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Browsing by UP Author "Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht"
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-09-28)This article is part of a research project, Conversations after God. The focus of this article is to reflect on the theory and methodology of practical theology in a post-metaphysical (After God) context. It will be ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-04-30)The novel coronavirus – officially named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), causing a disease (Covid-19) which has flu-like symptoms – seems to be responsible for the current global lockdown ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (OpenJournals, 2009)This article is a response to the challenge of global citizenship in an age of global crisis. Citizenship has to do with where one feels ‘at home’, namely the space that gives identity and life. What kind of narrative is ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-01-16)This article sought to respond to Wessel Stoker's interpretation of transcendence, specifically his last type: transcendence as alterity. It explored the possibilities of this last type as it moves beyond categories, proper ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)Within Postmodernity we are facing tremendous ethical challenges while upholding a strong sense of freedom. In this essay I argue that this freedom is often still interpreted within a modern paradigm as an essential freedom ...
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Apostolides, Anastasia; Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11-29)Like some fantasies (including Lord of the rings and the Chronicles of Narnia), the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling makes a social comment on a particular dominant discourse within a particular sociocultural context. ...
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Meletiou, Crystal; Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-03-25)Throughout the ages, menstruation and menopause have posed unique challenges in the life of women. In Biblical times, much was said about the impurity of a menstruating woman. In the past century, however, the focus ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-10-06)If one presumes that we are today living in the anthropocene, how does this challenge the doing of public theology? What is the calling of a public theologian in the anthropocene? To be able to answer these questions, ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-07-06)This article seeks to respond to the challenge of doing theology in multi-world contexts, by understanding how these multiple worlds appear. Understanding the role of power in the appearance of these different worlds ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2019)This chapter, in honour of Johan Cilliers, will not seek to engage his extensive oeuvre, but rather focus on a single text (2011), Fides Quaerens pulchrum: Practical theological perspectives on the desire for beauty, ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)The concept of empire has re-emerged as one useful to interpret and describe the joining of dominant global themes that together construct a global homogeneous totality. Some of the main themes of this totality are: ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-09-04)The article will focus on the role of faith in postfoundational epistemology and the extent to which our knowledge constructions are only possible in a context of faith. One inherits a language, a house of being, and ...
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Matsveru, Florence; Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-08-08)This article is based on a PhD study entitled: ‘Wellbeing and work performance of Christians in managerial positions: A Namibian case study’. The main aim of the study was to find out if there is a correlation between ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-10-25)A very simplified description of physics could be, according to Wikipedia, natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion and behaviour through space and time. In relation to this simplified description ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-12-04)The diverse and divided South African context of post 1994 is the context in which the texts of reality are read (knowledge is created and reality is interpreted). This particular diverse and pluralistic reading with and ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-05-12)Fossils and tombs in museums fascinate us and haunt us with their secrets. The discovery of the remains of Homo naledi, found, as argued by some, in an ancient burial chamber, promises to reveal secrets of an unremembered ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (University of South Africa, Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, 2018)The Communist Manifesto begins with the words, ‘A spectre is haunting Europe – a spectre of Communism’. Maybe with the death of the father of Black Theology one could argue that a spectre of Black Theology is haunting ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-04-05)This article proposes that South Africa, as multi-lingual country, has unique potential and that this potential is not to be found in some or other essence of what it means to be African, but in the daily struggles, ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-10)The grand narratives have all but gone – what is left are numerous narratives, each addressing a certain aspect of our lives; there is a different narrative for our professional lives, another for our family lives, for ...
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Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-10-24)The article will bring a reading of Agamben’s interpretation of horkos [oath] in the Sacrament of language, a reading of Derrida’s faith as the grammar of language, into conversation with Lacan’s interpretation of Poe’s ...
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