(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2010-12) Buys, Barend Rudolf; Cilliers, Johan; University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Theology. Dept. of Practical Theology and Missiology.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Language serves as a primary medium for humanity to find and communicate meaning. To use
language in such a way that an experience of vitality becomes possible for people requires particular
understandings of the nature and role of language as medium and framework that mediates the
existence of man in the presence of God, rather than merely a consideration of language as medium
of communication between persons.
The study aims to defend a particular approach to language and language activity by exploring
various subject disciplines with the purpose of mediating church practice of communicating the
gospel in current contexts.
The investigation is done with a practical theological approach and aims to prove as valid the spatial
evolutionary understanding of language.