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  • Bentley, Wessel (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    The article describes briefly Karl Barth's views on church, its role in politics and how it relates to culture. This is done by identifying the way in which the church participates in the social realm through its relationship ...
  • Veldsman, D.P. (Daniel Petrus), 1959- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    Can the great 20th century systematic theologian Karl Barth justify the fundamental beliefs he holds regarding the priority of God's revelation in Jesus Christ as put forward in his impressive and comprehensive Kirchliche ...
  • Dreyer, Yolanda (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    Karl Barth's gender perspective is often analysed with reference to his so-called "theoethics" or "creational theology". This perspective perpetuates an asymmetry in gender relations that was prevalent in Biblical times, ...
  • Dreyer, Yolanda (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    This article is to argues that Karl Barth's revelation-based theology represents male bias entrapped within patriarchal Christian tradition. The rigid way of using the revelation-based model in exegesis and theology goes ...
  • Groenewald, Andre Johannes (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-11)
    Karl Barth saw in natural theology a threat to the church of Christ. He was convinced that the so-called "German Christians" under the influence of the National Socialist Party practised natural theology. He advocated the ...
  • Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2017)
    Karl Barth’s theology presents itself as a paradigm shift during the early part of the 20th century. As time went on, the radical nature of his theology manifested in different ways. Not only did it start out as a critique ...
  • Bentley, Wessel (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2009)
    As the Church is moving towards its 21st century of existence, it is confronted by challenges it has never known before. This changing world demands self-reflection within the Church. It has to consider its place, identity ...
  • Buitendag, Johan (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    This article gives a brief synopsis of Karl Heim's understanding of space in terms of its present and past spheres and the overarching metapolar sphere of God where all dichotomies are being resolved. The rather clas-sical ...
  • Buitendag, Johan (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
    Whereas a preceding article focused on Heim's understanding of "space", this article focuses on "time". It is believed that Heim made an enormous contribution to the debate between theology and natural sciences and that ...
  • Venter, C.J.H. (Casper Jan Hendrik) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)
    This article argues that catechetical instruction pertains to more issues than only transferring knowledge. The catechist’s spirituality can also contribute towards effective and convincing cathechetical instruction. The ...
  • Teugels, Lieve M. (Brill Academic Publisher, 2022-01)
    Rabbinic texts apply the metaphor of the vineyard to the Torah as well as to Israel. Conceptual Metaphor Theory allows us to explain the parallel use of the vineyard metaphor for the two target domains, Israel and the ...
  • Davel, Dewald Hattingh (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 ...
  • Davel, Dewald H.; Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys) (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017-03-28)
    Postmodernity changed the function, content and structures of church ordinances. This is a reality that cannot be denied by faith communities. New possibilities arise. Every ‘absolute truth’ can be formulated in a ...
  • Malan, Gert Jacobus; Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1998)
    The concept the day of the Lord in 2 Peter is, as a mythological expression, an example of analogical language. However, the meaning of this mytheme is not clear to modem people who do not share the mythological world-view ...
  • Dreyer, T.F.J. (Theunis Frederik Jacobus), 1946- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    “Kenotic” preaching – a catalyst for liturgical revival within the present context In this article the urge towards a new liturgical approach is investigated from a systemic perspective. The interactive dynamics of the ...
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    Oberholzer, J.P. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1995)
    This survey of biblical material on the church proceeds from the viewpoint that the identity of the church of God can be treated only as an existential question, asking 'who is the church?' and 'who am I?' at the same ...
  • Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)
    Since 1994 the Republic of South Africa has undergone profound political and cultural changes. The churches in South Africa (including the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika as an Afrikaans-orientated church) need ...
  • Koekemoer, J.H. (Johannes Hendrik), 1935- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1995)
    This article argues that, over against the idea of the church as an institution, the church should be characterized as an event that does not live from the being and will of Jesus Christ as historical figure, but from ...
  • Van Wyk, Tanya (University of Pretoria, 2013)
    The thesis focuses on the challenge of being church in the postsecular twenty-first century in an authentic way. A shift took place from modernity with concepts such as ʼnationalism‘ and ‗unity‘ to the fragmentation and ...
  • Van der Merwe, P.J. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)
    The intimate and symbiotic relationship between religion and culture postulated by various sociologists of religion is accepted as backdrop for an elaboration of the principle of the church being in the world but not of ...