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Showing 1 to 20 of 426 for “"reformed"”.
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Reforming reformed church polity in South Africa's Black Reformed Churches (RCSA) : an African decolonial approach
The issue of decolonising the Reformed church polity in Africa and South Africa has its roots in the history of colonialism and missionary activity on the continent. The black Reformed churches in South Africa still operate primarily from within the Europe mindset especially in terms of church …
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Reformed theology, modernity and the environment crisis
… particularly as they have been understood in the Reformed tradition, require the church to commit itself to working for such a socio-cultural transformation. However, the Reformed tradition can only contribute to this transformation once it is recognised that it has been deeply intertwined with …
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Rediscovering the music of the silence - what can Cesar Manrique's spirituality add to the renewal of the reformed spirituality of the United Reformed Church?
… within churches, particularly the United Reformed Church, appears to be in decline. The contrast between these activities, inside and outside the church, prompted this investigation. The starting point was the author’s personal experience of spiritual renewal through the work of César …
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The Reformed and Celibate Pastor: Richard Baxter's Argument for Clerical Celibacy
ABSTRACT THE REFORMED AND CELIBATE PASTOR: RICHARD BAXTER’S ARGUMENT FOR CLERICAL CELIBACY Seth DeShields Osborne, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018 Chair: Dr. David L. Puckett This dissertation explores Richard Baxter’s (1615-1691) argument for clerical celibacy. It argues that …
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A Better Framework for Legitimacy: Learning from the Christian Reformed Tradition
… proposal is that they turn to the Christian Reformed (CR) tradition of social thought. As I take it, this tradition is composed of such figures as Augustine and Calvin, Abraham Kuyper and Herman Dooyeweerd, and, more recently, Francis Schaeffer. It has long theorized such issues as …
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A reformed Evangelical critique of Thomas Jay Oord’s Evangelical process theology
This research thesis explores the method and content in the Evangelical process model of relational theism as advanced in the writings of Thomas Jay Oord. The specific aim of the thesis is to evaluate and critique Oord’s model of divine providence, identifying the internal inconsistencies within …
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Eknath Remembered and Reformed: Bhakti, Brahmans, and Untouchables in Marathi Historiography
This dissertation investigates how stories about the Marathi sant-poet Eknath of Paithan (1533-1599) interacting with untouchables changed over the course of three centuries of textual repetition and dramatic representation. In tracing memories of Eknath over such time and through various Marathi …
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Transforming Ecclesiological Imagination on Liturgy: Reimagining a Dutch Reformed Church in Durbanville
… members of Durbanville Gemeente, a Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, conceive of what it means to be a faithful Christian church. Their ecclesiological imagination is examined in relation to the theological and sociocultural challenges posed by whiteness. The study explores how the …
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The Lord’s Supper and a Theological Praxis for Unity? A Reformed Perspective
It is common knowledge that the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) are still functioning as two different churches. As two churches which believe and practise almost the same doctrines, creeds, confessions, etc., I deem it necessary to reflect on …
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The renewal of reformed worship through retrieving the tradition and ecumenical openness
… church denominations, but particularly in the Reformed tradition.
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A Journey with a Status Confessionis. Analysis of an apartheid related conflict between the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1982-1998
… with the conflict between the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) - the worldwide Reformed movement - and the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (DRC) regarding the latter's support for and theological legitimizing of apartheid. One of the strongest measures possible was taken when the …
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The (dis)continuity of the Johannesburg West Dutch Reformed Church: a study of the impact and significance of the conversion of a former Dutch Reformed Church into a mosque
… West Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) to become the Masjid-ul-Islam is used as a vehicle for this study. The history of the Afrikaner and South African Muslim communities and their architecture is explored as well as the history of the changes to the building. The …
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Reforming Virtue: Bavinck's Method of Engaging with Virtue Ethics from a Reformed Perspective
There is a distinct reluctance in the Reformed tradition to engage with natural theology and scholarship in the study of, among other things, virtue ethics. This thesis attempts to demonstrate that Herman Bavinck’s four pillars of reformed dogmatics allows reformed ethicists to robustly engage in …
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In Terms of an Open Sky: Hans Rookmaaker's Reformed Approach to Art and Culture
… Rookmaaker approaches art and culture from a reformed perspective. The research question asks what theological, philosophical, and aesthetic commitments contributed to Rookmaaker’s distinctive approach to art; the thesis argues that Rookmaaker’s approach to art is a synthesis of Dutch …
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