charles) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    The voice of the church has fallen silent in the new political dispensation in South Africa. Many people in the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (Nederduitsch Hervormde Church) argue that the church should keep its distance ...
  • Preaching and culture 
    Dreyer, T.F.J. (Theunis Frederik Jacobus), 1946- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    Before the new political dispensation in South Africa (1994), the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika) referred to the church as a “peoples church” (volkskerk). Owing to political changes ...
  • The relation between church and world/culture in view of the Pauline "as if not" 
    Pelser, G.M.M. (Gerhardus Marthinus Maritz) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    In this study, the question is posed whether Paul was of the opinion that, apart from proclaiming the gospel, the church should be involved in cultural matters and even take responsibility for furthering cultural causes. ...
  • Revisiting justice in the first four Beatitudes in Matthew (5:3-6) and the story of the Canaanite woman (Mt 15:21-28) : a postcolonial reading 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.); Rukundwa, L.S. (Lazare Sebitereko) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    Reading the Gospel of Matthew from the perspective of postcolonial theory means taking the context of the Gospel seriously. The political and religious circumstances of Palestine under Roman colonization influenced Matthean ...
  • Sexuality and shifting paradigms - setting the scene 
    Dreyer, Yolanda (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    The social environment of the Biblical world can be distinguished in the Eastern Mediterranean (Semitic) and the Western Mediterranean (Greco-Roman) contexts. From a historical chronological perspective these contexts first ...
  • Spirituality and health : a narrative-pastoral approach 
    Truter, C.J.; Kotze, D.J. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    Health is much more than the absence of illness; it is rather a “high level wellness” and a life with “meaningful life-possibilities”. This article indicates how meaningful life-possibilities and a high level of wellness ...
  • Theology and psychology - the interdisciplinary work of Fraser Watts 
    Smith, Willem Jacobus (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    In the preface to his book, Theology and Psychology, Fraser Watts, a lecturer in Theology and Natural Science at the University of Cambridge, states that he approaches “… the interface between theology and psychology by ...