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Research Articles (Church History and Church Policy): Recent submissions
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2021)This article analyses the conflict which arose as a result of the attempt to amalgamate the church associations in the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) between 1999 and 2015, following the union of ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-08-25)Education in Africa is in a crisis. Some scholars go as far as to say that it is broken. This was also noted when the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, linked to the Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, were ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-03-11)This article suggests developing the concept of spiritual ecology into that of balanced spiritual ecosystems. Philosophies, theologies, education systems, political parties, and gender-based and ethnic identity politics ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-08-19)Although highly disputed, critical realism (in Ian G. Barbour's style) is widely known as a tool to relate science and religion. Sympathising with an even more stringent hermeneutical approach, Andreas Losch had argued for ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-07-14)Many writers have sought to outline Wesley's conception of how human beings obtain revelational knowledge. In this regard, the use of what has been dubbed the Wesleyan quadrilateral continues to remain widespread in both ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2021)This article is a critique of Reformed Ecclesiology, particularly as regarding ministry and church polity. It is argued herein that a static ecclesiology results in church ministry that is seemingly deficient in responding ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2021)The untimely death of Mary-Anne Elizabeth Plaatjies-Van Huffel challenges everybody who knew her to reflect on her life and work. One of the outstanding attributes of Plaatjies-Van Huffel was the way in which she “lived” ...
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(AOSIS, 2021)The Faculty of Theology and Religion has four focused research themes: Religion and sustainable development, Inclusive cities and communities, Economics, ecology and theology, and Faith and science. Each year we attempt ...
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(MDPI, 2021-05)Orthodox–Evangelical relationships are dominated by proselytism (at least in Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union). This is understood as church conversion practiced through unfair means among people who are ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2021-08-27)The article presents the preliminary results of the author’s study of the unedited homily De transfiguratione et eleemosyna (CPG 5009; BHGn 1996t), ascribed to John Chrysostom. The question of the manuscript tradition ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2020)This article explores an emerging ecumenical church polity in Zambia from a church historical perspective. While church polity and church unity literature has acknowledged the role of church polity and church unity in ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)This contribution gives an overview of how four of the important reformed churches in South Africa responded to the challenge of poverty from 1994 to 2019. Following an introduction, the first part of the chapter defines ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)This article argues that “missional ecclesiology” in the last decades became a new mission paradigm for churches in South Africa, especially after the demise of apartheid. After an overview of the development of a “missio ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)During the past nearly 30 years the epochs of democratisation and globalisation became intertwined with the South African society, determining its spirit of the age. The democratisation of South African since 1994 has ...
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(AOSIS, 2021-06)The Rustenburg Church Conference took place in 1990, 30 years after the historic Cottesloe Church Consultation of 1960. Both these conferences had a huge influence on the history of the churches in South Africa. Thirty ...
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(LitNet, 2020)Benedikt Dreyer was ’n kunstenaar en beeldsnyer wat in die eerste helfte van die 16de eeu in Lübeck gewoon en gewerk het. Dit was ’n tyd waarin die Renaissance, Humanisme van Erasmus en die Kerkhervorming oor Europa ...
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(AOSIS, 2020-12)Vuyani Vellem was an outstanding Black Theologian of Liberation (BTL), who was approaching the zenith of his career when he died at the age of 50 years in 2019. This paper begins with a personal memoir to Prof. Vellem ...
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(AOSIS, 2020-09)The Synod of Emden: Cradle of the Netherdutch churches of South Africa. The Synod of Emden, which took place from 04 to 13 October 1571 in the city of Emden, is of great importance to the reformed churches in South Africa. ...
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(AOSIS, 2020-12)This contribution in the field of public theology explores two questions: (1) Could South Africa be regarded as a traumatised society, presenting with acute symptoms of post-traumatic disorder and (2) what would be an ...
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(Wiley, 2021-03)Adam Pryor's fresh understanding of the imago Dei as a refraction of the Divine is much needed in an age of science and climate change. Well informed by astrobiological insights, his approach presents what I would call a ...
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