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Retos y soluciones de la subtitulación en árabe
Authors: Jawad Thanoon Akram
Published: August 2023

Un traductor responsable ha de poseer un alto y cualificado conocimiento de las dos lenguas en cuyo trasvase trabaja. El ejercicio de la traducción audiovisual exige al traductor estar suficientemente familiarizado con el registro del uso cotidiano que los nativos hacen de su lengua. La disponibilidad de diccionarios y glosarios especializados en el uso cotidiano y la facilidad de acceder a los mismos ayudan, sin lugar a duda, a vencer muchos de los obstáculos con que se enfrenta el traductor constantemente. Pero lo esencial para la destreza del buen traductor radica en el grado de su familiaridad e interacción activa con la lengua extranjera que vierte a su propia lengua.
los Alpes a los Andes: Cuando Adán y Eva pasan "del gallo al burro", o la ardua tarea del traductor
Authors: Bourgue Stéphane
Published: August 2023

Este artículo se propone presentar y explicar el porqué de algunas expresiones familiares que usan la vía animalista para aludir al comportamiento amoroso y sexual del ser humano. Se trata de un estudio que abarca dos lenguas, el francés que se habla en Francia, y el español que se usa en Colombia. Se abordan varios temas en relación con el campo léxico del amor y de la sexualidad. A cada expresión francesa se asocia una expresión colombiana que le corresponde desde un punto de vista semántico. Unas precisiones lingüísticas y culturales las acompañan, con el objetivo de entender porqué el francés y el español, de un continente a otro, tienen a veces discrepancias en la manera de percibir un animal, o diferencias en la manera de representar por medio de las bestias ciertas características del hombre. Un análisis que se centra en un registro familiar y que, al fin y al cabo, nos debe permitir decidir sobre la importancia de la cultura en el acto traductivo.
Programa de especialización en traducción
Authors: Rodríguez Camacho Emma
Published: August 2023

Resumen:La "Especialización en Traducción" se creó en 1994 con el fin de formar traductores profesionales que respondan a la demanda de traducciones en las áreas comerciales, académicas, técnicas, científicas y culturales en el ámbito regional y nacional. El programa está destinado a profesionales de diferentes disciplinas y áreas del saber que desean desempeñarse como traductores. El programa de Especialización en Traducción de la Universidad del Valle tiene una duración de tres (3) semestres y 30 créditos. Otorga el titulo de Especialista en Traducción a todos aquellos estudiantes que hayan aprobado el total de los créditos de acuerdo con la Resolución del Consejo Académico 107 de junio 17 de 2004 (que modificó la estructura curricular aprobada por Res.037 de septiembre 28 de 1995) hasta la fecha ha formado 5 cohortes de un promedio de 10 estudiantes por grupo.Resumo: A "Especialização em Tradução" foi criada em 1994, com o fim de formar tradutores profissionais que respondessem à demanda de traduções nas áreas comerciais, acadêmicas, técnicas, científicas e culturais, tanto no âmbito regional como no nacional. O programa está destinado aos profissionais de diferentes disciplinas e áreas de saber que desejem atuar como tradutores. O programa de "Especialização em Tradução", da Universidad del Valle, tem uma duração de três (3) semestres e 30 créditos. Outorga o título de Especialista em Tradução a todos aqueles estudantes que tenham sido aprovados no total dos créditos, de acordo com a Resolução do Conselho Acadêmico 107, de 17 de junho de 2004 (que modificou a estrutura curricular aprovada pela Resolução 037 de 28 de setembro de 1995). Até a presente data foram formadas cinco coortes de uma média de 10 estudantes por cada uma.
Garcilaso de la Vega traductor
Authors: Silva-Santisteban Ricardo
Published: August 2023

El Inca Garcilaso es presentado en este artículo como actor de la historia de la traducción peruana en el siglo XVI. El trabajo de Garcilaso está marcado por una búsqueda de la armonía, partiendo del bilingüismo quechúa-español del que hace gala y de toda su formación humamística, además de conocimientos de otras lenguas, entre ellas el italiano y el latín. El Inca ejerce la traducción, en un comienzo por el placer de traducir la belleza que leía en otras lenguas, pero que luego se convierte en un trabajo sistemático y reflexivo. Traduce versos con la fluidez de un poeta, pero además analiza y comenta muchas otras traducciones de palabras quechuas. El Inca es, pues, presentado en este artículo como escritor, traductor y crítico que participa con su trabajo en la construcción de una Edad de Oro de las letras peruanas.
Borges ante el río de Heráclito
Authors: Gómez Montoya John Jairo
Published: August 2023

