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Browsing Research Articles (Science of Religion and Missiology) by Author "Beyers, Jaco"
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Bieber Jr, Kenneth R.; Beyers, Jaco
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2020-05)
This article discusses why American evangelical Christians, particularly white evangelicals, have granted overwhelming support to Donald Trump, first as a presidential candidate in 2016, and then as president since his ...
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Geel, Leon; Beyers, Jaco
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-07-26)
The apparatus theory is used to challenge the interpretation of religion and also to determine
whether religion is a factor to contend with in modern society. Religion could be the element
that keeps the city intact or ...
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Beyers, Jaco
(Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)
This study investigates the use of traditional medicine by traditional healers in a South African context in the fight against Covid-19. Appropriating spiritual help in fighting the symptoms of the virus would be part of ...
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Beyers, Jaco
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-09-22)
In this article the contribution of professor Frans J. van Zyl (1913–2008) will be scrutinised
as to determine the influence his thoughts had on the theology of the Netherdutch Reformed
Church. As Van Zyl was seen as a ...
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Beyers, Jaco
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-04-08)
Learning from the past prepares one for being able to cope with the future. History is made up
of strings of relationships. This article follows a historical line from colonialism, through
apartheid to post-colonialism ...
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Beyers, Jaco
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-03-06)
Religious symbols are part of our world, relating to another world. In order to understand the
process by which symbols grow and develop, the particular context of a symbol is important.
In this article a particular ...
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Beyers, Jaco; Muza, Kudakwashe
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2022-03)
The biggest single threat to ecology and biodiversity is human-induced climate change. This study assesses ethics and attitudes in an African context for coping with climate change. This assessment takes place within an ...
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Beyers, Jaco
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2014-07-14)
Paradigms determine relationships. During the Enlightenment period Emile Durkheim
proposed a relationship between the sacred and the profane. Religion, which is concerned
with the sacred, was defined in terms of being ...
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Akanbi, Olusola Solomon; Beyers, Jaco
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-14)
This article evaluates the activities of the church, especially the Pentecostal Movement in
Nigeria, and their contribution to national development. It identifies the social, economic and
political problems in Nigeria ...
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Han, Yong Seung; Beyers, Jaco
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2017)
This article investigates how Mbiti articulates the theological reflections on the understanding of God from an African perspective. Mbiti systematises data of the African concepts of God in a set of Western Christian ...
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Beyers, Jaco; South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities
(South African Society for Greek Philosophy and the Humanities, 2001)
The traditional definition of the term syncretism is not only vague and cryptic, but it is also used in a pejorative sense. Many attempts have been made to re-define the term syncretism. All
definitions are determined by ...
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Beyers, Jaco
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2014-08-14)
Poverty is a human condition. Social, economic, psychological and political factors affect
society and can alleviate as well as stimulate poverty. Religion provides a unique perspective
on the phenomenon of poverty. This ...
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Beyers, Jaco
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017)
Any attempt at understanding religion proves to be a perilous undertaking. Understanding Religion Studies as it is envisioned to function in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the UP already implies some perils. To ...
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Beyers, Jaco
(AOSIS, 2023)
No abstract available.
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Beyers, Jaco
(AOSIS, 2022-08-18)
How subject and object relate is perceived differently. This has been identified and discussed by philosophers. Hegel built on Plato's notion that true reality only exists in ideas and is, therefore, objectively true. Hegel ...
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Beyers, Jaco
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-08-12)
In the encounter between man and the
Holy, man reacts with the ambivalent emotion of fear and fascination. Man is confronted by
something incomprehensible. How will man know whether this is God? Any response by
man, ...
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Beyers, Jaco
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017)
A brief overview is given by the editor of the development of the discipline of theology
of religions to indicate how in a postmodern era an almost non-foundational approach
has become evident. For a Christian understanding ...
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Beyers, Jaco
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-10-28)
The criteria for what is considered as science have been debated for a very long time. This
article assumes the scientific nature of Theology as a given. This article discusses in three
concentric circles the scientific ...
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Bieber Jr, Kenneth R.; Beyers, Jaco
(Southern African Missiological Society, 2020)
The institution of formal empire is not limited to studies of the past, but shows itself
as a present possibility. This article employs the new discipline of comparative
missiology to examine the relationship between ...
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Beyers, Jaco
(Association for the Study of Religion, 2016)
There are many reasons for violence. Like an approaching thunderstorm is a clear indication of possible lightning to follow so the current world conditions is conducive for violence. Violence is inevitable and immanent in ...