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  • The life and work of Mary-Anne Elizabeth Plaatjies-Van Huffel in church and society with specific reference to the Confession of Belhar 
    Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys) (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” ...
  • The life and work of the anti-apartheid movement within the Church of Scotland from 1975 to 1985 
    Taylor, J.W. (Justin); Duncan, Graham A. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-09-26)
    This article analyses the impact of the Church of Scotland (CoS) magazine Life and Work on the Dutch Reformed Church and other individuals and bodies during the period 1975–1985. It does this through investigating the ...
  • A life cultivated by righteousness : Calvin’s exposition of the eighth Commandment in teaching children 
    Britz, Dolf (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-12-15)
    This article profiles Calvin’s elucidation of the eighth Commandment (‘You shall not steal’) in his catechetical works, thus linked to a setting determined by instruction and tuition of children. The 1537/8, the 1542/5 ...
  • The local church as a non-governmental organisation in the fight against poverty : a historical overview of Bethulie 1933–1935 
    Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11-20)
    Poverty is one of the greatest threats to society. In South Africa it is also one of the biggest challenges. This article starts with the challenges put to society by Mr Trevor Manuel at the Carnegie 3 conference. It ...
  • Luther and Calvin on predestination : a comparison 
    Van Wyk, I.W.C. (Ignatius William Charles) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-06-19)
    Alexander Schweizer propagated the thesis that predestination is a central theme of Calvin’s theology and that later Calvinism had to defend his teaching as the distinguishing point between the Lutheran and reformed ...
  • A major new standard work on post-reformation reformed studies 
    Neele, A.C. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005-10)
    This study is an advancement of previous scholarship that has assessed the Post-Reformation reformed sources as ‘dead orthodoxy’, ‘dry’, ‘ridged’, and theologically diverted from the sixteenth-century Protestant ...
  • Manechaeism in Augustine's sermons : the case of sermo 182. Flos studii ioanne Buitendag sexagenario oblatus 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (Unisa Press, 2015)
    This article, for the first time, analyses one of Augustine’s sermons in order to find out to what extent he was acquainted with Mani and his teachings. Once again, it turns out that the former Manichaean auditor was ...
  • Mani, Augustine and the vision of God 
    Gardner, Iain (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-04-10)
    The recovery of the text of the Manichaean daily prayers provides an opportunity to consider how their recitation and practice may have influenced the young Augustine. It is argued that the prayers focused the mental and ...
  • Manichaean christians in Augustine’s life and work 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (Brill, 2010)
    The article aims to give an overall overview of St Augustine’s attitude towards the Gnostic- Christian Manichaeans. First, a historical overview, mainly based on his Confessions, outlines Augustine’s acquaintance with the ...
  • Manichaean exonyms and autonyms (including Augustine’s writings) 
    Pedersen, Nils A. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-04-10)
    Did the Western Manichaeans call themselves ‘Manichaean’ and ‘Christian’? A survey of the evidence, primarily Latin and Coptic, seems to show that the noun and adjective uses of ‘Manichaean’ were very rarely used and ...
  • Manichaean imagery of Christ as God's right hand 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (Brill Academic Publishers, 2018)
    The article examines the conspicuous references to God’s ‘Right Hand’ in Manichaeism by analysing texts from both Western and Eastern sources. The analysed texts prove that the eye-catching imagery (directly or indirectly) ...
  • Manichaean women in a Pseudo-Augustinian testimony : an analysis of the North African Testimonium de Manichaeis sectatoribus 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (Brill Academic Publishers, 2017-01)
    The article analyses the rather unknown and understudied Testimonium de Manichaeis sectatoribus. This Pseudo-Augustinian text has come down to us in two Latin manuscripts (one from Saint Gervais, Paris; the other from a ...
  • Manichaean women in Augustine's life and works 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (Brill Academic Publishers, 2015-05)
    The study of women in Manichaeism is still in its infancy. The present article aims to contribute to this promising field of research by concentrating on the writings of the former Manichaean Augustine (354-430). A ...
  • Manichaeism : its sources and influences on Western Christianity 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it will discuss the origins of Manichaeism, a gnostic-Christian world religion that was founded by the prophet Mani (216-276). My discussion of the origins of Manichaeism may serve ...
  • ‘Marginalia’ by die teologie van Natie van Wyk 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-11-15)
    ‘Marginalia’ are notes made in the margins of a book. It could be general comments, glosses (interpretation of the meaning of a phrase) or scholia (commentary on the text). For centuries marginalia was considered an ...
  • Martin Luther en gebed 
    Van Wyk, I.W.C. (Ignatius William Charles) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-12-11)
    For decades, not many theologians published on the theme of prayer. The philosophical critique on religion is one reason. A sensible thing to do in times of uncertainty and disorientation is to fall back on the advice ...
  • Martin Luther en Johannes Calvyn oor die Christelike vryheid 
    Van Wyk, I.W.C. (Ignatius William Charles) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017)
    Vryheid is naas regverdiging een van die belangrikste temas van die Reformatoriese teologie. Luther se geskrif ‘Oor die vryheid van ’n Christenmens’ (1520) is een van sy hoofgeskrifte. In hierdie geskrif beskryf hy die ...
  • Martin Luther se veelkantige verhouding tot die filosofie 
    Van Wyk, I.W.C. (Ignatius William Charles) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-07-31)
    Martin Luther lectured moral philosophy in Wittenberg. He was therefore a well-trained philosopher in the tradition of Willem Ockham. Throughout his academic career, he respected the important contribution of philosophy ...
  • Memories as religion : what can the broken continuity of tradition bring about? − Part two 
    Urbaniak, Jakub (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-06-09)
    In postmodern societies the symbolic vacuum, a result of the loss of a unified religious tradition, calls for substitutes in the form of fragmentary and isolated memories. By drawing from the reservoir of those memories ...
  • Ministerial dress for worship in Southern Africa presbyterianism 
    Duncan, Graham A. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006-09)
    In view of Scripture, theology of worship, symbolism, history, tradition and current practice it is difficult, if not impossible, to come to any definite conclusions about ministerial dress in Presbyterian worship. The ...