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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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The priesthood of believers: The forgotten legacy of the reformation

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
This contribution revisits the priesthood of believers. It is placed within the current discourse on relevant ecclesiologies and ecclesial praxis for 21st-century reformed churches.
Wim A. Dreyer
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Reading the Creed in the Light of Pentecost: An Eastern European Pneumatic Reflection

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 507-524, October 2025.
Abstract Reading the Creed through pneumatic lenses is essential for understanding both humanity's eschatological destiny in the likeness of the Trinity and the consistently triune economy of salvation. In light of this assertion, the essay highlights aspects of the Creed's explicit and implicit pneumatology, offering a reflection from an Eastern ...
Daniela C. Augustine
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Build the Ecclesiology-Theology Contextual in GKPA

, 2021
This research focuses on the ecclesiology of the Christian Protestant Angkola Church (GKPA). GKPA has implemented its ecclesiology for a long time.
Harahap, R. (Ramli)
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Friendship in a time of protest? Friedrich Schleiermacher and Russel Botman on the fabric of (civic) friendship

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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Reflecting on the nature of work in contemporary South Africa: A public theological engagement with calling and vocation

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
This article argues for a rediscovery of a theology of work in South Africa that is based on the Protestant notion of calling and vocation. Such a view has the primary intention of emphasising obedience and faithfulness to God rather than self-fulfilment
Dion A. Forster
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Network church: a Pentecostal ecclesiology shaped by mission

, 2010
This thesis develops a pentecostal ecclesiology using the structure of networks that leads to a fresh approach to contextualisation. It addresses the neglect in pentecostal scholarship of church structures beyond the congregation and of critical ...
Lord, Andrew Michael
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Pastoral leadership for a relevant missional ecclesiology in a context of poverty

Acta Theologica
The relevancy of an ecclesiology within a context of poverty is determined by an understanding of missional ecclesiology, the context of poverty, and the interaction of leadership and congregants within a context of poverty.
M. Maritz
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Kairos consciousness and the Zimbabwean ecclesiology’s response to crisis

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
The Christian church in Zimbabwe radically indicated the courage and consciousness to identify itself with the struggle for liberation of the marginalised, the oppressed and the impoverished, more specifically in the context of chimurenga or the armed ...
Kudakwashe Paradza
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Kyrkovetenskap som forskningsdisciplin [Ecclesiology as a branch of research.]

, 2001
Theoretical interpretations and research strategies of the university subject of 'kyrkovetenskap', ecclesiology and ecclesial life, held at a conference in The Royal Academy of Letters History and Antiquities in Stockholm 1998.
Bexell, Oloph,
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