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

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

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  • Augustine's Historiographical method 
    Duncan, Graham A.; Buqa, Wonke (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2007-05)
    Originally written to defend the church against charges of being responsible for the destruction of the city of Rome in 410 CE, Augustine’s City of God has come to stand as a monument to theological reflection on the history ...
  • Augustine's Manichaean dilemma in context 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (Brill, 2011)
    This article describes the study of ‘Augustine and Manichaeism’ in context, mainly focusing on the recent book on the theme (the first one of a projected trilogy) by Jason David BeDuhn.
  • Augustine, his sermons, and their significance 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    Augustine’s sermons provide a unique source in explaining his influence from the 5th century onwards as a theologian and pastor, a minister of the Word preached and celebrated in the sacrament. Of particular value in this ...
  • Augustine’s baptism : its significance once and today 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-04-10)
    The article describes in broad outline Augustine’s baptism in Milan (386) and stresses its significance for Augustine’s transition from Manichaean Christianity to Nicene Catholic Christianity.
  • Augustine’s ecclesiology and its development between 354 and 387 AD 
    Vuntarde, P.C.V. (Paul Chamunorwa Virimayi); Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013-04-10)
    The aim of this article is twofold. The first is to describe Augustine’s ecclesiology and its development between his birth (354) and baptism (387). Secondly, it will show that the defining features of Augustine’s later ...
  • Augustine’s view of Manichaean almsgiving and almsgiving by the Manichaean community at Kellis 
    Franzmann, Majella (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-04-10)
    Taking its point of departure from Augustine’s criticism of Manichaean practices with food and drink that appear to disregard the New Testament injunction to give to the poor, or to those who are hungry and thirsty, this ...
  • Augustinus : ’n studie oor die etiek van die kerkvader uit Afrika deur J.H. van Wyk 
    Van Wyk, I.W.C. (Ignatius William Charles) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-11-29)
    In this review article, the book by J.H. (Amie) van Wyk, Augustine: A study on the ethics of the church father from Africa is presented and discussed. Short overviews of the content of the six chapters are given. They ...
  • Augustinus en de Joden : een inleidend overzicht 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    The article explores how Augustine of Hippo (354-430) deals with the Jews and Judaism. First it investigates the occurrence and meaning of the word “Iudaeus” in Augustine’s works. It turns out that Augustine, unlike many ...
  • Augustinus’ geschrift ‘De stad van God’ (De ciuitate Dei) : een introductie tot de belangrijkste themata 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06)
    The aim of the article is to present an introduction to the main themes of Augustine’s City of God. The key issues concerning the inception and contents of the work are highlighted. The article emphasises that Biblical ...
  • Back to the future 
    Duncan, Graham A. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
    The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa was formed on 26th September 1999 as the result of the union of the black Reformed Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa and the white-dominated Presbyterian Church of ...
  • The Bantu Presbyterian Church in South Africa and ecumenism, 1940–1999 
    Duncan, Graham A. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-10)
    From 1940, ecumenical developments in the Presbyterian/Congregational corpus in Southern Africa became more tortuous and complex, with an expansion of the number of denominations involved in union negotiations to include ...
  • The Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa and ecumenism : 1923–1939 
    Duncan, Graham A.; Mutmiri, Farai (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2017)
    The Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa (BPCSA) was birthed out of a quest for union amongst Presbyterians, which began in the 1890s more than 30 years before it was actually established as the fruit of the mission ...
  • Barmhartige God, regverdiging en goeie werke deur Luther 
    Van Wyk, I.W.C. (Ignatius William Charles) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017)
    Martin Luther het as monnik getwyfel of hy ooit genoeg goeie werke sou kon doen en daarom nie genade by God sou kon vind nie. Danksy sy noukeurige bestudering van Paulus se briewe het hy ontdek dat God, die Vader van ...
  • Barth on election and the Canons of Dort 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018)
    After the Second World War, a renewed interest in the doctrine of election became evident. Several influential and leading theologians published monographs on divine election. One reason for this was the publication of ...
  • Being church in the era of ‘homo digitalis’ 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-11)
    This article discusses practical ecclesiology, which reflects on the church of the 21st century from historical, empirical, hermeneutical and strategic perspectives. We live in the era of digital revolutions and ‘homo ...
  • Benedikt Dreyer (1480–1555) : kunstenaar in konteks van die kerkhervorming 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (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 ...
  • The benefits and dangers for churches and ministry institutions to work in a regulated environment, with reference to professionalising religious practice via South African Qualifications Authority and the National Qualifications Framework Act 
    Duncan, Graham A. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-07-26)
    Since 1994 and the coming of democracy to South Africa there has been a concerted attempt to develop a coherent, unified educational system that will redress the inequities of the apartheid systems. Significant to this ...
  • Between war and peace : the Dutch Reformed Church as agent for peace 1990-1994 
    Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys) (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 ...
  • Beyond the quadrilateral : the place of nature in John Wesley’s epistemology of theology 
    Morris-Chapman, Daniel John Pratt (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 ...
  • Biblical quotations in Faustus’s Capitula 
    Van den Berg, Jacob A. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-04-10)
    Scholars are still of the opinion that Augustine first started to read and discuss the Bible only once he became a Catholic Christian, or even only after his appointment as a Catholic priest. The possibility of Manichaean ...