El objetivo de este trabajo es examinar algunos aspectos de la obra de Borges y demostrar la primacía que en esta tiene el tema del tiempo. Uno de los signos del predominio del tema del tiempo en la obra de Borges es el lugar privilegiado que en esta ocupa la metáfora del río y el tiempo formulada por Heráclito.  Por tal razón, el eje de esta investigación es la traducción y el análisis del fragmento de Heráclito en el cual se enuncia aquella metáfora.  Con este análisis, intento mostrar que la metáfora del río y el tiempo es el resultado de una marcha en el seno de la lengua griega, tender un puente entre la antigüedad griega y la obra de Borges y justificar la filiación de esta con una poética del agua. Intento, también, exponer la unidad que rige la obra de Borges, señalando el vínculo indisoluble que hay entre algunos de sus temas, rasgos estilísticos y técnicos con su tema principal: el tiempo.
Woolf, Borges y Orlando. La manipulación antes del manipulacionismo
Authors: Badenes Guillermo , Coisson Josefina
Published: August 2023

Jorge Luis Borges tradujo la novela Orlando: A Biography, de Virginia Woolf, nueve años luego de la publicación del original en 1928. La traducción del argentino hace gala de una serie de técnicas de traducción peculiares y, hasta hoy, innovadoras. Es que en general estos procedimientos acercan al traductor a una posición de transcreador del original, una suerte de arquitecto que reescribe la “versión” de Woolf. Asimismo, y como extensión de esta idea, esta comunicación propone revisar la forma en que Borges reinterpreta la cuestión de género que postula Woolf en su novela. El carácter personal que el escritor le imprimió a la apropiación de su obra traducida se vislumbra como una reescritura sesgada por su visión del mundo que lo rodeaba.
estética de la irreverencia: maltraducir desde los márgenes
Authors: Waisman Sergio , Cohen Marcelo
Published: August 2023

Nos proponemos indagar la potencia que los postulados irreverentes borgianos aportan a la periferia geopolítica y literaria. Veremos que la esencia del potencial de la periferia radica en la conflictiva dualidad de lo local y lo extranjero (en el caso de Borges, lo argentino y lo europeo). Tradicionalmente se considera que la práctica de la traducción resulta en versiones derivadas o inferiores, pero leyendo con Borges se ve que bien puede ser motor de innovaciones, en la medida en que desafíe políticamente la preponderancia del centro, los enfoques tradicionales sobre influencia y originalidad y las determinaciones preestablecidas de valor estético y formación del canon. Se trata pues de analizar el valor de los márgenes y el valor de la traducción.
Exactitud diagnóstica de una escala institucional de cribado nutricional
Authors: Giraldo Villa Adriana , López Gómez Lina Marcela , Yepes Delgado Carlos Enrique
Published: August 2023

Introducción: entre los métodos de evaluación nutricional, se encuentra la valoración global subjetiva (VGS). La subjetividad propia de esta herramienta ha llevado a realizar adaptaciones en busca de objetivar el riesgo nutricional. Este trabajo buscó determinar la exactitud diagnóstica de una escala institucional para el cribado nutricional, propuesta por un hospital de tercer y cuarto nivel de complejidad. Materiales y métodos: estudio de corte trasversal. Se analizaron 310 pacientes, a quienes se les aplicó la VGS y la escala institucional. Se realizó el cálculo de sensibilidad, especificidad, valor predictivo positivo, valor predictivo negativo y determinación del área bajo la curva (AUC). Resultados: cuando se aplicó la VGS el riesgo de desnutrición fue 47,1% y la desnutrición 15,8%, con la escala institucional el riesgo fue 39,4% y la desnutrición 15,2%. La sensibilidad dela escala institucional para detectar el riesgo nutricional y la desnutrición fue de 75,4%, y la curva ROC indicó un valor aceptable de discriminación AUC: 0,78 (IC 95% 0,73-0,84). Conclusión: comparado con la VGS, la escala institucional es una herramienta con exactitud diagnóstica aceptable que permite detectar de manera práctica y segura el riesgo nutricional en pacientes adultos hospitalizados para derivar intervenciones terapéuticas oportunas.
Situación alimentaria y nutricional en Colombia desde la perspectiva de los determinantes sociales de la salud
Authors: Álvarez Castaño Luz Stella , Pérez Isaza Elsury Johanna
Published: August 2023

La Organización Mundial de la Salud ha propuesto el marco teórico de los determinantes sociales de la salud como campo para la investigación y la acción, con el objetivo de disminuir las inequidades en la situación de salud entre regiones, países, grupos y clases sociales. En el presente artículo se propone un esquema para el estudio de la situación nutricional y alimentaria en Colombia desde la perspectiva de los determinantes sociales, asumiendo que dicha situación es el resultado de procesos y fenómenos de orden mundial y local. Igualmente se presentan datos actualizados sobre algunos factores sociales y económicos, para mayor comprensión de su relevancia en el proceso de determinación y distribución de la situación alimentaria y nutricional colombiana. Los datos fueron tomados de fuentes secundarias, especialmente de organismos multilaterales de sectores sociales, agrícolas y alimentarios y de instituciones gubernamentales y no gubernamentales del orden nacional.
To vaccinate or not to vaccinate:
Authors: Andrew Daniel
Published: August 2023

