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Church History and Church Policy: Recent submissions
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Postmodernity changed the function, content and structures of church orders. This is a reality that cannot be denied by faith communities. New possibilities arise. Every absolute truth can be formulated in a different ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2016)The traditional institution of the family within Roman Catholic Christianity and Christianity in general is in an invidious position in contemporary society, partly because it lacks an agreed definition in a fluid global ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-06-07)This article is an exercise in Practical Ecclesiology. The author reflects on church, mission and ethics from historical, hermeneutical and strategic perspectives. Using the ecclesiology of Karl Barth as a point of ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-06)In this contribution, the author reflects on historical theology as theological discipline. After a short introduction to the precarious situation of church history as a theological discipline in South Africa and the ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2015-09)When we contemplate ecumenism in South Africa in the twentieth century, we often automatically think of the outstanding work of the South African Council of Churches during the years of apartheid. However, it had two ...
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(IInternational Institute for Religious Freedom, 2014)The arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in the Cape in 1652 brought the reformed faith to Southern Africa. For nearly two hundred years the government in the Cape not only protected the reformed religion, but also prohibited any ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016-02)Starting from his De haeresibus 46,9-10, the present article examines Augustine’s contention that, among the Manichaeans, there was a certain ceremony in which human semen (i.e., sperma and menstrual fluid) was collected ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015)There are many misconceptions about the role of the church in society. This is because the church is neither a political institution nor a social organisation but a mystery of grace. The church can best be defined or ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015)This article surveys the origins, development and extent of Ethiopianism (part of the African Initiated Church Movement [AIC]) in Africa which was widespread throughout Africa during the ‘high’ imperial and missionary ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015)What is the essence of the Gospel? Which aspects of the church’s ministry are contingent? The story of the Anglican Church in Ghana offers an opportunity to reflect upon these questions. While the history of this colonial ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2015-05)The study of women in Manichaeism is still in its infancy. The present article aims to contribute to this promising field of research by concentrating on the writings of the former Manichaean Augustine (354-430). A ...
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(Unisa Press, 2015)This article, for the first time, analyses one of Augustine’s sermons in order to find out to what extent he was acquainted with Mani and his teachings. Once again, it turns out that the former Manichaean auditor was ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-10-23)Celtic spirituality has a long and distinguished ancestry with its origins in pre-Christian times. It was inculturated amongst peoples in the far west of Europe, particularly in Ireland, Scotland and the north and south ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-09-30)This article highlights the situation prior to the establishment of the theological training of the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa (NDRCA). The training of ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) started in ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-09-30)With a view to the theme of church renewal, this article explores the role of a well-known and popular phrase in the Reformed tradition within Protestantism, that is, ecclesia reformata semper reformanda [‘the reformed ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-09-28)This article focuses on three matters pertaining to the conversation of missional churches. Firstly, it looks at the impact of missional awareness in South Africa and Africa. Here the article explores what is meant by ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-09-28)John Calvin (1509–1564) started his career as a thoroughly trained humanist who possessed, in addition, a thorough knowledge of the Fathers of the Church. This article provides an overview of this particular knowledge. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This dissertation explores the utility of employing Afrikaner concepts of the biblical covenant between God and His people as a paradigm for understanding Afrikaner history in the Cape Colony, especially in relation to the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)Eucharistic worship is at the core of the Christian faith. It is a tradition that the Christian faith observes and is done in remembrance of Christ, as Christ instructed during the last supper. This is a tradition that is ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)During 2017 Reformed churches will celebrate five centuries of church reformation. Seen from a historical perspective, Martin Luther was the central figure within the Reformation movement. The question is: To what extent ...
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