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Kerkorde en doop – Toegespits op twee gereformeerde kerkordes

In die Skriflig, 2019
Church order and baptism – with reference to two reformed church orders: The purpose of a church order is not an end itself, but to serve the church in its calling as an institute of the Christian faith.
Piet J. Strauss
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The influence of the Church of Scotland on the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa [PDF]

, 1956
1. Account of the Cape of Good Hope 1652 to the beginning of the 19th Century. 2. Account of the Dutch Reformed Church 1652 to the beginning of the 19th Century.
Sass, Frederick William
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Biblical quotations in Faustus’s Capitula

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013
Scholars are still of the opinion that Augustine first started to read and discuss the Bible only once he became a Catholic Christian, or even only after his appointment as a Catholic priest.
Jacob A. van den Berg
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Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 259-269, June 2026.
ABSTRACT How do governments’ policies toward religion impact the relationship between citizens and civil society? A large body of literature examines the effect of social capital on democratic governance. Studies of State Religious Policy, or SRP, however, have shown complex and potentially contradictory effects on different types of social capital ...
Brendan Szendrő
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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 378-443, June 2026.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
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The flexibility of church structures : a Protestant view [PDF]

, 2017
This contribution reflects on Protestant attitudes towards the institutional aspects of church life, including church law and church polity. First, it describes 'Protestantism' from an historical and a terminological perspective, concluding with ...
Koffeman, Leo J.
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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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Constitution or church order? : a church judicial analysis of the church documents in the Reformed Church of East Africa [PDF]

, 2018
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2018.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Reformed Church of East Africa (RCEA) was founded by the Dutch Reformed Church in 1944.
Ekitala, Luka Ariko
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Approaches of church polity and efforts at church union in Zambia in the period 1965-2010 [PDF]

, 2020
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2020.This study is an historical evaluation of the approaches of church polity and efforts at church union in Zambia in its history between 1965 and 2010. The study is situated within two unique phases.

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Wetenskaplike metodologie en kerkregering

In die Skriflig, 1993
Any mode of science has a paradigm which determines the questions asked, the methods followed and the results obtained in that science. Taking this as a point of departure the question about the relationship between the a paradigm of reformed church ...
P. Coertzen
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