Some remarks in the dialogue on the future of theological education in South Africa

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-57
Author(s):  
C.W. du Toit ◽  
Cornél du Toit
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
National Level ◽  
The Self ◽  
Religion And Theology ◽  
African Theology ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

AbstractThe theological education debate in South Africa must be co-ordinated to make it meaningful for all parties involved. Factors influencing this debate are mentioned. Among these are obstacles in redefining African theology and relevant trends on an international and national level. The question of theological education cannot be dealt with in a credible way without reconsidering the nature of the university and the character of truth. Self-understanding in the theological profession challenges us to answer questions like theological integrity, the nature of a faculty for religion and theology, theological plurality and so on. The restructuring of curriculum necessitates revolutionary methods like the self-organising model of education to be considered. The article ends by looking at possible options open and action to be considered.

Religion & Theology with Gerhard van den Heever

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 25-26
Author(s):  
Gerhard Van den Heever
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Current Frame ◽  
Religion And Theology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Discourse Formation ◽  
The University

Gerhard van den Heever presents the history of the journal Religion & Theology, from its start as an in-house theological journal for the University of South Africa to its current frame as an international publication for the transdisciplinary study of religion and theology as discourse formation. Van den Heever presents insights into the journal’s management and shares insights for those interested in submitting their research.

scholarly journals Web-based Teaching Radio Interferometer for Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (A29A) ◽  
pp. 397-397
Author(s):  
Claude Carignan ◽  
Yannick Libert
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Very Long Baseline Interferometry ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Radio Interferometer ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Long Baseline ◽  
The Future ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University ◽  
The Web

AbstractThis presentation describes the web-based Teaching Radio Interferometer being built on the campus of the University of Cape Town, in South Africa, to train the future users of the African VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) Network (AVN).

scholarly journals Die oorgeblewe sendingtaak in Suid-Afrika

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-205
Author(s):  
J. J. Kritzinger
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
Research Project ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Task ◽  
Contemporary Situation ◽  
The University ◽  
The Church

The remaining missionary task in South Africa This article is based on the results of a research project of the Institute for Missiological Research at the University of Pretoria which was recently concluded. The author and a team of co-workers researched practically the whole of South Africa in an endeavour to describe the contemporary situation of its population and the unfinished task of the church. The understanding of the missionary task which formed the basis of this project, and a sample of the kind of results obtained are illustrated in this article by means of 12 representative or typical scenarios which together indicate the dimensions of the future task for the South African church.

scholarly journals Leadership through theological education: Two case studies in South African history

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 642-657
Author(s):  
G. A. Duncan ◽  
J. W. Hofmeyr
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
South African ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Visionary Leadership ◽  
African History ◽  
Eastern Cape ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The University

The quality of visionary leadership requires serious attention in current South Africa, both because of its importance but also sometimes because of the lack of leadership in church and theological contexts. In the first section of this article, focus is placed on leadership in the Faculty of Theology (NG Kerk) at the University of Pretoria, and in the second section, on the leadership at the Lovedale Missionary Institution in the Eastern Cape. Finally, some comparisons and conditions are drawn.

scholarly journals HTS Theological Studies and Verbum et Ecclesia – the journals of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria: Historical overview and strategic planning

2008 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Human ◽  
Andries Van Aarde
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Academic Journals ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The Future ◽  
Language Statistics ◽  
The University ◽  
Academic Study

This article celebrates the centenary of the University of Pretoria (UP) in 2008. The editors of Verbum et Ecclesia and HTS Theological Studies, the two theological journals associated with the Faculty of Theology at UP, reflect on the journals’ historical roots, editorial focuses, distinctive features, subscription and language statistics and on their’ contribution to support the academic study of theology and related disciplines. The Faculty of Theology was founded in 1917 and celebrated its ninetieth birthday in 2007. The origin of its journals dates back to 1943. This article discusses the challenges that academic journals face in South Africa and undertakes strategic planning for the future. A concluding addendum, consisting of statistical diagrams with regard to the journals’ profile during the last five years, illustrates the argument.