Faith communities are challenged during the COVID-19 pandemic to urge their members to take a decision to vaccinate or not to vaccinate. The relationship between religion and medical sciences, especially with regard to vaccination, has not always complemented one another, but there is general agreement amongst religions that vaccination is acceptable to save lives. The purpose of vaccination is to secure herd or population immunity, but the spread of misinformation about vaccines and conspiracy theories, some based on religious beliefs, put all vaccination efforts at risk. It ultimately influences the decision people should make to vaccinate or not to vaccinate. The question of mandatory vaccination for all and vaccination based on an individual decision according to conscience seems like a paradox, but the comprehensive second-level normative ethical approach or ethic of responsibility proposed by De Villiers (2020) can be helpful to address this dichotomy. This is in line with ethics in an African context that is indigenous, interdependent and holistic. The paper follows an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates contributions from the fields of medical science, religion and ethics. A comprehensive, second-level, normative ethical approach provides contextual appropriateness and an adequate continuity with ethical traditions that are helpful to address vaccine hesitancy and create therapeutic alliances to address challenges presented by the pandemic.
"Now Deborah, a prophetess, a fiery woman..."
Authors: Cezula Ntozakhe Simon
Published: August 2023

This article is inspired by an article published by Reverend Bongani Finca of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) in 1994.Â Rev. Fincaâ€™s article is an adaptation of an address he gave on gender inequality at a Decade conference in East London, South Africa. Specifically, this article is challenged by his remark that he knows a number of men who struggle with the gender exclusivity in the language of the Church, especially in the reading of the liturgy. He then continues to say; â€œhow many of us are working seriously at finding alternatives and revising the liturgy itself to be more gender sensitiveâ€. It is this remark that prompts this article to swing into action. For that reason, this article responds to Rev. Fincaâ€™s challenge from the biblical point of view. This article thus intends to read Judges 4:4 alternatively. It intends to dispute the designation of Deborah as the wife of Lappidoth, arguing that it legitimises patriarchy.
John Calvin and Creation: Retrieving Ecological Insights of Calvin on Genesis 1
Authors: KAVUSA KIVATSI JONATHAN
Published: August 2023

John Calvin has been largely studied given his influential role in the Reformation. I come from a Church with strong Calvin traditions. During catechisms, we were mainly taught about Calvinâ€™s theology in areas such as predestination, redemption, Christology, power and sacramental theology. Little has been said regarding the ecological dimensions of his thoughts. It is only recently that the Presbyterian Church has issued the devotional study guide in response to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (2015). But the manual is more report than a systematic ecological teaching based on Calvin. The question is how far Calvinâ€™s cosmology can contribute to shape Christian attitudes toward nature. This article tries to answer this question by retrieving the ecological implications of Calvinâ€™s comments on different aspects of Genesis 1.
More Authority than the Pope? Conference, the Deed of Union and Methodist Theology
Authors: Pratt Morris-Chapman Daniel
Published: August 2023

Over the last two hundred years, British Methodism exported its ecclesiology and its standards of doctrine to several countries around the world. After gaining independence, these churches have generally continued to retain the doctrinal clauses inherited from the founding denomination. Despite this, theological discourse within these churches has often had no explicit connection to these criteria. Curiously, this is particularly true in the British Methodist context where the neglect of these standards has coincided with an increasing emphasis on the magisterial authority of its annual Conference. Here the constitution of the British Methodist church is explored in order to determine whether or not there is a distinctive theological method latent within its Deed of Union and whether or not this approach might be relevant to important theological questions globally.
Reformed Confessional perspective on racial apartheid in the history, theology and practice in the South African Dutch Reformed Church
Authors: Theron Johan
Published: August 2023

The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa has had a long history and association with the system of Apartheid and its theological justification. This article attempts to point out how the theological and practical support for racially divided churches is Biblically untenable and inconsistent with the Dutch Reformed Churchâ€™s own Confessions. A Biblical and Confessional perspective on apartheid and racial separation in theology and within the current structure of the Dutch Reformed church is explored in light of the history and development of racially divided churches. The current ecclesiastical situation is then evaluated with reference to recent synodical decisions and its implications regarding the reunification with the Uniting Reformed Church.
"And no one pours new wine into an old wineskin"
Authors: Kgatla ST
Published: August 2023

