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- ItemBinne die kring-dans van die kuns : die betekenis van estetika vir die gereformeerde liturgie(SUN PReSS, 2007) Cilliers, JohanGod lag op ’n koggelende wyse skreeusnaaks: dood waar is jou angel! Wie laaste lag, dit is die allerlaaste lag van vreugde. Johan wil in hierdie boek die gereformeerde teologie in die 21ste eeu laat lag. Want God se estetika spreek mense nie aan op wat hulle moet doen nie, hulle prestasies nie, maar op wie hulle is; deur die genade van God is ons wie ons is (1Kor 15:10). So prakties is die Praktiese Teologie van ’n kring-dans.
- ItemThe churches and the development debate : perspectives on a fourth generation approach(SUN PReSS, 2006) Swart, IgnatiusBOOK BLURB: This book newly addresses the question about the Christian churches' participation in development. The innovative element of this reflection is the way in which the author finds meaning and significance, particularly in the concept of a fourth generation approach to strategic development engagement. The book's essential argument is that a fourth generation strategy - an approach that makes the contemporary social or peopls's movements the primary subjects of its development action and theory - holds the greatest prospect for authentic participation by the Christian churches in development. Development, now more than anything else, is viewed in terms of a 'politics of ideas', as a condition of change to be brought about by the power of ideas, values, (transformed) relationships and communication.
- ItemGod for us : an analysis and assessment of Dutch Reformed preaching during the apartheid years(SUN PReSS, 2006) Cilliers, JohanPreaching reveals, amongst other things, the state of the heart of the church – whether it be healthy or ailing. Sermons from the South African apartheid era, taken from the official mouthpiece of the Dutch Reformed Church (Die Kerkbode), as preached during the years 1960 to 1980 reveal a church sickened by an ideology that had a devastating effect on the country as a whole. In this book, these sermons are analyzed in depth, following a method of “close reading” that not only takes the linguistic detail of each sermon very seriously, but also the theological perspectives conveyed by these details. These analyses bring to light the way preachers made use of biblical texts to sanction national ideals, to create and perpetuate selective God-images, and to stabilize a certain identity during a time of crises. It is saddening and shocking to read and relive these sermons, even after 12 years of democracy in South Africa. But it must not be erased from our memory too quickly. The church cannot do without remembrance. It watches over the state of her heart.
- ItemHIV/AIDS, poverty and pastoral care & counselling : a home-based and congregational systems ministerial approach in Africa(SUN PReSS, 2007) Magezi, VhumaniBOOK BLURB: Statistical data confirms beyond a doubt that sub-Saharan Africa is a very poor region with the highest HIV/AIDS prevalence in the world. The region has poor and limited health facilities and resources (personnel and financial). such a scenario is conducive to the increase of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. HIV/AIDS and poverty are intricately linked and they interplay. Responding effectively to the situation requires a relevant, applicable and holistic model. This publication carefully describes the HIV/AIDS pandemic and how it is understood in some African contexts, which hampers prevention initiatives. Is also delineates the complex nature of the poverty and HIV/AIDS interplay. To address the situation, a family systems practical ecclesiological theology and approach to HIV/AIDS ministry, and a pastoral counselling approach that derives from and is sensitive to the African context, are proposed. The proposed model comprises congregational home-based pastoral care that integrates the church and African extended family systems for effective HIV/AIDS ministry.
- ItemInterdisciplinary reflections on the interplay between religion, film and youth(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2019) Cloete, AnitaThe relationship between the media and religion in a contemporary world is not only obvious, but also complex. In a culture that increasingly focuses on visual media, film plays a salient role in forging notions of identity and creates a sense of community in younger generations. In this book, an interdisciplinary team of scholars delve deep into the relationship amongst younger individuals from different countries, universities and disciplines, as well the influence of film on their developing worldview. The publication ultimately portrays the media as an agent of cultural and religious change, underscoring the necessity of critical, contextual and interdisciplinary reflection on the interplay between the media and religion.
- ItemDie lewende stem van die evangelie : nuut gedink oor die basiese beginsels van prediking(SUN PRESS, 2004) Cilliers, JohanIn hierdie hoofstuk word inleidend geluister na ’n aantal kritiese stemme wat teenoor die prediking opklink, naamlik vanuit: ■ Die sosiale wetenskappe, veral met betrekking tot die verskynsel van postmodernisme ■ Die kommunikasiewetenskappe, veral in die lig van die kultuur van beelde ■ Die teologiese wetenskappe, veral ten opsigte van huidige tendense ■ Die kerkbanke, met gewone lidmate se ervarings, en ■ Ander pastorale faktore, veral met die oog op die eise wat aan predikers gestel word Die hoofstuk sluit af met ’n alternatiewe perspektief: prediking as die hart en hoop van die kerk.
- ItemThe living voice of the Gospel : revisiting the basic principles of preaching(SUN Press, 2004) Cilliers, JohanBOOK BLURB: Preaching - described here in Johan Cilliers's groundbreaking new book as the heart and soul of the church - requires both constant revision and fidelity to principles. Hence this book's subtitle: 'Revisiting the basic principles of preaching'.
