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The book reflects academically on important and relevant ethical fields from a multidimensional South African context. The book challenges conventional borders from different ethical, theological, philosophical, economic and cultural perspectives with insight and expertise and seeks to add academic-ethical value, locally and globally, with its different points of departure deeply embedded in justice. From a mainly qualitative methodological perspective, this scholarly book demonstrates that ethics requires analytical thinking and critical people who, in an existentially and emancipatory way, can help make the world a more just, decent and humane place in which to live. The authors, who represent different academic and cultural backgrounds, present in their respective chapters their research systematically, intersectionally and constructivistically, based on profound theoretical analysis and reasoning. This epistemology results in an act of knowing that actively gives meaning and order to the reality to which it is responding. By doing this, they point out that people are in an ongoing process of becoming more human – allowing ourselves and our fellow human beings to flourish and to reach fuller potential through justice-based ethical reflection and action.

Calvanism --- church --- Christology --- Christianity --- economic ethics --- economic inequality --- enlightenment --- globalisation

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L'annonce du retour du Seigneur est un thème central de la prédication apostolique. Dès les origines, elle fait cependant question à cause du retard frustrant de cette venue. Depuis lors, l'attente chrétienne traverse les siècles en inspirant de multiples spéculations et des mouvements religieux très divers, tandis que la tradition juive développe une espérance messianique selon des modalités propres. Dans le monde actuel, la pensée de la fin de l'humanité est étonnamment présente dans l'angoisse et l'insécurité, mais parfois aussi dans la redécouverte d'une attente collective du Christ. Quel message l'affirmation originaire de la foi chrétienne apporte-t-elle à notre temps ? Grâce à une approche à la fois exégétique, sociologique, philosophique et théologique, les leçons de la session théologique tenue en 1983 à l'École des sciences philosophiques et religieuses des Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis tentent de baliser les chemins d'une réponse.

Christology --- Christendom --- Christianisme --- Eschatology --- Second Advent --- #GOSA:III.Esch.M --- #gsdb4 --- 236.93 --- Last things (Theology) --- Religious thought --- Theology, Doctrinal --- Parousia --- Second Coming of Christ --- Judgment Day --- Millennium (Eschatology) --- 236.93 Wederkomst van Christus. Laatste oordeel --- Wederkomst van Christus. Laatste oordeel --- Eschatology. --- Second Advent. --- Second avènement --- Eschatologie --- prédication --- Bible --- christianisme --- Christ --- religion

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Providing an alternative to current Trinitarian and Christocentric approaches to dogmatics, this open access book instead centres the Augustinian and classical Reformation Law-Gospel distinction. Maarten Wisse demonstrates the viability of dogmatics based on the Law-Gospel distinction from both a historical and a systematic-theological perspective. From a historical perspective, Wisse shows that the actual use of Scripture should be understood as the interplay between a critical concern about the difference between God and the world on the one hand, and the witness to God's presence in Christ in the world on the other. From a systematic-theological perspective, the benefits of approaching dogmatics through the dynamics between Law and Gospel is exemplified by discussions of key dogmatic topics, such as the doctrine of Scripture, predestination, atonement, the Eucharist and the theology of religions. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Protestant Theological University..

Theology --- Christian theology --- Christian Dogmatics;Reformation;Trinitarian;Christology;Soteriology;Gospel;Augustine;Peter Lombard;Thomas Aquinas;Melanchthon;Calvin;Barth;Martin Luther;Scripture;Predestination;Universalism;Socinus;John Owen --- Biblical studies --- Religion --- Christianity --- Theology, Christian --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Biblical studies. --- Religion. --- Christianity.

