Browsing Research Articles (Practical Theology) by Title

Browsing Research Articles (Practical Theology) by Title

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  • (Practical) theology : a story of doubt and imagination 
    Muller, Julian C. (AOSIS, 2023-04)
    Theology as a story of doubt and imagination is to be understood against the background of interdisciplinary social science and in contrast to the traditional paradigm of theology as a system of propositional certainty. ...
  • Practical-theological facilitation as skilled helping 
    Pienaar, Hendrik Elmo (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-11-07)
    The article discussed the idea of skilled helping in relation to what has been put forward as practical theological facilitation. It has been argued that various helping relationships, amongst which the author refers to ...
  • Practising chaordic beauty : on embracing strangers in one inner city faith community 
    De Beer, Stephan F. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-18)
    In this article I read one inner city faith community – the Tshwane Leadership Foundation (TLF) – through the lenses of literature that reflects on chaordic organisations and chaordic leadership. I explore whether an ...
  • Prakties-teologiese riglyne vir die drie kategorieë van visuele prediking 
    Van Tonder, Barend Jacobus (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-12-09)
    Met die verskyning van die TV-medium binne die Suid-Afrikaanse milieu in die laat sestigerjare en vroeë sewentigerjare (vgl. Barnard 2009:192), het ’n nuwe wyse van kommunikasie die lig gesien. Grotendeels het dit ...
  • A praxis-based approach to theological training in Cape Town 
    Headley, Selena (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-08-29)
    A training programme that employs the use of the pastoral cycle, leading practitioners into a praxis-based approach towards urban transformation, may be shifting the focus of some faithbased practitioners, sparking change ...
  • Prayer and being church in postapartheid, multicultural South Africa 
    Scott, Hilton Robert; Van Wyk, Tanya; Wepener, Cas (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-05)
    The research presented in this article was conducted as a continuing concern over ‘beingchurch’in a multicultural urban setting in postapartheid South Africa. It has been nearly 30 years since the end of apartheid and South ...
  • Preaching and cartooning : an exploration of the processes involved in developing a sermon and a newspaper cartoon 
    Wepener, Cas (University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2015)
    This article explores the similarities and differences between the process followed to develop a sermon and that followed to develop a cartoon. It first examines the representation of the jester or clown in some recent ...
  • Preaching and culture 
    Dreyer, T.F.J. (Theunis Frederik Jacobus), 1946- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    Before the new political dispensation in South Africa (1994), the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika) referred to the church as a “peoples church” (volkskerk). Owing to political changes ...
  • Preaching to effect change 
    McDaniel, Judith M. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006-11)
    This article begins with a theological argument, then proceeds to practical application. Its thesis is that there is an inherent link between the character of the preacher, the character of the congregation, and the ...
  • Predikante opleiding : roeping, keuring en legitimering 
    Nel, Malan (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    The profession of being a pastor is under pressure. The challenge for churches and seminaries is to rediscover what it means to be called, and more specifically to be called for full time ministry in a local church. Such ...
  • Prediking aan die hand van die metafoor van fiksieskryf 
    Bosman, Lourens Lemmer; Muller, Julian C. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-09)
    In this article the writers propose an alternative to modernistic linear and propositional ways of preaching. They argue that the context asks for preaching that is more in line with the dominant metaphors of the ...
  • Prediking as pastorale uitnodiging tot deelname : ‘n kultureel-linguistiese beskouing 
    Reinecke, Hannes; Muller, Julian C. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-08)
    As a practical theologian, the author of this article adopts a social-constructionist approach, namely Lindbeck’s cultural-linguistic method, which focuses on narratives and grammar as vehicles of identity, and individuals’ ...
  • Prediking oor die koninkryk van God : ’n uitdaging in ’n nuwe konteks van armoede 
    Pieterse, Hendrik J.C. (Hennie) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2009)
    Preaching on the kingdom of God: A challenge in a new context of poverty. The question addressed by this article has to do with the content of preaching in the context of laws about affirmative action affecting white ...
  • Prejudice, homophobia and the Christian faith community 
    Dreyer, Yolanda (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)
    Aims to illustrate that prejudice differs from presuppositions when interpreting the Bible or reflecting theologically on contemporary issues such as homosexuality. Argues that prejudice leads to homophobia which is ...
  • ‘A pretty decent sort of bloke’ : towards the quest for an Australian Jesus 
    Goroncy, Jason A. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-10-31)
    From many Aboriginal elders, such as Tjangika Napaltjani, Bob Williams and Djiniyini Gondarra, to painters, such as Arthur Boyd, Pro Hart and John Forrester-Clack, from historians, such as Manning Clark, and poets, such ...
  • Privatisation of water systems : crime against humanity 
    Mobie, Titus R.; Masango, Maake J.S. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    This article emphasises the importance of water resources, which are vital to the sustenance of life. Water is essential for various reasons: for drinking, for personal hygiene, for cooking, for watering crops, for cleaning ...
  • Privilege, shame and new choices towards reconciliation. An autobiographical approach 
    Muller, Julian C. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    A narrative and autobiographical approach is taken in this article in order to explore and explain reconciliation. In the process the concepts of privilege, shame and new choices, within a specific story, are taken as the ...
  • The process of mourning for Eswatini widowers : a pastoral concern 
    Dlamini, Dalcy Badeli; Masango, Maake J.S. (AOSIS, 2021-07-05)
    Eswatini custom and church traditions indirectly and directly affect the way widowers handle their mourning period, after the demise of their better halves. Instead of mourning their loss of spouses for their spiritual, ...
  • Prophetic preaching in the socio-economic and socio-political crisis of Zimbabwe 
    Fenga, Vincent Farirai; Wepener, Cas (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2018-08-14)
    In Zimbabwe, there are different preachers who have great names, but when it comes to prophetic preaching they lag behind as compared to South Africa, which has great preachers in prophetic preaching like Desmond Tutu. ...
  • The psycho-social and clinical profile of women referred for psycho-legal evaluation to forensic mental health units in South Africa 
    Nagdee, Mohamed; Artz, Lillian; Corral-Bulnes, Carmen; Heath, Aisling; Subramaney, Ugasvaree; De Clercq, Helena G.; Erlacher, Helmut; Kotze, Carla; Lippi, Gian; Naidoo, Samantha; Sokudela, Funeka Brenda (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-02)
    BACKGROUND : There is a paucity of research on women offenders in the South African context, particularly those referred for forensic psychiatric observation. Little is known about their life histories, the nature of their ...