- ItemMaking and sharing the space among men and women : some challenges for the South African church environment(SUN PReSS, 2007) Ericson, MariaBOOK BLURB: The aim of this book is to explore how contemporary notions of reconciliation as a process of building, rebuilding and transorming relationships in the pursuit of a "just peace", or God's shalom, may be applied not only to "race" but also to gender relations in post-apartheid and post-TRC South Africa. After highlighting links between the past, the present and the future with regards to such relations in wider South Africa society, critical questions are asked about the churches as spaces and agents of a gener-inclusive shalom. The focus is on two crucial issues: the potential of South African churches to be "safe spaces" for abused women and children, and their potential to be spaces for women and men to encounter each other in non-stereotypical roles. This critical examination is inspired by interviews with, and writings by, South African women active in various church environments and/or in the field of theology and religious studies. What lessons and challenges do they present with regard to " beig church in South Africa today"?
- ItemPreaching promise within the paradoxes of life(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2018) Cilliers, Johan; Hansen, LenParadoxes have become characteristic of the world we live in – poverty and privilege, empire and oppression, migration and enclaveseeking, war and peace, justice and injustice, reconciliation and revenge. During the 2016 Societas Homiletica annual conference held in South Africa, these paradoxes served as a rediscovery of the calling of preachers to deliver the promise that lies within life’s contradictions. A divine promise brought forth by the grace of God and the gospel of Christ – embodied in and through us by the Spirit of Christ. This promise may take many forms and calls for discernment and often interrupts the status quos in surprising, shocking ways. It is a promise that interrupts, in order to comfort.
- ItemResistance to and acquiescence in apartheid : St. Paul's Theological College, Grahamstown, 1965-92(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2018) Mbaya, Henry HastingsThis book documents the history of a major Provincial Anglican theological college in Grahamstown – St. Paul’s Theological College – that existed against the backdrop of colonialism and apartheid. The author fundamentally attempts to explore a narrative of certain socio-economic, cultural and political struggles. He contextualises the mission of the Church in theological education during a period of deeply rooted inequality. Thus, one is left to ask the question: What missionary role did St. Paul’s College play in the context of apartheid.
- ItemThe restoration of the dry bones in Ezekiel 37:1-14 : an exegetical and theological analysis(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2019) Biwul, Joel Kamsen TihitshakThe visionary presentation of "Dry Bones" in Ezekiel 37 presupposes the possibility of the restoration of Yahweh’s covenant people to their ancestral land in ancient Palestine. What, therefore, is the underpinning theological significance? Using an exegetical and theological analysis, this article argues that the Babylonian captivity had a divine retributive and punitive purpose for a dissident covenant people, and, ultimately, achieved the recognition of the prophetic formula in Ezekiel. It concludes that only Yahweh, acting in his divine economy, and through his divine method, reserved the prerogative to reverse the unfortunate exilic condition of Israel. Bewildered and pessimistic readers should therefore acknowledge the display of this unitary divine sovereignty.
- ItemThe tenderness of conscience : African renaissance and the spirituality of politics(SUN PRESS, 2005) Boesak, AllanBOOK BLURB: With this book theologian and political observer Allan Boesak once again displays the strengths of his writings that were evident in the seventies and eighties: bringing Christian theology to bear on the political and socio-economic realities of our world. This time the emphasis falls on President Thabo Mbeki’s idea and ideal of an African Renaissance and its interaction with globalization, continental politics and the political dynamics in South Africa as they pertain to the burning issues of our time: reconciliation, the role of the church in post-apartheid South Africa, the centrality of religious faith in the struggle for freedom, and Allan Boesak’s assertion that “just as we had a spirituality of struggle, so South Africa needs a spirituality of politics”. The Tenderness of Conscience is a passionate, eloquent and entirely convincing book, not just in its treatment of the issues, but also in its forthright and mind-broadening conversation with President Thabo Mbeki. It is a clarion call for the transformational presence of the religious voice in politics – a voice that speaks up for the well-being of the entire nation.
- ItemTiming grace : reflections on the temporality of preaching(AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2019) Cilliers, JohanIn this companion volume to A Space for Grace, Johan Cilliers delves into some of the most profound theological underpinnings of preaching. Drawing on his extraordinary depth and breadth of scholarship, Cilliers examines the aesthetic, qualitative, and relational dimensions of sermonic time. Faithful preaching, he argues, is an art of speaking the now of grace, which is inextricably linked to past and future, but is simultaneously a dynamic event filled with the revelatory presence of God. Along with helpful reflections on pieces of visual art, Cilliers provides numerous sample sermons, as well as several detailed sermon analyses.
- ItemDie vlug van Gods verbeelding(SUN MeDIA, 2005) Boesak, AllanINLEIDING: Ons Afrikaanse koerante staan deesdae bol van lesersbriewe uit bepaalde kringe van die kerk wat reageer op artikels van en oor teoloë oor dinge wat vir ons geloof van fundamentele belang is: die skepping, die historiese Jesus, die gesag van die Skrifte en die opstanding. Ek kan nie sê hoe bly ek oor dié ontwikkeling is nie. Dit beteken immers dat teologiese debatte oor sake wat die hart van die geloof raak, nie meer slegs in geleerde boeke, vakteologiese artikels en lesinglokale gevoer word nie. “Gewone” Christene praat saam, en dit is uiters belangrik.