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Belief in God among South African youth and its relation to their religious socialization and praxis
This article investigates belief in God among 538 students from standard 9 who attend Anglican and Catholic schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region, and relates this belief to the students' religious socialization and praxis. The students' belief in
Jobannes A.P van der Ven+2 more
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A pastoral psychological approach to domestic violence in South Africa
South Africa suffers a scourge of domestic violence. Colonial oppression upset the delicate balance between ‘discipline’ and ‘protection’ in traditional cultures.
Petronella J. Davies, Yolanda Dreyer
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The story of the Department of Practical Theology
This article tells the story of the development of the Department of Practical Theology of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria. The story goes back to the start of the Faculty in 1938, although the Department of Practical Theology was only established in 1966 when Professor H.D.A.
Buchner, Elsje P., Muller, Julian C.
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Frailty and flourishing: Good news for humanity: Response to Alister McGrath [PDF]
This is the author's pdf version of an article published in Practical Theology. The article can be found at http://essential.metapress.com/content/122841/This journal article is a response to Alister McGrath’s keynote lecture to the annual conference of ...
Graham, Elaine L.
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This article illustrates the practical usefulness of transdisciplinary work for practical theology by showing how input from an occupational therapist informed my understanding and interpretation of the story of Hannetjie, who had been sexually abused ...
Heidi Human, Julian C. Müller
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This article identifies the complexities of migration situations that subject both host nations and native churches to a paradoxical position on whether to exclude or embrace migrants. This is because migrants are often linked to criminal activities that
Alfred R. Brunsdon, Christopher Magezi
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The necessity of an empirical study to determine if church congregations function as a family
Scripture’s reference to believers as the ‘family of God’ may indicate that believers should mutually care for one another like members of a caring family do, and not merely that members are part of a ‘spiritual’ family.
Rika L. Roeland, Gert Breed, Rudy Denton
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This article explores how ministerial and leadership formation could be enabled to adopt transformational diaconia in addressing poverty in South Africa, engaging in ways in which pastoral care and leadership formation can respond to the addressing of ...
Smith F.K. Tettey, Malan Nel
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Toward an Analytic Theology of Liberation [PDF]
The open secret of analytic philosophy of religion since its 20th century revival has been that it is for the most part a revival of philosophical theology, and particularly Christian philosophical theology. More recently, Christian analytic philosophers
Yadav, Sameer
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Cross-Relation Characterization of Knowledge Networks [PDF]
Knowledge networks have become increasingly important as a changing repository of data which can be represented, studied and modeled by using complex networks concepts and methodologies. Here we report a study of knowledge networks corresponding to the areas of Physics and Theology, obtained from the Wikipedia and taken at two different dates separated
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