scholarly journals On the Selfname and Identity of the 16th–17th century Polish Reformed Churches

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
Margarita A. Korzo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
Confessional Identity

The article questions the legitimacy of use of the terms “Calvinist” and “Calvinism” as applied to the polish adherents of the emerging Evangelical-Reformed Church in the second half of the16th – at the beginnings of the 17th centuries and their doctrinal writings. The author analyzes various versions of the self-names of these Protestant follows, and the names given to them both by adherents of other branches of Protestantism and by Catholics. The author comes to the conclusion, that the theological legacy of John Calvin exerted its influence only to an insignificant degree on catechisms of the polish Reformed of that epoch, and with much more reason can be said about the existence of many other sources of theological inspirations (from Lutherans, Bohemian Brethren, follows of Johannes Oecolampadius, others), which had a significant impact on the confessional identity formation of the Polish Reformed churches.

scholarly journals Ampsherstel as ’n bedienaar van die Woord – ’n Gereformeerd-kerkregtelike benadering

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Piet Strauss
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Present Practice ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
Church Office ◽  
The Church ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

The restoration of a preacher or minister in church – a Reformed approachThe article is looking into the history and present practice in reformed churches with a connection to the Dutch Reformed Church of the 16th and 17th century, on the restoration of deposed preachers or ministers in the church office. Out of the Dutch Reformed history comes a tendency to list certain sins in church orders as serious enough to make it impossible for the relevant church assemblies to restore someone in office, regardless of the specific context. This list prevents assemblies from using their own discretion when a matter of restoration as a minister is attended to. It thereby kills the pastoral-judicial character of church affairs. Against this stoned approach, writers and churches opt for room for the said assemblies to decide in their own pastoral orientated discretion over matters of restoration in the office as a minister. A room to which a certain framework of broad guidelines is applied.

scholarly journals “Incompleteness” and the Quest for Multiple Identities in South Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 81-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard C. Lategan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Multiple Identities ◽  
The Self ◽  
Important Goal ◽  
Alternative Approach

The article explores the contours of multiple identities in contrast to singular identities in situations of social complexity and cultural diversity. Nyamnjoh's concepts of “incompleteness” and “frontier Africans” imply an alternative approach to identity formation. Although the formation of one's own, singular identity is a necessary stage in the development of each individual, it has specific limitations. This is especially true in situations of complexity and diversity and where the achievement of social cohesion is an important goal. With reference to existing theories of identity formation, an alternative framework is proposed that is more appropriate for the dynamic, open-ended nature of identity and better suited to encourage the enrichment of identity. The role of imagination, a strategy for crossing borders (with reference to Clingman's concept of a “grammar of identity”), the search for commonality, and the effect of historical memory are discussed. Enriched and multiple identities are not achieved by replacement or exchange, but by widening (existing) singular identities into a more inclusive and diverse understanding of the self.

Non-Geographic Classes? Reformed Geography

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
Leon van den Broeke
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Reformed Church In America ◽  
Theological Perspective ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
The Church

Abstract The Reformed Church in America is wrestling with an interesting question in ecclesiology and church order: is there a place within the church for so-called non-geographic classes. Non-geographic classes are classes which are not formed around a geographic regional principal, but by agreement in theological perspective or a peculiar way that a congregation is shaped. The question central to this article is then: is there a place in Reformed churches for non-geographical classes? In answering this question, the following will be considered: a similar proposal from the Gereformeerde Bond in the Netherlands Reformed Church in 1998; the geographic-regional principle; the Walloon Classis; the Classis of Holland; the Reformed Church in America; Flying, diocesan and titular bishops and finally a conclusion.

scholarly journals Constructing the self in later life: The life story of Selaelo Thias Kgatla (1949–)

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Landman
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Church Leadership ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Life Review ◽  
The Self ◽  
Interview Schedule ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The University

On 15 April 2014 the author conducted an interview with Selaelo Thias Kgatla (then 64) by means of a prearranged interview schedule to revaluate a life review. Kgatla’s years of academic and ecclesiastical involvement leading to his ordination as the minister of the Polokwane Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa at the age of 47 were considered. However, the focus was on the last 18 years before his retirement, which was to happen in December 2015. This period commenced with his ordination in 1997 and covered his involvement in church leadership as Assessor and later Moderator of the Northern Synod (since 1999) and as Moderator of the General Synod (since 2005), as well as his appointments as professor at the University of Limpopo in 1997 and at the University of Pretoria in 2010.In freezing this interview into the academic account given here, oral history and methodological sensitivities are considered. The interviewee’s ownership of his life review is acknowledged; his construction of the self as a coherent story of church leadership is respected; and the characteristics of remembering in later life are pointed out reverentially.The life review with Kgatla was expanded with interviews from colleagues and congregants of his choice who confirmed the construction of his life story as one of relationship and resistance. Finally, the author gives a concluding overview of aims achieved in the article in terms of oral methodology and the contents of a life review in which the interviewee constructed his life as a church leader on the interface between resistance and relationship.

scholarly journals De kerk slopen of renoveren? De vrijmaking van de plaatselijke kerken bij de oprichting (1906) en de doorstart (1909) van de Gereformeerde Bond

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-26
Author(s):  
H. Van den Belt
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Local Congregations ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
Deep Crisis ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

