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Rethinking the message of the church in the 21st century: An amalgamation between science and religion

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dc.contributor.author Van der Merwe, D.G.
dc.date.accessioned 2019-11-28T08:46:35Z
dc.date.available 2019-11-28T08:46:35Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Van der Merwe, D.G., Rethinking the message of the church in the 21st century: An amalgamation between science and religion, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 75(4), a5472 en
dc.identifier.issn 2072-8053
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.7832/43-2-71
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26061
dc.description.abstract Throughout its history, Christianity has stood in a dichotomous relation to the various philosophical movements or eras (pre-modernism, modernism, postmodernism and post-postmodernism) that took on different faces throughout history. In each period, it was the sciences that influenced, to a great extent, the interpretation and understanding of the Bible. Christianity, however, was not immune to influences, specifically those of the Western world. This essay reflects briefly on this dichotomy and the influence of Bultmann’s demythologising of the kerygma during the 20th century. Also, the remythologising (Vanhoozer) of the church’s message as proposed for the 21st century no more satisfies the critical Christian thinkers. The relationship between science and religion is revisited, albeit from a different perspective as established over the past two decades as to how the sciences have been pointed out more and more to complement theology. This article endeavours to evoke the church to consider the fundamental contributions of the sciences and how it is going to incorporate the sciences into its theological training and message to the world. en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher AOSIS en
dc.subject Dialectic en
dc.subject Sciences en
dc.subject Theology en
dc.subject Demythologising en
dc.subject Remythologising en
dc.title Rethinking the message of the church in the 21st century: An amalgamation between science and religion en
dc.type Article en
dc.description.department Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology en


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