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Browsing Church History and Church Policy by Title
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Kruger, Pieter
(AOSIS, 2022-03-30)
The Dutch Reformed Church (DR Church) proclaimed the Year of
Hope in 2001 as part of the church’s response to complex social problems regarding poverty
and factors affecting reconciliation and morality within the South ...
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Duncan, Graham A.
(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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Womack, Jonathan Michael
(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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Pillay, Jerry
(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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Nthali, Micah Mhlupheki
(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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Monhla, Elias M.
(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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Kruger, Pieter
(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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Cannon, Jeffrey Grant
(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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Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim)
(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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Morris-Chapman, Daniel John Pratt
(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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Soderberg, Gregory David
(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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Van Oort, Johannes (Hans)
(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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Pillay, Jerry; Gunda, Masiiwa Ragies
(Wiley, 2024-07)
This article explores the efforts of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in combating racism and discrimination, emphasizing the importance of anti-racism rather than non-racism. The article underlines the intersection of ...
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Pillay, Jerry
(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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Labuschagne, Jacobus P. (Kobus)
(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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Womack, Jonathan
(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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Pillay, Jerry; Greyling, Machiel
(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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Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys)
(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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Losch, Andreas
(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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Fourie, Carl Krige
(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, ...