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Clown of the City
0R275,00At opening this book, everything one has learned or thought about Ourban ministryO is challenged, and changed. Stephan de Beer offers a fresh, exciting and thoroughly engaging approach. The title is enticing and playful, but the book is a serious grappling with the daunting realities of a shadowed, marginalised, urban life. It does not theorise or pontificate about a concept. The author is not a distant, neutral observer. He is an engaged minister to the people, a struggler in their struggles, prophet to the powerful. This book invites the reader to join the people of the cities under siege by failed policies, empty promises, and disastrous politics, in their struggles for meaningful life, and it makes a powerful, persuasive case. Stephan de Beer has offered us a great gift and a wonderful opportunity to think and hope anew, and differently, about the life, reality, and future of the city.
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Contested Issues in Training Ministers in South Africa
0R235,00The purpose of this book is to engage challenging issues that are called into question during ministerial training. This is a volume presenting eleven contested issues that attend to concerns related to structures, processes, knowledge and practices within theological education. Contributors offer keen insights about how to think differently and more complexly about these matters within a changing South Africa. It is an affirmation of the multiple voices, locations, identities and positions within South African theological education, as a starting point for transformative theological education. It is hoped that these reflections can enable future ministers to confront the question of how to be in the world with the required competence, integrity and professional identity to meet the needs of church and society.
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Contested Issues in Training Ministers in South Africa
0R290,00The purpose of this book is to engage challenging issues that are called into question during ministerial training. This is a volume presenting eleven contested issues that attend to concerns related to structures, processes, knowledge and practices within theological education. Contributors offer keen insights about how to think differently and more complexly about these matters within a changing South Africa. It is an affirmation of the multiple voices, locations, identities and positions within South African theological education, as a starting point for transformative theological education. It is hoped that these reflections can enable future ministers to confront the question of how to be in the world with the required competence, integrity and professional identity to meet the needs of church and society.
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Cultivating Seeds of Hope
0R440,00This publication is a collection of 40 oral testimonies about Beyers Nauda, but also about the apartheid era in general and about the role that Christianity played in that period. In addition to an abundance of insights on Beyers Nauda by those who knew him best, it offers perspectives on the movements and entities that Nauda associated himself with; for example, the Christian Institute, the South African Council of Churches and the people involved in both. Stories unfold ? of faith and suffering, as well as betrayal, all against the background of an overtly racist apartheid state and by implication against a capitalist system with class divisions that degraded human beings and denied their human dignity.
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Die Lewende Stem van die Evangelie
0R295,00Prediking hier in Johan Cilliers se vernuwende jongste boek beskryf as die hart en siel van die kerk vra om konstante hersiening, sowel as trou aan die beginsels. Vandaar die boek se subtitel: ONuut gedink oor die basiese beginsels van predikingO.
Die lewende stem van die evangelie is On gesaghebbende teksboek vir alle studente van die teologie en On aansporende handleiding vir predikers.
Dit is ook beskikbaar in Engels as The living voice of the gospel.
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Die vlug van Gods verbeelding
0R280,00Die God van die Bybel is die God wat die miskendes en ontneemdes, die randfigure wat deur ander geUgnoreer word, raaksien en liefhet. Dit is dia oortuiging wat die fondament en vesel van Die vlug van Gods verbeelding vorm. Hierdie waarheid word op boeiende wyse geUllustreer aan die hand van bekende en halfvergete Bybelverhale oor mense, meestal vroue, wat aan die voetekant van die geskiedenis lewe in die skadu van maghebbers. Aan die beurt kom Hagar en Ismael, Tamar, dogter van Dawid, en Rispa, die vrou van Saul. Uit die Nuwe Testament ontmoet ons die Kananese vrou, die Samaritaanse vrou en Lasarus, Maria en Martha.
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Discerning God’s Justice in Church, Society and Academy
0R290,00Jaap Durand, former professor of Systematic Theology and vice-rector of the University of the Western Cape, celebrated his 75th birthday on 5 June 2009. This volume includes a foreword by Desmond Mpilo Tutu, essays by Jaap Furstenberg, Allan Boesak, Russel Botman, Nico Koopman, Bernard Lategan and Dirkie Smit. In addition, there are 22 shorter reflections from Jaap Durand’s friends, colleagues and former students.
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Doodloopstrate van die geloof
0R225,00Is daar ‘n alternatiewe geestelike heenkome vir diegene wat ontgogel is deur die kerk en die tradisionele Christendom, hulle wat in ‘n postmoderne woreld leef en nie meer tuis is in ‘n kerk wat steeds met dogmas vorendag kom wat gegrond is op ‘n letterlike, ouworeldse interpretasie van die Bybel nie?
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Ecclesial Reform and Deform Movements in the South African Context
0R215,00Ecclesial Reform and Deform Movements in the South African Contextis the fourth volume in a series on the interface between ecumenical theology and social transformation in the (South) African context. Ecclesial movements are amongst the most significant drivers of social transformation. The essays in this volume identify, describe and assess a variety of ecclesial movements. Such movements are often highly contested so that the same movement may be described by some as a reform movement and by others as a deform movement.
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Enacting a Public Theology
0R220,00The practice of a public theology is to identify issues that require attention for the sake of a civil society and the flourishing of all. In diverse ways the writers of Enacting a Public Theology recognise that the present is a volatile moment in time. The publication explores the loss of confidence in the contemporary expressions of democracy; the climate emergency accompanies the dawn of the Anthropocene; the migration of people raises concerns to do with identity, belonging and where is home; the invasion of land wrongly described as terra nullius and then invaded demands a deepened praxis of reconciliation between first and second peoples; and lastly there is an urgent need to speak into the situation of those pushed to the margins because of HIV/Aids.
Enacting a Public Theology represents the thinking of writers from Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand. It is both local and global in its concern. Each one of the contributors participated in the triennial gathering of the Global Network of Public Theology held in Stellenbosch in 2016.
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Enacting a Public Theology
0R275,00The practice of a public theology is to identify issues that require attention for the sake of a civil society and the flourishing of all. In diverse ways the writers of Enacting a Public Theology recognise that the present is a volatile moment in time. The publication explores the loss of confidence in the contemporary expressions of democracy; the climate emergency accompanies the dawn of the Anthropocene; the migration of people raises concerns to do with identity, belonging and where is home; the invasion of land wrongly described as terra nullius and then invaded demands a deepened praxis of reconciliation between first and second peoples; and lastly there is an urgent need to speak into the situation of those pushed to the margins because of HIV/Aids.
Enacting a Public Theology represents the thinking of writers from Australia and Aotearoa-New Zealand. It is both local and global in its concern. Each one of the contributors participated in the triennial gathering of the Global Network of Public Theology held in Stellenbosch in 2016.
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Essays on Being Reformed
0R540,00What does it mean to be Reformed Christians in the world today ? and in Africa and South Africa? What does it mean to commemorate the legacy of John Calvin (1509-1564) after 500 years ? in a modern world characterised by democracy, by popular notions of human dignity and human rights, by worldwide struggles for individual freedoms and for social justice, by a global economy in crisis ? when social historians argue about the lasting contribution of Calvin and his followers precisely with respect to all these modern phenomena?
The 28 essays by Dirkie Smit selected for this volume deal with such questions.
