Browsing School of Humanities by Author "Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus"

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Beautiful Places and Recreating Humanity in South Africa

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (University of Free State, 2020-11-30)

The article investigates the connection between beauty and justice, by exploring everyday aesthetics through ordinary life, specifically the very concrete reality of contemporary urban South Africa. On the one hand, it ...
Beyers Naudé (1966–1977): Between Western ideals and black leadership

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus; Van Wyngaard, Cobus (GJ) (Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)

This article examines public lectures of Beyers Naudé from 1966 until his banning in 1977, tracing on the one hand his critique on apartheid shortly before his engagement with black consciousness, and then his reception ...
The church as alternative community and the struggle for liberation in the work of David Bosch

van Wyngaard, Cobus (NGTT, 2013-12)

The church as alternative community remains a key aspect in understanding the work of David Bosch, while some of the most important critique of his work emerged from liberation theology. By exploring Bosch’s use of the ...
Conceptual considerations for studying churches’ engagement with urban fractures and vulnerabilities

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (AOSIS, 2017-11-27)

This article provides an overview of conceptual considerations underpinning the design of a research project on religious innovation and competition amidst urban social change. The conceptual work developed out of the ...
Doing Liberation Theology in South Africa

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (2023)
A Kind of Social Theology for the Sake of Humanity: A Theological Reflection on Metamodernism

Singata, Silakhe; Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (Brill, 2023-12-20)

In this contribution to a review symposium on Jason Storm’s book, Metamodernism, Silakhe Singata and Cobus van Wyngaard explore key aspects of Storm’s proposal on the future of studies in the humanities, relate these ...
The language of “diversity” in reconstructing whiteness in the Dutch Reformed Church

van Wyngaard, Cobus (2012-08-13)

The paper will seek to evaluate talk of ’diversity‘ in the white Dutch Reformed Church. Drawing on official work within the church as well as online forums where members participated in discussing this topic, the language ...
A Next Generation? Young Dutch Reformed Church Ministers and Their Vision for the Church in South Africa

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (University of Free State, 2020-12-23)

For the foreseeable future, the Dutch Reformed Church will be remembered for its role in the theological justification of apartheid and spiritual support for the leaders driving this political process. Questions on the ...
The (Non) acceptance of Belhar in the Dutch Reformed Church: Analysing Synodical Debates of 2011 and 2013

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (Unisa Press, 2019)

This article analyses the open session debates on the Belhar Confession at the 2011 and 2013 General Synod meetings of the Dutch Reformed Church. It identifies six key themes that repeatedly emerge from arguments made by ...
The other side of whiteness: The Dutch Reformed Church and the search for a theology of racial reconciliation in the afterlife of apartheid

VAN DER RIET, RYNO LOUIS; Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2021)

This article will provide an overview and analysis of developments in the Dutch Reformed Church’s (DRC) General Synod concerning race, racism, and racial reconciliation from 1986 until 2019. It seeks to extend the multiple ...
Plurality in the Theological Struggle against Apartheid

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (Brill, 2019)

The church struggle against apartheid remains a key case study in ecumenical public theology, with particular relevance for the Reformed tradition. The importance of Christian theology in both the justification of and ...
Post-Apartheid Whiteness and the Challenge of Youth Ministry in the Dutch Reformed Church

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (Brill. All rights reserved., 2011-11-01)

This article seeks to draw from postcolonial missiology and critical perspectives on whiteness in identifying the continuing challenges concerning racialised whiteness facing youth ministry within the Dutch Reformed Church ...
The public role of the Christian community in the work of David Bosch

van Wyngaard, Cobus (Missionalia, 2011-04)

The article is a response to a recent claim by William Storrar that Bosch’s paradigm of mission can be named a public paradigm of mission, and that the creative tensionbetween the elements of Bosch’s emerging paradigm of ...
Race-cognisant public theology in contemporary South Africa: tentative thoughts from a privileged location

van Wyngaard, Cobus (2012-03-26)
Responding to the challenge of Black Theology: Liberating Ministry to the White Community – 1988–1990

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (AOSIS, 2016-08-05)

This article provides an initial overview of the Institute for Contextual Theology’s 1988–1990 project on A Liberating Ministry to the White Community, particularly exploring the main themes that emerged from national ...
The theological anthropology of Simon Maimela: democratizing power and being human in relationship

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (AOSIS, 2017-04-28)

The lacuna around race in (white) Christian theological anthropology has often been pointed out. The canon of academic systematic theology seldom reflects on the implication of modern race and racism for our theological ...
Theology from the Suburbs: The Challenge of Life for the City as a Whole

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus; Louw, Marius (Brill, 2023-12-22)

This article seeks to interrogate critically and problematize the silence on the suburb in urban theology: in the process the article seeks to illustrate the importance of the suburb through examining it considering the ...
WhatsApp: 'Going Where the Conversation Is'

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus; Strachan, Jakkie; Hülsmann, Thomas (European Distance and E-Learning Network and the Authors, 2016)

UNISA (University of South Africa), like other big correspondence institutions, tries to make better use of the interactive capabilities of digital technology. Like other distance teaching institutions UNISA found that ...
White Christians Crossing Borders: Between Perpetuation and Transformation

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (Inter-disciplinary Press, 2014)

‘Crossing borders’ is an important metaphor in Christian theology. While it has been expanded upon in numerous contexts, one of the primary spheres in which we have found theological reflection on the metaphor and Christian ...
White theology in dialogue with Black Theology: Exploring the contribution of Klippies Kritzinger

Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (AOSIS, 2016-05-30)

This article explores the contribution of South African missiologist and theologian Klippies Kritzinger to a critical and anti-racist white theology. It analyses his academic work in response to Black Consciousness and ...

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