Soon after the start in 1906 the ‘The Reformed League for the Liberation of the Dutch Reformed Churches,’ experienced a deep crisis. By 1909 the League, however, remade itself under the name ‘The Reformed League for the Promotion and Defence of Truth in the Dutch Reformed Church,’ a change often interpreted as a conscious shift away from the Doleantie and Abraham Kuyper’s ecclesiology. This article argues that in 1909 the Reformed League only renounced the appeal to political power for the liberation of the churches, an appeal that Kuyper was unhappy with. During its formative period the ecclesiology of the Reformed League emphasized the local congregations as the true confessional church, an emphasis that made its position within the Dutch Reformed Church vulnerable

scholarly journals Ide Teologis Calvin tentang Keadilan Sosial 

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-58
Author(s):  
Ferry Yefta Mamahit
Keyword(s):  
John Calvin ◽  
Reformed Churches

Dalam rangka merayakan 500 tahun John Calvin, aliansi gereja reformed sedunia (World Alliance of Reformed Churches [WARC]) mengajak setiap anggotanya untuk bertindak nyata, misalnya, mengupayakan persatuan gereja, mempromosikan keadilan sosial dan respek terhadap ciptaan, dan melawan perang dan kejahatan. Meskipun bukan bagian dari aliansi ini, saya ingin juga menyambut ajakan tersebut secara positif. Sebagai bagian dari “kaum keturunan Calvin” (“Calvin’s descendants”) dalam warisan teologi dan berteologinya, saya ingin berpartisipasi di dalam momentum yang sangat istimewa ini. Bukan dengan extravaganza, tetapi dengan suatu tulisan reflektif sederhana tentang sang kakek-buyut dan pemikirannya. Menanggapi salah satu ajakan di atas, tulisan ini berupaya untuk mempromosikan keadilan sosial. Tepatnya, mengenalkan ide teologis Calvin tentang topik tersebut. Upaya ini dilakukan dengan cara merancangbangun ulang (reconstructing) pemikirannya tentang keadilan sosial yang terserak di berbagai sumber, baik sumber-sumber primer maupun sekunder. Sebelum melakukan hal ini, fokus akan lebih dahulu diarahkan pada dua konteks berteologi Calvin: kondisi sosial Jenewa pada abad ke enam belas dan pemikiran-pemikiran para bapa gereja. Diharapkan, dengan mengenal ide teologis Calvin ini, kekristenan Calvinis di Indonesia makin serius dan terlihat greget-nya dalam mewujudkan keadilan sosial di negeri yang, katanya, berazas keadilan sosial ini.

scholarly journals Worn Shoes: Identity, Memory and Footwear

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Hockey ◽  
Rachel Dilley ◽  
Victoria Robinson ◽  
Alexandra Sherlock
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Personal Transformation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Ongoing Research ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The North ◽  
The Way

This article raises questions about the role of footwear within contemporary processes of identity formation and presents ongoing research into perceptions, experiences and memories of shoes among men and women in the North of England. In a series of linked theoretical discussions it argues that a focus on women, fashion and shoe consumption as a feature of a modern, western ‘project of the self’ obscures a more revealing line of inquiry where footwear can be used to explore the way men and women live out their identities as fluid, embodied processes. In a bid to deepen theoretical understanding of such processes, it takes account of historical and contemporary representations of shoes as a symbolically efficacious vehicle for personal transformation, asking how the idea and experience of transformation informs everyday and life course experiences of transition, as individuals put on and take off particular pairs of shoes. In so doing, the article addresses the methodological and analytic challenges of accessing experience that is both fluid and embodied.

The Family of God: An Ecclesial Model for HIV Prevention in Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-433
Author(s):  
Stephanie Mar Smith ◽  
Kinoti Meme
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Moral Identity ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
The Self ◽  
Autonomous Agent ◽  
Human Identity ◽  
Family Of God ◽  
The Family

The traditional means of forming human identity and shaping moral values within traditional African communities have been undermined by a Western philosophical presupposition: the conception of the self as an individual, autonomous agent. Through the forces of colonization and globalization, this conception of the self has undermined the processes of identity formation that have traditionally taken place in African communities, creating a profoundly disturbing loss of moral identity among urban youth. We will argue that efforts at HIV prevention must address this issue. Specifically, we will propose the ecclesial model, “the family of God,” as a means for promoting HIV prevention.

scholarly journals The identity/alterity nexus in international relations: two cases of encounter with difference

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-247
Author(s):  
Erica Resende
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Different Levels

The aim of this article is to survey the implications of the identity/alterity nexus in international relations (IR) as related to processes of othering for understanding conflict and violence in global politics. I will offer what I could call an ontology of difference in global politics, where I stress the reliance of understanding othering practices in global politics, as I explore two cases from which I ask the following questions: How do identity and identity formation processes occur and develop at different levels, times and dimensions? How do discourses of differentiation and identification help construct state identities and interests? Following Emmanuel Lévinas, I will argue that by seeking ways to reach out towards the Other, we free ourselves from the restraints of selfishness, from indifference and isolation. Finding and coming to terms with a composition of the Self that also includes the Other enables us to take responsibility for him/her inasmuch it prevents the conditions for violence and conflict.

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