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Browsing Research Articles (Science of Religion and Missiology) by Type "Postprint Article"
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Kroesbergen, Hermen
(Wiley, 2018-03)
This article argues for acknowledging the existence of an absolute distinction between faith and science. It is often assumed in the science and religion debate that such a distinction would be ahistorical and uncontextual. ...
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Van Wyngaard, Arnau
(Routledge, 2013)
Researchers seem to be in agreement that spirituality is an important
component of the holistic care approach commonly found in
palliative care. Shiselweni Home-Based Care (SHBC) is a faithbased
organization in Swaziland ...
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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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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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Kroesbergen, Hermen
(Springer, 2018-10)
The experience of feeling safe even in the midst of trials and temptations seems to be a central feature of the Christian faith. In this article I will try to solve some possible difficulties in understanding this kind of ...
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Van Wyngaard, Arnau; Root, Robin; Whiteside, Alan
(Routledge, 2017-07)
Faith-based organisations (FBOs) have long been involved in HIV and AIDS impact mitigation and humanitarian relief, but most are not equipped to intervene in the structural drivers of food insecurity and attendant health ...
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Root, R.; Van Wyngaard, Arnau
(Taylor and Francis, 2011-10)
The purpose of this study is to explore the concept of religious health assets
(RHA) and its relevance to HIV/AIDS. This manuscript describes the experiences
of caregivers with a church-run home-based care organisation ...
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Kroesbergen, Hermen
(Wiley, 2020-07)
Far from being non‐realism or antirealism, Wittgensteinian philosophy of religion shows the meaning of practices within which the whole weight is in the picture that God speaks. ‘The authority of the community of believers ...
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Simut, Ramona
(Routledge, 2018)
This paper offers an analysis of Edward Schillebeeckx’s insights on different perceptions of revelation as related to concepts like salvation, God, church, human experience and creation in the work Jesus in Our Western ...
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Gloeckner, Cory D.; Beyers, Jaco
(Sage, 2024-07)
The Baha’i faith is a relatively new religion that has quickly gained popularity over the past century. Its main theological concepts include progressive revelation and religious unity, and perhaps its most important goal ...
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Beyers, Jaco; Kriel, Lize
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2020-09)
The artworks produced at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift, KwaZulu-Natal, have been highly appraised and appreciated in South African art-historical circles, not in the least so as ...
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Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus)
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017-07)
Much as the concept of missio Dei has shaped missiological thinking and the theology of mission, the growing interest in God's incarnation and embodiment may play a very formative role in missiological reflection in the ...
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Kroesbergen, Hermen
(Routledge, 2018-01)
This account of religious change in Zambia discloses shifts in the ideas and practices of Christian unity since independence. It shows that state-backed appeals, at times repressive, under the slogan ‘one nation, one church’ ...
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Root, Robin; Van Wyngaard, Arnau; Whiteside, Alan
(Routledge, 2015-08)
The article is a descriptive case study of a community home-based care (CHBC) organisation in Swaziland that depicts the convergence of CHBC expansion with substantially improved health outcomes. Comprised of 993 care ...
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Kroesbergen, Hermen
(De Gruyter, 2016-03)
This article deals with the question whether it is a problem to use a static imagery of vocation. Four relatively recent systematic theological monographs by Volf, Badcock, Schuurman and Hahnenberg on the topic of vocation ...
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Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus)
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016-03)
The importance of transformative spirituality for missional leadership is explored.
Missional leadership is defined as the transformation of people and institutions to participate,
through meaningful relations and in the ...
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Root, Robin; Van Wyngaard, Arnau; Whiteside, Alan
(Routledge, 2017)
We draw on a study of a church-run community home-based care organization in
Swaziland to explore how individuals living with HIV perceived caregivers‘ impact on
well-being. Our primary concern was to examine how religion, ...