Browsing Faculty of Theology by Subject "Hermeneutics"

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    • Attempting to define a Pentecostal Hermeneutics 

      Nel, Marius (University of Stellenbosch, 2015)
      What is distinctive about Pentecostals' reading of the Bible? In what way do Pentecostal people read the Bible so that they reach different conclusions than believers of other denominations? Is it possible to speak of a ...

    • Die Gereformeerde Kerke in Suid-Afrika en vroue in die amp 1973-1988 

      Vorster, J.M. (Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2016)
      The matter of the ordination of women in the offices of pastor and elder has become a burning issue in the Reformed Churches in South Africa (Gereformeerde Kerke in Suid-Afrika). From 1973 to 2016 various Synods of this ...

    • Die Gereformeerde Kerke in Suid-Afrika en vroue in die amp 1994-2016 

      Vorster, J.M. (Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2016)
      The discussion of the inclusion of women in die offices of minister and elder has become an increasingly burning and dividing issue in the Reformed Churches in South Africa (Gereformeerde Kerke in Suid-Afrika) over the ...

    • Pentecostal hermeneutical considerations about women in ministry 

      Nel, Marius (The Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2017)
      At first, the Pentecostal movement made no distinction between genders in the ministry. Anyone anointed by the Spirit was allowed to minister, whether to pray for the sick, testify about an encounter with God, preach or ...

    • 'Pentecostal theology' as contradictio in terminis: a perspective on the past and present 

      Nel, Marius (University of Stellenbosch, 2017)
      The Pentecostal movement, especially in its early days, has been accused of anti-intellectualism and a lack of a developed theological tradition, and it is conceded that it is justifiably so. In the early movement, to speak ...

    • Was Phinehas a religious terrorist? In dialogue with Paul Cliteur 

      Vorster, J.M. (Koos) (Universiteit van Stellenbosch, 2013)
      The Dutch philosopher Paul Cliteur wrote a defence of secular thought in his recent book: “The secular outlook. In defence of moral and political secularism” (Chichester: Wiley- Blackwell, 2010). In this book he criticizes ...