Sabinet | Volume 75, Issue 1
Volume 75, Issue 1, 2010
Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship = Koers : Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap - Volume 75, Issue 1, January 2010
Volume 75, Issue 1, January 2010
Reflections on a Christian view of human communication : research article
Author H.A. Van Belle
Source: Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship = Koers : Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap 75, pp 173 –188 (2010)
This article defines human communication as community building and describes the various functions of communication in life. It argues that a number of other human activities are presupposed in communication without which communication would not be possible. These activities are its inherent functions. Community building is described as the authentic function of communication. Without it communication would not be what it is. Lastly, there are several social activities that depend on communication for their existence. These are what communication is for. Such functions form the adherent functions of communication. Next the article describes a set of norms or criteria for distinguishing good communication from bad. Then follows a description of some models of communication found in the literature. These are seen as less than full descriptions of actual human communication. A few of these models reduce communication to one or more of its inherent functions. One honours the authentic function but none of them do justice to the adherent functions of communication. In addition, the article briefly describes and evaluates mass media communication. Because of its monological nature this communication can only produce one-way messages from sender to receiver. It thus gives the sender an unfair advantage of influence over the receiver. Dialogical communication remedies that problem and is to be preferred because in it the influence is mutual between the sender and the receiver of a message. However, it fails to account for the influence of such communication on third parties not involved in the dialogical relationship. The article, therefore, favours what it calls a triological form of communicating. In closing the article briefly describes social networking as the latest form of human communication.
Reflektering op &apos;n Christelike uitkyk op menslike kommunikasie
Hierdie artikel definieer menslike kommunikasie as gemeenskapsopbouing en beskryf verskeie funksies van kommunikasie. Daar word geargumenteer dat &apos;n aantal ander menslike aktiwiteite in kommunikasie vooronderstel word waarsonder kommunikasie nie moontlik sou wees nie. Hierdie aktiwiteite is inherente funksies. Gemeenskapsopbouing word beskryf as die outentieke funksie van kommunikasie. Daarsonder sou kommunikasie nie kon wees wat dit is nie. Laastens is daar ook verskeie sosiale aktiwiteite wat van kommunikasie afhanklik is vir hulle voortbestaan. Dit is waarvoor kommunikasie daar is. Sodanige funksies vorm die adherente funksies van kommunikasie. Vervolgens beskryf die artikel &apos;n stel norme of kriteria om goeie kommunikasie van slegte kommunikasie te onderskei. Daarna volg &apos;n verduideliking van sommige van die kommunikasiemodelle wat in die literatuur gevind kan word. Dit is egter nie volledige beskrywings van werklike menslike kommunikasie nie. &apos;n Paar van hierdie modelle reduseer kommunikasie tot een of meer van die inherente funksies van kommunikasie. Een erken die outentieke funksie, maar geeneen laat reg geskied aan die adherente funksies van kommunikasie nie. Verder beskryf en evalueer die artikel kortliks massamediakommunikasie. As gevolg van die monologiese aard van hierdie kommunikasie kan slegs eenrigtingboodskappe vanaf die sender na die ontvanger gestuur word. Dus word &apos;n onregverdige voordeel aan die sender verleen ten opsigte van die beïnvloeding van die ontvanger. Dialogiese kommunikasie dien as oplossing vir die genoemde probleem en word daarom verkies, omdat hiermee die invloed tussen sender en ontvanger wedersyds gelyk is. Hierdie model hou egter nie rekening met die invloed daarvan op &apos;n derde party wat nie direk by die dialogiese verhouding betrokke is nie. Hierdie artikel verkies dus wat genoem word &apos;n triologiese vorm van kommunikasie. Ten slotte beskryf die artikel kortliks sosiale netwerking as die mees onlangste vorm van menslike kommunikasie.
