Browsing Research Articles (Dogmatics and Christian Ethics) by Author "De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne)"
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Browsing Research Articles (Dogmatics and Christian Ethics) by Author "De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne)"
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2018-07-04)It is now 49 years since Johan Heyns’s Sterwende Christendom? [Dying Christendom] was published (1969) in which he traced the history of secularisation and its impact on the theology of his time and 36 years since the ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS, 2020-11)In this article the view that the Covid-19 pandemic – especially the lockdown that went hand in hand with it – revealed both the indispensability and fragility of morality was substantiated and the response of the church ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-12-06)I completed my doctoral dissertation on The distinctiveness of Christian morality in 1978. In this article, now more than 30 years later, I critically examined the extent to which the view that I developed in my doctoral ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS, 2021-08-19)The objective of the article was to critique two cognitive strategies used by both proponents of Christian and secular moralities to justify an exclusionary relationship between them, thus contributing to the conflict ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-10-05)In the article the view that was expressed in, inter alia, the Kairos Document, that the prophetic and reformist approaches in Christian Ethics exclude one another, was challenged. A case was argued against this view by ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-06-03)In his book, 21 Lessons for the 21st century, the historian Yuval Noah Harari devoted a chapter to the question of whether traditional religions could provide any guidance in solving the momentous global problems confronting ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS, 2023)No abstract available.
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (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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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (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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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (Faculty of Theology of the University of the Orange Free State, 2006-06)In the introduction to this article an attempt is made to indicate why this issue has become relevant, if not urgent, in the so-called Afrikaans churches. The next section highlights the emphasis by contemporary biblical ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-08-31)The article addresses the question: ‘To what extent can Max Weber’s ethic of responsibility be a helpful resource in the search of Christian Social Ethics for an appropriate contemporary approach’? This question is ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008)The Belhar Confession of the then Dutch Reformed Mission Church officially approved in 1986 confesses that the unity of the church should be made visible. Very little has since then come of this visible unity in the family ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008)The question in the heading is dealt with in the article by splitting it up in three sub-questions: 1. Does the South African society has need for what the DRC can offer? 2. Does the DRC still have the room and opportunity ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)The article demonstrates that the present differences Christians have in morally evaluating homosexuality in general and steady homosexual relationships in particular, can be related to the decisions they take at four ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-21)The article deals with the question: ‘Is it morally acceptable for terminally ill Christians to voluntarily request medically assisted suicide or euthanasia?’ After a brief discussion of relevant changes in the moral ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-10)The question asked in the heading was answered in this article in four steps. In the first step, an attempt was made to find an accurate account of biblical prophecy by means of a critical discussion of certain influential ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)In his book Das Prinzip Verantwortung, published in 1979, the philosopher Hans Jonas argued that all existing approaches in philosophical ethics are inadequate, because they do not effectively address the serious issues ...
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Prospects of a Christian ethics of responsibility (part 2) : an assessment of three German versions De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)In the article three versions of a Christian ethics of responsibility, developed by three German theologians, Wolfgang Huber, Johannes Fischer and Ulrich Körtner, in response to the philosopher Hans Jonas's introduction ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of LIMPOPO, 2013)In this article the most relevant features of South African society and the most important challenges Public Theology is faced with in this context are discussed. The most basic challenge identified is to reach agreement ...
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De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (Department of Old and New Testament, University of Stellenbosch, 2010)This article attempts, first of all, to define the concept of human dignity in tandem with a Christian ethics of responsibility. The views on human dignity, held by some proponents of a Christian ethics of responsibility, ...
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