On 25 September 2015 a highâ€“level forum of the United Nations met in New York to adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which provided a framework for member states to fulfil the goals set out. The agenda contained an action plan for people, planet, and prosperity with seventeen (17) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. All countries and stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnerships, would implement this plan, to which the delegates declared and committed themselves. The plan concurred with the African Union Commissionâ€™s Agenda 2063 â€“ â€œAfrica that we wantâ€. Sequential to these developments, some religious organisations joined the discourse and advocated for the place of religion in sustainable development. This article employs deconstruction qualitative research methodology to explore the religious pathways in the SDGs as determined by historical colonial choices in Subâ€“Saharan Africa. The modern discourse of religion and sustainable development cannot be assumed to be value free. The Jewish proverb that â€œnew wine is not poured into an old wineskinâ€ is used as a historical lens to debunk the underlying legacy of colonialism that continues to hide the coloniality epistemic of dominance and power underlying the language of sustainable development that tends to endorse universality and ignore historical praxis of colonialism.
Angry listening and a listening God
Authors: Wepener Cas , Van der Merwe Suzanne
Published: August 2023

The potential value of the bodily expression of anger and lament has been explored in literature, also the value and need for rituals and liturgies of anger and lament. One aspect of angry liturgy that has not yet received much attention is the spiritual practice of listening to anger and lament. This article explores listening to anger in the liturgy as a faith practice. It is argued that embodied liturgical expressions of anger should more readily be accompanied by angry listening. The theological premise of the argument is the God of the Christian liturgy is not only the God who speaks but, also and importantly, the God who listens, and that this listening (to anger) extends to both God and those encountering God in liturgy in a theonomic reciprocal way.
Clown of the City
Authors: Wessels Wessel
Published: August 2023

The review copy of Clown of the City in my possession was initially incorrectly sent to a journal on the sciences of city construction. I quite like to imagine how the book was received: with uncertainty, caution, and disorientation. I can imagine when the title, Clown of the City, was read, the uncertainty gave way to confusion. What has a clown to do with the city? And, even more, what has a clown to do with the serious work of constructing cities? Moreover, who is this clown and what is this city?
Jesus and the thoughts of many hearts:
Authors: Etukumana Godwin Akpan
Published: August 2023

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Contextualising Etienne de Villiers' Ethics of Responsibility in the African context
Authors: Kure Kefas
Published: August 2023

Being a South African systematic theologian, Etienne de Villiers has been involved in discourses regarding public morality with specific interest in the ethics of responsibility. In pursuing this task, his recent scholarship has resulted in proposing a contemporary Christian ethic of responsibility that addresses public moral issues. While this proposal has significant promise for engaging with issues distorting the moral fabric of most African societies, it is considered as lacking some resources for speaking to the African person critically and clearly because of its Western character. Hence, there appears to be an incompatibility with aspects of African moral and social identities in his proposal that require critical consideration of concepts more appealing to the African context. Hence, this article proposes an African (primarily Nigerian) theological engagement with de Villiers' views. The intention is to make de Villiers' work more accessible and, contextual, to the broader African ethical worldview.
Racism, Resentment, and the Reinvention of Truth
Authors: Balcomb Anthony
Published: August 2023

The basic hypothesis of this essay is that racism breeds resentment and resentment reinvents truth. But the dialectical relationship between these phenomena calls for a particular understanding of racism, that is as non-recognition, and a particular understanding of resentment, that is, that it leads to the reinvention of truth in the Nietschean sense of an epistemological reaction against a dominant epistemology. This essay establishes a theoretical basis for the relationship between these phenomena using recognition theory as it originates in Hegel and is adapted to the colonial context by Fanon. Nietzscheâ€™s concept of ressentiment and Schelerâ€™s interpretation of this are used to develop the contemporary understanding articulated by Elizabeth Morelli. The essay then explores these ideas in the contemporary South African context in the light of the decolonial turn.  The essay concludes with a short theological reflection.
Pathways in African Philosophical Theology
Authors: Delport Dr. Khegan M.
Published: August 2023

The article seeks to describe one trend within the theological scene in South Africa, a trajectory that could be called â€œAfrican Philosophical Theologyâ€. In the first part of the article, some methodological problems surrounding such a descriptive category are discussed. Thereafter, I attempt to give a summary of the contributions of two thinkers could be grouped within this category, namely Augustine Shutte (1938-2016) and Gerrit Brand (1970-2013). In this regard, Shutteâ€™s approach can be viewed as a philosophical synthesis of Thomistic and African accounts of personhood, while Brandâ€™s constitutes a meta-theology, a postfoundationalist attempt to articulate those criteria that are fundamental to adjudicating doctrinal and religious change. While their respective projects are distinctive, I argue that both of them can be classified as practicing a variety of metaphysics and theology that takes seriously the deliverances of African thought, performing thereby a â€œdecolonialâ€ gesture within philosophical theology.
Dynamics of Decoloniality in Theological Education
Authors: Masvotore Peter
Published: August 2023