Hermeneia : &apos;n teologiese gesprek oor hermeneutiese vrae met drie Suid-Afrikaanse teoloë : navorsingsartikel
Source: Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship = Koers : Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap 75, pp 189 –215 (2010)
Moraliteit, die opdringerige en die voorwaardelike : navorsingsartikel
Author M.F. Heyns
Source: Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship = Koers : Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap 75, pp 217 –243 (2010)
Die sekularistiese (immanentistiese), historistiese en pluralistiese aard van huidige denke bemoeilik die artikulering van transendentale voorwaardes vir moraliteit. Oënskynlik is dit veral die konstantheid van &apos;n struktuur vir moraliteit wat as transendentale voorwaarde vir moraliteit in die spervuur is. Maar &apos;n aggressiewe immanentisme wat veroorsaak dat &apos;n transendente oorsprong vir moraliteit glad nie eers op die agenda van laat-moderne denkers mag verskyn nie, is waarskynlik net so &apos;n akute uitsluit van transendentale oorwegings. In hierdie artikel word gewys op die (soms onbewustelike) ervaring van sommige filosowe dat &apos;n konstante struktuur vir moraliteit ditself wel aan ons opdring. &apos;n Verdere aanspraak is dat &apos;n soortgelyke opdringerigheid bemerk kan word ten opsigte van &apos;n samehangende verskeidenheid morele bronne (d.w.s. bronne wat hulle transendentaal t.o.v. mekaar bevind). Die "gewaagdste" argument is vir &apos;n transendentale transendente oorsprong vir moraliteit.
Morality, the obtrusive and the conditional
The secularist (immanentist), historicist and pluralistic nature of current thinking disables the articulation of transcendental conditions for morality. It is ostensibly especially the constancy of a structure for morality, as transcendental condition, for morality that is disputable. However, an aggressive immanentism sees to it that a transcendent origin for morality does not even appear on the agenda of late modern thinkers, which makes the latter probably an equally serious marginalisation of transcendental considerations. In this article the (sometimes unconscious) experience of some philosophers that a constant structure for morality obtrudes itself upon us, is highlighted. A further claim is that a similar obtrusion can be observed about a coherent diversity of moral sources (i.e. sources which find themselves in a transcendental position with regard to each other). The "most daring" argument is for a transcendental transcendent origin for morality.
A reading of T.S.Eliot&apos;s Ash-Wednesday : research article
Author F. Sawyer
Source: Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship = Koers : Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap 75, pp 245 –265 (2010)
The title of this poem tells the reader that it will be a religious meditation. It helps to know that the main themes of Ash-Wednesday in the history of the church are those of repentance and renewal. From at least the fourth century the Western Church decided to set the Lenten season as 40 days before Easter. This is analogous to the 40 days of Christ&apos;s fasting in the desert (Matt. 4:2). The 40 days of Lent do not count the Sundays, and so Ash-Wednesday as the first day of Lent starts in the seventh week before Easter Sunday. In the early church, converts prepared for baptism during this time.
Geskrifte van B.J. van der Walt / Publications of B.J. van der Walt 1960-2010
Source: Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship = Koers : Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap 75, pp 267 –277 (2010)
Die Ferdinand Postma-Biblioteek van die Potchefstroomkampus van die Noordwes-Universiteit beskik oor &apos;n gerekenariseerde lys (sowel chronologies as alfabeties) van B.J. van der Walt se publikasies vanaf 1960 tot ongeveer 2000. (Gaan na http://www4-win2.p.nwu.ac.za/dbtw-wpd/textbases/puk-eeu.htm en tik dan die outeursnaam in: Van der Walt BJ)
Mnr. Steve Bishop (e-pos: stevebishop.uk@gmail.com) se webtuiste (www.allofliferedeemed.co.uk/vanderwalt.htm) bevat &apos;n geannoteerde bibliografie van al Van der Walt se publikasies in Engels, sowel as &apos;n volledige lys van al die publikasies van die Instituut vir die Bevordering van die Calvinisme, later herdoop tot die Instituut vir Reformatoriese Studie.
Van die (Afrikaanse en Engelse) publikasies vanaf 2000 tot op hede volg hierna &apos;n lys - eers van die meer wetenskaplike asook meer populêre artikels en daarna &apos;n lys van boeke. (Boekresensies is nie ingesluit nie.)