Browsing Research Output by Subject "Postmodernism"
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Ontology goes postmodern in ICT
(ACM Press, 2010)This paper investigates the move from philosophical ontology to information systems ontologies. Ontology has traditionally been (and still is) a philosophical discipline that studies the nature of existence. In a certain ... -
Postmodern relativism and the challenge to overcome the “value vacuum”
(University of Stellenbosch, 2015)Making use of hermeneutic phenomenology and constructive interpretivism as methodological apparatus, this article challenges the premise that postmodern relativism supposedly created a “value-vacuum”. We conclude that while ... -
Postmodern relativism and the challenge to overcome the “value-vacuum”
(University of Stellenbosch, 2015)Making use of hermeneutic phenomenology and constructive interpretivism as methodological apparatus, this article challenges the premise that postmodern relativism supposedly created a “value-vacuum”. We conclude that while ... -
Postmodernism and the need for story and promise: how Robert Jenson's theology addresses some postmodern challenges to faith
(Fakulteit Teologie, Universiteit van die Vrystaat, 2012)Modernity's belief that we live in a narratable world (a world with a story) and its confidence in progress (a world with a promise), are terminated by postmodernism's insights. This is how the American Lutheran theologian ... -
South African Reformed Baptists and contextualisation: contemporary understanding, attitudes and praxis
(AOSIS, 2016)Postmodernism and urbanisation pose significant challenges and opportunities to Christian witness in the West. In South Africa, Reformed Baptists as well as the Reformed Churches in South Africa (RCSA) seem to be battling ... -
Time and space - The context of Hans Roosenschoon's music
(2014)This essay pays tribute to Hans Roosenschoon who celebrated his 60th birthday in December 2012. In contrast to conventional approaches that focus on local ideologies and local political issues, the essay explores the ...