Browsing Research Output by Subject "Peace"
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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 ... -
"Not peace but a sword": Jesus and the sword in Matthew
(New Testament Society of Southern Africa, 2015)South African society is characterised by the violence of crime, poverty and inequality as well as civil rebellion and disobedience, posing the question to Christians whether they should and may participate in violence ... -
The psychology of forgiveness and its importance in South Africa
(Sage, 2017)The purpose of this qualitative review is to stimulate empirical research on forgiveness within South Africa (and other portions of Africa). The article explores a Western understanding of the psychology of forgiveness, ... -
The secular and the sacred in the thinking of John Milbank: a critical evaluation
(SCIRI, 2012)This article examines John Milbank's deconstruction of secular social theory, and the counter master narrative that he proposes. Milbank depicts secular social theory as based on an ontology of 'violence'. Instead, he ... -
Swaarde wat in ploegskare verander, is nie vrede nie - Vrede (שָׁלֹום) in Jesaja 40-66
(AOSIS, 2015)‘Swords being turned into ploughshares’ are often portrayed as being tantamount to peace. Peace though has got a more extensive meaning than only the absence of war. Whilst war and destruction is on the forefront in Isaiah ...