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Browsing Research Articles (Dogmatics and Christian Ethics) by Type "Postprint Article"
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Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack
(Wiley, 2015-07)
The original sin of capitalism is its relationship with racism, a repugnant expression of White
supremacy, therefore to engage the metaphysics of neoliberal economics one must have to
confront the symbiotic relationship ...
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Fourie, Willem
(Brill, 2012-03)
This article reflects on the relationship between public theology and the state. It suggests that a state-centric paradigm plays a significant role in the self-understanding and practice of public theology, and that ...
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Fourie, Willem; Meyer-Magister, Hendrik
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017)
Contextuality and intercontextuality remain important themes in the burgeoning field of public theology. The authors employ a comparative and descriptive approach to contribute to this complex of themes. It is done by ...
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Mushambi, Dambudzo Darlington; Van Wyk, Tanya
(Routledge, 2025)
Mamdani posits that the nation-state, an institution inextricably linked to violence and exclusion, creates and politicizes racial and tribal identities, inscribing some as permanent majorities and others as minorities ...
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Kroesbergen, Hermen
(Springer, 2022-08)
In this article, a novel Wittgensteinian approach to philosophy of religion is presented which uses autobiographical exposition as a way of clarifying religious concepts. After analyzing what Wittgenstein is trying to ...
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Simut, Corneliu Cristian
(Sage, 2019-01)
In December 1989, Communism died in Romania—if not as mentality, it surely met its demise as a political system which had dominated almost every aspect of life in the country for over four decades. Thus, at least in theory, ...
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Kuzituka Did’ho, Jean-Marie
(Routledge, 2021)
The improvised speech of Patrice Emery Lumumba on June 30, 1960, the day the Democratic Republic of Congo gained its independence from Belgium, was criticised by Western media as being unwise and ungrateful towards the ...
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Boesak, Allan Aubrey
(Routledge, 2020-11)
There is an upsurge of renewed interest in South Africa in Black Consciousness, Black theology and consequently in the work of Steven Bantu Biko who remains a central figure for a movement that now seems to inspire a new ...
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Murray, Montagu; Pauw, Christiaan Johannes
(Inderscience, 2022-10)
This article describes the development and application of an original
quality-of-life assessment tool. Part 1 reflects on how the practical challenges
the Nova Institute faces working in the low-income context in South ...
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Simut, Corneliu Cristian; Buitendag, Johan
(Sage, 2015-07)
For the most part, contemporary Romanian Orthodox spirituality is still heavily based on a rhetoric which builds on the notion of ancestry with the intention not only to provide Romanians with a safe comfort zone, but also ...
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Morariu, Iuliu-Marius
(Wiley, 2019-01)
This article examines the contribution to ecumenical dialogue of Ion Bria, an important Romanian theological and ecumenical personality. The value of his approaches is demonstrated by the fact that many contemporary authors ...
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Veldsman, D.P. (Daniel Petrus), 1959-
(Wiley, 2021-12)
In critical self-reflection from an African context on the pandemic, COVID-19 is first semantically re-baptized as Christianity-On-Verges: Inciting Discussion, with a subsequent discussion in broad outlines of the thematic ...
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Kroesbergen, Hermen
(Springer, 2015-04)
Can a contemplative philosopher describe a particular religious practice as
superstitious, or is he thereby overstepping his boundaries? I will discuss the way in
which theWittgensteinian philosopher of religion D. Z. ...
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Van den Brom, Luco J.
(Routledge, 2016-10)
Grube proposes a framework for respectful dealing with different religions: ‘justified
religious difference. The author comments on the epistemic setting of Grube’s thesis. It
testifies a cognitive approach to religious ...
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Fourie, Willem; Hohne, Florian
(Sage, 2019-02)
Leaders whose mistakes are made public are often under pressure to relinquish their positions. The expectation that true leaders should be infallible is particularly pronounced in transformational leadership theory. Its ...
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Delport, Khegan M.
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2023-12)
The modernity of the West has generally tended to construct the relation between magic and religion according to a developmentalist schema, chiefly as a movement from the primitive to the modern, from superstition to ...
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Simut, Corneliu Cristian
(Sage, 2016-10)
Vito Mancuso is an Italian theologian and philosopher of religion, who deflects from traditional Catholic
theology with the intention to draft a new perspective on how theology should be understood, not only
in the academy ...