Volume 44, Issue 2, 2010
In die Skriflig - Volume 44, Issue 2, January 2010
Volume 44, Issue 2, January 2010
Source: In die Skriflig 44, pp XV –XVIII (2010)
Dit is by baie mense bekend dat professor Callie Coetzee en ek mekaar in 1958 ontmoet het toe ons saam in standerd 6 in dieselfde klas in Potchefstroom Gimnasium hoërskool te lande gekom het. Sedertdien het ons paaie voortdurend gekruis, as studente, as predikante en die laaste aantal jare as kollegas by die Teologiese Skool en Fakulteit Teologie van die Noordwes-Universiteit in Potchefstroom.
It is well-known that the first meeting between Professor Callie Coetzee and myself took place in 1958 when we ended up in the same class as standard 6 pupils at Potchefstroom Gymnasium High School. Since that time our paths had crossed frequently as students, as ministers, and for the past few years, as colleagues at the Theological School and Faculty of Theology of the North-West University in Potchefstroom.
To cross ten seas : Calvin on the unity of the church - a contribution to a more responsible ecclesiology
Source: In die Skriflig 44, pp 1 –316 (2010)
As far as ecclesiology is concerned, Calvin experienced a great dilemma during his lifetime. On the one hand, there was the clear teaching of Scripture on the unity of the church of Christ, as confirmed by the great church father Augustine. On the other hand, a separation from the Catholic Church of the sixteenth century was unavoidable. Calvin wrestled intensely with this problem and tried to adhere to biblical teaching on unity. He was disappointed that the Protestant churches distanced them-selves from the theme of unity and declared himself willing to cross ten seas in order to recapture this unity. This leaves us with the question to what extent the reformational churches today take the (visible) unity of the church of Christ seriously.
Source: In die Skriflig 44, pp 317 –331 (2010)
Teokrasie : beskouings oor Calvyn en die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis, art. 36 - 'n bydrae tot 'n noodsaaklike gesprek
Author P. Coertsen
Source: In die Skriflig 44, pp 333 –348 (2010)
John Calvin is often seen as a supporter of theocracy and the Dutch Confession of Faith (Confessio Belgica) art. 36 as a theocratic confession. This article looks at the views of various authors on this matter and comes to the conclusion that Calvin was not a supporter of a theocracy and the Dutch Confession, art. 36 is not a theocratic confession either. The question is then asked where the views of Calvin, the Dutch Confession and various countries (inter alia Switzerland, and the Nether-lands) at the time of the Reformation on the relationship between church and state came from. As an answer to this question the argument is put that, in reaction to the theocracy of the Roman Catholic Church (as can been found in the Corpus Iuris Canonici), it was a returned the historical view on church and state that had been current since the time of Constantine. These views were also applied in South Africa from 1652-1994. An attempt is also made to show what was new in Calvin's views on church and state.
Source: In die Skriflig 44, pp 349 –368 (2010)
Luther's moral synthesis : occamism, Christian mysticism and the idea of being
Source: In die Skriflig 44, pp 369 –403 (2010)
'n Prakties-teologiese perspektief op die handeling van kerklike besluitneming : praktykteorie
Authors: F.W De Wet and F.P. Kruger
Source: In die Skriflig 44, pp 405 –427 (2010)
Source: In die Skriflig 44, pp 429 –454 (2010)
Hierdie navorsingsartikel ondersoek, vanuit 'n gereformeerde perspektief, 'n moontlike ekklesiologiese model wat geskik is om sosio-politieke versoening in die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks te bevorder. Die uitgangspunt is dat gereformeerde teologie per definisie 'n publieke teologie is, omdat dit onder andere die reformasie van die samelewing in die oog het. Eerstens behandel die artikel die historiese bydrae van die ekklesiologiese model van Kuyper en die bydrae van die reformatoriese filosofie, by name die "Wysbegeerte van die wetsidee". Tweedens fokus die ondersoek op die bybelse konsep "koninkryk van God" en die implikasies daarvan vir die ekklesiologiese model. Met hierdie perspektiewe as uitgangspunt word tot die konklusie gekom dat die geïnstitueerde kerk as die "kragstasie" van die samelewing gesien moet word. Die kerk moet gelowiges toerus om sosio-politieke reformasie van die samelewing te bevorder. Die geïnstitueerde kerk moet ook self by sosio-politieke reformasie betrokke wees deur die prediking van die versoening en die sosio-politieke betekenis daarvan. As gemeenskap van gelowiges moet dit die voorbeeld van versoening wees deur die grense van rassisme, xenofobie, homofobie, seksisme en etnosentrisme te oorkom.
