This article will provide a comparative analysis of the findings of the first Carnegie Commission on the Poor White Problem, 1932, and the second Carnegie second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa, 1982, with regards to the role of the church as an agent of change. It also seeks to navigate the tension inherent in the “double legacy” of the church’s historical engagement with issues of poverty and inequality in order to reflect on its current praxis. The article, therefore, highlights both the challenges and opportunities for the church’s role as we celebrate 20 years of democracy.
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This article analyses the Gospel according to Matthew in the light of Max Weber’s social-scientific model of virtuoso religion. It attempts to determine if the Matthean community reflected in the Gospel had a two-tier social structure comprised of followers who strictly obeyed the demanding commands of Jesus to renounce both their families and their possessions (virtuosi) and more temperate members who did not (non-virtuosi). The article firstly attempts to clarify what is understood by the Matthean community, before giving a brief overview of Weber’s understanding of virtuoso religion that is then utilised to analyse the Gospel according to Matthew. The article comes to the conclusion that the Matthean community was comprised of both virtuosi and non-virtuosi followers of Jesus.
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This paper outlines the many ethical challenges faced today by health care practitioners. These challenges are not limited to the conventional bioethical challenges of life and death, informed consent, palliative care or research on human subjects only. The literature review suggests that complex matters such as a weakening health care system, health care research supported by the medical industry, socio-economic and socio-political circumstances, communication, and the globalization of bioethics contribute to the already numerous ethical challenges that presently intensify the ethical vulnerability of health care practitioners. Given this context, the aim of this paper is to unpack what the ethical challenges as experienced by health care practitioners entail and how health care practitioners can be supported to deal with these challenges. Aspects such as the medical humanities, ethical coaching and an integrated bioethical model to support health care practitioners are discussed. Ultimately, the discourse is based on the values of Christian ethics.
{"title":"The role of medical humanities, ethical coaching and global bioethics in addressing the ethical vulnerability of health care practitioners","authors":"L. Lategan","doi":"10.5952/55-3-4-659","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5952/55-3-4-659","url":null,"abstract":"This paper outlines the many ethical challenges faced today by health\u0000 care practitioners. These challenges are not limited to the conventional bioethical challenges\u0000 of life and death, informed consent, palliative care or research on human subjects only. The\u0000 literature review suggests that complex matters such as a weakening health care system, health\u0000 care research supported by the medical industry, socio-economic and socio-political\u0000 circumstances, communication, and the globalization of bioethics contribute to the already\u0000 numerous ethical challenges that presently intensify the ethical vulnerability of health care\u0000 practitioners. Given this context, the aim of this paper is to unpack what the ethical\u0000 challenges as experienced by health care practitioners entail and how health care practitioners\u0000 can be supported to deal with these challenges. Aspects such as the medical humanities, ethical\u0000 coaching and an integrated bioethical model to support health care practitioners are discussed.\u0000 Ultimately, the discourse is based on the values of Christian ethics.","PeriodicalId":18902,"journal":{"name":"Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81657835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In hierdie uitgawe van die Nederduitse Teologiese Tydskrif (NGTT) word 22 akademiese artikels aangebied. 'n Aantal van die artikels tree teologies in gesprek met belangrike temas wat tans in die brandpunt van publieke diskoers in Suid-Afrika staan. This edition of the Dutch Reformed Theological Journal includes 22 academic articles. Several of the articles engage with topics that are currently at the heart of public discourse in South Africa.
{"title":"VAN DIE REDAKTEUR / FROM THE EDITOR","authors":"R. Vosloo","doi":"10.5952/55-3-4-650","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5952/55-3-4-650","url":null,"abstract":"In hierdie uitgawe van die Nederduitse Teologiese Tydskrif (NGTT) word 22 akademiese artikels aangebied. 'n Aantal van die artikels tree teologies in gesprek met belangrike temas wat tans in die brandpunt van publieke diskoers in Suid-Afrika staan.\u0000This edition of the Dutch Reformed Theological Journal includes 22 academic articles. Several of the articles engage with topics that are currently at the heart of public discourse in South Africa.","PeriodicalId":18902,"journal":{"name":"Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79106652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The aim of this article to take a look at and assess the current situation in South Africa regarding marriages and civil unions from a Christian theological and historical perspective. The question to be answered is: Where do churches stand with regard to marriages and civil unions? Are they merely to accept the way current laws on face value arguing that the state has the right to make laws and to enforce them and churches just have to obey the laws of the state or does the human rights of freedom of religion and freedom of association as part of state legislation give churches the options to exercise their faith identity in the matters of marriage and civil unions?