The consequences of colonialism and coloniality on indigenous social, political, and economic establishment are at present a grave concern. The call to decolonise theological education curricular, intellectual setting, and infrastructures has become the norm. This article posits a framework to evaluate nuances of missionary education at the United Theological College using Grosfoguelâ€™s conceptual lens of coloniality of knowledge. The article introduces the theoretical lens that undergirds this study and describes the aforesaid scope. The essay further presents an analysis of the endeavours of the United Theological College as an example of an ecumenical college in Zimbabwe. The aim of this article is to show how the United Theological College used education to racialize and how the indigenous people are put in hierarchies and how, in this process, of coloniality of knowledge, indigenous clergy were undermined. The argument for this article is that the economic, political, or social control of indigenous clergy could not have been complete or effective without mental control. In conclusion, the essay proposes how power structures and colonised knowledge systems could be decolonised.
Reconstructing the History of Doing Theology at UWC â€“ Some Fragmentary Decolonial Perspectives
Authors: Conradie Ernst M.
Published: August 2023

The history of the University of the Western Cape is a history born amidst colonisation but also one of decolonisation and the emergence of decolonial thinking. This contribution sketches these movements from a point of departure in a private letter from the then Prime Minister HF Verwoerd to Prof Kalie Heese (Psychology) on the future of the then University College of the Western Cape (dated 2 October 1962). This will, in rather graphic terms, illustrate the challenges posed by tertiary education under conditions of colonial rule. Against that background, subsequent sections explore the history of UWC and of doing theology at UWC from one possible, fragmentary decolonial perspective. Several qualifications are offered on how to approach and not to approach doing systematic theology at UWC before eight soteriological themes that have been prominent in theological discourse at UWC are outlined, namely conversion / transformation, unity / ecumenicity, reconciliation, justice, human dignity, liberation, reconstructÂ­ion / development and the integrity of creation. Finally, it is suggested that the remarkable reception of Gustaf AulÃ©nâ€™s Christus Victor typology at UWC is indicative of the always uneasy counter-intuitive attempt to hold together liberation, evangelical / reformed and liberal theologies â€“ that is perhaps epitomised by UWC.
Faith communities and social cohesion
Authors: Andrew Daniel , Schoeman Willem J , Botes Lucius JS
Published: August 2023

After 27 years of freedom and democracy, South Africa still struggles to make the ideal of a united, democratic, free, non-racial, non-sexist society a reality. International research indicates that the lack of social cohesion is not unique to the South African context, as other countries are faced with the same challenges. Faith communities and, in particular congregations, have a role to play in addressing these challenges. The study is interdisciplinary and investigates social capital theory to see how faith communities can be repositories of social, religious, and spiritual capital that bring about social cohesion; and interrogates intergroup contact theory to see how intergroup contact theory can reduce prejudice among diverse groups in faith communities. A qualitative methodology is followed and focus group interviews are conducted in multicultural congregations of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa. The study finds that faith communities can provide much needed social capital to reduce prejudice in multicultural congregations that aggregate to social cohesion in society.
Youth, Faith and Environmental Consciousness in Africa: A Research Imperative for Youth Ministry within Practical Theology
Authors: Beukes Jacques Walter
Published: August 2023

Climate change and environmental degradation are arguably among the most significant concerns for humanity and environmental sustainability on a worldwide scale. Cultivating a multidimensional environmental consciousness that connects emotional and cognitive environmental knowledge with environmentally sustainable practises is a potential method for addressing ecological concerns on an individual basis. This could potentially lead to an impact on policy-making procedures at the local, national, regional, and global levels. Todayâ€™s youth are at the epicentre of discussions about ecological (in) justice, environmental consciousness, and climate change discourses and practices. This is illustrated by international protests including the Fridays for Future and Extinction Rebellion campaign, to highlight a few. However, both of the aforementioned youth movements are western illustrations of youths who are participating in these discourses. The paper focuses on how African youth shape environmental consciousness, as well as how African theological institutions and their theological curricula (i.e., youth ministry modules) are geared toward shaping environmental consciousness (particularly among youth) within the African context. Within the practical theology discipline, the tripartite concern with the link between youth, religion, and environmental conscience has been under-researched. This study highlights a new purposeful endeavour to investigate the nexus between youth, faith, and environmental consciousness in Africa.
Social Justice and the Search for the Common Good in Southern Africa
Authors: Kasera Basilius
Published: August 2023

