Author : E. M. Conradie
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1920338063
Jaap Durand, former professor of Systematic Theology and vice-rector of the University of the Western Cape, celebrated his 75th birthday on 5 June 2009. This volume includes a foreword by Desmond Mpilo Tutu, essays by Jaap Furstenberg, Allan Boesak, Russel Botman, Nico Koopman, Bernard Lategan and Dirkie Smit. In addition, there are 22 shorter reflections from Jaap Durand?s friends, colleagues and former students.
Author : Marry-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 13,92 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1920689109
The various contributions in this informative and exciting volume explore the ambivalent and complex history of Reformed faith during the years 1960 to 1990 in apartheid South Africa. In the process light is shed on the role of Reformed churches in the struggle for justice, freedom and dignity. Parameters are simultaneously provided for defining the public role of Reformed faith in contemporary South Africa in the context of Africanisation and globalisation ...ÿ Prof. Nico Koopman, Dean of the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University
Author : Dirkie Smit
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1920689044
?Theology for me has always been about friendship ? whether with students, postgraduate students, colleagues, ministers, ecumenical believers from different traditions, theologians from abroad, or simply books and publications, articles and sources ... This volume is a witness to some of these friends and some of these conversation partners, dead and alive, near and far, like-minded or from totally different backgrounds and persuasions, I have met over several decades and with whom I have been privileged to engage, doing theology.? Dirk J. Smit
Author : Timothy Keller
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1594486077
Keller explores a life of justice empowered by an experience of grace.
Author : R. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 39,52 MB
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113738638X
This volume assesses contemporary church responses to multicultural diversity and resisted categories of social difference, with a central focus on whether or how racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, and gender differences are validated by churches (and especially black churches) torn between competing inclusive and exclusive tendencies.
Author : Annette Potgieter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2024-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666764353
COVID-19 has impacted the way we see the world and the way we view spirituality; in times of crisis, people turn or return to religion or spirituality. Most of the South African population identifies as Christian. This brings to the fore what is meant by “spirituality” in a country crippled by the remains of apartheid structure, rampant corruption, poverty, and various systemic problems. Overall, there is a lack of scholarship investigating “spirituality” and “spirituality studies” from the global South. This book aims to bridge the gap. New avenues are investigated of thinking about God in difficult circumstances, as ideologies of hope and prosperity are reshaped. This book links text and context, spirituality and material culture, self and society, the analogue and the digital, contemplation and action, saying and unsaying; in short, the question of experiencing God in both everything and nothingness comes under the scope of this book.
Author : Ernst M. Conradie
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1920689060
South African Perspectives on Notions and Forms of Ecumenicity is the second in a series of publications on the interface between ecumenical theology and social transformation in the (South) African context. It explores the underlying tensions in the ecumenical movement from within the South African context by analysing various notions of what ecumenicity entails. It includes a leading essay by Ernst Conradie and 13 responses to the theme by experts in the field.
Author : Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1928357598
"e;The subject of the Belhar Confession is an academic one which has enjoyed international attention, with congregations in the West having adopted it as one of their confessions for use. The content of this book is aimed chiefly at a scholarly community with ample knowledge of confessional documents and is a contribution on the subject of the Belhar Confession. The current challenges to the church and theology are discussed. Racism is one issue that poses an increasingly huge challenge to South Africa today. The book demonstrates what needs to be done extra to deal with the scourge of racism that seems to have percolated through virtually all aspects of our existence and particularly the church today in South Africa."e; - Prof. Rothney Tshaka (University of South Africa)
Author : Allan Aubrey Boesak
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137495316
In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in that society. This book is a call to discern new moments of crisis, discernment and kairos, and respond with prophetic resistance to global injustice.
Author : John W. de Gruchy
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,65 MB
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1666736805
The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have starkly reminded us of the realities that threaten our future on planet Earth. Christian faith is not a way of escaping these realities, but of engaging them in the struggle for justice and peace—motivated by love, enabled by faith and sustained by hope. This is based on the conviction that in Jesus Christ the reality of God has become redemptively embodied within the reality of the world. Written within the context of South Africa but with global vision, and in conversation with the legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, this book is an attempt to stir up discussion and inform action in connecting worldly and transcendent reality. Inevitably this will be controversial, not least because that is something that Bonhoeffer risked. This is certainly true when it comes to the five realities that provide much of the book’s substance: the persistence of racism, the will-to-power, scientism and soulless technology, the conflict in Israel-Palestine, and the threat of wars and pandemics. Is it possible to believe in the God of Jesus Christ in such a world? If so, what does that mean, and how does it help us live creatively, redemptively, and faithfully? To answer these questions, the author examines the meaning of faith; the human desire for transcendence; and the need for conversion, wisdom, solidarity, and responsible freedom.
