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A case study on the windows of the Witbank Dutch Reformed church: what they convey about the changing religio-political context of this Afrikaans Protestant church [PDF]

, 2010
The Witbank Dutch Reformed Church commissioned the author to remake some church windows, requesting changes in symbolism. This descriptive, explorative, qualitative case study retrospectively examines the formal, tectonic and symbolic meaning of the ...
Janse van Rensburg, Ariane
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Unity or Distinction? Herman Bavinck’s Use of John Calvin and Later Reformed Orthodoxy in His Doctrine of the Two States

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the doctrine of Christ’s two states of humiliation and exaltation in Herman Bavinck’s and John Calvin’s thought, with the aim of illuminating Bavinck’s use of Calvin. The article begins by exploring Calvin’s use of the two states and argues that his treatment of Christ’s descent into hell is an important though ...
Sarah Killam Crosby
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Die status en plek van die Drie Formuliere van Eenheid in twee Suid-Afrikaanse gereformeerde kerke

In die Skriflig, 2018
The status and real position of the Three Formulas of Unity in two South African Reformed Churches. The Three Formulas of Unity, which was accepted by the National Synod of Dordrecht (1618–1619) as confessions of faith, formulating the common faith of ...
Piet J. Strauss
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Die hervormingsdaggetuienis van agt Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk-dosente op 31 Oktober 1980 – ’n oproep tot hervorming?

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2018
The witness on Reformation Day, 31 October 1980, by eight Dutch Reformed Church lecturers – a call for reformation? Eight well-known lecturers, members of the Dutch Reformed Church, made a call on Reformation Day, 31 October 1980, for the churches in ...
Piet J. Strauss
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The Mediating Roles of Political Ideology, Dominion Belief, and Stewardship Belief in the Relationship Between Christianity and Environmentalism: Evaluating Lynn White's Thesis in the Netherlands

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous studies provide mixed empirical support for White's thesis that Christianity has contributed to the ecological crisis. This study aims to add nuance to White's thesis by examining different aspects of Christianity within the secularized context of the Netherlands.
Nienke P. M. Fortuin, Carl Sterkens
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The black church as the womb of black liberation theology?: Why the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) is not a genuine black church?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015
This article sets forth a controversial thesis which suggests that the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa, although considered a black church, is in fact not a black church in the sense in which a radical black church is traditionally understood.
Rothney S. Tshaka
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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
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Die predikant: dienaar van God of net 'n gewone werknemer?

Acta Theologica, 2007
This article examines the nature of the relationship between the minister and his/her congregation in the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. Is the minister in the service of God, or is he/she in the service of the General Synod of the Dutch ...
J. V. du Plessis, H. J. Deacon
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The Five‐Thread Model & Academic Policy Entrepreneurs: From the White Australia Policy to Multicultural Australia

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why did Australia go from the White Australia Policy, which excluded non‐whites, to institutionalizing multiculturalism policy in the 1970s? This question defies traditional political ideologies of the major political parties, which had long supported the White Australia Policy. This article is a rare empirical demonstration of the Five‐Thread
Julius C. S. Mok
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Kerkorde en ekumene. Die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk in die jare 1962–2015

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2019
Church order and ecumenism: The Dutch Reformed Church in 1962–2015. The church order accepted by the first General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), the church order or DRC-CO of 1962, showed a preference for ecumenism with reformed churches ...
Piet J. Strauss
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