In this article I present a theoretical framework for my argument that specific congregations which are renewed to address the current culture and context, according to the vision presented by Professor T.F.J. Dreyer, ...

Since 2009, I am researching sermons on Matthew 25:31-46 by preachers of the Uniting Reformed Church and the Dutch Reformed Church (Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk). The sermons are collected in South Africa's eight provinces. ...

This article reported on the second cycle (selective coding) of grounded theory research of sermons on poverty in the South African context, with Matthew 25:31–46 as the sermon text. The problem which the author was ...

The current view on a closed reality (there is no reality besides human reality) and the view on the limitations of human language so that we are unable to refer to God in preaching, put many preachers in a spot. These ...

In hierdie artikel word geargumenteer dat die navorsingsvraag wat die inhoudsanalise van preke begelei, die keuse van ’n model vir die analise beïnvloed. Die outeur is op soek na ’n gepaste model vir preekanalise om preke ...

The challenge of working with metatheoretical assumptions in a postmodern situation of a plurality of scientific-theoretical approaches is taken up in this article. The question whether the researcher must, in a ...

This article is the first in the research project “Metatheoretical assumptions in Practical Theology”. The research problem has to do with the lack of explicit expression of metatheoretical assumptions against the background ...

This article reports on the first cycle (out of three) of a grounded theory analysis of sermons on poverty with Matthew 25:31-46 as sermon text. The problem addressed in this research project has to do with the poverty ...

In this article, I present a critical literature study of the theoretical approach of practical theologians in South Africa to our discipline, in honour of Yolanda Dreyer on her 60th birthday. Some of my colleagues’ ...