scholarly journals ’n Sosiaal-psigologiese perspektief op lidmate in die Mangaung-area se houding teenoor kerkvereniging in die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerkfamilie: ’n kruiskulturele ondersoek

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Jonck ◽  
P. Verster
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
Gathering Data ◽  
Social Psychological Perspective ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

A social-psychological perspective on the attitude of members in the Mangaung area towards church unification within the Dutch Reformed family of churches: a cross-cultural investigation Until recently, only one investigation had been conducted into church members’ attitudes towards church unification. This was done from a theological instead of a social-psychological point of view. The term “attitude” may be defined as the expression of inner feelings that reflect whether the person concerned has a favourable or unfavourable predisposition towards a certain object. Church unification entails the process of uniting separate church denominations within the Dutch Reformed Church family. The aims of this study were achieved by gathering data from respondents of six Dutch Reformed congregations (N=104; 46, 6%), as well as six Uniting Reformed congregations (N=47; 21, 1%). The remainder of the respondents came from five Dutch Reformed Church in Africa congregations (N=72; 32, 3%). A biographical questionnaire was used, as well as the Attitude towards Church Unification Scale. The influence of different variables such as language, gender, age, marital status and church activities on the attitudes of church members was investigated. It was concluded on the basis of statistical analysis that members of all the different denominations of the Dutch Reformed Churches had a positive attitude towards church unification. It was found that language was the variable that had the greatest influence on the attitude of church members.

scholarly journals Hervormers wat ons nie mag vergeet nie

1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-364
Author(s):  
J.M. Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
Church Leadership ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Church Members ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The Church ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

Church Reformers we should not forget. On thefifth of November 1980, the Reformed Day Witness was published in Die Kerkbode by eight theologians of the Dutch Reformed Church. The Witness, as it became known, soon had storm clouds gathering in the church, because of it's content. It was a wakeup call to the church about it's prophetic call, it's guidance to government and it's role in reconciliation. Many ministers and members of the church supported The Witness while church leadership was mainly against it. In the end The Witness was silenced but the seed were sown. Many ministers and church members now knew that the Dutch Reformed Church had to take a new approach with regard to it's prophetic call and it's role in society. When we look back over what happened in the past seventeen years, history tells us that these men were prophets of their time, men that we must not forget.

scholarly journals Die Kaapse NG Kerk en die Groot Trek: ’n evaluering

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 273
Author(s):  
Piet Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Church Members ◽  
British Government ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Government ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

<strong> Dutch Reformed Church in the Cape and the Great Trek: an evaluation.</strong> <br /> The reaction of the Cape Synod of 1837 of the Dutch Reformed Church and the presbytery of Graaff-Reinet of 1838 and 1840 marked the official stance of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) on the Trek. Both were negative about the Trek because they saw it as a revolt against the British Government. These two assemblies were, however, influenced by the negative approach of the Trek in public opinion and willingness on their side to follow and bow to the government in this regard. The Trek after all, was an emigration. Since 1843 the approach of the DRC on the matter changed and the members of the DRC on the Trek were regarded as full church members who are not in a process of discipline because of their emigration.

scholarly journals Hoe dink vandag se mense oor die Bybel?

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. J. J. Spangenberg
Keyword(s):  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Religious Issues ◽  
Single Authorship ◽  
The Church ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

How do people from our day and age view the Bible? Not all members of the Dutch Reformed Church cherish the same view about Scripture. The letters in the Afrikaans newspapers on religious issues clearly reflect this. There are two groups of scholars in the church whose views on Scripture impact on church members’ views. They are (1) systematic theologians and (2) biblical scholars. A large number of systematic theologians adhere to the view which was formulated during the heydays of Protestant Orthodoxy, i.e. that the Bible reflects a double authorship. They prefer to use the Latin words “auctor primaries” and “auctores secundarii” when writing about Scripture. A large number of biblical scholars, however, work with the idea that the Bible reflects single authorship. God did not write. Humans wrote the books of the Bible. It goes without saying that ordinary church members do not always understand the differences and are often perplexed by these differences. It is of utmost importance to discuss these differences and to try and find some middle ground in the church.

scholarly journals Radicalisation: A Social Psychological Perspective (Part I)

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 120-142
Author(s):  
I.B. Bovina ◽  
B. G. Bovin ◽  
A.D. Tikhonova
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Extreme Problem ◽  
Psychological Point ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
Psychological Knowledge ◽  
Terrorist Acts ◽  
Social Psychological Perspective

