• Defining Gnosticism after the publication of the Gospel of Judas 

  Jonker, Erastus (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015)

  With the recent publication of the Gospel of Judas in 2006, Gnostic Christianity was put back onto the agenda of Church History. Since the publication of the Gospel of Judas, the limi-ting of Gnostic studies by some kind ...
• Human freedom and the freedom of natural processes : on omnicausality, a-causality and God's omnipotence 

  Du Toit, C. W. (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)

  The article traces the development of causality in physical science and examines its functioning in theology, as well as its demand for a different approach to power, especially the omnipotence and omnicausality of God. ...
• On emergence and eschatology : something has to give ... 

  Veldsman, Danie, 1959- (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)

  Emergence and eschatology – and their connection - represent most probably two of the most difficult topics to explore within the current lively and intense ongoing science-religion dialogue. In this article the challenge ...
• Emergence as a challenge to the legacy of Christian dogmatics 

  Bentley, Wessel (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)

  In this article, the tension between the notions of emergence and Christian dogmatics is discussed. Christian dogmatics serves the function of grounding the Christian faith in its historic identity, guarding against ...
• Evolution and emergence : a paradigm shift for theology 

  Shutte, Augustine, 1938-2016 (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)

  Since the time of Darwin the conception of evolution has devel-oped beyond the boundaries of science to include philosophy and now theology in its scope. After noting the positive reception of the evolutionary idea by ...
• Emergence and new concepts of God : examples from the Old Testament 

  Gericke, Jaco (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)

  In this article, the author looks at “emergence” in the context of new concepts of God in the Old Testament. Within biblical scholarship, various types of emergence are alluded to in various methodological reductions, ...
• Emergence and culture : implications for Africa 

  Tshehla, Sam (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)

  “What if Africa were to become the hub for global science?” is the title of a recent BBC News report. It is inspired by “real, serious scientific work ... taking place now in sub-Saharan Africa,” which raises the question ...
• Emergence as cornerstone in understanding evolution : examples from zoology 

  Durand, Francois (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)

  Science is the way in which humankind explore and understand the physical universe. The biological sciences and especially the zoological sciences provide us with an understanding of ourselves – how we function, how ...
• New spirituality as an example of emergence in Christian religion 

  Jacobs, Jeremy (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)

  Evolutionary theory and its accretion into various theories of emergence, particularly in brain and consciousness studies, are placing increasing pressure on religion’s maintenance of Essentialist or dual-substance ...
• Dealing with emergence and complexity in the humanities 

  Van Niekerk, Petro (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)

  This paper aims to explore relevant emergence metaphors with a view to apply these to the humanities in general and to education and schooling in particular. I firstly unpacked the grammar of emergence, by explaining a ...
• Emergence and the human genome 

  Gericke, G. S. (George S.) (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)

  The (human) genome functions as an open system within human nutritional, economic, cultural, intellectual and emotional contexts. Of profound importance is the extent of free will that emerged with our cognitive ...
• Cul-de-sac of causal thinking : challenge to build a a-causal theology 

  Du Toit, C. W. (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)

  The nascent concept of emergence is not only a plausible model of the course of natural and biological processes, but also of developments at an interpersonal and social level. In order to apply it to theology I propose ...
• Physics and emergence 

  Tonsing, Detlev (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)

  This paper does three things: It distinguishes between weak and strong emergence; It sketches arguments proposed against strong emergence, and adumbrates a counter; It sketches the physical characteristics that strongly ...
• Engagement with Gabriel Molehe Setiloane's Motho ke Modimo theological discourse: what become key lessons learnt? 

  Masoga, Mogomme Alpheus (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2012-10)
• The shared resources of rational agents : Van Huyssteen's postfoundationalist facilitation of interdisciplinarity 

  Loubser, Gys M. (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2012-10)
• Keys to life : developments from Schrodinger to Kauffman and Ward 

  Du Toit, C. W. (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2012-10)
• Fundamentalism, biblicism, creationism and intelligent design in the global context with reference to South Africa 

  Narain, Errol (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2012-10)
• The problem of reality in the religion-science conversation : an African-Christian contribution 

  Bentley, Wessel (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2012-10)
• A scientific defence of religion and the religious accommodation of science? : contextual challenges and paradoxes 

  Du Toit, C. W. (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2012-10)
• Science and religion : a historical introduction to supposedly conflicting worldviews 

  Pretorius, Mark (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2012-10)

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