Research Outputs (Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology): Recent submissions

  • Suid-Afrikaanse Calvinisme onder die loep 
    Oliver, Erna (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2009)
    An investigation regarding South African Calvinism The five hundred year anniversary (quincentenary) of the birth of Calvin provides a unique opportunity for those South Africans who see themselves as Calvinists to take ...
  • South Africa : from Calvinistic exclusivism to religious freedom 1652-2008 
    Oliver, Erna (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2008)
    Although South Africa was never officially a Christian country, Calvinistic Christianity has been the dominant religion since the European settlement. The three hundred and fifty years since Christianity was officially ...
  • Vrouepredikante in die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika : 'n opdraande stryd 
    Oliver, Erna (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)
    More than 30 years have passed since the Nederduitsch Hervormde Church, the second largest of the three traditional Afrikaans-speaking sister churches, opened the door for women to become ministers. Statistics are used ...
  • The Manyano movement within the Methodist Church of Southern Africa : an expression of freedom of worship (1844-1944) 
    Madise, M. J. S. (Mokhele Johannes Singleton); Lebeloane, Lazarus Donald Mokula, 1961- (Church History Society of South Africa, 2008)
    The arrival of the Methodist/Wesleyan mission and missionaries in Africa heralded a religious stringency that did not afford the indigenous people religious freedom. In response, a number of movements were formed from ...
  • Of serpents, reeds, understanding, and turns : some perspectives on implied apologetics and Pentateuch theory 
    Lombaard, Christo (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2007)
    The history of the churches in South Africa has also been a history of the scholarly interpretation of the Bible. Critical Pentateuch theory has a peculiar nature in this regard in that its main proponents have felt a ...
  • Thoughts on writing Afrikaner church history in the 21st century 
    Oliver, Erna (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2007)
    The traditional way of writing Afrikaner church history seems outdated. It tends to be biased, holy, apologetic, imperialistic, sectarian and schismatic; and does not serve the community and the church in the current ...
  • Afrikaans, reformed and internetted : some outlines of current Afrikaans-e-spiritualities 
    Lombaard, Christo (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)
    Post-apartheid Afrikaans cultural life has shown unanticipated directions of growth (eg art festivals, ‘alternative’ music and literature). The once influential Afrikaans community – almost per definition religious, Christian ...
  • Sunday school: past and present 
    Oliver, Erna (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)
    The first part of the article shows the history of religious education in South Africa and how the Sunday school was successfully integrated with the existent extensive religious education system used by Afrikaners to ...
  • Spirituality and the university 
    Kourie, C. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    It is not often that we witness the birth of a new discipline; the academy is slow to open its doors to “newcomers”. Yet, within the last few decades, we have seen the introduction of the “new” discipline of Spirituality ...
  • Two approaches to life in the Second Temple period: Deuteronomy and Qoholet 
    Lombaard, Christo J.S. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    The prosaic Mosaic death in Deuteronomy 34 leaves the way of life [foreign font omitted] as constituted in [foreign font omitted]. That is, par excellence: Life [foreign font omitted] is found in words. In Qohelet, another ...
  • Tussen katedrale en kastele : oor die teologies-politieke probleem 
    Goosen, Daniel P. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    This article is a reflection on the theological-political problem (i.e. the question about the relationship between religion and politics) in modern society. It presupposes that this problem was created by modernism. Because ...

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