scholarly journals Ubuntu, koinonia and diakonia, a way to reconciliation in South Africa?

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert Breed ◽  
Kwena Semenya
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Large Percentage ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Common Culture ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Right

This article seeks to contribute to the process of reconciliation in South Africa. This is achieved by firstly exploring the meaning of ubuntu as a common culture or religion under a large percentage of South Africa’s people over the borders of language and other cultural values. In the second part of the article two concepts that play a major role in Christianity are explored, namely koinonia and diakonia. Again a large percentage of South Africans believe that the Bible is the Word of God in which the right way of living is described. A comparison is made between the core values of ubuntu and the way of living that emerges from the use of the two concepts of koinonia and diakonia in the New Testament. A way that can contribute to reconciliation is suggested from this comparison.

scholarly journals Hermeneutiek, Schriftgezag en Triniteit

1999 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Wentsel
Keyword(s):  
Holy Spirit ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Triune God ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Specific Meaning ◽  
The Right

Hermeneutics, the authority of Scripture and the Trinity of God In order to evaluate a scholarly theological publication any student has to be conversant with the philosophical, confessional and social-contextual suppositions (prejudices, apriori’s, the so-called “glasses”) forming the background and frame of interpretation as applied by the author. The presence of suppositions is sometimes predominate and clear, sometimes subordinate and hidden. H. Berkhof for instance, applies at least six sets of apriori’s in his interpretation of the Bible (see Christelijk geloof – 1973). Underlying the use of these interpretative “glasses” a student has to locate the deepest religious source, the point of departure. Apriori’s can, however, be bad and good. The author of this article is convinced of the necessity of applying at least twelve suppositions in the interpretation of the Bible. In this article the following suppositions will thus be stressed: (1) The Bible is considered as the book of Gods revelation. (2) The fact that the Holy Spirit inspired prophets, apostles, evangelists and collectors (= theopneustia) is supported. (3) The term “Word of God” has a specific meaning as Logos of creation, prophecy, commandment, gospel and so on. (4) The supposition that the Bible is the book of God’s covenant implies that the berit is uniting all the different books and all loci of the Christian faith. (5) In order to interpret the Bible in a just way it is necessary to be reborn. (6) The right balance between the value of the Old and the New Testament should be upheld. It should also be confessed that Jahweh (= He is present for us) is the triune God. (7) The normativity of the whole Bible should be acknowledged in relation to the main contours of God’s revelation (and not only in isolated texts) and even in relation to changing cultural background of the Pésachfeast, the sacrifice-torah and the structure of the covenant. (9) In our interpretation of the Bible we should be on the alert for influences of the devil in opposition to the Holy Spirit. (10) For twenty centuries we have already been members of the Church, the body of Christ. Individualism within the body of Christ can thus imply an underestimation of the work of the Holy Spirit. (11) We remain one Ekklèsia and must listen to the interpretation of the Bible by all churches. (12) The Lord is king over all domains and spheres of life. He also reigns over (leaders of) political, educational and societal-structural affairs, as well as over heads of industry.

scholarly journals Analysing the Onus Issue in Dismissals Emanating from the Enforcement of Unilateral Changes to Conditions of Employment

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Riaz Ismail ◽  
Clarence Itumeleng Tshoose
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Appeal Court ◽  
The Core ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Mutual Interest ◽  
Core Section ◽  
The Right ◽  
Conditions Of Employment

The main objective of this article is to analyse the issue of onus emanating from the enforcement of unilateral changes to conditions of employment. At the heart of the controversy that has faced the Labour Appeal Court was how to interpret dismissals that appear to be based on operational requirements, and yet at the same time, such dismissals also appear to have the effect of compelling an employee to accept a demand in respect of a matter of mutual interest between the employer and the employee. The core section in the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 relating to disputes of this nature is section 187(1)(c) of the Act, and the central enquiry to such disputes is whether they are automatically unfair or operationally justifiable. The fine line that determines whether a dismissal is acceptable or not merits an analysis of the overall onus that faces an employer and employee. This analysis is the focus of the article, which deals predominantly with procedural issues. The issue relating to the promotion of collective bargaining will be assessed against the right to dismiss, based on an analysis of the situation in South Africa, and a brief comparison with the situations in the United Kingdom and Canada. Thereafter, recommendations are made to the South African legislature.