Social injustice and inequality create existential worries and social instability. Public theology, as a method rather than as a discipline, developed as a response to fortify Christian witness in the public arena and to answer to issues such as social injustice. This article builds on this theological method for social engagement and on the inherent social capital that religion holds to produce the common good in a secular environment. As part of reflecting upon the significance of theology in the public sphere, I first will examine the role theology can play to shape our social vision. Secondly, I will examine how the notions of covenant and neighbourliness could be providing a turning point regarding social justice. Thirdly, I address the search for the common good as God's tool to inform alternative and humane associational life. Fourthly, the article will explore theology's role to inform and create a vibrant civic society. The dialogue partners in the article are intentionally chosen to formulate a theological pedagogy distinctive from defensive, and at times violent, postures witnessed in social justice dialogues. I aim to create a space for a more objective examination of habits and practices in search of a fuller description and embodiment of God's Kingdom in Southern Africa. The article explores the following question, how can theology, through pursuing the common good, become a significant social capital generator to influence social justice in Southern Africa?
Liturgical initiatives and moratorium debates in Africa
Authors: Gathogo Julius
Published: August 2023

African ecclesiology has experienced peculiar theological scenes right from the days of the Arianism and Donatism controversies in the first century to the present moment when a liturgy of Africa is still a pipedream. By use of theo-historical-analytical design, this article explores the quest for a liturgy of Africa by retracing some key trends such as the moratorium debates of the 1970s and other key attempts at the inculturation of liturgy in Africa. In other words, was the call for a moratorium by John Gatu and other African ecclesiastical leaders geared towards a liturgy of Africa rather than a liturgy for Africa? What are the concrete areas that needs “liturgical inculturation” especially in regard to the Eucharist? The article sets out on the premise that the calls for moratorium since the 1970s were part of Afro-Ecclesiastical and Afro-liturgical initiatives, a phenomenon that Africa has yearned for since the era of the 19th and 20th century missionary enterprises. In its methodology, the article has extensively reviewed existing literature in regard to the quest for a “Liturgy of Africa” as opposed to the foreign induced “Liturgy for Africa,” by illustrating from some mainline churches and the African instituted churches’ ecclesiological discourses. The article has also relied heavily on the author’s experiences as a participant observer among some African churches. Certainly, the quest for a liturgy of Africa is in its initial stage; and the task ahead is tremendous. In view of this, we should swing into action, take up the challenge with courage and creativity, till Christianity in Africa is Africanized. In post Covid-19 Africa, a more creative liturgical practicum will be the way to go.
Verskuiwing van die Teologiese Skool van die Verenigende Gereformeerde Kerk in Suider-Afrika na die Universiteit van Stellenbosch
Authors: Philander Natie C.
Published: August 2023

In September 1998, the University of the Western Cape (UWC) terminated employment contracts of 51 lecturers, including six lecturers of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA), due to a process of rationalisation. UWC unilaterally suspended the employment contracts of six church lecturers. The curatorium considered this action as a breach of contract, in view of the 1973 agreement of the church with UWC. In response to a presentation by Prof. G.D. Cloete at the URCSA Cape Regional Synod 1998 entitled: â€œReport of the future of the Faculty at the University of Western Cape,â€ the Synod assigned the task to the Cape Regional Synod Curatorium â€œto protect the interests of its students and lecturers; then (b) ensure the best possible theological training for future ministers.â€A historical overview about the move of the Theological School of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) to Stellenbosch University (SU) follows. The article comprises letters, reports and collective decisions of the church that deal with the relocation of the Religion and Theological Faculty from UWC to SU.
Swords to Plowshares
Authors: Reichel Hanna
Published: August 2023

The article uses the lens of design theory to conceptualize Dirk Smit et al.â€™s â€œreading the tradition against traditionâ€ as a case of theological re-design of the doctrine of election. In analogy to creation originalis and creation continua, it introduces a distinction between electio originalis and election continua. It argues that theological conceptual redesign, which turns the doctrine of election from an instrument of violence and separation into an instrument of peace and hope, might not only be in the spirit of the biblical â€œswords to plowshares,â€ but might itself constitute a way of doing election as participation in the election continua.
Un-silencing “Conversion therapies” of LGBTIQ+ people in Africa
Authors: Davids Hanzline
Published: August 2023

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and plus all other (LGBTIQ+) people often are being “corrected” by families through religious and cultural beliefs because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, expression, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC) that destabilises stable constructs of heteronormativity. For these belief systems, LGBTIQ+ people threaten the concept of family and associated values that inform the so-called social fabric and cohesion of sexuality and gender norms. In recent years, LGBTIQ+ people, human rights defenders, and academics have shed light on the practices of “conversion therapies” on the African continent in various forms as practised by religious and cultural communities. “Conversion therapy” is also called “reparative therapy” or “gay cure” interchangeably to describe different practices that are out to change, suppress or dissuade LGBTIQ+ people’s sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions. This article will use short narrative audio video interviews conducted by openDemocracy to give voice to survivors of “conversion therapy” on the African continent. In these videos, survivors speak about the intersectional reality of family relations, mental health and religion’s impact on their well-being. Over the last few years, there has been a reappreciation of the doctrine of the Trinity. Bisexual Latin-American theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid views the Trinity as a critique of heteronormative binaries. Therefore, this article explores whether Althaus-Reid’s Trinitarian theology offers a counter theological narrative against “conversion practices” as advocated by families based on religion.
By blood or by choice?
Authors: Van Wyk Tanya
Published: August 2023

