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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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No Apologies? The Role of Apology for Structural‐Historical Injustice

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT During this era of political apologies, a new literature has emerged in historical injustice interrogating the relationship between structural and historical injustice, with various theories conceptualising the relationship in different ways. Interestingly, ‘apology’ rarely appears in this literature.
Maeve McKeown
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Polity, leadership and lay responsibility in a changing church [PDF]

, 1993
The aim of the thesis is to develop a methodology from which to gain a fuller picture of what is happening in the areas of polity, leadership and lay responsibility in the particularity of a local parish church as it moves from first idea to actual ...
Featherstone, Andrew
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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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Church polity? The position of church polity and church government [PDF]

, 2007
It is generally accepted that John Calvin can be referred to as the founder of the presbyterial-synodal form of church government which is found in the Reformed Churches.
Van Wyk, B.J. (Barend Jacobus), 1946-
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Secular Polity at Vatican II [PDF]

, 2022
This article concludes with the following observations. First, there is a demonstrable shift from monarchical government to democratic governance in the Church as a product of the evolution of ecclesial polity.
Allan Savage
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Church and state in South Africa and human rights

In die Skriflig, 2015
After the Second World War, there was a universal rise and greater acknowledgement of human rights, which entered churches and ecumenical organisations’ way of thinking. Human rights influenced the church’s understanding of justice and human dignity both
Piet J. Strauss
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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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