The future is always-already now: Instituent praxis and the activist university

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032110034
Author(s):  
Krystian Szadkowski ◽  
Jakub Krzeski
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Open Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
Ontological Shift ◽  
The University ◽  
Self Production

In this paper, we place the issue of university activism in the context of constituent and constituted power. By this we mean the ever-present danger that activists’ demands will be co-opted and concurrently deactivated. To mitigate this risk, we develop a set of conceptual tools that enables thinking about the activist university in terms of instituent praxis; that is, an open process of co-becoming of an institution and its actors through the continuous co-production of rules that drive their actions. Contrary to the view of the university as something instituted, the activist university that we propose emphasises the possibility of sustaining the process of acting and its underlying rules, rather than the result of the act. The activist university is understood here as a crack that leaves the instituted university open every time the self-production of its subject emerges by the self-transformation of the actors in the very course of their activities. We observe a chance for grounding instituent praxis in the ontological shift in thinking the activist university from being to co-becoming, as this will allow for reclaiming the future for the university and its broader ecology.

scholarly journals THROUGH THE PAST INTO THE FUTURE: JEAN-FRANÇOIS BILL – PASTOR, ACTIVIST, THEOLOGIAN 8 JULY 1934 – 12 MARCH 2005

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-123
Author(s):  
Graham Duncan ◽  
Tinyiko Sam Maluleke
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Academic Ability ◽  
Church Leader ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Constructive Engagement

Jean- François Bill was a significant church leader of the second half of the twentieth century. He was born, raised and educated in South Africa, and he lived, worked and died in South Africa. He possessed a multi-cultural identity. He had a rare academic ability but was no academic recluse. His varied and intensive ministry was marked by committed, responsible, constructive engagement. He was a convinced yet reasonable ecumenist with a powerful social conscience who offered a great deal to the field of theological education. He had a vision of a responsible church which was responsible in a practical way by working through the live issues of the day.This would be a church which would strive for authentic unity and be the leaven in the lump of the world.

Goodman's Method of Analysis for Multivariate Data — a Practical Application

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
A. Simon
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Likelihood Ratio ◽  
Ordinal Data ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Recursive Models ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

Goodman's method of multivariate analysis is designed for use with nominal and ordinal data, extends to non-recursive models and can explain large variation in the data with residuals greater than 0,9 commonplace. A practical application of this method to a study of factors related to intended emigration by a group of students at the University of the Witwatersrand indicated that the best hypothesis-selected on the basis of a low Chi Square likelihood ratio coupled with a low degree of freedom-explained 97,3% of the data. ‘Religion’ was the variable most directly influentially related to ‘settle’ followed by what students considered the prospects for the future of Whites in South Africa to be, followed by attitudes towards the apartheid policy and ‘religiosity’ in that order. Specific related interlinks could not be omitted from the model, the strongest concerning students who disagreed with the apartheid policy and felt the prospects for the future of Whites were poor.

scholarly journals STUDY REGARDING THE MOTIVATIONAL PROFILE OF THE STUDENTS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST, ENROLLED IN THE DANCE COURSE

GYMNASIUM ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol XVII (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Costinel Mihaiu ◽  
Monica Gulap
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Table Tennis ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Professional Success ◽  
The Future ◽  
Motivational Structure ◽  
Motivational Profile ◽  
The University

Purpose: Knowing the motivation of achievement and in relation to the future professional activity of the students from 1st and 2nd years at the University of Bucharest, enrolled in the dance course. The need to improve the self-image, the necessities of superior socializing and relating underlie the students option to enroll in the dance course, are estimated as sine qua non conditions for personal and socio-professional success. In our study have participated, as volunteers, 120 students from the University of Bucharest, divided into two groups: A: 60 students enrolled in the dance course; B: 60 students enrolled in the table tennis and basketball courses. By applying the SM1 questionnaire we investigated the hierarchic motivational structure of the students who were interviewed. We can say that the vision of the investigated subjects, their orientation towards practicing dance could be related to the satisfaction of those needs which they consider important to their personal and socio-professional succes.

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