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Church History and Church Policy: Recent submissions
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2024-02)Traditionally, it is believed that God is all-powerful and omnipresent. Given the notion of divine omnipresence, why does it seem like God is absent amidst suffering? This paper presents a philosophical and theological ...
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(Wiley, 2023-11)The article explores how pivotal the kingdom of God has been and still is to the identity of the ecumenical movement. The discussion of the biblical vision of the kingdom, which is coming and yet is also present, offers a ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-10-23)The aim of this study was to critically analyse the role played by the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon (PCC) in addressing the political crisis in Cameroon from 1990 – 1992. This research sourced data from primary and ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2023-10-05)The broad aim of this study is to recognize the instances where dispensational concepts arose throughout church history in order to dispel the common belief that dispensationalism is a modern phenomenon. The research ...
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(AOSIS, 2023-03)It is a privilege to be invited to contribute to the Festschrift dedicated to Professor Johan Buitendag, Emeritus Dean, Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. While his own work often ...
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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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Women’s statement at the 1990 Rustenburg Church Conference : still an important voice from the past (AOSIS, 2022-11-21)The Rustenburg Conference of churches that took place in 1990 was a critical turning point for Christianity in South Africa. Besides the important declaration at the end of the conference, a statement was also made by the ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2023-06)This brief note explains the curious word “substomachans” in conf. 3.21 from the Manichaean background of both Monnica’s bishop and Augustine. Based on this explanation, the note proposes a new translation of the phrase ...
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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2022)Rev. Dr Andrew Murray Jr became a well-known theologian in the history of South Africa. He wrote many books and played a founding role in establishing the Huguenot College in Wellington in the Cape Colony. A lesser-known ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-09-27)Four case studies. Since the end of apartheid in South Africa, Afrikaner people have been faced with disentangling their culture from Afrikaner nationalism. This article argues that the transformation of the Afrikaner ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-08-25)Education in Africa is in a crisis. Some scholars go as far as to say that it is broken. This was also noted when the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, linked to the Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want, were ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-07-14)Many writers have sought to outline Wesley's conception of how human beings obtain revelational knowledge. In this regard, the use of what has been dubbed the Wesleyan quadrilateral continues to remain widespread in both ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2021)This article is a critique of Reformed Ecclesiology, particularly as regarding ministry and church polity. It is argued herein that a static ecclesiology results in church ministry that is seemingly deficient in responding ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2021)The untimely death of Mary-Anne Elizabeth Plaatjies-Van Huffel challenges everybody who knew her to reflect on her life and work. One of the outstanding attributes of Plaatjies-Van Huffel was the way in which she “lived” ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2021-08-27)The article presents the preliminary results of the author’s study of the unedited homily De transfiguratione et eleemosyna (CPG 5009; BHGn 1996t), ascribed to John Chrysostom. The question of the manuscript tradition ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2020)This article explores an emerging ecumenical church polity in Zambia from a church historical perspective. While church polity and church unity literature has acknowledged the role of church polity and church unity in ...
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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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(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)This article argues that “missional ecclesiology” in the last decades became a new mission paradigm for churches in South Africa, especially after the demise of apartheid. After an overview of the development of a “missio ...
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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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(AOSIS, 2021-06)The Rustenburg Church Conference took place in 1990, 30 years after the historic Cottesloe Church Consultation of 1960. Both these conferences had a huge influence on the history of the churches in South Africa. Thirty ...
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