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The neglected heritage: an examination of the Anabaptist roots of the South African Baptist churches

Kretzschmar, Louise (Studia Historae Ecclesiasticae, 1990)

This article concentrates on the predominantly white Baptist Union of South Africa. Attention is first given to the debate concerning the historical association between the English Baptists and the Anabaptists. Then the ...
The researcher: engaged participant or detached observer?

Dreyer, Jaco S. (Brill Online Books and Journals, 1998)

The relationship between the researcher and the researched is one of the fundamental methodological issues which distinguish different approaches to empirical enquiry. Methodological debates on this issues usually contrast ...
Interreligious orientations among South African youth

Dreyer, Jaco S. Pieterse, Hendrik J.C. van der Ven, Johannes A. (Brill Online Books and Journals, 1999)

In this article we investigate the interreligious orientations of a sample of 538 students from Standard 9 (Grade 11) who attended Anglican and Catholic schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region during 1995. In the first ...
Interreligious orientations among South African youth: Expressions of religious identity

Dreyer, Jaco S. van der Ven, Johannes A. Pieterse, Hendrik J.C. (Brill Online Books and Journals, 2002)

In a religiously plural world it is important to ask how people of different faiths and with different religious identities can live justly and harmoniously together. In this article we take as point of departure that there ...
Integrity and consensus : a Christian perspective on ethical management and education in South Africa

Kretzschmar, Louise (Koers, 2002)

In this article the compliance- and values-based approaches to ethical management are explained and the challenges of the contemporary business and societal contexts in South Africa noted. The need for both moral integrity ...
Human rights: A channel for salvation?

Dreyer, Jaco S. van der Ven, Johannes A. Pieterse, Hendrik J.C. (Brill Online Books and Journals, 2003)

In the light of many severe social-economic and health problems many South Africans today experience a situation of helplessness and despair. In the face of these problems we ask whether there is a better solution than ...
Aspects of a discipleship-pedagogic in the formation of disciples in a postmodern society

Dames, Gordon Ernest (Dames GE, 2004)

The aim of this article is to propose critical disciples that can live faithful, moral and purposeful lives in a postmodern world. Christian education functions today in a postmodern society, characterized by a multicultural ...
Religious socialisation and the ongoing quest for a human rights culture in South Africa.

Dreyer, Jaco S. van der Ven, Johannes A. Pieterse, Hendrik J.C. (Sabinet Online, 2004)

The aim of this paper is to explore the role of religious socialisation, approached from a social learning perspective, towards establishing a human rights culture in South Africa. On the basis of longitudinal survey ...
A holistic practical pedagogical moral approach : The Lord’s Prayer as an example for a moral formative Christian practice

Dames, Gordon E (Dames GE, 2005)

Young Christians live today in a pluralistic society and face diverse moral challenges. These challenges and contextual issues are making the application of traditional norms and values a difficult exercise. This article ...
A holistic practical pedagogical moral approach : the Lord’s Prayer as an example for a moral formative Christian practice

Dames, Gordon E (Practical Theology in South Africa, 2005)

Our society is no longer characterised by a safe and secure environment in which shared values and norms apply everywhere and to everybody (Alma & Heitink 1998:27; Ter Horst 1997). The children and young people of today ...
Designing a Religious Pedagogical Communicative Methodology : A Transformative Reciprocal Methodology for Religious Pedagogical work with Gangsters

Dames, Gordon Ernest (Dutch Reformed Theological Journal, 46 (3 & 4)., 2005)

Macmaster’s (2003:60) insights into the phenomenon of gangsterism in our society make an important contribution to practical theology. Gangsterism is a common reality, which traumatises the lives of peoples in the poorer ...
What can theological educators in Africa learn from the contemporary upsurge of interest in Christian Ethics and Spirituality?

Kretzschmar, Louise (Theologia Viatorum, 2005)

This article links the work of theological educators to both the social challenges facing African societies and recent developments in Christian Ethics and Spirituality - within a global and African context. It notes key ...
Peculiarities in the African Pentecostal tradition : disciplinal and decolonial perspectives

Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon (2005-07-14)

The African Pentecostal tradition as a distinct movement within the Protestant tradition is discussed here from a disciplinal and a decolonial perspectives. The characteristics that inform this distinction are explored in ...
Spiritual Direction: Assumptions And Application

Naidoo, Marilyn (Practical Theology in South Africa, 2005-09-30)

People are hungry for authentic spiritual companionship. Many are concerned about the coarseness of larger culture and the pace of life--they desire to slow down and notice more about who they are and how to be connected ...
The evil of violence. A trigger for a human rights culture?

van der Ven, Johannes A. Dreyer, Jaco S. Pieterse, Hennie J.C. (Brill Online Books and Journals, 2006)

This article seeks to answer the following question: to what extent does the interpretation of violence as evil contribute – positively, negatively or not at all – to a human rights culture among some 2000 grade 11 students ...
Practical catechesis for a postmodern faith community: Ploeger’s religious pedagogical methodology for practical catechesis

Gordon E Dames (Practical Theology in South Africa, 2006)

Deep changes in the worldviews of older persons, young people and children characterise their lives in a postmodern world. The authority in homes, churches, schools and society is being questioned. In North America “at ...
RESEARCH REPORT: WORKSHOP ON ETHICAL LEADERSHIP IN AND THROUGH YOUTH (GEORGE, EDEN MUNICIPALITY)

ELP, Ethical Leadership Project (Ethical Leadership Project, 2006-11-27)

George, Knys na and Mossel Bay are municipalities within the Western Cape Province and are situated approximately 550 km outside of Cape Town. These respective municipalities have rich histories originating from the early ...
The Healing Work Of Spiritual Direction

Naidoo, Marilyn (Practical Theology in South Africa Vol 21 (3, December):139-154, 2006-12-03)

The goal of all spiritual care is spiritual well-being and spiritual health. Spiritual direction is important in this regard as it emphasises developing one's relationship with God which inevitably leads to greater ...
New frontiers for mission in the postmodern era – creating sustainable communities Partnership for missional church

Dames, Gordon Ernest (Dames GE, 2007)

The crisis of today’s church is a crisis of vocation. The church is called to participate in God’s mission. PMC guides local congregations to engage on a journey of spiritual discernment to become missional congregations. ...
Report on Ethical Leadership in and through Labour Conference

Dames, Gordon E (The Ethical Leadership Project, 2007-04-03)

The objective of the conference was to explore whether existing labour practices amongst the leadership in the labour movement is also aimed at: 1. contributing in and through ethical labour practices to a morally ...

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