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Browsing Verbum et Ecclesia Volume 25 Issue 2 (2004) by Issue Date
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)This article argues that the development of missions in South Africa could be directly linked to the founding of Bible Society work in South Africa. The article focuses on the development of missions and how the availability ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)Ancestor worship is a dilemma for Christian communities in Korea and Africa, who have difficulty adapting Western theology to their Third World cultures. Allan Culpepper calls ancestor worship a cultural phenomenon, not a ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)HIV / AIDS poses an enormous challenge for the Christian church in Africa. Though many congregations engage in practical social programmes addressing the medical and social problems related to HIV / AIDS often there is no ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)In this article preaching and the personality of the preacher are considered as being dialectically related to one other. Preaching, particularly, is the act of the preacher that makes the words meaningful. It seems that ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)This article was motivated by two of the major challenges which I believe congregations are facing within the context of ministry, namely postmodernity and globalization. After seeking a fuller description of these two ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)In ecclecial circles it is a commonplace to say that the profession of the pastor is under pressure. Pastors know that and congregations know that. Knowing it in itself does not change much. However change starts with ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)The article's departing point is the conviction that contemporary micro-biology and gene-technology have confronted Christian ethics with a reality for which it is not sufficiently equipped. The whole debate on human cloning ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)Practical theology as a discipline has struggled historically in the gaps between theory and practice, academy and church. A recognized scholar recently urged pursuit of "a full-fledged action theory" with a "perspective ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)The author who served on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) focuses on the Jewish experience in South Africa during the apartheid years. At a special TRC Hearing for Faith Communities (East London, ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)The publishing of the Liedboek (2001) emphasizes the importance of the psalms for liturgy and hymnology. All 150 psalms in the Liedboek were versified by T T Cloete. In this article Psalm 2 is analysed from different ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)The paper explores the possibility of a Reformed missional response to the present moment in Southern Africa. The basic thesis is that two of the Reformed tenets - theo-centrism and intellectual reflection as part of a ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)Balthasar Hubmaier strives to restore the Urgemeinde as originally recorded in the book of Acts. He founded a congregation which consisted only of believers. The sacrament of baptism is exclusively intended for believers, ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)This paper endeavours to analyse Psalm 79 as a poetic composition and an ideological document. From the analysis, it seems that the psalm primarily served a Judaean community of believers as a means of coping with their ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)St. Francis' views on religious life, as explained in a previous article in this journal, had its foundations in a well-founded theology of compassionate ministry. This origin of all compassion according to St. Francis is ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)This article defends the rational nature of the religious experience of Transcendence. This is done by replacing the notion of the intentionality of experience advocated in Husserl's phenomenology by that of the trans- ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)This article deals especially with Psalm 2* and Psalm 18* and they are understood against a neo-Assyrian context. During the latter part of the eight and the first half of the seventh century the neo-Assyrian power was ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)Today's world is characterised by multiculturalism. The diversity of cultures and conflicting ethnic groups sharing the same territory pose a threat to both local and world peace. We have come to the end of the 'nation' ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)This article reflects on the contribution that can be made to the interpretation of the Bible by employing the analytical psychology of Carl Jung. After some relevant biographical considerations on Jung, his view of religion ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)This article examines a brief statement made by Patrick D Miller in his commentary on Deuteronomy, namely that scholars quite likely have missed the most important Old Testament passage relating to the kind of kingship ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)This article is an attempt to open up a new perspective on the crisis of christianity and church in the context of Western Europe, especially The Netherlands. Since half a century the secularisation paradigm has been the ...
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