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

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

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  • 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 ...
  • ‘Misisti manum tuam ex alto’ : Manichaean imagery of Christ as God’s hand in Augustine’s confessions? 
    Van Oort, Johannes (Hans) (Brill Academic Publishers, 2018)
    The article first explores Augustine’s conspicuous references to ‘God’s Hand’ in his Confessions by presenting a fresh translation and brief commentary of the relevant texts. In the commentary special attention is given ...
  • Mission and people with disabilities: a few thoughts and facts from an orthodox perspective 
    Buda, Daniel (Wiley, 2019-06)
    This article begins with a few thoughts and some historical and canonical encounters about how lay and ordained people with disabilities have been involved in Orthodox mission work in the past. It then presents two concrete ...
  • Missional ecclesiology as basis for a new church order : a case study 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-06-10)
    In this contribution the author looks at the ecclesiology and church polity of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (NHKA) as a case study. Different approaches to ecclesiology and church polity by different NHKA ...
  • The missional renaissance : its impact on churches in South Africa, ecumenical organisations, and the development of local congregations 
    Pillay, Jerry (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-09-28)
    This article focuses on three matters pertaining to the conversation of missional churches. Firstly, it looks at the impact of missional awareness in South Africa and Africa. Here the article explores what is meant by ...
  • Missionale ekklesiologie in die Afrikaanse gereformeerde kerke sedert 1990 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)
    This article argues that “missional ecclesiology” in the last decades became a new mission paradigm for churches in South Africa, especially after the demise of apartheid. After an overview of the development of a “missio ...