Browsing Research Articles (Dogmatics and Christian Ethics) by UP Author "De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne)"

Browsing Research Articles (Dogmatics and Christian Ethics) by UP Author "De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne)"

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  • Christian ethics and secularisation : business as usual? 
    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 ...
  • The church and the indispensability and fragility of morality revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic 
    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 ...
  • Do Christian and secular moralities exclude one another? 
    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 ...
  • Does the Christian church have any guidance to offer in solving the global problems we are faced with today? 
    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 ...
  • Editorial : special collection of Verbum et Ecclesia : ‘morality in history’ 
    De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS, 2023)
    No abstract available.
  • An ethics of responsibility for our time 
    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 ...
  • An ethics of responsibility reading of Eduard Tödt’s theory of the formation of moral judgement 
    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. ...
  • May Christians request medically assisted suicide and euthanasia? 
    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 ...
  • Prophetic witness : an appropriate mode of public discourse in the democratic South Africa? 
    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 ...
  • Public theology in the South African context 
    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 ...
  • Verantwoordelikheids-etiek van Max Weber: ’n toepaslike etiek vir ons tyd? 
    De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, 2012)
    This article provides an interpretation of Max Weber’s famous proposal of an ethic of responsibility as a second-level normative ethical approach to ethics with responsibility as its lodestar. A case is argued that his ...
  • What is morality? A historical exploration 
    De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS, 2023-12-18)
    The objective of the article was to get more clarity on what morality is by addressing the question: ‘Can, in spite of undeniable adaptation and change through the ages, core elements of morality be detected that might ...