This research article examines an ecclesiological model suitable for the promotion of socio-political reconciliation in the South African context from a reformed theological and philosophical perspective. Its point of departure is that reformational theology is per definition a public theology, which is inter alia directed at the renewal of society, and that churches have a positive role to play in this regard. Firstly, the article investigates the historic contribution of Kuyper's ecclesiology and Dooyeweerd's perspective on social life and the philosophy of the Idea of Law. Secondly, the article focuses on the biblical concept "Kingdom of God" and its implications for an ecclesiological model. Taking into account the contributions of these two lines of thought, the article concludes that the church should be seen as the "power station" of society. The church should equip believers to promote socio-political transformation in society. Furthermore, the church should be actively engaged in socio-political transformation by preaching the reconciliation in Christ and its implications for society, and by being an example of reconciliation amidst a divided community by overcoming the divisions caused by racism, tribalism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia and ethnocentrism in its own midst.
Source: In die Skriflig 44, pp 455 –473 (2010)
Verlossing : van Pelagius tot Joseph Smith
Source: In die Skriflig 44, pp 475 –500 (2010)
Elke Christelike kerk glo dat sy 'n ware kerk is en verkondig dat die mens verlos kan word om ewig te leef. Hierdie verlossingsboodskap is gewoonlik gewortel in die Bybel as openbaringsbron van God. Die Mormone beweer dat Joseph Smith, stigter en eerste president van die Kerk van Jesus Christus van die Heiliges van die Laaste Dae, 'n goddelike opdrag ontvang het om die kerk te herstel na die kerk soos wat Jesus Christus dit tydens sy lewe op aarde gestig het. In die studie van die Mormoonse verlossingsleer is dit duidelik dat die kerk nie werklik vervals is en herstellend herstig is nie, maar dat die verlossingsleer dogma-histories 'n duidelike lyn van dwaling en weerlegging volg. Die kern van die verlossingsleer van die Mormone is dat die mens die vrye wil het om sy eie verlossing te kies. Hulle is nie die eerstes wat hierdie boodskap verkondig nie. In hierdie artikel word aangetoon hoedat Pelagius reeds die vrye wil van die mens verkondig het. Tydens die Reformasie het die Anabaptiste dieselfde boodskap verkondig en hulle het aanvanklik naas die reformatore bestaan. Gaandeweg het hulle deel van veral die Nederlandse kerke geword, totdat die sinode van Dordrecht hierdie dwaling uitgewys en nie net verwerp het nie, maar ook geantwoord het. Hiermee is die dogma van die vrye wil nie besweer nie, maar dit word weer 150 jaar later deur John Wesley verkondig. Hierdie is ook die boodskap van Wesley en Whitefield tydens hulle evangelisasieveldtogte in die Verenigde state van Amerika aan die begin van die negentiende eeu. Dit is in hierdie tyd dat Joseph Smith se soeke van die regte kerk plaasgevind het en hy die Mormoonse kerk gestig het. Alhoewel daar baie verskil is met die Metodiste Kerk, die kerk waarin hy opgegroei het, is die verlossingsboodskap in wese dieselfde: die mens het die vrye wil om sy saligheid te soek en te verkry.
De leerling en zijn meester : inhoud en doorwerking van Melanchthons visie op de prediking, De Groot, C.T. : resensies
Source: In die Skriflig 44, pp 503 –504 (2010)
Vanuit die Teologiese Universiteit Apeldoorn kom daar reeds verskeie jare die bekende en gewaardeerde reeks "Apeldoornse Studies", waarvan die werk van De Groot die nuutste is. Die outeur is 'n Nederlands Gereformeerde predikant te Zeewolde.
The Bible and its translations : colonial and postcolonial encounters with the indigenous, Naudé, J.A. (Ed.) : reviews
Source: In die Skriflig 44, pp 504 –505 (2010)
The book highlights aspects of the history of translation as well as the more current issues contemporary translators of the Bible text have to come to grips within modern and present-day translations. Accepting the fact that a translation has authority and life in-dependent of the translator on completion thereof, the translated text is still a product of the translation process influenced by various interpretative, cultural and linguistic problems.
Uitverkoop? In gesprek oor ... die verbruikerskultuur, Conradie, Ernst : fokusresensie
Source: In die Skriflig 44, pp 506 –507 (2010)
Ernst Conradie is teoloog, navorser en skrywer van formaat. Hy doseer Sistematiese Teologie en Etiek aan die Universiteit van Wes-Kaapland. Sy boek Waar op dees aarde vind mens God? Op soek na 'n aardse spiritualiteit is in 2007 met die Andrew Murry-prys bekroon.
Greidanus, Sidney. 2010. Preaching Christ from Ecclesiastes: foundations for expository sermons.
Kater, M.J. 2010. Kom en zie. Deel 1.
Vorster, J.M. 2009. The challenge of comtemporary religious fundamentalism.
Rudolph, Fanie. 2009. Die kleipot het gebreek: hoe om as Christen met depressie te leef.