Reformed theology
Schleiermacher on justification: A resource for a Reformed theology of recognition?
... constructive theology of recognition that links justification to (divine) ...many Reformed theological circles, his emphasis that justification is broader than the mere justification of sinners and includes ...
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Reformed theology in Scotland
... the Reformed Kirk in Scotland government was by such kirk sessions, synods and what were originally known as conventions of the Universal Kirk, but later came to be known as the General ...
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On being African and Reformed? Towards an African Reformed theology enthused by an interlocution of those on the margins of society
... and Reformed are perceived as problematic, given the history of how this faith came to impact itself on South African ...the Reformed ecclesial tradition to South Africa more than three hundred years ago ...
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Pocohontas's baptism : Reformed theology and the paradox of desire
... Jamestown just as the other settlers had decided to abandon the weak and failing colony. The meeting of the two groups - the disillusioned settlers and the `lost' voyagers - was not understood as a chance occurrence but ...
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Reformed theology and ‘decolonised’ identity Finding a grammar for peaceful coexistence
... on Reformed thinkers such as John Calvin and John Althusius, the essay continues to discuss the contribution that the Reformed tradition can make to such a ...
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Called to worship, sent to witness: A missional perspective on the Reformed theology in South Africa today
... The Reformed church all over the world is in hype in celebration of 500 years of Reformation, and this presents Reformed Christians, particularly in South Africa, with an opportunity to critically engage ...
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‘Covenanting for Justice’? On the Accra Document, Reformed Theology and Reformed Ecclesiology
... The Reformed view of being church, however, also involves the very fundamental conviction that the different institutional forms of the church are not, by far, the only or even the most appropriate actors and ...
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Post Reformation Reformed sources and children
... concentrated on the content of the Biblical text (Neele 2005:142). Likewise, for Hellenbroek, the questions and answers should be a prayerful and reflective reading leading to “offer body and soul unto the Lord, with ...
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The Reformed tradition as public theology
... of Reformed faith what is the justification of the consumption of a faith tradition that is evidently not devoid of bigotry in South Africa? The relationship of faith with economics is a crucial matter in so far ...
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Unpacking the downside of sustentasie on African theology and theologians: a need for contextual black theology as a liberative ingredient for the black Reformed churches
... his theology that was shipped to and planted in Africa many centuries ...the Reformed theology played its role in capacitating apartheid, it can be noted that some of its theologians later find out ...
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The theology of preaching: a Reformed perspective
... traditional Reformed theology thus meant exposing people to the Word of God which could bring them to faith and thus to ...in Reformed churches, and it is this event which we will explore further in ...
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The Word is life: African theology as biblical and contextual theology
... Ukpong (1994:43) identifies five different approaches to Christology in African theology: 1) the incarnational approach based on the doctrine of Christ, the eternal Word of God, taking human nature in Jesus. The ...
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A theology of daughterhood: the challenges of modern biology to theology today
... the Son. Robert Murray provides a useful survey of the Church as Bride in the early Syriac tradition (2006, 131ff.). Although he does not consider the symbolism of Church as daughter, he cites various sources that do so, ...
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COMPARATIVE THEOLOGY AS CHALLENGE FOR THE THEOLOGY OF THE 21ST CENTURY
... But that is not what comparative theology is focusing upon. It is based upon the possibility to comprehend a different world-picture in the sense of retracing it. This means that study and research is sometimes ...
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Incomplete theology: reflections on a theology of hospice chaplaincy
... New College in the 1970s, once offered this remarkable insight into the way we might handle doctrine: ‘We should take all the books on dogma and put them in a bin, put the lid firmly on the top and sit on top of that, so ...
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The Reformed Church Rediscovers the Liturgy
... the Reformed Church found the language o f the liturgy, instinct as it was with the piety o f the 16th century, crude and ...the Reformed Church was threatened with serious losses to the various pietist ...
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Church and government in Reformed perspective
... the Reformed churches in South Africa to redefine their role in society and their relationship with the ...the Reformed concepts changed society and the government is still relevant to South Africa and ...
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The principle of Reformed intertextual interpretation
... on reformed (or evangelical) Bible interpretation is profound, both for understanding eternal, unchanging truth and for applying that truth to Christian lives ...present reformed (evangelical) scholars with ...
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Theology disrupted: Doing theology with children in African contexts
... Even before Oosthuizen, Mazrui (1980:8) pointed out that forces such as Christianity, have tremendously impacted Africa (see also Mazrui 1980:47; Tienou 1990:24). African philosophers and observers agree to the reality ...
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Welfare in America: What Is Being Reformed
... States have long been frustrated by seeing the tragedy of welfare recipients leaving by one door only to enter again by another; by the inability to sanction abuses of t[r] ...
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