This article explores the range of the construct â€œfamilyâ€ in light of the authorâ€™s experience of how the death of a congregation-member exposed the strength, persistence and immovability of the construct, â€œfamilyâ€. Despite different attempts and approaches to deconstruct and broaden the notion of what family refers to that originated in the 1970s, a traditional notion of what kinship (family) entails remains focused on ties that bind people by blood or by marriage. The article provides a brief overview and evaluation of different attempts at a postmodern understanding of family, but ultimately it is illustrated that there has been little change to the construct of family. The notion of â€œrelational autonomyâ€ from a Trinitarian theological perspective is presented as a more thorough foundation for familial ties that are characterised by a creative tension of both distance and belonging. This theological foundation provides a point of departure for a dynamic understanding of the range of choices related to what constitutes, â€œfamilyâ€, which does not cast someone in the stone of the construct of a â€œfamilyâ€, even beyond their own death.
This Monastic Moment
Authors: Ullrich Calvin
Published: August 2023

Diagnosing a cultural mood is never easy, not least because our times are marked by a volatility where one can scarcely hold onto anything in the maelstrom of conflicting currents. Here, in South Africa, ‘morbid symptoms’ are painfully being felt in an interregnum where a genuinely new future seems perennially deferred with every crisis that seems to pile upon the last. But a cultural mood is not the same thing as a theological or indeed monastic moment. What, then, is unique about a specifically Christian response when pessimism or enclavist retreat are the order of the day and where hope is in such short supply? The eminent theologian John de Gruchy, with characteristic perspicuity enters this malaise with a composed but urgent plea for us to “listen again” to what the “Spirit is saying.” This academically astute but readable text journeys through themes and figures (Calvin, Barth, Bonhoeffer, and Merton, among many others) which have distinguished de Gruchy’s career as a public theologian, while he casts his net into the far reaches of Christianity’s early history up to the present, offering an absorbing narrative whose golden thread is that of monasticism.
Social transformation through affirmation of human dignity in a faith-based organisation
Authors: Mellows Susan , Bowers du Toit Nadine
Published: August 2023

The contribution towards poverty upliftment in South Africa by a faith-based organisation (“FBO”) which practises integrated spirituality has not been clearly ascertained. Based on a case study conducted within the field of Theology and Development, it can be suggested that an FBO, through the practice of holistic spirituality, can empower people who are economically deprived, by assisting them to activate their agency, as their human dignity is affirmed, and vocation recovered. In drawing on resources relating to its faith dimension, including theological concepts such as the imago Dei, shalom and the kingdom of God, in the instance of the study reported on, the role of the FBO can be valuable in development work. The conclusion drawn is that recent interest in inclusion of spirituality within development discourse is to be welcomed as a beneficial addition in striving towards social transformation.
Timing grace in lockdown liturgies.
Authors: Wepener Cas , Cilliers Johan
Published: August 2023

The similarities and differences regarding responses in the media to the phenomenon of lockdown liturgy in the Netherlands and South Africa is firstly explored in this article. The findings of Goyvaerts and Woude, which is based on their study of discussions in Dutch media, is briefly presented and thereafter compared to responses in the South African Afrikaans media. Based on this comparison, core themes are identified and discussed as creative liturgical theological tensions pertaining to lockdown liturgies. These tensions include: Excarnation â€“ Incarnation; Global â€“ Local; and Prophetic â€“ Pastoral. Revisiting and exploring these tensions are invaluable for reimagining the liturgia condenda pertaining to lockdown liturgy specifically and online liturgy in general.
Grave as space for grace – “Come you sweet hour of death!
Authors: Louw Daniël
Published: August 2023

