AT 2015 Volume 35 Issue 2

 

Recent Submissions

  • Resensies/Reviews 

    Venter, Rian (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)

  • Resensies/Reviews 

    Wessels, Wessel (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)

  • Resensies/Reviews 

    Tucker, A. R. (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)

  • The trajectories of Christianity and African ritual practices: the public silence and the dilemma of mainline or mission churches 

    Ntombana, L. (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)
    In South Africa, there are mainly two Christian traditions on Christianity and African ritual practices. One being from missionaries and now mainly trailed by most white Mainline Churches and Pentecostal Churches. The ...

  • Together towards new life for missiology? Mission and missiology in the light of the World Council of Churches 2013 policy statement 

    Niemandt, C. J. P. (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)
    Any meaningful discussion of the various understandings of mission and Missiology needs to take cognizance of the important policy document accepted by the World Council of Churches at its 10th Assembly in Busan, ...

  • Beyond "two source theory" and "sola scriptura": ecumenical perspectives on scripture and tradition 

    Moss, R. (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)
    A major source of doctrinal dispute between Catholicism and Protestantism over the centuries has revolved around the relationship between Scripture and Tradition. Does Scripture as the source of Revelation stand alone ...

  • Transformation, theology and the public university in South Africa 

    Venter, R. (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)
    This article addresses a specific issue, namely the ramifications for theology practised at a public university under (post)-apartheid conditions. In South Africa, scholarly opinion has not paid sufficient attention to ...

  • Religions as a source of (dis)order 

    Urbaniak, J. (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)
    Would it be fair to say that religious people in general are more suspicious of the believers of other religions than of those who claim to have no faith at all? If the pivotal role of religiosity consists in bringing ...

  • Mysticism and the reformation: a brief survey 

    McGinn, B. (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)
    A number of influential theologians over the past two centuries have denied that Protestant Christianity has a place for mysticism understood as the mingling of the divine and human natures. Today a more adequate ...

  • Hierarchy of truths revisited 

    Echeverria, E. J. (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)
    This article explores the ecumenical significance of the notion of hierarchy of truths introduced at the Second Vatican Council. With some assistance from the great Reformed master of dogmatic and ecumenical theology, ...

  • Onderhoud met Edwin Arrison 

    Van Tonder, Helené (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)
    English: The thirtieth anniversary of the Kairos document in 2015 served as a stimulus for various events reflecting on this historical document and subsequent movement. Among these were the Kairos 30 conference (Johannesburg ...

  • The strange case of the patriarchs in Jeremiah 33:26 

    Lombaard, C. (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)
    Jeremiah 33:26 presents a number of interpretational questions, including the relationship of the Jeremiah 33:23-26 pericope with its textual surroundings; the compositional integrity of this pericope; the possible ...

  • The vision of divine light in Saint Gregory Palamas's theology 

    Tomoioaga, F. T. (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)
    The Hesychast debates of the 14th century between the representatives of the Western and Eastern tradition over the issue of the light seen in the experience of prayer are still relevant nowadays. Gregory Palamas – who ...

  • 'n Narratiewe teologiese verkenning van negatiewe koronêre vatomleidingsoperasie-uitkomste: 'n chirurgiese hermeneutiek 

    Swart, M. J.; Van Zyl, G. J.; Van den Berg, J. A. (Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2015)
    Negative outcomes of coronary bypass operations not only have an important impact on the patient and family, but also have an influence on the cardiac surgeon on many levels. Within a specific surgical context and from ...