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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Language has been instrumental for the political, economic and cultural participation of a particular nation or tribe. The danger that comes with undermining or marginalising a particular language is that it might destroy ...
Is the financial dependence of poorer black churches in South Africa compromising their
theological message? Are black ministers diluting their sometimes critical views of
so- called ‘white mother or sister churches’ ...
A serious issue, that needs to be addressed if we wish to achieve moral regeneration in South Africa, is the devaluation of the institution of marriage in the African community in South Africa. Attempts to inculcate the ...
In South Africa and other countries, there has for many years been a plea for moral regeneration. Moral decay is fast taking over, while sickness, poverty, crime, violence and other calamities are rapidly engulfing our ...
There is enough evidence that while listening to the preaching and messages of most Pentecostal preachers or watching them on some free television channels today, the emphasis is on freeing people from the oppression of ...
There is enough evidence that while listening to the preaching and messages of most Pentecostal preachers or watching them on some free television channels today, the
emphasis is on freeing people from the oppression of ...
Polygamy is a phenomenon often associated with African people. In almost all African societies, polygamy is an acceptable and valid form of marriage - in fact, monogamy has been associated with people of lower social status. ...
Baloyi, Elijah(Published under the Creative Commons Atribution License, 2016-10-31)
Besides the fact that sexual relationships have been understood and misunderstood in different ways, the possibility of sexual abuse remains a big issue amongst African South Africans. It has been sexual relationships, ...
In our society the norm is that every adult should get married one day. This could imply that unmarried people do not feel welcome either in the community or the church. They may feel neglected or even like outcasts. It ...
One of the pressing issues in present-day South Africa is reconciliation and unification of South Africans across the divides along racial lines that were created during apartheid. Although apartheid was abolished more ...
While for Mbiti" death takes life while marriage creates life, another African proverb says “A
man without a wife is like a vase without flowers”. This articulation puts marriage not only at
the centre of human life, but ...