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Item Open Access Skoonheid, harmonie en wysheid: reformatoriese ontwikkeling van 'n transmoderne idee in die teologie(University of the Free State, 2010-12) Swanepoel, Cornelius Alwyn; Strauss, S. A.English: Captivity is something the people of God always ought to break out of as soon as possible. This is the case especially with regard to our theology. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it seems that both modernistic and postmodernistic captivity are real dangers to be reckoned with in theology. Reformed theology is not above these potential captivities and can be caught up in the grip of scholasticism and modernism, but also of mysticism and postmodernism. The aim of this study is to address these issues in a reformed way with a transmodern approach. It is an approach which strives to avert the captivity of both modernism and postmodernism while taking along certain treasures in the exodus to God’s new world. Giving account of this, presupposes an approach and view of reality that can account for certain theological, philosophical and hermeneutic commitments. This is done through developing a transmodern idea in a reformed way using a triad: beauty, harmony and wisdom. The aim is to stimulate a wholesome idea built upon the gripping of the covenant drama in the Word (beauty), reckoning with multiple voices in God’s church throughout the ages (harmony), and practical-poetic interrelations within the applicable context (wisdom). It is a vision that accounts theologically, philosophically and hermeneutically with a historical consciousness against the rationalistic, historicistic, linguistic and social one-sidedness that came forth at definitive turning points in history. However, this vision uses with appreciation some developments and the unfolding which took place in the mentioned aspects of reality. The reformed developing of a transmodern idea uses specific key disciplines of theology – Biblical theology, historical theology and apologetics. These disciplines are used to approach the hermeneutic process from three different vantage points – beauty, harmony and wisdom. The objective is to account for the movement between Text and context with the aid of a reformed transmodern idea which is lucid and easy to grasp yet vital and comprehensive. The mentioned key disciplines also functions as bridging disciplines in theology which helps to effectively keep sight of the larger context. For this reason these disciplines receive more attention in the suggested approach.