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Eastern Orthodox churches and ecumenism according to the Holy Pan-Orthodox Council of Crete (2016) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-09-10)Starting from the investigation of the documents issued by the Bishops who participated in the Holy Pan-Orthodox Council held in June 2016 in Crete, the author speaks in this research about the way in which ecumenism is ...
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(Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008)This article is a reworked version of the Moderator's opening address at the 68th General Assembly of the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa in October 2007. Against the fourth-century background of Emperor Constantine's ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)A serious objection against Christian faith is that the Bible is not trustworthy because the history it relates does not correspond to the facts of history. In theology this problem is "solved" by some biblical scholars ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-06-23)On 29 July 2017, an international colloquium entitled ‘Re-Imagining Curricula for a Just University in a Vibrant Democracy – Carrying the Conversation Forward’ was held at the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, ...
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(SCIRI and SACRI, 2019)This paper investigates whether and how teaching theology and religion in institutions of higher learning can contribute positively to the development of human society. The positive character of such development in described ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-31)Over past decades a concept of ecological ethics has taken root, which is often equated with environmental ethics. Church and theology have also responded to the environmental crisis. In the last third of the past century ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)The controversy about the importance of eco-theology or creation spirituality seems to be in a deadlock. Those who support it and those who oppose it do not even seem to be able to communicate with one another. On the ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)This article examines the possible influence that a church’s understanding of ecclesiology could have on its approach to homosexual people, with special reference to the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa (NRCA). By ...
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(Teologiese Fakulteit, Universiteit van Stellenbosch, 2010)Against the background of a brief historical overview of Johan Heyns’s dynamic personality, his theological passion and writings, this article concentrates on his approach to the question: what is theology, and how is it ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-10-18)In biblical times the ‘Word of God’ indicated God’s creative and redemptive response to changing human predicaments and depravations. Redemptive events became traditions that were applied to new situations. Many biblical ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-12-06)In honouring Etienne de Villiers, this article discusses the latter’s contribution to a deepening of the notions of church and ethics, as well as the mutual relationship between these notions in the South African context. ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-07)The new biotechnological context in which in vitro fertilisation, the human genome project, and stem cell research have become realities, confronts both society and theology with unique challenges. These realities compel ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-11-28)The playful re-working of the idiomatic expression ‘the apple of my eye’ to the ‘eye/I of my Apple’ provides the answer to the question on technology, emphasising its importance for societies, specifically the South ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-09-23)Open theism is a theological position taken by a number of scholars and deals with human free will and its relationship to God, including the nature of the future. This brief article explores this relationship and ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-06)The famous premise of John Polkinghorne, ‘epistemology models ontology’, has been assessed in this article. It is interpreted that its logic is based on a linear trajectory of knowledge → being. Polkinghorne places much ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-12-06)‘Revealed theology’ claims that religious belief derives from divine revelation and can only be justified in the light of such revelation. This entails a retreat into an intellectual ghetto: Only believers can participate ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-12-20)This essay extends my previous research on eschatology to cover the question of human uniqueness. Using the approach of ‘experiential realism’, I begin with a few findings of modern science that are relevant to the topic: ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)We live in a time in which the way of life characterised as “ethical” or “moral” is under stress. The challenge we face is to take up responsibility for salvaging and enhancing the exercise of moral responsibility in all ...
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(Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, 2013-09)In the article the interpretation of Eduard Tödt’s theory of the formation of moral judgements as descriptive of the six steps that are logically presupposed in the formation of all moral judgements is critically discussed. ...
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(Department of Old and New Testament, University of Stellenbosch, 2007)Based on a detailed analysis and critical discussion of Leder's book The absent Body in which he disentangles in an insightful phenomenological manner the Cartesian dualistic heritage, this articles focuses on the experience ...
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