Browsing Research Articles (Church History and Church Policy) by Title

Browsing Research Articles (Church History and Church Policy) by Title

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  • Heilige, algemene kerk 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (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 ...
  • Herdenking van die Gelofte van 16 Desember 1838 op Versoeningsdag: ’n nuwe uitdaging aan die kerk 
    Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys) (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012)
    With the advent of a new political dispensation in South Africa in 1994, the newly elected government of South Africa changed the name of the public holiday on 16 December from “the Day of the Vow” to “the Day of ...
  • Heretic or rebel? The heresy trial of Albert Geyser 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-25)
    During September 1961, a charge of heresy was laid against New Testament scholar and antiapartheid activist Prof. A.S. (Albert) Geyser. The charge was brought by three senior theological students of the University of ...
  • A hermeneutical reflection on the resurrection of Jesus Christ in question and answer 45 of the Heidelberg Catechism 
    Labuschagne, Jacobus P. (Kobus) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-10-03)
    This article is an attempt to elaborate hermeneutically on the different historical contexts, related the one to the other and to the centre point of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, in question and answer 45 of the ...
  • Hermeneutiek van kerkgeskiedenis en "teologiegeskiedenis" : 'n "nuwe paradigma" vir kerkgeskiedenis 
    Labuschagne, Jacobus P. (Kobus) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-06)
    This study reflects on a new paradigm for church history. The traditional definition of church history, as a study of the growth and development of the church in all its facets, constricts church history to disclose too ...
  • Hervormde Kerk en apartheid 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-06-12)
    This contribution examines the changing attitude of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (NHKA) towards apartheid, specifically since the Second World War. The NHKA’s views started with a theological justification ...
  • The historical development of Presbyterian ordination polity as background to the gay and lesbian ordination debate in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 
    Vermaak, Roche Francois (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-09)
    The United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (UPCUSA) and the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (PCUS), which united in 1983 to form the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (PC(USA)), have since 1978 formulated specific polity ...
  • Historical theology : content, methodology and relevance 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim); Pillay, Jerry (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017)
    In this contribution, the authors reflect on historical theology as theological discipline. The authors propose that historical theology be applied to different areas of research, namely prolegomena, history of the church, ...
  • Historical theology at public universities matter 
    Pillay, Jerry (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-20)
    South African universities are in the process of serious transformation and restructuring. The place of faculties of theology at universities has come under the spotlight resulting in the closure of several theological ...
  • Historiese teologie in ʼn veranderende konteks 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (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 ...
  • Historiographical issues related to the writing of contemporary history of Christianity 
    Duncan, Graham A. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    Contemporary history is a fluid concept. Its writing implies commitment and self awareness. The former canons of objectivity, subjectivity and progress as they have traditionally been understood are anachro-nistic. Some ...
  • Historiography and ideology in the (mission) history of Christianity in Africa 
    Duncan, Graham A. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005-06)
    Writing history in the African context demands commitment; it must be contextual and integrally related to the mission of Christianity. This necessitates a reconsideration of historiography. The ‘old’ historiography was ...
  • The history of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria : a Dutch Reformed perspective 1938–2008 
    Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys); Vos, C.J.A. (Casparus Johannes Adam), 1945- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    In 1938 the Faculty of Theology Section B was established at the University of Pretoria, which could be likened to a small fountain. As the fountain flowed through the decades of history, it grew and became a river that ...
  • The Holy Spirit and the early church : doctrine & confession 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-11-04)
    This article firstly investigates in what way various main theological figures in the first centuries of the Christian era spoke about the Trinity and thus, also, about the Holy Spirit. Secondly, it investigates how the ...
  • The Holy Spirit and the early Church : the experience of the Spirit 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-03-14)
    Firstly, the present article explored the occurrence of special gifts of the Holy Spirit (charismata) both in the New Testament and in a number of early Christian writers (e.g. Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian and ...
  • The Holy Spirit as feminine : early Christian testimonies and their interpretation 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-19)
    The earliest Christians – all of whom were Jews – spoke of the Holy Spirit as a feminine figure. The present article discusses the main proof texts, ranging from the ‘Gospel according to the Hebrews’ to a number of ...
  • Honderd Jaar hervormde teologie 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-09-29)
    The Faculty of Theology of the University of Pretoria is celebrating its centenary during 2017. Since its inception in 1917, the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (by agreement) appointed lecturers in the Faculty ...
  • How to expect God’s reign to come : from Jesus’ through the ecclesial to the cosmic body 
    Urbaniak, Jakub; Otu, Elijah (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-31)
    This study seeks to articulate the universality of the eschatological expectation, in its specifically Christian form, by interpreting it from the perspective of a radical embodiment. This can be understood in a twofold ...
  • Huldyrch Zwingli’s contribution to the Reformation 
    Pillay, Jerry; McMillan, Catherine (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-11-11)
    Huldyrch Zwingli, the first Swiss reformer in Zurich, made significant contributions to the 16th-century Reformation, yet he remains relatively unknown, if not forgotten. He is generally overshadowed by other reformers, ...
  • Human semen eucharist' among the Manichaeans? The testimony of Augustine reconsidered in context 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (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 ...