Vanoggend se koerant het ons met teenstrydige opskrifte begroet. Aan die een kant was daar die vreugde en euforie van die wêreldbeker eindstryd wat wag. SA het haar arms vir die wêreld oopgemaak en alle aanduidings is dat dit `n reuse sukses was. Die stories wat na...
Flip Theron – Woordkunstenaar
Terugblik: Prof Flip Theron
Daar is heelwat onthou-gesprekke met prof Flip. Ons het mekaar op nuwe maniere leer ken die afgelope drie jaar – as bure, as vriende. Ons het maklik oor die lewe, sommer die alledaagse dinge, met mekaar gepraat. Oor die mooi en die voorregte van die lewe, veral as hy van sy gebruiklike tennismiddae teruggekeer het en ons paaie het gekruis. Oor ons gedeelde liefde vir George en die Wildernis-omgewing, waar ons albei grootgeword het. Soms ook oor ons kinders, meer dikwels oor rugby, en as dit moes, ook oor die teologie en sy ongemak met sekere nuwe tendense.
Prof Flip was ‘n man van woorde. ‘n Woordkunstenaar. Hy kon met woorde die helderste “teologiese prentjies” teken. Die laaste tyd het een van sy vele uitdrukkings in die klas destyds, herhaaldelik by my opgekom: “Menere, as God Hom openbaar is dit of verruklik of verskriklik!” Ek het Woensdagmiddag net voor hy sou sterf, in die hospitaal weer daaraan gedink …
Ek het sy humor geniet: Iemand het hom eendag gevra of ‘n mens ‘n preek vir dieselfde gehoor ‘n tweede en derde keer kan preek, waarop hy ja gesê het, maar net as dit moet. Op ‘n volgende vraag of ‘n mens nie bang moet wees dat die gemeente dit sal herken nie, het hy geantwoord: My vrees sal nie wees dat hulle dit herken nie, maar dat hulle dit nié sal herken nie!”
Hy het nie geskroom om te wys waarvoor hy staan nie. Soms het hy vriende gemaak, ander kere “vyande”, maar hy was altyd bereid om met uiterste integriteit sy teologiese hart te ontbloot!
The impact of the ‘liquid church’ discourse in Dutch evangelical churches
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God at street level
Henk de RoestProtestant Theological University, Leiden A pastor tells, and I quote: ‘She brings up a present that she got from me and has given to someone else since she considered it a good thing to do so. A little cross that she had asked for earlier, while she...
Church being a community: implications for catechesis from an educationalist point of view
Dr. A. de Kock, Protestant Theological University (PThU), The Netherlands Paper presented at the conference “Being surprised by God: embodied ecclesiology in local contexts”, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 21 – 24 June 2010. About the authorDr. A. (Jos) de Kock is an...
Being surprised by God after an epistemological conversion
Daniel T. NelUtrecht, 23 June 2010The main theme of the conference, “BEING SURPRISED BY GOD”, amazed me at first sight. I found it astounding that the hosts were organising an international theological conference with a spiritual theme. One of the questions...
Ecclesial patterns among migrant churches in Rotterdam
Worldwide migration is not a new phenomenon but there are new processes. Similarly in the Netherlands migrant churches are not new but there are new types and the scale of their numbers has increased dramatically over the last twenty years. The social value of migrant...
ROOTED IN THE ORDER OF CREATION’: KOINONIA EMPIRICALLY AND THEOLOGICALLY
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But can we call it Church?
ERIK BORGMAN1. ‘Being Surprised by God’ is a fundamental aspect of the Christian understanding of history. With a title of a book-length interview with Edward Schillebeeckx: ‘God is New Each Moment’. The documents of the Second Vatican Council give as background: The...
Congregational development in folk church parishes
Erling BirkedalMF Norwegian School of TheologyErling.birkedal@mf.no Introduction – the contextThe context is the Church of Norway, a folk Church where more than 80 percent of the population is member. Norwegian School of Theology runs a three year congregational...