SCRIPTURA  

Wolfram Weisse

In a previous publication we concentrated on the role of the Dutch Reformed Church(DRC) in the last phase of Apartheid (see No 76 of in the year 2001 “TheDutch Reformed Church and Transition in SA”). The focus of this volume of isdirected to the years fro... see more

Piet Naude

This paper argues that the main challenge facing the Dutch Reformed Church(DRC) in Southern Africa is the construction of a coherent theological universe ofdiscourse. This “universe” might be mapped out in terms of four co-ordinates,namely Reformed, ecume... see more

Hermann Giliomee

The complex rise of segregation in Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) of South Africaand the fumbling efforts of the church to deal with its members’ prejudices representa major challenge to historians. The key factor, often overlooked in the literature, isthe i... see more

Antje Krog

Unlike academics it is not my task to repeat what I have written. So I amdeliberately moving away from the Truth Commission angle in “Country of mySkull” to use this opportunity to try and determine what kind of religious spaces areneeded in the country, ... see more

Piet Meiring

For the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk [Dutch Reformed Church (DRC)] in SouthAfrica, the church that supported the policy of apartheid for many years, engagingthe South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a painful and inthe end also a l... see more

Christine Anthonissen

This article uses Critical Discourse Analysis as a methodological framework forconsidering the ways in which Die Kerkbode mediated the South African Truth andReconciliation Commission (TRC) from 1995 to 2001. It reflects on the reasonableexpectations one ... see more

Matthias Gensicke

This article focuses on the preliminary results of a survey that was conducted among145 students at the Universities of Stellenbosch and Pretoria in October 2002. Inthis survey the students were asked to answer questions regarding their personalreligiosit... see more

Willem Nicol

53 first years and 53 senior students who grew up in an urban environment werequestioned concerning their spirituality, and the results statistically processed.Their interest in charismatic churches is low, but they strongly prefer lesstraditional service... see more

Dion van Dyk

Socio-economic developments in Zimbabwe over the last few years have had asignificant impact on the whole of our society. The contentious and chaotic landredistribution programme of government, a sharp decline in economic output,famine affecting more than... see more

Dirkie J. Smit

The paper acknowledges that today is not a time for discourses and programmesconcerned with unity, whether in the world, South African society or the church,including ecumenism and the DRC family (1). Some of the cause of this widespreadlack of concern wi... see more

Nico J. Smith

Outsiders to South Africa and the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), when reading thetitle of this article, may rightly ask: “But what are the reasons for the necessity ofthe Dutch Reformed family of churches in South Africa (DRC-family) to become onechurch? Wh... see more

Pieter Coertzen

This paper is about the view of the Dutch Reformed Church on the ground coveredin the process of unity between the Family of Dutch Reformed Churches from 1994to January 2003. Most probably some of the other churches will have different viewson some of the... see more

Rodney Thoaka

In this study, Paul L Metzger has proven to the students of Barth that he had succeeded onthe subject matter of theological investigation that is evidently able to generate notmerely a fair measure of original research but also, synthetic works which pres... see more

Bernard C. Lategan

It is a temptation – which I shall resist – to comment on each of the very diverse andstimulating contributions to this volume of Scripura. I therefore apologise beforehandfor not doing justice to the individual authors and to the full spectrum of theirvi... see more