Browsing by Author "Durand, Jaap"

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    Doodloopstrate van die geloof : 'n perspektief op die nuwe hervorming
    (AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2005) Durand, Jaap
    VOORWOORD: Met sy nuutste publikasie lewer Jaap Durand andermaal ’n stimulerende bydrae tot die Suid-Afrikaanse gesprek oor Christelike geloofskwessies. Hy skryf saaklik, maar simpatiek, met begrip vir die intellektuele kwellinge van soekers en twyfelaars. Hy maak aan die een kant geen geheim daarvan dat hy self die Christelike oortuigings in die Apostoliese Geloofsbelydenis huldig nie.
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    Hoe my gedagtewereld verander het : van ewige waarhede tot gekontekstualiseerde metafore
    (Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2002) Durand, Jaap
    My theological work during a period of approximately four and a half decades has gone through three phases of different theological methodologies. The first phase had to do with the methodology of theological principles derived from the scholasticism of post-Reformation orthodoxy in which the Bible became the depository of eternal truths. In the second phase I discovered that the Reformed faith contained more than the acceptance of a number of eternal truths, but that it is also a way of dealing with the biblical message in a dynamic process of hermeneutical contextualising. The latter method provided a far more incisive way of treating the South African apartheid situation from a theological perspective. The condemnation of apartheid as a heresy and the acceptance of the Belhar Confession must be seen within the parameters of this method. The final stage combines the method of historical contextualisation with the idea of the metaphor as a typical language phenomenon in which we try to express the inexpressible.
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    Many faces of God: highways and byways on the route toward an orthodox image of God in the history of Christianity from the first to the seventeenth century
    (SUN PReSS, 2007) Durand, Jaap
    BOOK BLURB: Since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, theologians and philosophers have brought about profound changes in the discourse about God. The orthodox image of God, developed in the previous seventeen centuries in Roman Catholicism, as well as within Protestantism, has come under great pressure, but it would be wrong to think that this image is no longer relevant and that only a few conservative Christians hold on to it.