{"title":"A perspective on marriages and civil unions in South Africa (Part one)","authors":"P. Coertzen","doi":"10.5952/55-3-4-654","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5952/55-3-4-654","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article to take a look at and assess the current situation in South Africa regarding marriages and civil unions from a Christian theological and historical perspective. The question to be answered is: Where do churches stand with regard to marriages and civil unions? Are they merely to accept the way current laws on face value arguing that the state has the right to make laws and to enforce them and churches just have to obey the laws of the state or does the human rights of freedom of religion and freedom of association as part of state legislation give churches the options to exercise their faith identity in the matters of marriage and civil unions?","PeriodicalId":18902,"journal":{"name":"Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78533729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The influence of secularisation on the DR Church: A church historical and sociological perspective The influence of religious discourses and institutions in South Africa, as elsewhere, diminishes because of structural secularisation. Social secularisation as another form of secularisation compromises the 'necessity’ for religion in modern day social culture. Humanistic Western Individualism is the dominant social meaning system (also in South Africa) best associated with this process. The actualisation of its priorities (personal freedom, privacy, emancipation of the self, freedom of choice and to strive for personal affluence) plays a significant role in the lives of the Dutch Reformed Church’s congregants. Social secularisation liberates people from ecclesiastical doctrine as regulatory for personal life and reason and marks the growing indifference to the official church. This leads to a legitimacy crisis concerning established religious meaning systems. Ironically religion doesn’t disappear altogether because of secularisation. It does however, transposes traditional forms of collective religion because the sustainment of religion as phenomenon depends increasingly on religiosities in the private sphere. Consequently, the proliferation of different personal, religious beliefs and practices also increases religious pluralism within the Dutch Reformed Church, challenging its reformed identity.
{"title":"Die invloed van sekularisasie op die NG Kerk: ’n kerkhistories-sosiologiese perspektief","authors":"P.E.J. Kruger, J. M. V. D. Merwe","doi":"10.5952/55-3-4-658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5952/55-3-4-658","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of secularisation on the DR Church: A church historical and sociological perspective \u0000The influence of religious discourses and institutions in South Africa, as elsewhere, diminishes because of structural secularisation. Social secularisation as another form of secularisation compromises the 'necessity’ for religion in modern day social culture. Humanistic Western Individualism is the dominant social meaning system (also in South Africa) best associated with this process. The actualisation of its priorities (personal freedom, privacy, emancipation of the self, freedom of choice and to strive for personal affluence) plays a significant role in the lives of the Dutch Reformed Church’s congregants. Social secularisation liberates people from ecclesiastical doctrine as regulatory for personal life and reason and marks the growing indifference to the official church. This leads to a legitimacy crisis concerning established religious meaning systems. Ironically religion doesn’t disappear altogether because of secularisation. It does however, transposes traditional forms of collective religion because the sustainment of religion as phenomenon depends increasingly on religiosities in the private sphere. Consequently, the proliferation of different personal, religious beliefs and practices also increases religious pluralism within the Dutch Reformed Church, challenging its reformed identity.","PeriodicalId":18902,"journal":{"name":"Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79484685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vulnerability is for most people a problematic concept. However, there are several theological discourses revealing an exciting reinterpretation of vulnerability. The recent attention to vulnerability opens novel and vital perspectives on human life in relation to God. The first part of this article is an overview of constructive Reformed theological proposals that offer a promising hermeneutics of vulnerability. The second part presents an additional constructive proposal: a pneumatological exploration of vulnerability. The pairing of Spirit and vulnerability leads to the understanding that vulnerability is the realm of the Holy Spirit. Notions such as quality, transformation, vulnerability dialectics, beauty and danger turn out to be critical constituents of the bond between Spirit and vulnerability.
{"title":"Spirit, vulnerability and beauty - a pneumatological exploration","authors":"D. V. D. Bosch","doi":"10.5952/55-3-4-668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5952/55-3-4-668","url":null,"abstract":"Vulnerability is for most people a problematic concept. However, there are several theological discourses revealing an exciting reinterpretation of vulnerability. The recent attention to vulnerability opens novel and vital perspectives on human life in relation to God. The first part of this article is an overview of constructive Reformed theological proposals that offer a promising hermeneutics of vulnerability. The second part presents an additional constructive proposal: a pneumatological exploration of vulnerability. The pairing of Spirit and vulnerability leads to the understanding that vulnerability is the realm of the Holy Spirit. Notions such as quality, transformation, vulnerability dialectics, beauty and danger turn out to be critical constituents of the bond between Spirit and vulnerability.","PeriodicalId":18902,"journal":{"name":"Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79772893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
It is not acceptable for Christians to live their lives in isolation. It is important, especially for Christians to participate in, to influence and to hold an opinion regarding the relevant issues in the world. When our magazines and newspapers report something new, Christians should become actively engaged and position themselves. When a women’s magazine published an article about spiritual intelligence being a demand of the twenty-first century, I wondered whether Christians could view themselves as spiritually intelligent. Therefore, this article seeks to offer an exploration of what spiritual intelligence entails and a determination of the relevance of Galatians 5:16-25 in this debate. The list of virtues in this passage offers a clear picture of what a Spirit-filled life should be. The latter appears to be synonymous with a spiritually mature life, as demanded by our modern world. Being a Christian improves the way one manages everyday problems in the world. It alters the way one conducts business. Christian spirituality (like many other forms of spirituality) can contribute to a successful and whole person, family, company, and nation.
