8 articles in this issue
E. Kayayan
AbstractIn this article it will be argued that the metaphor of the mirror presents the characteristics of a central image in Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. This metaphor manages to crystallize several constitutive elements of a religious ... see more
M. E. Nelson
AbstractThis article which originated as a background study for what Augustine says about his own baptism, presents the facts, as far as they could be ascertained, on practices concerning catechesis and baptism in the early Christian church down to abo... see more
B. Wielenga
AbstractIn this article the term covenant of peace is investigated as it appears in some prophetic traditions. The conclusion arrived at is that in the Old Testament the covenant of peace is nothing but the Noahic covenant. Another conclusion is that t... see more
J. M. Vorster
AbstractExperiencing true koinonia is one of the major problems of the church today. This problem is a remnant of the modernist period in Western culture with its emphasis on rationalism. Because of the simultaneous process of urbanisation with its subc... see more
H. J. Hendriks
AbstractThe basic presupposition of this article is that South Africans of European descent are now discovering how modernist their identity really is. The political changes in our country and our concomitant disillusionment strongly drive this realisa... see more
B. Wearne
AbstractEvangelical historiography is an attempt within evangelicalism to assess its own history. Books like Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind (1994), Stuart Piggin's Evangelical Christianity in Australia; Spirit, Word and World (1996) and... see more
T. van der Walt
AbstractThe theme of the 1996 AGM of the GTV was "Reformed Dynamics Today!" This paper is the opening address, supposed, according to the programme, to be on "Fundamental truths of the Reformed faith.” The author, however, preferred to call it "Core tr... see more
Editorial Office
AbstractFokus is ’n rubriek waarin artikels van ’n meer populêr-wetenskaplike aard gepubliseer word. Artikels wat vir hierdie rubriek aan die redaksie voorgelê word, moet voldoen aan dieselfde tegniese vereistes as navorsingsartikels (kyk asseblief die... see more