scholarly journals Godsleer en skrifleer: Fokus en uitdaging

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Callie F.C. Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Full Agreement ◽  
Knowledge Of God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Scientific System ◽  
And Task ◽  
New View

Die keuse van die onderwerp vir hierdie artikel moet teen ‘n bepaalde agtergrond gesien word. In die eerste plek het  dit om die plek en taak van die dogmatiek, waarin die Godsleer en die Skrifleer ‘n besondere plek inneem, gegaan. Dogmatiek is immers die wetenskaplike sisteem van die kennis van God, en God openbaar Hom in besonder deur die Skrif. In die tweede plek het dit oor die aktualiteit van die onderwerp gegaan. Daar word vandag toenemend gepleit vir ‘n nuwe Godsbeeld, wat God se verhouding tot die wêreld betref. Die begrip wat gebruik  word is panenteïsme. Wat die Skrifleer betref, is die vraag na die gesag van die Skrif voortdurend aan die orde. Wat die begrip panenteïsme betref (God in alles en alles in God), in onderskeid van die begrippe deïsme, panteïsme en teïsme, is vanuit die Skrif bevind dat daar geen ineenvloeiing van God en die geskape werklikheid  is, soos die voorstanders van panenteïsme (o.a. die Nuwe Hervorming en Julian Müller in Suid-Afrika) bepleit het nie. Wat die Skrifleer betref, het die debat weereens, soos in die 16de eeu, saamgetrek in die vraag of die Bybel die Woord van God is of die ervaring van mense. Die skrywer se eie standpunt het saamgetrek in volledige instemming met die Gereformeerde belydenis soos verwoord in Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis, Artikel 2–7. Die voorstanders van ‘n nuwe Godsbeeld (panenteïsme) het egter in hulle Skrifleer radikaal  van die Reformatoriese tradisie afgewyk. Die fokus en uitdaging vir die Gereformeerde dogmatiek lê in die onverswakte handhawing van die Goddelike gesag van die Woord. In sy Woord openbaar God Homself as die transendente en immanente God (teïsme). Hierdie waarheid het onder andere besondere implikasies vir die leer van die voorsienigheid. Wanneer die dogmatiek, in samewerking met ander relevante teologiese dissiplines en die wetenskap van die wysbegeerte en literatuurwetenskap sy taak verrig, eindig ware teologie in doksologie.Doctrine on God and doctrine on Scripture: Focus and challenge. The choice of the title for this article must be seen against a specific background. In the first place it had to do with the place and task of dogmatics, in which the doctrine on God and the doctrine on Scripture are most important. Dogmatics can be defined as the scientific system of the knowledge of God and God reveals Himself in particular in Scripture. Secondly,  it had to do with the actuality of the topic. In the current debate there is an emphasis on a new view of God as far as his relationship with creation is concerned. The term used is panentheism. And as far as the doctrine on Scripture is concerned, the question of the authority of Scripture is always on the agenda. As far as the term panentheism (all in God and God in all) is concerned, distinguished from deism, pantheism and theism, it was concluded that in Scripture we do not find any identity or fusion between God and creation, as the advocates for panentheism (the New Reformers and Julian Müller inter alia in South Africa) plead. As far as the doctrine of Scripture is concerned, the focus is on the question whether the Bible is the Word of God or the experience of man. The author of this article found himself in full agreement with the Reformed confession as formulated in the Belgic Confession, Articles 2–7. On the other hand,  the advocates for a new view about God (panentheism) deviate radically from the Reformed tradition. The focus and challenge for Reformed dogmatics lie in the maintaining of the Divine authority of Scripture. In his Word, God reveals Himself as both the transcendent and immanent God (theism). This truth has specific implications for the doctrine on providence inter alia. When Reformed dogmatics is practised in cooperation with other theological disciplines, philosophy, literature studies, et cetera, theology in the end becomes doxology.

