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Sattem, Jan Paul. "A task analysis of the Reformed North American pastor." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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McCall, Larry E. "The role of Christ's Covenant Church in raising up men for pastoral ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
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Chemorion, Edith Khakasa. "Spiritual care to people living with HIV and AIDS within the context of the Reformed Church of East Africa’s Plateau Mission Hospital (Kenya)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2422.
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Thesis (MTh (Practical Theology and Missiology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>The basic premise of this study is that a spiritual approach to care and support of people living with HIV, by means of a holistic pastoral model, would provide the Reformed Church of East Africa's Plateau Mission Hospital with an integrated dimension in their community-based care programme for people living with HIV/AIDS. This will go a long way in assisting the RCEA's diversification of the existing medical model, particularly in the Plateau Mission Hospital’s catchment area with its ever-increasing cases of infections, deaths, rejections, church-related stigma, orphans and vulnerable children. The researcher proposes the use of a spiritual model in dealing with PLWH in the Plateau Mission Hospital because this will help to address some of the unresolved theological issues that come to the fore when addressing matters concerning the health and illness of people living with HIV and AIDS. The researcher does this with acute awareness of the importance of integrating other approaches in the care and support of PLWH. For a holistic approach to be effected, the social development, medical, psychological and holistic systemic approaches to care must be considered. The holistic systemic approach used by the biomedical personnel and other caregivers should regard the person as a relational and social being acting within a cultural context. On the other hand, the biomedical model serves us with accurate diagnoses and sophisticated methods of treatment within which modern medicine is practiced. Similarly, the psychosocial model considers the influence of the social environment not only to the challenges that PLWH face, but also on the care they should receive. However, research has shown that there is an increasing need for holistic care in health care systems. This calls for the inclusion of spirituality within the developing bio-psycho-social approaches in addressing health and illness, particularly for people living with HIV and AIDS, in order for them to attain holistic healing. Plateau Mission Hospital, being a church-based institution within the jurisdiction of the RCEA’s southern presbytery, can be an effective vehicle for pastoral care of people living with HIV and AIDS. The organization is strategically placed and has the capacity (resource persons) to engage in a holistic ministry. The paper also aims at unlocking the RCEA’s resources to become more involved in all rounded existential issues of PLWH in the hospital’s catchment area. In this study, it is presupposed that, although the Hospital has a history of medical and social development work and chaplaincy office, it lacks emphasis on the spiritual dimension, and yet this focal point is important in terms of the immediate HIV/AIDS context at Plateau. The researcher established that the training that the personnel at the medical facility have undertaken promotes a clinical approach to all issues of health (prevention and treatment after prescription), even to people living with HIV/AIDS. Methodology. The first methodology for data collection that the research employed was literature review. In this case, library and church documents were reviewed to gather information on related matters. The areas reviewed were related to spirituality, care and healing in the context of HIV, pastoral care and theology in the context of HIV, and biomedical approaches in relation to the care of PLWH, and documentation (Plateau Hospital Reports, the RCEA’s constitution and Care Departmental Reports) on the RCEA’s approach to Hospital care to PLWH by means of the CBHC programme at the Plateau Mission Hospital in Eldoret. The websites were also consulted for purposes of data collection. The second method was conducting specific oral and written interviews with the Hospital’s CBHC staff, PLWH, congregational and church leadership on matters of the proposed spiritual care of PLWA. The areas interviewed were for the spiritual needs, those involved in the care and support of PLWH, improving existing interventions, the challenges encountered in the care for PLWH, the unfulfilled needs of PLWH and how spiritual care could improve the quality of the lives of PLWH. The third method of data collection was participant observation. The researcher was involved in the activities being studied. This method entailed participant observation during normal diaconal care activities in the RCEA’s Plateau parish congregations that the researcher implemented, for instance visiting people living with HIV/Aids, taking gifts to children affected by HIV. In meeting with volunteer caregivers during visits, while joining the CBHC team during follow-up meetings with PLWH in their homes, data was collected. The researcher had patient consultation during days for voluntary counseling and testing and informal meetings with volunteer caregivers. Presentation of the Thesis - Outline of Research This study is divided into five parts. Chapter 1 will examine the background to the study considering the problem statement, research questions, research objectives, hypothesis, justification, the scope of the research, the methodology used, limitations and delimitations. In Chapter 2 the paper will explore The Kenyan Scenario: Medical work and the involvement of the church within the community. This will cover the Kenyan national HIV updates, Uasin Gishu updates, Ainabkoi divisional statistics, the background to the Reformed Church of East Africa, Plateau Mission HIV ministry covering the psycho-social approach to community-based care of CBHC in the Reformed Church of East Africa in the Plateau Hospital catchment area. The paper will examine the medical care offered to people living with HIV/AIDS, such as the treatment of opportunistic diseases, administration of