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Church History and Church Policy: Recent submissions
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-10-27)This article is about the 500 hundred year commemoration of the Reformation in 2017. However, the question is to be asked: What should we celebrate in 2017? The article reflects on this question against the background ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-08-11)Celtic spirituality has a long and distinguished ancestry with its origins in pre-Christian times. It was inculturated among peoples in the far west of Europe, particularly in Ireland, Scotland and the north and south-west ...
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Apostoliese tradisie in die Vroeë Kerk se verstaan van skrif en geloof – ʼn kort hermeneutiese oorsig (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-07-31)This study is a concise hermeneutical overview of faith’s various ways of understanding and of the different approaches towards Scripture interpretation in the history of the Early Church. The research manifests that ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-10-13)The advent of democratic change in South Africa in the 1990s led to an exodus of many White Afrikaans-speaking Christians from South Africa. They settled all over the world. One of the countries of choice was New Zealand. ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-10-27)The Faculty of Theology chose as its theme oikodome, which speaks about the fullness of life for all. This article explored this theme by looking at John Calvin’s understanding of God and the world. In this article, ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-08-04)The early quest for liberty and political freedom in South Africa had been influenced by various factors, inter alia political sentiments which originated in Reformed, Huguenot and Patriotten political theory. An analysis ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-06-18)The Nicene Creed and the Apostolicum went through different processes of growth and development. In the early development of both creeds, it is noticeable that articles about ‘the church’ are absent. In this contribution ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-06-09)In postmodern societies the symbolic vacuum, a result of the loss of a unified religious tradition, calls for substitutes in the form of fragmentary and isolated memories. By drawing from the reservoir of those memories ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-05-21)What is the real crisis of the church? Very often, clergy, churches and congregations experience a ‘crisis’ only when membership is in decline, resulting in financial hardship. Crisis is limited to stress which the church ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-06-05)Danièle Hervieu-Léger gives an account of religion as a chain of memory, that is, a form of collective memory and imagination based on the sanctity of tradition. According to her theory, in the postmodern world the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)This research study is based on both literature and interviews conducted in four provinces in South Africa from those who were teachers, students and inspectors during the time of the implementation of Bantu education. ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Since the advent of the Christian faith in Africa in general and in South Africa in particular, there has been tension in the Christian of African descent. This tension is fuelled in my belief by the fact that the Christian ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)The fundamental elements that shaped and gave rise to Christianity as a dominant religious movement rest in the crucifixion, death and resurrection of the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Had there been no crucifixion and had ...
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(University of Chicago Press, 2014-10)This paper seeks to answer the question: In what sense can Alain Badiou's idea of evental grace, conceived of as radically immanent, be understood as the continuation of the legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer's nonreligious ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11-20)Poverty is one of the greatest threats to society. In South Africa it is also one of the biggest challenges. This article starts with the challenges put to society by Mr Trevor Manuel at the Carnegie 3 conference. It ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-07-15)Previously identified as an entrenched Egyptian community, Copts have propelled themselves into the greater Africa through two main phenomena: migration and mission. Copts have recast displacement to transcend powerlessness ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-12-04)The purpose of this article is to examine the changing understandings of processes and terms which have been and are currently in use regarding the outworking of the mission of the church. This historical and missiological ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2014)Please read abstract in article.
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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2014)This paper begins with an overview of the legal landscape in the United Kingdom as it has developed over the past decade or so in relation to the promotion and protection of religious liberty. It analyses several of the ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2014-12)The years between 1990 and 1994 can be described as some of the most violent years in the history of South Africa. Political turmoil en route to the first democratic election in 1994 brought the country to the brink of ...
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