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  • 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 ...
  • Pont, A.D. (Adriaan Drost), 1927- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)
    In this study attention is given to the question of the correlation between and/or position of the church vis à vis culture among the republican Afrikaner of the 19th century. Initially attention is given to a ...
  • Steenkamp, L.J.S. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)
    The church never exists and acts in a cultural vacuum. Its members live within a given cultural framework of values and symbols co-existent in society. This entails a very real danger of the church subserving the pressure ...
  • Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys) (Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, 2011-09)
    25 Years have passed since the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church accepted a new policy document: Church and Society in Light of Scripture. This document came into being after a several years of struggle. The ...
  • Du Toit, P.W.; Spangenberg, I.J.J. (Izak J.J.) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    The postmodern era has wide implications for church and theology. This study is an endeavour to participate in the discourse on these implications. It reflects on what is entailed by postmodernism and how the new era ...
  • Pelser, G.M.M. (Gerhardus Marthinus Maritz) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1995)
    The article explores the documents of the New Testament in search of the concept 'church' and finds that, in a nutshell, the answers are as follows: the Spirit-controlled, charismatic togetherness of people 'in Christ' ...