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(Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-06)Public and ecclesial discourses influence opinions on the institution of heteronormative marriage. The term "discourse" indicates that private knowledge and experiences are made known in the public sphere. Against this ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-07-17)As a postfoundational practical theological study, this article is interested in the description of the co-researchers’ experiences, as these are continually informed by various traditions of interpretations. It listens ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-10)This article is an effort to deconstruct narratives regarding the body. Body theology as developed by James B. Nelson forms the basis for a literature study as well as an exploration of an embodied pastoral anthropology, ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-03-25)Throughout the ages, menstruation and menopause have posed unique challenges in the life of women. In Biblical times, much was said about the impurity of a menstruating woman. In the past century, however, the focus ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-27)Across the globe, conditions of labour are worsening, providing both challenges and opportunities. As labour is one of the places where the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class is always at ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-08-15)Cameroon celebrated fifty years of independence from colonial rule on 20 May 2010. Major problems facing the nation are economic, social and political crises and the appalling condition of its prisons. This article focuses ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2020-03-23)The church is a fertile ground for nurturing and protecting patriarchy. Within the Christian church, gender equality remains a theoretical notion, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (ELCSA) is no ...
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(Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-09)Because of the important role language, imagery and metaphors plays in the lives of human beings, it is necessary to explore the origins and implications of metaphors that could be potentially harmful to the quality of ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)What is the nature of reality in theological research and how can this ‘theological’ reality be known? Can we empirically research God’s performance in reality? This article tries to find some common ground on this ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-08-06)This article elaborated specifically on the research journey in arriving at the development of an alternative narrative, which points beyond the local community, with reference to a broader study which aimed at addressing ...
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(Society for Practical Theology in South Africa, 2008)The practice of pastoral diagnosis is subjected to critical reflection from a post structuralist perspective. Instead of generalised statements about pastoral diagnosis, the works of two South African pastoral theologians, ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-07-31)South Africa is characterised by various socio-economic and socio-political challenges (fractures) not easily met (or healed). ‘Fractures’ refer to social, economic, religious, spatial, ecological, environmental, and ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-06)The aim of this article is to look at the development of the deacon’s position in the Dutch Reformed Church of Africa by investigating the founding, development, and management of the deacon’s position in the church. It ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2010)The fundamentalist reaction to contemporary theological discourse in South Africa expresses the need for homiletics to give serious attention to the pre-understanding of our existential situation in order to understand ...
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(AOSIS, 2021-08)The role of the parental home in the intergenerational faith formation of the youth for the sake of an integrated youth ministry. This article deals with the following question: What is the role of parents in the ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-06)Churches hold different views regarding the office of deacon and role of deacons in the church. Churches also use different terms for their social ministries. This lack of a common language regarding the church’s ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-10-30)The politics of culture, motherhood and mothering in some African communities highlight the tensions that exist in the broader feminist theology agenda. There are emerging politics between the able and disabled feminist ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-18)A spatial turn has occurred in various disciplines over the past decades. This article holds that it has not occurred in a similar decisive manner in theological discourse and not in South Africa in particular. After ...
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(University of Stellenbosch, 2021)This article reflects on how the COVID-19 pandemic gives the church an opportunity to reconsider what the centre of God’s mission is for the congregation. It will engage on the implications of its reflections for public ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-10)When membership of the faith community gets separated from Biblical concepts for us Christians the church is gradually and slowly getting into trouble. This is especially true when membership and discipleship are separated. ...
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