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Knowledge transmission and generation belong to the core mission of the public university. In democratic South Africa, the transformation of these processes and practices in higher education has become an urgent and contested task. The Faculty of Theology at the University of the Free State has already done some original work on the implications of these for theology. One area of investigation that has not yet received due attention concerns the role of theological disciplines, and especially the relation between academic disciplines and societal dynamics. This research project addresses the challenge and this volume reflects the intellectual endeavour of lectures, research fellows and a post-graduate student associated with the faculty. Each theological discipline has its own history and has already experienced reconstruction, both globally and in South Africa. Some of these genealogical developments and re-envisioning are mapped by the contributions in this volume. The critical questions addressed are: what are the contours of the (post)apartheid condition and what are the implications for responsible disciplinary practices in theology? The chapters convey an impression of the vitality of theology at the University of the Free State and in South Africa and give expression to fundamental shifts that have taken place in theological disciplines, and also of future tasks. This research project aims to stimulate reflection on responsible and innovative disciplinary practices of theology in South Africa, which, we envisage, will contribute to social justice and human flourishing. -Rian Venter, University of the Free State

Theology --- Postcolonial theology --- Post-apartheid era --- 2 <8> --- Postapartheid era --- Apartheid --- Post-colonial theology --- Theology, Doctrinal --- 2 <8> Godsdienst. Theologie--Zuid-Amerika --- Godsdienst. Theologie--Zuid-Amerika --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- Religious aspects --- Higher & further education, tertiary education --- Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours --- Higher education --- Universities --- Africanisation --- Africanness --- Christology --- contextualisation --- discernment --- Faculty of Theology --- Afrocentric --- Eurocentric --- hermeneutics --- African Jesus --- Reformed Jesus --- Latter Prophets --- Christian leadership --- Leadership definitions --- methodology --- theory --- missio Dei --- Missiology --- mission history --- Pauline Studies --- post-apartheid --- (post)apartheid --- Tolmie --- Rian Venter --- Preaching --- proverbs --- African proverbs --- postcolonial --- trinity --- trinitarian --- triune God --- Renaissance Trinity --- Practical Theology --- Systematic Theology --- Homiletics

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Recent decades have brought to light the staggering ubiquity of human activity upon Earth and the startling fragility of our planet and its life systems. This is so momentous that many scientists and scholars now argue that we have left the relative climactic stability of the Holocene and have entered a new geological epoch known as the Anthropocene. This emerging epoch may prompt us not only to reconsider our understanding of Earth systems, but also to reimagine ourselves and what it means to be human. How does the Earth’s precarious state reveal our own? How does this vulnerable condition prompt new ways of thinking and being? The essays that are part of this collection consider how the transformative thinking demanded by our vulnerability inspires us to reconceive our place in the cosmos, alongside each other and, potentially, before God. Who are we “after” (the concept of) the Anthropocene? What forms of thought and structures of feeling might attend us in this state? How might we determine our values and to what do we orient our hopes? Faith, a conceptual apparatus for engaging the unseen, helps us weigh the implications of this massive, but in some ways, mysterious, force on the lives we lead; faith helps us visualize what it means to exist in this new and still emergent reality.

globalization --- climate change --- Anthropocene --- planetarity --- jeremiad --- anthropocene --- saving grace --- rhetoric --- doomsday --- spiritual crisis --- eco-anxiety --- despair --- hope --- virtue --- climate crisis --- selfhood --- personhood --- Spirit --- Christology --- breathing --- self-loss --- transformed self --- Book of Nature --- Hugh of Saint Victor --- Bruno Latour --- Timothy Morton --- Slavoj Žižek --- ecology and religion --- eco-theology --- predation --- food --- ecology --- Eucharist --- Earth --- sacrament --- ritual --- resurrection --- Plumwood --- Abram --- sacred --- Yellowstone --- Bhutan --- Jordan River --- religion --- multispecies --- ecotheology --- novelty --- postcolonial ecocriticism --- Derek Walcott --- theodicy --- poetics --- wonder --- eschatology --- Noah --- Adam and Eve --- grief and mourning --- extinction --- climate humanism --- ecocriticism --- faith --- vulnerability --- environment