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Is it not God’s mercy that nourishes and sustains us … forever? Some theological perspectives on entangled sustainabilities
(SUN, 2017)
This essay explores the question whether and if so what contribution Christian systematic theology can make to contemporary discourse on sustainability and more specifically ‘entangled sustainabilities’. It acknowledges ...
Where is wisdom to be found – now that we have stopped looking for it?
(SUN, 2017)
Ancient scribal culture had two faces. After arduous and largely impractical training, scribes were admitted to an elite circle and became custodians of a cultural tradition. But scribal teachers were also credited with ...
Ecumenical ecclesiology in the African context: towards a view of the church as Ubuntu
(Stellenbosch University, 2018)
This purpose of this essay is to provide an overview of approaches to ecclesiology in the African context with specific reference to various institutional expressions of the ecumenical movement. While wider ecumenical ...
Human genetic engineering and social justice in South Africa: Moltmann and human dignity
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2016)
The realities of social injustice in the present South African context, with its great
and growing gap between rich and poor and unequal distribution of wealth and
resources, are also acutely visible in the health-care ...
Pastoral care in communities under transition: Interplay between care and culture
(AOSIS, 2018)
This article contributes to pastoral care within communities under transition. It seeks to
contribute to the corpus of literature that relates pastoral care with culture and, particularly,
multicultural contexts. It seeks ...
TV is the devil, the devil is on TV: Wild religion and wild media in South Africa
(Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa, 2018)
In keeping with trends in the academy and the rapidly increasing presence, power, and persuasion of digital and electronic media on the African continent and in the global economy, the study of religion and the media in ...
Identity, race and faith: The role of faith in post-Apartheid South Africa
(AOSIS, 2016)
South Africa has experienced an unprecedented influx of migrants in the 21st century.
Immigration and race have contributed to the raising of important questions of identity
and social inclusion. Immigration and race are ...
Personhood and the “multiple self” view
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2016)
This paper critically assesses the supposition that the best way to capture the intuition
that the concept of personhood has practical importance is to analyse personhood in
terms of multiple selves. It explores the works ...
The University of Western Cape Project on Ecclesiology and Ethics
(John Wiley & Sons, 2015)
In its simplest terms, the tension between ecclesiology and ethics is between what the
church is and what it does, between what it is supposed to be and what it is supposed
to do, between what it believes about itself ...
Ecclesiology and ethics: a critical self-reflection
(John Wiley & Sons, 2015)
Welcome to you all at this celebratory conference that urges us to reflect on the past,
our present, and the future, especially of theological education within a secular state.
Perhaps your next conference theme should ...