INTERVIEW WITH PROF. NICO NORMAN KOOPMAN by M. Laubscher

“… Nico Koopman is Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Social Impact, Transformation and Personnel at Stellenbosch University, and Professor of Systematic Theology, Ethics and Public Theology. He is also an ordained pastor of the Uniting Reformed Church in Ida’s Valley, Stellenbosch. …”
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ALGHAZALI DAN KESUKSESANNYA DALAM MENYEBARKAN TEOLOGI SUNNI ASY’ARI by Alma'arif

“…This article aims to describe and analyze the success of Alghazali in spreading Sunni Asy’ari theology. Based on library studies, with Jurgen Habermas's communicative action theory approach, the results of the study show that Alghazali's success in spreading Sunni Asy'ari theology, both during the Abbasids and afterward, is different from the approach taken by his predecessor theologians. …”
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“WHO IS CHRIST FOR US TODAY?” BONHOEFFER’S QUESTION FOR THE CHURCH by Henco Van der Westhuizen

“… How can a theology thinking about the church learn from Bonhoeffer’s famous and oft repeated question of who Jesus Christ is for us today? …”
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Foreword by Rian Venter

“… From text: The position of theology at a public and secular university has become a contested issue in recent years. …”
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AS IF NOTHING HAD HAPPENED”? KARL BARTH AND THE STUDY OF PROPHETIC PREACHING IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY by Martin Laubscher

“… This article explores the significance of Karl Barth’s (homiletical) theology for the current study of prophetic preaching in South Africa today. …”
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Reformierte dogmatik zwischen konfessioneller bindung nd der verpflichung zu weiterführender (auch konfessionsübergreifender) theoriebildung by M. Beintker

“…The fact that reformed theology is inevitably confessional bound consequently implies supplementary forming of theory. …”
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About Galatians, apocalyptic and the switching of paradigms by Gys M. H. Loubser

“… The article indicates that although apocalyptic is probably not the hermeneutical key par excellence to Pauline theology, it does lie at the heart of Pauline theology and should be thoroughly accounted for in Galatians. …”
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An embodied spirituality: perspectives for a bodily pastoral anthropology by J-A. van den Berg

“… Important new developments within practical theology and, in particular, within pastoral theology have taken place over the past decades. …”
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Die openbaringsleer van Schilder by A. L. A. Buys, S. A. Strauss

“… Although Schilder’s theology was almost exclusively known in the Netherlands, its significance is not restricted to that country. …”
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Re-interpretation as transformation. Perspectives and challenges for Old Testament interpretation by D.J. Human

“… This contribution explains that the re-interpretation of theological motifs or ideas leads to transforming theology and religion.  …”
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Teleologia i teologia. Nowożytne przemiany w rozumieniucelowości natury ludzkiej na przykładzie Kajetana i Lutra by Andrzej Persidok

“…This conviction, shared by both patristic and medieval theology, at the dawn of modernity undergoes profound transformation, and in time it becomes lost. …”
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Thinking God in a Global Multi-religious Context: Trends, Challenges and Possibilities by Rian Venter

“… Contemporary religious and theological scholarship is acutely aware that different contexts result in different ways of thinking and speaking about God. …”
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Enkele treë tot 'n moontlike re-konfigurasie van pastorale terapie? Perspektiewe op ontwikkelende praktyke by J. A. van den Berg, A. de Beer, M. Fourie

“…In this development the emphasis is placed on pastoral care as a public theological endeavour with a strong strategic component resonating with the character of practical theology. …”
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Apophasis, Abnegation, and Liturgy by David W. Fagerberg

“… Apophatic theology is normally housed in the epistemological wing of the academy, and is treated as a via negativa that negates the assertion just made. …”
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The Debate Concerning Creation in Relation to Ecology by Sławomir Śledziewski

“…The subject of creation was neglected in theological debate for a long time. Only about 35 years ago, when the so-called ecological crisis manifested itself, creation began to appear in the center of theological interest. …”
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The inner reformation of the sciences: an ambiguity in the radically orthodox thought of John Milbank? by D. F. M. Strauss

“… Although both Radical Orthodoxy and Reformational Philosophy question the autonomy of theoretical reason, the views of prominent representatives of Radical Orthodoxy do not enable an inner reformation of the non-theological academic disciplines. Whereas Radical Orthodoxy holds that philosophy is concerned with being as such, theology investigates the ground of being, and being in respectu Dei. …”
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MIHI QUAESTIO FACTUS SUM (“I HAVE BECOME A QUESTION TO MYSELF”, AUGUSTINE: CONFESSIONS X. XXXIII): by F. England

“…Within the history of both philosophy and theology, declarations of an or the irrefutable truth about inceptive and final purpose and ultimate meaning often have been asserted. …”
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Ortodoks teologi ved en skillevej by Emil Hilton Saggau

“…This relationship to the state is a pragmatic embrace of secular power with theological roots, but the war has revealed the tension in Orthodox political theology. …”
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Verlossing as socio-politieke bevryding? by P. Robinson

“… During the past two decades the theological debate on Biblical meaning of salvation has increased and intensified. …”
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A Most Eminent Victorian: Thomas Henry Huxley by Sherrie Lyons

“…In this paper I will elaborate on exactly what Huxley meant by agnosticism by discussing his views on the distinctions he drew between philosophy and science, science and theology, and between theology and religion. His claim that theology belonged to the realm of the intellect while religion belonged to the realm of feeling served as an important strategy in his defense of evolution. …”
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