Equality or unity? Black Consciousness, white solidarity, and the new South Africa in Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s Daughter and July’s People

2017 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Powell
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New South ◽  
Black Consciousness ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Common Culture ◽  
Black Consciousness Movement

In the early 1970s, the Black Consciousness movement called on black radicals to dissociate themselves from dissident white South Africans, who were accused of frustrating the anti-apartheid cause in order to safeguard their ill-gotten privileges. In turn, liberal whites condemned this separatism as a capitulation to apartheid’s vision of “separate development”, despite the movement’s avowed aspiration towards a nonracial South Africa. This article considers how black separatism affected Nadine Gordimer’s own perspective on the prospect of achieving this aspiration. For Gordimer, Black Consciousness was necessary for black liberation, and she sought ways of reconciling white dissidents with black separatism. Still, these efforts didn’t always sit well together with her continuing belief that if there were to be a place for whites in a majority-ruled South Africa, then they needed to join blacks in a “common culture”. I consider how this tension marks Gordimer’s portraits of whites responding to being rejected by blacks in Burger’s Daughter and July’s People. In both novels, white efforts to resist apartheid’s racial segregations appear to be at odds with black self-liberation, with the effect that whites must find a way of doing without the as-yet deferred prospect of establishing a “common culture” in South Africa.

scholarly journals Korelasi Pemahaman Memberi Persembahan Dari Lukas 21:1-4 Terhadap Partisipasi Memberi Jemaat Gereja Sidang Jemaat Allah Desa Pait - Kasembon Malang

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-50
Author(s):  
Kasiatin Widianto
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Gospel Of Luke ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Right

Offering made by Christians today cannot be separated from the teachings of the Bible both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Offerings should be offered seriously with full sincerity and an attitude of sacrifice. Giving offerings does not talk about how much material or wealth is given, but talks about sincerity and longing to give the best to God. The discussion of the results of quantitative research proved that the congregation of the Gereja Sidang Jemaat Allah Pait Kasembon Malang understood the doctrine of the meaning of giving offerings in the Gospel of Luke 21: 1-4 for 44.5%, so the congregation would participate in giving offerings with the right motivation and the best quality for God. Thus the results of this study indicate that the result is in accordance with what the researcher has proposed before.

scholarly journals Theologization of Greek Terms and Concepts in the Septuagint and New Testament

Verbum Vitae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 751-769
Author(s):  
Franciszek Mickiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The One ◽  
Koine Greek ◽  
Secular Terms

Hellenistic literature, having great achievements in the fields of philosophy, drama, and poetry, did not know the theological concepts and issues which underlie the texts contained in the Hebrew Bible. So when the creators of the Septuagint, and then also the authors of the New Testament, used the Greek language to convey God’s inspired truths to the world, they were forced to give secular terms a new theological meaning, frequently choosing neutral words for this purpose, not burdened with ne­gative associations. With their translation work, they built a kind of bridge between Hellenic and Jewish cultures. On the one hand, the Septuagint allowed Jews reading the Bible in Greek to remain connected not only with the religious heritage of their fathers, but also with the cultural values that were closely related to that language and its world. In turn, for the Greeks, who after some time began to appreciate this work and gained knowledge of its content, it opened vast horizons of new religious and spiritual values, which until then were completely alien to them. The work of the authors of the Septuagint was continued and developed by the authors of the New Testament, which added to their theological output many new religious and moral values arising from the teaching of Jesus Christ. That way they contributed considerably to the development of the Koinē Greek and significantly transformed the spiritual life of the people speaking the language.

scholarly journals Challenges to the sub judice rule in South Africa

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kobus Van Rooyen
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
South African ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Fair Trial ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Media ◽  
Entire Career ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
The Right

As a lawyer, it is a privilege to contribute to this Festschrift in honour of Professor Doctor Johan Buitendag. His entire career has been a quest for the truth. In the process, he has fearlessly rejected political agendas based on the Bible, and has inspired countless students in their quest to serve God in a practical and humane manner. His published research as well as the output of his doctoral students, both present and past, bear witness to a life dedicated to the search for knowledge in the service of God. He has also assisted substantially in placing South African theological research on the international map. In a sense, this article which deals with the protection of the right to a fair trial of an accused, also acknowledges Johan Buitendag’s quest for justice for all South Africans, whatever their creed, gender, race or standing. The subject of my article demonstrates my own quest to promote the constitutional right of an accused to a fair trial, a right that should not be subject to inordinate pressure by the media, and which gives priority to the right of an accused to be presumed innocent: an accused who may frequently suffer loneliness and a sense of rejection. Related to that it is, of course, always important to bear in mind that freedom of expression is at the heart of our democracy. A balance has, accordingly, to be struck between the competing rights.