Terrorism, being a long-standing phenomenon and a threat that has existed for at least two millennia, is still an extreme problem in the life of society. Understanding how a person comes to commit terrorist acts requires consideration of the process of radicalisation. The aim of our literature review is to analyse the process of radicalisation.Security and counter-terrorism are one of the priority areas of scientific development in Russia. This direction has different facets of analysis. From a psychological point of view, the development of measures of influence should be based on knowledge of how a person joins groups and organizations of a terrorist nature, what are the psychological mechanisms of radicalization, as well as an understanding of the laws of deradicalization. Our analytical review within the framework of social psychological knowledge has allowed us to overcome a kind of gap existing in the literature, namely, to acquaint the Russian readers with a promising explanatory model of the process of radicalisation - the uncertainty — identity theory, proposed by Hogg. This model explains why and how people join groups with extremist and radical beliefs, as well as why they prefer acts of violence, acting on behalf of these groups.

scholarly journals Buite die grense van die bekende

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Nell
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Interpretive Paradigm ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Church Life ◽  
Cultural Experiences ◽  
The Church ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

Outside the confines of the known: Cross-cultural experiences among a random sample of ministers in the Dutch Reformed ChurchThis article looks at one of the questions posed in the Church Mirror questionnaire to a number of pastors of the Dutch Reformed Church. The question is: Tell us about the best experience you have had in your congregation where believers met across cultural boundaries or did something together? The sample forms part of a ministerial panel conducted every three years among ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church with the aim of finding out what pastors think and do about a number of current church activities. The choice to focus on this question comes against the backdrop of contemporary discourses related to the missional nature of church life and the challenge of multi-culturalism in faith communities. The study is qualitative in nature and falls within the interpretive paradigm as part of phenomenology. The data shows an interesting number of activities identified by the ministers related to multiculturalism and also provides some directions for missional development in the future.

Immanentistic beliefs in God: an elite response to secularisation

1994 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-282
Author(s):  
Hennie Pieterse
Keyword(s):  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Belief In God ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

AbstractThis article reports the results of three empirical surveys on the reaction to modernity of white Dutch Reformed Church members of the higher socio-economic group in the eastern suburbs of Pretoria over the past twenty years. It deals with secularisation, especially rationalisation on the individual level, and has to do with a change of belief in God in the sense that there is some evidence of a fading away of a transcendent view of God. Whereas C J Alant found in the sixties that 90 per cent of this group still professed a manifest supernaturalism as far as the person of God was concerned, I spotted a tendency towards an innerworldly view of God among a specific group of modal members of the white Dutch Reformed Church in the eastern suburbs of Pretoria.

Afrikaner Missionaries and the Slippery Slope of Praying for Rain

Exchange ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-45
Author(s):  
Retief Müller
Keyword(s):  
Central Africa ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Slippery Slope ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
African Religions ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

Rain prayers and ‘rainmaking’ have been much commented upon in respect to African religions including Christianity. This ritual practice was one of the issues that many colonial-era missionaries to Southern and Central Africa mentioned in their diaries and other materials. Their responses were often quite negative, but in certain cases there were attempts by missionaries to meet the indigenous discourse, if not exactly halfway, then at least in some manner by substituting Christian rain prayers for what was often seen as ‘heathen superstition’. This article concerns a much neglected group of missionaries in academic discourse, Afrikaners from the Dutch Reformed Church in the Cape Colony to wider Africa. It considers how they responded to indigenous requests or demands for rain prayers, and subtly poses the thesis that they were in some cases influenced and even convinced against their self-proclaimed biases to consider rain prayers from the indigenous point of view.

scholarly journals Die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk en die Suid-Afrikaanse Raad van Kerke

1987 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
C. F. A. Borchardt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
The South ◽  
South African Council ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk ◽  
Founder Member ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

The Dutch Reformed Church and the South African Council of Churches The General Missionary Conference which was founded in 1904 became the Christian Council of South Africa in 1936. In 1940 a founder member, viz. the Transvaal Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church withdrew from the council. In 1968 a change of name to the South African Council of Churches reflected a deeper involvement in social and political matters and it gradually also became more representative of the black Christian point of view. Despite various invitations, the Dutch Reformed Church has not rejoined the Council and relations have been very strained, but at its last synod in 1986 the Dutch Reformed Church decided that informal discussions could be held.

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