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Browsing Research Articles (Practical Theology) by UP Author "Muller, Julian C."
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Muller, Julian C. (University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2017)Practical theology is located in a fragile, vulnerable space between various disciplines, where it is exposed to multiple different narratives. The author proposes a postfoundational, narrative approach to practical ...
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Muller, Julian C. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)In a time of increasingly demanding pressures and expectations being experienced by Pastors, questions can be asked as to how do they as leaders keep their hopes alive. This article explores the stories of many of these ...
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Park, David Moonseok; Muller, Julian C. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2014-04-30)Contemporary ancestor worship is currently practiced around the world in several different forms. However, the essence and practice of ancestor worship varies throughout Asia, Africa, Oceania and Latin America. The context ...
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Meiring, J.J.S. (Jacob Johannes Smit); Muller, Julian C. (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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Human, Heidi; Muller, Julian C. (Society for Practical Theology in South Africa, 2009)This article looks at the experiences and needs of pastoral counsellors and ministers regarding ethical dilemmas in performing their duties. The problem that arose is that pastoral counsellors have an ethically and ...
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Muller, Julian C. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-07-16)This article is an effort to put some of the paradoxical and confusing concepts of ubuntu on the table. Both the terms ‘nostalgia’ and ‘imagination’ provide us with language that can help us to talk about this complex ...
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Muller, Julian C.; Trahar, Sheila (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-12-01)In this article, the two authors, academics from different contexts and both aware of their whiteness, focus on their own vulnerable selves. The aim is to reflect on their specific agency in this project1 and to create ...
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Richter, Amanda; Muller, Julian C. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005-09)This article looks at the bereavement of children left orphaned by the HIV and Aids pandemic that is crippling the continent of Africa. Their bereavement is examined by means of the narrative approach and by integrating ...
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Du Plessis, Yolandi; Muller, Julian C. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007-09)This article reflects on the use of a hand puppet (Billy Bear) in narrative therapeutic conversations with a five year old girl (pseudonym Lisa) who has been diagnosed with leukaemia (blood cancer). The first part of this ...
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August, Keith; Muller, Julian C. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-03-28)Migrant workers in the Deciduous Fruit Industry are part of the marginalised communities in South Africa who have been severely affected by HIV and/or AIDS. A postfoundationalist approach and the Seven Movements proposed ...
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Muller, Julian C. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004-03)The practical theology that emerges from this article is one that develops out of a very specific context - in this case, HIV / AIDS. The philosophical framework is found in an integration of two paradigms, namely ...
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Boone, M.L. (Micahij Leon); Muller, Julian C. (Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of LIMPOPO, 2011)In May 2008, South Africa experienced horrific xenophobic attacks on internationals, the likes of which have not been seen since the fall of the apartheid regime. Leviticus 19 will be viewed ideologically as a search for ...
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Moyo, Nolipher; Muller, Julian C. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-05)Culture plays a significant role in people’s lives in Zambia and in Africa as a whole. Consequently, there is a need to take Zambian or African culture seriously in order to look at the salient elements of cultural ...
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Muller, Julian C.; Stone, Howard W. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1998)The fascinating, but complex field of intercultural communication and pastoral care is the focus of research in this article. The authors describe the two approaches of pastoral therapy and show how it can be implemented ...
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Muller, Julian C. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)Despite popular opinion, current theology is still in the midst of winter. In this article the nature of spring - of it as the in-between season - is taken as a metaphor for theology: between the lines and prior to the ...
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Delport, Hein; Muller, Julian C. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-12)Disagreements between pastors and church members in the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa (NRCH) require a unique space in the church in terms of a postmodern society. Different perspectives can easily lead to conflict ...
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A narrative hermeneutical adventure : seafarers and their complex relationship with their families Viljoen, Christoffel Johannes; Muller, Julian C. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-05-02)This research project is an attempt to develop a rich understanding about the relationship between seafarers and their families by means of a conversational construction between a number of co-researchers. In order to ...
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Muller, Julian C. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-11-04)This article provides a reflection on the relationship between (auto)biography and theology. This reflection is done with reference to, and in honour of the story of Theuns Dreyer. The author positions himself on the ...
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Muller, Julian C.; Beyers, Jaco (Society for Practical Theology in South Africa, 2007)Pastoral care to homosexual persons and those close to them is discussed from the perspective of George Lindbeck's (1984) theological typologies. The cultural-linguistic model is emphasised, its links to narrative practice ...
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Gravett, Ilse; Muller, Julian C. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-09)The aim of the article was to explore the narrative of Hester, a black South African woman, who is living with secondary infertility. The perspective is that of postfoundational practical theology, feminist theology and ...
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