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  • Faith-based action and urban regeneration 
    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 ...
  • Faith-based agency and theological education : a failed opportunity? 
    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 ...
  • The ‘good city’ or ‘post-colonial catch-basins of violent empire’? A contextual theological appraisal of South Africa’s Integrated Urban Development Framework 
    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 ...
  • A hermeneutical-homiletic reading of Psalm 37 with reference to H.J.C. Pieterse's homiletics 
    Vos, C.J.A. (Casparus Johannes Adam), 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    In this article Psalm 37 is viewed hermeneutic-homiletically. The socio-historical context of Psalm 37 is considered. Furthermore, the structure of the Psalm receives attention, as does its posture. Particular emphasis is ...
  • ‘Housing’ as Christian social practice in African cities : centering the urban majority theologically 
    De Beer, Stephan F. (MDPI, 2023-08-07)
    Decent, affordable housing and secure housing tenure remain elusive for Africa’s urban majority. The urban majority is expected to live in self-help housing, reflected in the fact that 62% of African urban dwellers live ...
  • Informal community-based early childhood development as a focus for urban public theology in South Africa 
    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 ...
  • Inviting and initiating youth into a life of discipleship 
    Nel, Malan (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    The research question/problem with which this article deals is whether we have lost the radical nature of the faith community as disciples of Jesus and seekers of the Kingdom of God? In youth ministry children and adolescents ...
  • Jesus in the dumping sites : doing theology in the overlaps of human and material waste 
    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 ...
  • A language of hope from a homiletical perspective 
    Vos, C.J.A. (Casparus Johannes Adam), 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    The purpose of a sermon is to give hope when it appears that there is none. This hope must be like a light, breaking through the darkness. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's music is a transition from darkness to light. His music ...
  • Met 'n lied in die hart 
    Vos, C.J.A. (Casparus Johannes Adam), 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2001)
    Psalms are songs that have principal importance in Jewish and Christian traditions; in the Eastern Orthodox and Western churches; in the Roman Catholic tradition and numerous Reformed divisions. Contemplation on this rich ...
  • Neerslag van die metafoor : 'n voorlopige besinning 
    Vos, C.J.A. (Casparus Johannes Adam), 1945- (Teologiese Fakulteit, Universiteit van Stellenbosch, 2007-09)
    This article examines the theoretical basis and the hermeneutical processes which determine the appropriation of the metaphor in religious discourse. Throughout the twentieth century the influence of linguistic philosophy ...
  • Om die horison te verken : op soek na 'n eietydse homiletiese hermeneutiek 
    Vos, C.J.A. (Casparus Johannes Adam), 1945- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    In hierdie artikel word die hermeneutiese insigte van Paul Ricoeur vir die homiletiek ontsluit. Die hipotese is dat Ricoeur se hermeneutiek die homiletiek kan verryk. Die voorwaarde is egter dat Ricoeur se hermeneutiese ...
  • Practising chaordic beauty : on embracing strangers in one inner city faith community 
    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 ...
  • Precarious housing in the Salvokop neighbourhood : a challenge to churches in the inner City of Tshwane 
    Ntakirutimana, Ezekiel (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-11-23)
    This article describes the daunting challenge of precarious housing in Salvokop located in the southern part of inner City of Tshwane, Gauteng Province. Insecure tenure, unmaintained dwellings, overcrowding, mushrooming ...
  • Psalm 1 as liedteks - 'n literere en teologiese evaluering 
    Vos, C.J.A. (Casparus Johannes Adam), 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
    The publishing of the Liedboek (2001) emphasises the importance of the psalms for liturgy and hymnology. All 150 psalms in the Liedboek were versified by T T Cloete. In this article the structure and form of Psalm 1 is ...
  • The Psalms as hymns in a liturgical context 
    Vos, C.J.A. (Casparus Johannes Adam), 1945- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2009-03)
    In many ways, the psalms fulfil a bridging function between divergent denominations that previously avoided each other. In the Hebrew text of the Psalter, most of the psalms have specific titles. However, none of these ...
  • Reading Psalms, and other urban poems, in a fractured city 
    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 ...
  • A reflection on Vuyani Vellem's longing for liberation : a spirituality of life and freedom 
    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 ...
  • Responses to migration : tensions and ambiguities of churches in Pretoria Central and Mamelodi East 
    Renkin, Wayne (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-09-29)
    This article is a result of research being conducted to explore how churches in two regions of the City of Tshwane – Pretoria Central and Mamelodi East – respond to urban change and vulnerability. Both regions are deeply ...
  • Teologiese teoriee binne ervaringskategoriee 
    Vos, C.J.A. (Casparus Johannes Adam), 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1999)
    This article reflects the relationship between theological theories and categories of experience. Ways whereupon theological theories give access to categories of experience are looked at. A main aspect which is dealt with, ...