Research Institute for Theology and Religion: Recent submissions

  • Overcoming theological voicelessness in the new millennium 
    Kritzinger, J. N. J. (Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus), 1950- (2012)
    This opening paper of the Voicelessness conference in October 2011 gives an introduction to the theme. After tracing the semantic fields in which “voicelessness” is used, the paper develops a “phenomenology” of the ...
  • Mission as ... must we choose? 
    Kritzinger, J. N. J. (Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus), 1950- (2011)
    This paper explores three approaches to the theology of mission that use the phrase “mission as …” to descr be the basic nature of (or indicate the diversity within) the encompassing mission of God. The views analysed ...
  • Human freedom and the freedom of natural processes : on omnicausality, a-causality and God's omnipotence 
    Du Toit, C. W. (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)
    The article traces the development of causality in physical science and examines its functioning in theology, as well as its demand for a different approach to power, especially the omnipotence and omnicausality of God. ...
  • On emergence and eschatology : something has to give ... 
    Veldsman, Danie, 1959- (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)
    Emergence and eschatology – and their connection - represent most probably two of the most difficult topics to explore within the current lively and intense ongoing science-religion dialogue. In this article the challenge ...
  • Emergence as a challenge to the legacy of Christian dogmatics 
    Bentley, Wessel (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)
    In this article, the tension between the notions of emergence and Christian dogmatics is discussed. Christian dogmatics serves the function of grounding the Christian faith in its historic identity, guarding against ...
  • Evolution and emergence : a paradigm shift for theology 
    Shutte, Augustine, 1938-2016 (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)
    Since the time of Darwin the conception of evolution has devel-oped beyond the boundaries of science to include philosophy and now theology in its scope. After noting the positive reception of the evolutionary idea by ...
  • Emergence and new concepts of God : examples from the Old Testament 
    Gericke, Jaco (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)
    In this article, the author looks at “emergence” in the context of new concepts of God in the Old Testament. Within biblical scholarship, various types of emergence are alluded to in various methodological reductions, ...
  • Emergence and culture : implications for Africa 
    Tshehla, Sam (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)
    “What if Africa were to become the hub for global science?” is the title of a recent BBC News report. It is inspired by “real, serious scientific work ... taking place now in sub-Saharan Africa,” which raises the question ...
  • Emergence as cornerstone in understanding evolution : examples from zoology 
    Durand, Francois (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)
    Science is the way in which humankind explore and understand the physical universe. The biological sciences and especially the zoological sciences provide us with an understanding of ourselves – how we function, how ...
  • New spirituality as an example of emergence in Christian religion 
    Jacobs, Jeremy (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)
    Evolutionary theory and its accretion into various theories of emergence, particularly in brain and consciousness studies, are placing increasing pressure on religion’s maintenance of Essentialist or dual-substance ...
  • Dealing with emergence and complexity in the humanities 
    Van Niekerk, Petro (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)
    This paper aims to explore relevant emergence metaphors with a view to apply these to the humanities in general and to education and schooling in particular. I firstly unpacked the grammar of emergence, by explaining a ...
  • Emergence and the human genome 
    Gericke, G. S. (George S.) (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)
    The (human) genome functions as an open system within human nutritional, economic, cultural, intellectual and emotional contexts. Of profound importance is the extent of free will that emerged with our cognitive ...
  • Cul-de-sac of causal thinking : challenge to build a a-causal theology 
    Du Toit, C. W. (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)
    The nascent concept of emergence is not only a plausible model of the course of natural and biological processes, but also of developments at an interpersonal and social level. In order to apply it to theology I propose ...
  • Physics and emergence 
    Tonsing, Detlev (Research Institute for Theology and Religion, 2013-11)
    This paper does three things: It distinguishes between weak and strong emergence; It sketches arguments proposed against strong emergence, and adumbrates a counter; It sketches the physical characteristics that strongly ...
  • Victorian biblical scholarship in twentieth-century South Africa: Ramsden Balmforth's advocacy of New Testament higher criticism 
    Hale, Frederick (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-08)
    Debates in South Africa over Biblical scholarship have often been a subject of historical inquiry. John Colenso’s challenges to the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch are well known, and in the Dutch Reformed tradition ...
  • The centenary of Amadodana in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa: development and influence of this movement 
    Madise, Mokhele (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-08)
    The establishment of the mining industry in South Africa gave birth to a new movement in the Methodist Church, a movement that was mainly made up of men. This movement emerged as a result of men in the mining compounds ...
  • Meeting the Cowboy Turned Renegade Missionary: William Cullen Wilcox 
    Kumalo, Simangaliso (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-08)
    The Rev. William Cullen Wilcox is a relatively unknown missionary of the American Board Mission. He left an indelible legacy in South Africa as an initiator of mission stations, a land activist, and mentor to John ...
  • The journey of South African women academics with particular focus on women academics in theological education 
    Naicker, Linda (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-08)
    The aims of this article are twofold. Firstly, in this article, I shall examine the historical experiences of discrimination against women academics in higher education in South Africa, which will include discussing their ...
  • The search for truth: in conversation with Cornel du Toit 
    Bentley, Wessel (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-08)
    Cornel du Toit is an exploratory thinker. He is a wide thinker, who refuses to be confined by the limitations of a specific discipline or dogma. In the years that I have worked with Du Toit, I have found his work to be ...
  • A semiotic notion of transcendence 
    Conradie, Ernst M (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-08)
    As the title indicates, this contribution explores a semiotic notion of transcendence. It is argued that experiences of transcendence are quite common and that notions of transcendence are highly significant since they ...

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