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A plea for the honour of God: Gisbertus Voetius’ mission proposals at the National Synod of Dordrecht and his mission theory

In die Skriflig, 2019
This article searches for the dynamic in human terms that produced today’s global church. It will focus on the role and the vision of Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676), the father of the Reformed science of missions.
Johan Kommers
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Descartes’s Letter to Voetius [PDF]

Church History and Religious Culture, 2020
Abstract In the Letter to Voetius (Epistola ad Voetium, 1643) Descartes defends himself against the attacks on his philosophy by the Utrecht theologian Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676). Although much of that work is devoted to a discussion of particular questions and accusations, it also contains a few chapters of a more general nature, in which ...
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Pierre Bayle et le statut de l'athéisme sceptique [PDF]

Kriterion, 2009
Quelle place occupe la figure de l'« athée sceptique » dans le schéma baylien qui prend à contre-pied tant les apologistes « latitudinaires » (à la Garasse) que les théologiens plus « rigoureux » (à la Voetius) ? Bayle affirme d'une part une « latitude »
Gianni Paganini
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DESCARTES Y EL DIABLO. LA ORATORIA DEL MAL

Ideas y Valores, 2018
En la Carta a Voetius, Descartes escribe que su enemigo es el diablo, el enemigo. La acusación es etimológicamente coherente (Voetius es el calumniador, cuya palabra divide a los hombres) e introduce una excepción a la metafísica, una voluntad de mal ...
PABLO PAVESI
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The ‘province’ of the Dutch Republic in the international Republic of Letters

, 2022
Renaissance Studies, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 163-184, February 2022.
Manuel Llano, Dirk van Miert
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Die impak van die gereformeerde teologie op die moderne staatkundige denke in Suid-Afrika

In die Skriflig, 2020
The impact of the Calvinist Reformed theology on the constitutional reflection in South Africa is overshadowed by the perception that Calvinist social ethics, as argued and practised in the colonial era in South Africa, was responsible for apartheid and ...
Jacobus M. Vorster
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The Synod of Dordt (1618–1619) and a theology of religions

In die Skriflig, 2019
The Synod of Dordt (1618–1619) addressed particular theological concerns raised in a particular context. The broader context of the Synod needs to be accounted for.
Jaco Beyers
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Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676): Some perspectives on his influence on developments in the South African Dutch Reformed Church’s missiology and mission practice

In die Skriflig, 2019
Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) played a significant role in the Synod of Dordt 1618–1619. As orthodox Calvinist and leading intellectual in the Dutch Second Reformation, he helped to shape the religious, philosophical and cultural landscape of the 17th ...
Gideon van der Watt
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The Making of a Mission Field: Paradigms of Evangelistic Mission in Europe [PDF]

, 2012
Since the Second World War Europe has increasingly been considered as a 'mission field'. Sometimes it is suggested that this belief could only emerge after the collapse of the colonial empires, effectively abolishing the difference between the 'Christian'
Paas, S.
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THE 17TH-CENTURY JOHANNES HOORNBEECK’S VIEWS ON MISSION, ECUMENISM AND HISTORICAL THEOLOGY AND ITS CURRENT RELEVANCE

Acta Theologica, 2018
In this second article (cf. Hofmeyr 2016), like the previous one, I would like to introduce Johannes Hoornbeeck and the Further Reformation, besides other goals, to the Anglo-Saxon world.
J W Hofmeyr
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