scholarly journals Kenteoretiese besinning oor teologiebeoefening aan die Teologiese Skool van Potchefstroom die afgelope twintig jaar

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Snyman
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Naive Realism ◽  
Founding Father ◽  
Naïve Realism ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Theological School

In commemoration of the death a hundred years ago of Dirk Postma, the founding father of the Gereformeerde Kerke in South Africa, this article focuses on the theological creativity of the past twenty years at the Theological School in Potchefstroom. Theological creativity in the GKSA should be viewed in the light of a fear of humanism, horizontalism and secularism. In the churches' zealousness to treat the Bible as the Word of God, in order to be able to say 'Thus says the Lord God’, the need to reflect on the recipients' epistemological presuppositions is not felt. Consequently, Neoplatonism, Positivism and Naive Realism found their way into the theological activity of the TSP. A lack of such reflection on these epistemological presuppositions creates the possibility of projecting them back into the Bible and then investing them with revelational authority.

scholarly journals Dasar pengajaran Apologetika dalam pendidikan agama kristen

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fransiska Sanda Ewanan
Keyword(s):  
Christian Education ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Apostle Paul ◽  
Existence Of God ◽  
The Bible ◽  
God's Word ◽  
The Right ◽  
Correct Understanding

Christian religious education is a learning effort made to learn about the truth of God's Word. Where in every material that is taught there are things that are based on it so that it can be used as guidelines and well explained. In everyday life we are often asked questions, which make us keep trying to give the right answer so that someone who asks can be satisfied with what we have answered, besides that we will keep trying to find things that underlie the answers we give. And this is the same as our faith in our Lord. Therefore, in the process of teaching Christian education, we are taught to be able to defend our faith regarding the Word of God, so that when someone asks us, we can provide a correct understanding or what is called apologetics. And this Apologetic teaching is based on the Bible through the story of the apostle Paul's ministry which was very bold in preaching the existence of God. Where the Apostle Paul often made apologetics or his defense by using speech

scholarly journals Penggunaan kata Allah dan Yahweh dalam Kekristenan: Mengkritisi Teologi Yahweisme

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-131
Author(s):  
Eben Munthe ◽  
Munatar Kause ◽  
Nicolien Meggy Sumakul
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Word Of God ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Qualitative Review ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Holy Book

The Bible is a Christian holy book and is believed to be the word of God, even though there is a lot of technical controversy with its terminology. The Bible is written in two major languages, Hebrew and Greek, besides some parts in Aramaic. In the process of becoming an Indonesian-language holy book, there are controversies that invite a lot of disputes, even some of the most correct claims. This includes the use of the word "Allah", which some groups consider inappropriate, because it is not the true identity of the Creator. The use of the word God to show the Creator is considered a fatal act, including the identity of other gods, so the use of YHWH or Yahweh is what the Bible should use. This article is a qualitative review of the literature using descriptive methods. In conclusion, the use of the word God in the Bible is not wrong, because it is a legacy from the apostles in the New Testament. Abstrak Alkitab merupakan kitab suci orang Kristen dan diimani sebagai firman Allah, sekalipun ada banyak kontroversi secara teknis dengan pengistilahannya. Alkitab ditulis dalam dua bahasa besar, Ibrani dan Yunani, selain beberapa bagian dengan bahasa Aram. Dalam prosesnya menjadi kitab suci berbahasa Indonesia ada hal-hal kontroversi yang mengundang banyak perselisihan, bahkan tidak sedikit klaim yang paling benar. Termasuk di dalamnya pengunaan kata “Allah”, yang oleh sebagian kelompok dianggap tidak pantas, karena bukan identitas Sang Pencipta yang sejati. Penggunaan kata Allah untuk menunjukkan Sang Pencipta dianggap tindakan yang fatal, memasukkan identitas allah lain, sehingga penggunaan YHWH atau Yahweh itulah yang seharusnya digunakan Alkitab. Artikel ini merupakan kajian kualitatif literatur yang menggunakan metode deskriptif. Kesimpulannya, penggunaan kata Allah dalam Alkitab bukanlah sesuatu yang salah, karena itu merupakan warisan dari para rasul di Perjanjian Baru.

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