‘The shock of the new’:1 a theological reflection on art, the Incarnation and doctrine within contemporary Higher Education Chaplaincy

2021 ◽  
pp. 234-247
Author(s):  
Mary Eileen Kells
Author(s):  
Mookgo S. Kgatle

In 2015 and 2016, South Africa experienced one of the unique student-led protests since the dawn of democracy that touched the world, the #FeesMustFall movement. Out of the many demands that the students made in the movement, one is outstanding, fee-free higher education. A large number of publications have been written on the movement from an economical and educational point of view. Most of these publications argue that a fee-free higher education for all students is not an affordable or sustainable option for South Africa at the moment. What is new in this article is a practical theological reflection on the movement in general and the demand for a fee-free higher education by students in particular. The article looks at the possibilities of fee-free higher education for the poor students in South Africa by exploring the roles of the church in the #FeesMustFall movement.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-152
Author(s):  
Harls Evan R. Siahaan

The activity of scientific publication is an academic reflection in the field of higher education. This activity has been increasing significantly in the last two years, especially with the regulations of the ministry of research and higher education which regulated publishing research issues in the online journals. Theological College as a higher education under the Ministry of Religion is not immune to the effects of regulations concerning scientific journals. This article aimed to show a biblical reflection on building and improving scientific publications. By using a descriptive analysis method on the text of Luke 1:1-4, the conclusion obtained is that the writing process of the Gospel of Luke reflected the phases of scientific publication, so that it could become a theological reflection for theological colleges to carry out academic activities in building and improving publication activities through online journals.Abstrak: Kegiatan publikasi ilmiah merupakan sebuah refleksi aktivitas akademis di lingkungan sekolah-sekolah pendidikan tinggi. Kegiatan ini telah mengalami eskalasi yang siginifikan dalam dua tahun belakangan, terlebih lagi dengan munculnya peraturan kementrian riset dan pendidikan tinggi yang mengatur publikasi penelitian dalam bentuk jurnal online. Sekolah Tinggi Teologi sebagai pendidikan tinggi yang berada di bawah Kementrian Agama tidak luput dari imbas peraturan yang menyangkut jurnal ilmiah. Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menunjukkan sebuah refleksi biblikal untuk membangun serta meningkatkan publikasi ilmiah. Dengan menggunakan metode analisis deskriptif pada teks Lukas 1:1-4, maka diperoleh kesimpulan bahwa proses penulisan Injil Lukas merefleksikan fase-fase publikasi ilmiah, sehingga hal ini menjadi sebuah refleksi teologis bagi Sekolah-sekolah Teologi untuk melakukan kegiatan akademis membangun dan meningkatkan kegiatan publikasi ilmiah melalui jurnal online.


2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Marais

Friendship is not often associated with citizenship, politics or civil society – and yet this contribution proposes that civic friendship(s) may be worth consideration as an expression of peacemaking and peacebuilding: the dynamic interplay between our ‘social’ and ‘individual’ selves working towards peace and countering violence. This theological consideration of friendship deals with the interaction between individuality and sociability in the work and thought of a theologian who was deeply interested in such interplay and which may therefore be helpful in theological reflection on friendship. This contribution draws on two theologians who were involved in higher education themselves – the German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, who served as rector of the Humboldt University of Berlin (1815–1816), and the South African theologian Russel Botman, who served as rector of Stellenbosch University (2007–2014) – from whom we may learn about (civic) friendship.


1971 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-359
Author(s):  
Gregory Baum

Gregory Baum, O.S.A., a member of the Editorial Council of Theology Today, teaches at St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto and is the editor of The Ecumenist. The following article is his response to and analysis of the Consultation on Styles of Theological Reflection for the Future, held at the University of Kansas, August 1–6, 1971. The Consultation was sponsored by United Ministries in Higher Education, the Kansas School of Religion at the University of Kansas, and the National Campus Ministry Association, Regions Three and Four.


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