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Confessing guilt in the context of climate change: Some South African perspectives
(Stellenbosch University, 2010)
This contribution explores the significance but also the immense complexities of Christian
discourse on confessing guilt within the context of climate change. It draws especially on
South African discourse on confessing ...
The Anglican Church and Feminism: Challenging the patriarchy of our faith
(2013)
Gender-based violence is a problem in most Southern African countries and yet it has generally received little attention from governments and civil society—including Christian churches. In recent years, some churches have ...
Galations 2:15-21 and the Belhar Confession (1986) in dialogue
(SUN, 2013)
This article brings Gal 2: 15-21 into dialogue with the Confession of Belhar (1986). It
starts off with the issue of the formation of confessions in Early Christianity and asks
whether there could be a confession basic ...
Notions and forms of ecumenicity: some South African perspectives
(SUN Press, 2013)
This contribution addresses the abstract question of how the adjective “ecumenical” may be understood. What notions and forms of ecumenicity may be identified? There may be no single authoritative definition, but one may ...
Knowledge, values, and beliefs in the South African context since 1948: An overview
(Wiley, 2015)
In this contribution, an overview of the distinct waysin which the interplay between knowledge, values, and beliefs tookshape in the South African context since 1948 is offered. This is framedagainst the background of the ...
The absurdity of reconciliation. What we (should) learn from Rustenburg and the implications for South Africa
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)
The quest for reconciliation in South Africa is an exercise in the absurd. To say it is an
exercise for the absurd might also have some merit. Like Sisyphus, the figure in Greek
mythology, those engaged in the quest for ...
African Pentecostal churches and racialized xenophobia: International migrants as agents of transformational development?
(SAGE, 2022)
Scholarship on Pentecostal potential and practice forms a significant part of the debate on religion and development, not least when the focus is on sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in this debate African Pentecostal migrant
communities ...
A journal for biblical, theological and / or contextual hermeneutics?
(Stellenbosch University, 2020)
This contribution reflects on the current sub-title of the journal Scriptura, namely
“Journal for Biblical, Theological and Hermeneutics”. It showsthat this has been
a core interest of the journal over a period of forty ...
Black health, ethics, and global ecology
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2022)
The reflections offered here come from someone the South African government
classified as white or as European under apartheid, who continues to
be classified in that manner under affirmative action, and who has worked
at ...