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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 In the 16th century, after the so-called Dark Middle Ages, the Reformation in the church in Western Europe aimed at reforming the church with consequences for society.
Pieter J. Strauss
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Missional ecclesiology as basis for a new church order: A case study
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013 In this contribution the author looks at the ecclesiology and church polity of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (NHKA) as a case study. Different approaches to ecclesiology and church polity by different NHKA theologians are examined.
Wim A. Dreyer
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The Origin and Purpose of Church Canons in N. P. Aksakov’ Writings
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2022 This article analyses the views of the church historian and canonist N. P. Aksakov on the origin and purpose of church canons. The originality of his views lies in the fact that he considered the canons as norms that appeared in the Church from the very ...
Marina Naumova
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Calvin’s views on church governance
In die Skriflig, 2010 This article investigates whether the church was seen by Calvin as a mere human community based on laws, an association functioning on the basis of a constitution, or as a dynamic domain of the governance of Jesus Christ which functions on the basis
C.J. Smit
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Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies, 2022 The National Synod of the Reformed Churches was convened by the Earl of Leicester in The Hague in 1586 in a period of crisis. One of the Synod’s results was the Church Order, of which handwritten copies were sent to the provincial synods and classes. The
Erik A. de Boer, Moses Lim
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In die Skriflig, 2020 The Church Order of Dordtrecht of 1619 and of the Dutch Reformed Church of 1962: The latter a developement of the former on church discipline? A spokesman for the Commission of Actuarii who drafted the Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church for a ...
Piet J. Strauss
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In die Skriflig, 2023 J.D. Vorster and the Dutch Reformed Church Order of 1962: The Church Order of Dordtrecht adapted to the demands of our day? J.D. (Koot) Vorster, was the moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church (1970–1974) as well as the specialist for the church order of ...
Pieter J. Strauss
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Serving the peace? Disorder, order, and peace in church polity
In die Skriflig, 2020 If a church order rules that the peace should be served, what does that mean? It is the aim of this contribution to deal with the legal history of the phrase ‘to serve the peace’ as from the 16th-century Reformed synodical acts and church orders.
Leon van den Broeke
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Dort, Doleantie and Church Order
STJ | Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 2021 This article attends to the relationship between minor and major assemblies as prescribed by the foundational principles of Reformed church polity proposed by Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel. It reviews the limited autonomy of local congregations and the authority of broader assemblies in the Church Order of Dordrecht (1618/19), the touchstone of Dutch ...
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Reading the URCSA Church Order with African Lenses: A Belhar Confession Perspective
, 2020 There are individuals within the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) who claim that URCSA is not an African church in the real sense, as it ought to be.
L. Modise
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