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Skrif en Kerk Volume 17 Issue 2 (1996)
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)David Tracy claims that the contemporary emergence of a sociological imagination is as crucial for theological self-consciousness as the earlier rise of historical consciousness among theologians. The authors are of ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)Psalm 47: Particularism and universalism. Jahwe is our king and king of all the earth: In this article, Psalm 47 is considered from a text immanent perspective and particular attention is given to the morphological, ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)Political power, the Old Testament and church unity: The family of Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa are involved in tense discussions on church unity. One aspect which must be discussed thoroughly is the ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)This article consists of three parts. In the first part a story is told of Johan Heyns and some of the men who shared with him the final year of theological training at the University of Pretoria in 1951. In the second ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)The historical survey about discipleship in the Fourth Gospel indicates that the literature of the second half of this century was sketchy about this theme. Up till 1972 a thematic-theological approach highlighted ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)Quenching my thirst for God: On Johann Wilhelm Herrmann's understanding of the experience of God:This article, which is divided into two parts, focusses on the concept of the "experience of God" as understood by the German ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)Can we accept the Confession of Belhar (1986) as a new doctrinal confession? The possibility exists that the Dutch Refonned Church (DRC) could stop the process of church unity in its own family due to its refusal to ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)In this article the tendency to interpret John 21:24-25 narratologically as a highly sophisticated and effective technique is disputed. Instead it is argued that the Beloved Disciple is identified in these verses as the ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)In this article the need for a clearer focus on the history, principles and practice of church polity in the process of church re-unification is addressed. This is specifically focused on the process currently under way ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)This article investigates the question whether theology as an academic discipline should be accommodated at state universities. This question proves to be determined by a complex constellation of historical, philosophical, ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)Some of the fundamental differences between two economic systems which, by and large, have come into conflict with one another in Africa south of the Sahara are analised, i.e. traditional African economies and western, ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)Lament psalms of the individual that reflect a motif of violence are here examined so as to determine whether or not the editors of the Psalter had a pattern of instruction that they wished to inculcate with respect to ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)The parents of Samson, Manoah and his wife, play an important literary and theological role not only in Judges 13 where they act as main characters, but also in the rest of the saga where they occur in a diminishing role. ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)The dramatic increase in the Jewish population towards the end of the Second Temple period has prompted the theory that Judaism at that stage was an energetic missionary religion. But this phenomenon should rather be ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1996)The three parables in Matthew 24:45-25:30 are usually read as advice to the church on how to behave while waiting for the return of the Lord. An alternative reading is proposed in this article: Matthew discusses the ...