Browsing Research Output by Subject "Hermeneutics"
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Attempting to define a Pentecostal Hermeneutics
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Grammaties–historiese eksegese: quid est et quo vadis?
(OASIS, 2011)This article investigates the grammatical-historical method of biblical interpretation. The aim is to indicate certain problems in the approach through critical investigation and to make suggestions regarding changes to ... -
Methodologies of Targeting Neoclassicist Voltaire's Twisted Hermeneutic for Targeting Criminal Christianity
(AOSIS, 2015)This article is the third of four written to line up two extremes in the history of methodology: early 20th century Pragmatism and late-Renaissance militarism, filling in the middle period, focusing on Voltaire and the ... -
Pentecostal hermeneutical considerations about women in ministry
(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
(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 ... -
Voltaire: natural scientific light against Christian criminality methodologies of targeting
(AOSIS/KOERS Society of South Africa, 2015)Western thought, since the Renaissance, shows a repeated development of methods aimed at attacking Christianity, from Machiavelli’s Classicist militarism up to William James’ ‘empty’ Pragmatism. Methods have aims, and aims ... -
Was Phinehas a religious terrorist? In dialogue with Paul Cliteur
(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 ...