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Browsing Centre for Contextual Ministry by Author "De Beer, Stephanus Francois"
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-09-13)
This essay is reflecting on frailty, the university and the city, in relation to each other. It seeks
to transcend the binary concepts of presence and absence, proposing remembrance as the
frail work of making absence ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(AOSIS, 2022-12-21)
Grounded in a postcolonial, liberationist urban vision, this article lamented the theological and political paralysis of urban denialism that fails African cities and African urban populations. Considering different possible ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2014-08-01)
This article reflects on the unfinished task of liberation – as expressed in issues of land – and
drawing from the work of Franz Fanon and the Durban-based social movement Abahlali
baseMjondolo. It locates its reflections ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(AOSIS, 2021-08-31)
Globally, cities respond differently to their most vulnerable urban populations, notably so
during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In the City of Tshwane, there
seems to be a general paralysis of the ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois; De Beer, Wilna
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-11)
We reflect on living and doing ministry in a (post)apartheid South African city, negotiating
ongoing demographic and sociopolitical transitions and discerning appropriate faith responses.
We speak about the inevitability ...
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Ribbens, Michael; De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-27)
This article sets out to describe how churches have responded and continue to respond to fastchanging
urban environments in Pretoria Central and Mamelodi East, animating Henri
Lefebvre’s sociological perspective of ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-08-06)
This article considers the topical issue of social cohesion. It seeks to demythologise the issue
bringing it into critical conversation with eight related categories. It proposes that a vision of
a socially cohesive ...
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Naidoo, Marilyn; De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-12-01)
This article seeks to present challenges of negotiating difference and diversity in Christian
communities in South Africa today. It reflects the intersectional nature of racial, gender, ethnic
and economic difference, ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois; Yates, Hannelie
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-12-12)
This article serves as an introduction to a collection of articles that explores emancipatory
methodologies for doing theology and research with children. We focus on both the agency
and the participation of children as ...
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Weber, Shantelle; De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-25)
The vision of Child Theology Africa is to advance a child-friendly continent by doing theology
with, for, about and through African children. In this article we would like to explore the voice,
role and position of the ...
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Swart, Ignatius; De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)
This article serves as the introductory, first contribution to a special collection of articles on the
theme, ‘Doing urban public theology in South Africa: Visions, approaches, themes and practices
towards a new agenda’. ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-11-19)
After describing the challenges, myths, exclusions and opportunities of urban regeneration,
this article explores the potential interface between faith-based action and different forms of
urban regeneration. Focusing on ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-12-13)
After attending to shifts in the landscape of theological education at a public university in
South Africa, this article explores the re-imagination of theological education as fostering faithbased
agency. With reference ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-22)
The Integrated Urban Development Framework (IUDF) was constructed as a ‘new deal’ for
South African cities and towns. It outlines a vision with four overarching goals and eight
priorities or policy levers meant to overcome ...
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Van der Walt, J.P. (Hannes); Swart, Ignatius; De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)
This article highlights important dimensions of public theology and shows how the identified
dimensions are relevant to the specific situation of informal early childhood development
(ECD) facilities in a South African ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)
Jesus’ option for the poor should be reclaimed in a clear theological and ecclesial option for
the dumping sites of our cities and towns. That is the basic proposal of this article. Reflecting
upon three different dumping ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(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 ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-12-09)
This article was an attempt to (re-)read Psalms in the context of fractured cities, marked by
socio-economic inequalities, woundedness, migration and exclusion. It explored urban motifs
in selected psalms and considered ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(AOSIS, 2020-11)
Vuyani Vellem was insistent on fostering a spirituality that could ground and sustain resistance of death as expressed in multiple unfreedoms, and the quest for life and freedom in abundance. After naming a number of themes ...
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De Beer, Stephanus Francois
(Southern African Missiological Society, 2020)
Africa’s urban explosion presents a clear challenge to the way theological education
in Africa is done today. The backdrop of this article is a collaborative research project
that involved 15 theological institutions ...