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Costly tolerance

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
Tolerance is an aspect of the balance between power and freedom. This contribution starts from a decision taken by the general synod of the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, in 1914, on the issue of church members who did not recognise infant baptism.
Leo Koffeman
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Racism and xenophobia: The role of the Church in South Africa

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2017
Racism and xenophobia have become a worldwide issue and challenge. The recent flood of immigrants and refugees into Europe and America has put this matter on the world map.
Jerry Pillay
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The semper reformanda principle under scrutiny in an African context in relation to inculturation

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2018
The semper reformanda [always reforming] principle has been poorly promoted by all traditions since it was conceptualised following the 16th-century Reformation.
Graham A. Duncan
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Heretic or rebel? The heresy trial of Albert Geyser

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
During September 1961, a charge of heresy was laid against New Testament scholar and antiapartheid activist Prof. A.S. (Albert) Geyser. The charge was brought by three senior theological students of the University of Pretoria.
Wim Dreyer
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Emerging Ecumenical Church Polity, 1965–2010: Lessons from Efforts at Church Unity in Zambia

Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 2020
This article explores an emerging ecumenical church polity in Zambia from a church historical perspective. While church polity and church unity literature has acknowledged the role of church polity and church unity in Zambia, and its use for ecclesiological purposes, the growing use of church polity and the efforts at church unity in the period 1965 ...
Msiska, Godfrey, Duncan, Graham A.
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Historiese teologie in ʼn veranderende konteks

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
In this contribution, the author reflects on historical theology as theological discipline. After a short introduction to the precarious situation of church history as a theological discipline in South Africa and the question of faith and history, the ...
Wim A. Dreyer
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‘Ever old and ever new, keep me travelling along with you’: 21st Century Notae Ecclesiae specifically necessary for churches in southern Africa

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011
The ecumenical marks of the church – unity, holiness, catholicity and apostolicity – have served it well as defining characteristics since the 4th century CE.
Graham A. Duncan
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The amazing growth of the early church

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2012
The church grew rapidly during the first centuries. The question is: Why? Generations of scholars approached this question from different perspectives and with different methods.
Wim A. Dreyer
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Contestation of ‘the holy places in the Zimbabwean Religious Landscape’: A study of the Johane Masowe Chishanu yeNyenyedzi Church’s sacred places

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
Places that are regarded as holy are highly esteemed in most religious institutions. Such places are revered because they denote the converging points of human beings and the divine.
Phillip Musoni
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Migration, Repression and Homosexual Sociability in Francoist Spain: An Analysis of the Case Files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres‐Feria
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