{"title":"The relevance of Galatians 5:16-26 in the modern \"spiritual intelligence\" debate","authors":"E. Cornelius","doi":"10.5952/55-3-4-655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5952/55-3-4-655","url":null,"abstract":"It is not acceptable for Christians to live their lives in isolation. It\u0000 is important, especially for Christians to participate in, to influence and to hold an opinion\u0000 regarding the relevant issues in the world. When our magazines and newspapers report something\u0000 new, Christians should become actively engaged and position themselves. When a women’s magazine\u0000 published an article about spiritual intelligence being a demand of the twenty-first century, I\u0000 wondered whether Christians could view themselves as spiritually intelligent. Therefore, this\u0000 article seeks to offer an exploration of what spiritual intelligence entails and a determination\u0000 of the relevance of Galatians 5:16-25 in this debate. The list of virtues in this passage offers\u0000 a clear picture of what a Spirit-filled life should be. The latter appears to be synonymous with\u0000 a spiritually mature life, as demanded by our modern world. Being a Christian improves the way\u0000 one manages everyday problems in the world. It alters the way one conducts business. Christian\u0000 spirituality (like many other forms of spirituality) can contribute to a successful and whole\u0000 person, family, company, and nation.","PeriodicalId":18902,"journal":{"name":"Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75118578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The question regarding theodicy in Job as a challenge in regard to the borders between society and wilderness This article focuses on the first divine speech in Job (38-39:33). In this regard the first divine speech serves as polemics against the ruling Zeitgeist in post-exilic Israel. A message of hope, that urges Israel to focus her attention on the one sovereign God sprouts forth from it, morphing the first divine speech into a radical message of cultic and religious encouragement. The animals listed in Job 38-39:33 show similarities when their habitat is taken into account. Habitat outside of society and death as a conceptual location is linked to each other in various ways. The article attempts to show that concepts such as being clean or unclean is created through cultural processes of thought that links being clean with cosmic order and the presence of God. Cultic cleanness is linked with ‘society’. The antitheses of ‘society’ is ‘wilderness’. In Job 38-41 God cares for animals that live in the ‘wilderness’. The negative associations that Israel have towards ‘wilderness’ now stands in direct contrast towards God’s love and care. In this regard Israel’s perception of true cleanness and uncleanness is placed in the spotlight. Clean, unclean and right and wrong seems to be redefined and God claims authority over it all. Suffering, deserved or not and our negative feelings towards suffering is redefined, seeing that what we once thought was wrong and had negative feelings towards, just like uncleanness, now seems to be a part of the one sovereign God.
{"title":"Teodisee vraagstuk in Job as uitdaging aan die grense tussen samelewing(rein) en wildernis (onrein)","authors":"H. G. Pistorius, D. Human","doi":"10.5952/55-3-4-664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5952/55-3-4-664","url":null,"abstract":"The question regarding theodicy in Job as a challenge in\u0000 regard to the borders between society and wilderness This article\u0000 focuses on the first divine speech in Job (38-39:33). In this regard the first divine speech\u0000 serves as polemics against the ruling Zeitgeist in post-exilic Israel. A message of hope, that\u0000 urges Israel to focus her attention on the one sovereign God sprouts forth from it, morphing the\u0000 first divine speech into a radical message of cultic and religious encouragement. The animals\u0000 listed in Job 38-39:33 show similarities when their habitat is taken into account. Habitat\u0000 outside of society and death as a conceptual location is linked to each other in various ways.\u0000 The article attempts to show that concepts such as being clean or unclean is created through\u0000 cultural processes of thought that links being clean with cosmic order and the presence of God.\u0000 Cultic cleanness is linked with ‘society’. The antitheses of ‘society’ is ‘wilderness’. In Job\u0000 38-41 God cares for animals that live in the ‘wilderness’. The negative associations that Israel\u0000 have towards ‘wilderness’ now stands in direct contrast towards God’s love and care. \u0000 In this regard Israel’s perception of true cleanness and uncleanness is placed in the spotlight.\u0000 Clean, unclean and right and wrong seems to be redefined and God claims authority over it all.\u0000 Suffering, deserved or not and our negative feelings towards suffering is redefined, seeing that\u0000 what we once thought was wrong and had negative feelings towards, just like uncleanness, now\u0000 seems to be a part of the one sovereign God.","PeriodicalId":18902,"journal":{"name":"Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84644942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Indien u 'n gedrukte weergawe van 'n spesifieke volume wil bekom, kan u met Hester Nienaber skakel by ngtt@sun.ac.za If you require a printed copy of a particular edition of the NGTT please contact Hester Nienaber at ngtt@sun.ac.za
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