Within the ineluctable contingency of death and dying as horrifying and terrifying existential prospects, the notion of “grave” immediately corresponds with the natural facticity of human decomposition and the fear for death and dying. Decomposition is, in fact, a natural process beginning several minutes after death, with a process called autolysis, or self-digestion. From a pastoral and spiritual perspective, the following research questions surface: Could a Christian spirituality of grace and a theological aesthetics of brokenness contribute to start seeing in the loss of body physique and the exposure of life to the inevitable process of existential disintegration and eventual decay, a growth perspective (embodied spirituality) that contributes to the beautification of both living and dying? Rather than a nihilistic approach, it is argued that in a Christian meta-physics of resurrection hope, an eschatological approach discovers in decay, aging and deterioration, a “more” than dust-of-death-perspective. An aesthetics of immortality implies a “spirituality of more” transcending the death and funeral formula of “ashes for ashes, dust to dust”. It even surpasses an epistemology of empirical seeing and observational reasoning reducing human embodiment to the decomposition of a mortifying body, lying under the ground: “Stinking like a rotting carcass, and consumed by maggots and worms” (Martin Luther). According to Paul’s argument in 1 Corinthians 15:37–38, the natural body (psychikon), and the so called “soulless corpse”, are in fact not to be reduced to organic processes of decomposition. In an aesthetics of mortality, human embodiment is about a spiritual process of pneumatic germination bodies (pneumatikon). Perhaps, the reason why J. S Bach wrote a cantata with the challenging title “Come you sweet hour of death”.
Making Connections
Authors: Pali Khamadi Joseph
Published: August 2023

Theological education has a remarkable impact on the Christian leader-ship, mission, and other ministries of the congregations. Therefore, it is of utmost significance to regularly review theological discourse, curriculum, pedagogy, and institutional systems (pp. 4, 35). The book mentioned above is one of the seminal works edited by Prof Marilyn Naidoo concerning the development of theological education in Africa. It explores how integration within African theological education is understood and can be implemented by applying appropriate theological, philosophical, and pedagogical tools (pp. 4, 6).
Andrew Murray’s “Missionary Problem”
Authors: Van Niekerk Attie
Published: August 2023

The article compares two views on the missionary problem: one was expressed in Andrew Murray's book The Key to the Missionary Problem, about 120 years ago. Murray emphasised the low level of the spiritual life of the church as the main missionary problem; the key to solving this problem is the revival of a strong personal spiritual life in all missionaries and in all church members. The second view on the missionary problem has to do with one of the unfinished tasks of the missionary movement that Murray helped to establish. It is tacitly found in the Nova Institute's work over the last 26 years. It is not presented as the key to the missionary problem but as a small effort to contribute to the solving of one of the missionary problems, namely the gap between the spiritual and the everyday lives of church members.
Rooted in Christ. Rooted in Wellington.
Authors: Murray Isabel , Joubert Lisel
Published: August 2023

The opening of the Andrew Murray Centre for Christian Spirituality in Wellington creates a space for potential research on the legacy of Andrew Murray in South Africa. In retrieving his spiritual legacy, it is important to understand the contextual character of spirituality. In this article, the importance of methodology in studying history and spirituality as part of such an enterprise is motivated, and possible avenues of research will be proposed.
Worship as transformational object: Aesthetic experience and the "unthought known"
Authors: Dreyer Yolanda
Published: August 2023

Meaning is formed where an evocative object and the unconscious meet. Such an object can be a thing, a person, a place, art, word, sound or atmosphere. This way of forming meaning does not depend on thinking. Psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas calls it the unthought known. It is a form of knowing that is perceived through imagination  -  that capacity that mediates between thinking and sensing. The aim of the article is to explore worship as transformational object in discussion with Johan Cilliers' A space for grace: Towards an aesthetics of preaching. In a worship event a rich variety of elements can contribute to aesthetic experience: from space and architecture to art, colour form and symbols, to sound, music and singing, bodily participation, and the spoken word. The article explores how these can function as evocative objects that have the capacity to affect the psyche and transform the self.
Living with divine discomfort.
Authors: Thesnaar Christo
Published: August 2023

It is clear that within the modern age we live, that our tendency is more to live for ourselves than for the others we encounter in our families, communities or societies. In this regard it is timely to explore whether it is a folly that I can only experience the beauty of life when I live in comfort with myself and with those whom I choose to live with. Alternatively, if we embody relationship in our meetings with others, we will always experience discomfort as responsibility, accountability and justice are central within relationships. In this regard, we are interconnected and interdependent to one another and therefore we need to be hospitable to one another. As liturgy is relational in its being it should be a service to justice. In this regard we will experience the beauty of a life of folly.
Thoughts on Strategy Formulation
Authors: Türkgenci Yavuz
Published: August 2023

This article attempts to clarify and contribute to the formulation of strategy by highlighting its essential components and processes. Strategy is a bridge between political and tactical levels and should not be considered a plan. A classic strategy may consist of ends, ways, means, and risks. A five-stage process consisting of strategic analysis, definition of an end state, identifying means, designing the ways, and assessing the costs and risks can be used in strategy formulation. Yet, the addition of another two phases, which are assessment and management of strategy, is a must for contemporary strategy formulation. Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to take strategy as a rigid formula. The context of a strategy will be changing based on the aim and the field in question. Other than the military and starting with business, many fields continue to use strategy formulation effectively.