Browsing Research Articles (Dogmatics and Christian Ethics) by Subject "Reality"

Browsing Research Articles (Dogmatics and Christian Ethics) by Subject "Reality"

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  • African leadership and the kind of reality of the spirit world 
    Kroesbergen, Hermen (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-07-30)
    Leadership in Africa is inextricably connected to the spirit world. Leaders may be chosen through elections or other human processes, but ultimately, they are seen as appointed by God. Leaders may base their decisions ...
  • Beyond realism and non-realism : religious language-games and reality 
    Kroesbergen, Hermen (Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, 2014-03)
    This article attempts to take up Wittgenstein’s challenge “Not empiricism and yet realism” (1991:vi 23). Language deals with reality. But we are also aware of the importance of the context with its own rules for the use ...
  • Dans van die Christen : die genealogie van tyd en ruimte in ’n postmoderne samelewing 
    Buitendag, Johan (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    The point of departure of this article is the thesis that the understanding of reality is based on the concepts of time and space. In order to communicate the quintessence of postmodernism the concepts of time and space ...
  • ‘Epistemology models ontology’− In gesprek met John Polkinghorne 
    Buitendag, Johan (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 ...
  • Vital force as a triangulated concept of nature and s(S)pirit 
    Nalwamba, Kuzipa M.B.; Buitendag, Johan (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-06-26)
    This article explores and seeks to appropriate theologically the African notion of vital force as a relational, non-reductionist ecological concept that would enrich the Christian doctrine of pneumatheology. The understanding ...