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The functioning of the Bible in Protestant mission

Kritzinger, J. N. J. (Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus), 1950- (2003)

To show now the Bible functions in the praxis of Protestant missions this paper uses a framework that expresses the key dimensions of mission praxis: a) the mission method or strategy employed; b) the agents carrying it ...
Diversity in a multicultural and polyethnic world : challenges and responses

Du Toit, C. W. (Verbum et Ecclesia, 2004)

Today’s world is characterised by multiculturalism. The diversity of cultures and conflicting ethnic groups sharing the same territory pose a threat to both local and world peace. We have come to the end of the ‘nation’ ...
The Kingdom of God in Moltmann's eschatology

Bentley, Wessel (Nederduits Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif, 2005)

This article focuses on Jürgen Moltmann’s understanding of the notion of the Kingdom of God as formulated in his eschatology. The Kingdom of God is understood in many different ways in the Christian faith. Some understandings ...
Karl Barth's definition of church in politics and culture : growth points for the church in South Africa

Bentley, Wessel (Hervormde Teologiese Studies, 2007-11)

The article describes briefly Karl Barth’s views on church, its role in politics and how it relates to culture. This is done by identifying the way in which the church participates in the social realm through its ...
Faith to faith : missiology as encounterology

Kritzinger, J. N. J. (Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus), 1950- (2008)

This article responds to a book edited by Prof PGJ Meiring in 1996 on the religions of South Africa. It appreciates the integration between the fields of Religious Studies and Theology of Religions in the book, but suggests ...
Karl Barth’s understanding of mission : the Church in relationship

Bentley, Wessel (OpenJournals Publishers, 2009)

As the Church is moving towards its 21st century of existence, it is confronted by challenges it has never known before. This changing world demands self-reflection within the Church. It has to consider its place, identity ...
Karl Barth's understanding of mission : the Church in relationship

Bentley, Wessel (Verbum et Ecclesia, 2009)

As the Church is moving towards its 21 st century of existence, it is confronted by challenges it has never known before. This changing world demands self-reflection within the Church. It has to consider its place, ...
An immanent approach to death : theological implications of a secular view

Du Toit, C. W. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)

The thesis of this article is that contemporary people are increasingly ousting death from their consciousness and focussing instead on the complexities of life in a context of horizontal transcendence. This replaces the ...
Towards a new natural theology based on horizontal transcendence

Du Toit, C. W. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)

This article explores a context for designing a new natural theology. The starting point is that traditional developments in this regard, from Augustine to Aquinas, Paley, Boyle and Barth, do not get us much further. Our ...
The formation of Christian leaders : a Wesleyan approach

Bentley, Wessel (Koers, 2010)

The problem of leadership is that it is defined according to a very narrow understanding. It postulates that all people can be divided into two categories. People are either leaders or followers. This article explores ...
Immanent transcendent angles on a Post-reformation theology

Du Toit, Cornel W. (Brill, 2010)

The article offers examples of a post-Reformation theology which could be described as postmodern, post-metaphysical, anti-fundamentalist, immanent transcendent, corporeal, narrative, holistic and secularly spiritual. ...
Structural transformation and democratic public spaces : reflections on Habermas and the 2014 Tshwane State of the Capital City Address

Bentley, Wessel (Hervormde Teologiese Tydskrif, 2010)

Judging by the immense global academic interaction with his work, Jürgen Habermas’s social theory, with particular reference to structural transformation of the public sphere and democracy, is one of the most constructive ...
The reconciliatory role of Holy Communion in the Methodist tradition

Bentley, Wessel (Verbum et Ecclesia, 2011)

Violence is an instrument of segregation, whether it manifests physically, emotionally, verbally or by any other means. Can the church be an instrument of reconciliation where people have been divided through violence? ...
Mission as ... must we choose?

Kritzinger, J. N. J. (Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus), 1950- (2011)

This paper explores three approaches to the theology of mission that use the phrase “mission as …” to descr be the basic nature of (or indicate the diversity within) the encompassing mission of God. The views analysed ...
Shifting frontiers of transcendence in theology, philosophy and science

Du Toit, C. W. (2011-06-07)

This article dealt cursorily with developments in theology, philosophy and the sciences that have contributed to what one might call horizontal transcendence. The premise is that humans have evolved into beings that are ...
Self-transcendence and eros : the human condition between desire and the infinite

Du Toit, Cornel W. (2011-07-12)

This article treats self-transcendence – like all transcendence – as a fact of human life. Inter alia this means that the human mind perforce operates in terms of binary concepts such as finitude–infinity, inner world–outside ...
Horseshoes, angels and other UFOs : rethinking faith in light of present-day superstitions

Du Toit, C. W. (2011-09-08)

The monotheistic religions see God as the author of human faith. Faith comes ‘from above’ and as such is unnatural or supernatural. The faith of pagans, by contrast, is regarded as superstition and hence natural (Rm 1). ...
Overcoming theological voicelessness in the new millennium

Kritzinger, J. N. J. (Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus), 1950- (2012)

This opening paper of the Voicelessness conference in October 2011 gives an introduction to the theme. After tracing the semantic fields in which “voicelessness” is used, the paper develops a “phenomenology” of the ...
A decade of the same-sex debate in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (2001-2011)

Bentley, Wessel (Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 2012-08)

The conversation on same-sex relationships in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) has been a long and emotional one. For ten years, this denomination, amongst others, has struggled to define its own position ...
Is love enough? : towards a Theological ethic of nonviolence in South Africa

Bentley, Wessel (The Theological Journal for Southern Africa, 2012-11)

The great majority of the South African population profess to belong to the Christian faith and, as everybody knows, Christianity has as its basis the teaching of love of God and of one’s neighbour. Yet, it is in this ...

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