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To deconstruct or how to deconstruct?: A Presbyterian perspective, 1960–1990
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 The art of deconstruction is a process that aims to lead to the truth; the truth regarding apartheid in South Africa is contested. Presbyterian historiography regarding apartheid has lacked clarity because of a lack of reliable sources.
Graham A. Duncan
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Second International Conference on Protestant Church Polity: Good Governance in Church and Society today [PDF]
Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu, 2014 The Department for Church History and Church Polity of the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria organized a second conference on Church Polity in collaboration with VU University Amsterdam. Aimed mainly but not exclusively at protestant theologians, the conference has dealt with issues related to the responsibilities of churches for good ...
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Property as power: A theory of representation
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Rutger Claassen
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Parliamentary Debate and Job Market Signaling in Westminster Systems
Legislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 2, May 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines parliamentary speech as a job‐market signal in Westminster systems, where ministers are selected from the legislature under conditions of informational asymmetry. Building on signaling theory, it argues that party leaders use visible, effortful parliamentary activities—such as frequent speechmaking—as proxies for latent ...
Pat Leslie
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There is only one Church! Albert Geyser’s ecclesiology in Delayed Action
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 A.S. (Albert) Geyser was professor of New Testament at the University of Pretoria from 1946 to 1961, when he accepted an appointment at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Wim A. Dreyer
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Pharos Journal of Theology, 2021 The church government in the New Testament deals with how ecclesiastical authority, operations and order were exercised in the church. The historical and Scriptural principles for church government suggest flexibility in orientation. Evidence for church government from the early New Testament Church is inconclusive. Nowhere in the Scriptures do we find
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The European Social Contract—A Discursive Tool to Imagine Europe and Manage Existential Anxieties
European Law Journal, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 122-143, April 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, I examine the European social contract as a political discourse. The concept has emerged as a catchy but politically‐laden concept within EU politics during Europe's polycrisis period. It has been employed by practitioners, civil society actors and politicians, with each referring to different kinds of contracts and often ...
Acar Kutay
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 Many Christians feel quite disillusioned and disappointed with the church in South Africa today because they assume that the church, in particular the South African Council of Churches (SACC), is not playing an adequate prophetic role in building the ...
Jerry Pillay
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Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 344-353, April 2026.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that multiculturalism has contributed to majority anxieties and thereby to the current polarisation. This article focuses on how to tackle and lessen this polarisation, which is fostering mutual distrust and threatening the national, democratic citizenships upon which any multiculturalist, egalitarian and unifying project
Tariq Modood
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South Africa: The early quest for liberty and democracy
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015 The early quest for liberty and political freedom in South Africa had been influenced by various factors, inter alia political sentiments which originated in Reformed, Huguenot and Patriotten political theory.
Wim A. Dreyer
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