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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)This paper traces the development in terms of its heritage and legacy of a Reformed Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa, from its beginnings in the Scottish Mission, to the present. It notes the oppressive role of ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2019)This research has focused on the history of ministerial formation in the Uniting Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa (UPCSA) and the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA). This history falls within a focus ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-11-19)The Accra Confession was formulated and adopted by the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in Accra, Ghana, in 2004. This article traces the historical development of the Accra Confession and its continued impact on the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023)South Africa has been characterised by affliction of colonialism, apartheid and the failure to love other races, a Christian country which oppressed and forced blacks to embrace western style of life imparted by the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)Since the advent of the Christian faith in Africa in general and in South Africa in particular, there has been tension in the Christian of African descent. This tension is fuelled in my belief by the fact that the Christian ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)During the past nearly 30 years the epochs of democratisation and globalisation became intertwined with the South African society, determining its spirit of the age. The democratisation of South African since 1994 has ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2015)This dissertation explores the utility of employing Afrikaner concepts of the biblical covenant between God and His people as a paradigm for understanding Afrikaner history in the Cape Colony, especially in relation to the ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-11-02)The church grew rapidly during the first centuries. The question is: Why? Generations of scholars approached this question from different perspectives and with different methods. Historical research, analysis of early ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-09-30)The last 3 years have witnessed a period of substantial volatility in Cameroon. In 2016, protests within the minority Anglophone regions against the obligatory use of French in schools triggered a period of considerable ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2007-07-23)This thesis in Church History examines the changing attitudes of Protestants toward Church History. The primary evidence surveyed is statements within major Protestant confessions, as well as the views of selected Reformers. ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2016)The article focuses on a neglected passage in Cyril of Jerusalem's Catechesis VI in which he speaks of the curious Manichaean 'ceremony of the fig'. After providing the Greek text and a fresh translation of Cat. VI,33, an ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-18)I first attempt to draw a comparison between the Israel-Palestine conflict and the South African experience of apartheid. Drawing on other established sources and personal experience, I conclude that, while there may be ...
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Apostoliese tradisie in die Vroeë Kerk se verstaan van skrif en geloof – ʼn kort hermeneutiese oorsig (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-07-31)This study is a concise hermeneutical overview of faith’s various ways of understanding and of the different approaches towards Scripture interpretation in the history of the Early Church. The research manifests that ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2018)This work, inspired by the concept of the Pastor-Theologian, explores the correlation between academic theology and the local church in contemporary South Africa and the person of John Calvin. It is motivated by the ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2018)A movement, known as the Restoration Movement, developed on the early American frontier (19th century) to unite the various denominations that followed migrants from Europe and to bring them back to the ideals of the ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)This contribution gives an overview of how four of the important reformed churches in South Africa responded to the challenge of poverty from 1994 to 2019. Following an introduction, the first part of the chapter defines ...
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(Wiley, 2021-03)Adam Pryor's fresh understanding of the imago Dei as a refraction of the Divine is much needed in an age of science and climate change. Well informed by astrobiological insights, his approach presents what I would call a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 1997)Sedert die vestiging van die kerk aan die suidpunt van Afrika, het die gereformeerde godsdiens 'n belangrike deel uitgemaak van die Suid-Afrikaanse kerkgeskiedenis. Deur die toedoen van predikante soos ds. Andrew Murray, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2008-08-05)The constitution of ELCSA was adopted in the constitutional assembly held on 15 to 19 December 1975 at Rustenburg, Tlhabane. The constitution of South Africa was adopted on 08 May 1996 and amended on 11 October 1996 by the ...
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Augustine and Hermes Trismegistus : an inquiry into the spirituality of Augustine’s ‘hidden years’ (Routledge, 2016-12)This paper draws attention to the possible role of Hermetic writings in the spiritual development of Augustine (354–430). It first places his knowledge of Hermetica within the context of both ‘orthodox’ African Christianity ...
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