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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 Friendship is not often associated with citizenship, politics or civil society – and yet this contribution proposes that civic friendship(s) may be worth consideration as an expression of peacemaking and peacebuilding: the dynamic interplay between our ...
Nadia Marais
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Response to Reviews of Dogmatic Ecclesiology Volume 1: The Priestly Catholicity of the Church [PDF]
, 2022 Tom Greggs
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History, Volume 110, Issue 390, Page 261-283, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the experiences of a group of Norfolk puritans who, seeking religious freedom, fled to the Low Countries in the late 1630s, were exposed to congregationalism in the English Reformed Church in Rotterdam, and then returned to their former homes at the start of the English civil wars to oversee the foundation of the ...
Joel Halcomb
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Verbum et Ecclesia, 2014 In this essay, aspects of the work of theologian W.D. (Willie) Jonker are reframed to complement current debates about public theology in South Africa. The introduction points out that Jonker worked during a crucial period in South Africa s history and
Piet J. Naud�
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The Heythrop Journal, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 157-173, March 2025.Abstract We argue here that bringing insights from evolution and bioengineering to bear on traditional accounts of divine providence helps to illustrate just how complex providence is and how difficult it is to achieve. While other non‐human animals might exhibit greater agency in creation and its evolutionary development than has traditionally been ...
Michael Burdett, Andrew Jackson
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Calvin’s view on church discipline and unity: a South African perspective
In die Skriflig, 2010 The reformer John Calvin, born in 1509, considers discipline and unity as two essential aspects of the Christian church. According to him, the bond of church discipline is a way to unite church members in the truth of the Word and the Christian faith
P.J. Strauss
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Mainstreaming Disability Theology: A Review Essay
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 135-157, March 2025.ABSTRACT This essay offers both a review of recent texts in disability studies and religious ethics as well as appreciation in the guild's growing interest in disability ethics. When the Journal of Religious Ethics (JRE) solicited this essay, I felt a sense that recognition of the important work that disability ethics offers to our guild had arrived ...
Mary Jo Iozzio
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Martin Luther's Critique of Supererogation
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 112-134, March 2025.ABSTRACT Recent decades have witnessed a surge of philosophical interest in the concept of supererogation. Although Martin Luther figures prominently in the historiography as a critic of supererogation, the particular nature of his critique and its place within his broader moral theology has been underexplored.
John Walker
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Incarnation theology versus the sacralisation of authority
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015 This article juxtaposed the theological theme of incarnation with quasi-religious invasions of public power structures and institutions in southern Africa, which has been described by the term sacralisation of authority.
Retief Muller
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 94-125, January 2025.Abstract According to plural person theory, a group of close friends can act together not just distributively, as separate individuals all at once, but also corporately, as a nonmetaphorical plural person supervening on the friends. This article proposes that the Spirit is a plural person in precisely this sense.
Olivia Bustion
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