anti-retroviral drugs and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission and voluntary counseling and testing. The paper will also examine the social and developmental activities and services rendered to PLWA and the orphans and vulnerable children by means of compassionate care. CBHC networking with congregations, and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital will also be highlighted. The paper will also highlight the gaps experienced as a result of the focus on medical and social developmental approaches to the care and support of PLWA and OVCs. Chapter 3 is largely the analysis of interview responses, and presents the findings of field research at the RCEA Plateau Mission Hospital’s selected area of study. This will indicate the seriousness of the unattended needs in this case the spiritual needs and the magnitude of the problem in the health facility but, by implication, affecting the church. This will need a change of stance, namely that of regarding HIV as a medical problem that the hospital needs to address, and view it as a collective need for all key players in church, hospital and community. Chapter 4 will look at the challenge HIV poses to the spiritual care of PLWH in Plateau Mission Hospital. The chapter will contain a literature review on the holistic approach in the care and support of people living with HIV. The section will look at understanding the needs of people living with HIV, pastoral care of people living with HIV, practical theology, biomedical and bio-psycho-social models in the care of PLWH. The study will also examine the relevance of God-images, systems approach, the role of the church and a spiritual care approach in the holistic healing for PLWH by means of pastoral care. Chapter 5 will conclude the paper and will shed light on the importance of the proposed approach to be integrated into the current strategy (pastoral care model with a spiritual-care approach). It is hoped that the recommendations that will be made at the end will strengthen the high demand for a holistic-care ministry to people living with HIV and the affected families in the RCEA Plateau Mission Hospital.
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Baker, Alan T. "Establishment of a Christian community at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York a systems approach integrating a Reformed theology of ministry into a military chapel setting /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1997. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0086.
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Moyo, Paul Harry. "Reformed theology and the excluded middle a reformed biblical theology of the demonic and exorcism /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Ould, Nelson E. "Chronic shame in pastoral theology : an American Protestant Reformed perspective." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/30614.
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In the last decade shame has emerged as a problem of growing proportions in the United States, primarily in the field of psychoanalysis. Much of the attention has been focused on shame of a chronic nature, analysed from the standpoint of self psychology. Fewer contributions, however, have been made by pastoral theologians in considering shame within Christian tradition. The impetus for this research, therefore, is to advance pastoral theological perspectives on shame. Toward this end, in-depth interviews were undertaken with parishioners in two Presbyterian churches in the United States. These interviews comprise the primary source of original and creative insights for this research. The findings can be divided into two primary realms. The first realm consists in the variety of phenomena constituting chronic shame. Guided by an emphasis in "grounded theory" research on determining relationships between various phenomena, interviewees chronic shame is analysed according to a sequence of causes, preventive strategies and consequences. Two important causes of chronic shame for interviewees appear to be failure and rejection. A peculiar feature of these causes is that shame is felt for failing demands interviewees believe they had exaggerated in their own minds. Moreover, shame is felt for rejection interviewees are not certain even occurred. A primary strategy interviewees employ to prevent shame is maintaining certain views of identity, and a second strategy consists in protecting against shame's pain. Finally, consequences of these strategies, and of shame itself, include self-estrangement, anxiety and withdrawal. The second realm of findings is to explore the roles both of social structures (particularly the church) and apparent psychic structures in creating chronic shame.
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Van, Heukelom Raymond R. "The meaning of baptism in Reformed theology." Portland, Or. : Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
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Goeschl, Gary Edward. "Toward an understanding of Reformed theology an introductory commentary on five major chapters of the Westminster Confession of Faith /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
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Overduin, Jacob. "Experiential holiness in the early modern period a comparison of Wesleyan theology and the theology of the Nadere Reformatie /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Arnold, Jonathan W. "The reformed theology of Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3365fbf1-7c93-42de-a916-a22637a1a592.
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Benjamin Keach, the most prolific Particular Baptist theologian of the seventeenth century, described himself as a defender of ‘Reformed Orthodoxy’. Despite this self-identification, modern scholarship has largely relegated Keach to a self-educated dissenting pastor whose major achievement could be found in his controversial support of hymn singing. Two recent dissertations have attempted to revise this view of Keach, but no scholarly work has yet attempted to wrestle holistically with Keach’s view of himself as a Reformed theologian. This work fills that void by reviewing Keach’s own understanding of the term ‘Reformed Orthodoxy’, reconstructing Keach’s connections both in the personal contacts available in dissenting London and Buckinghamshire and in the books at his disposal, examining the major aspects of his theology, and placing that theology within the spectrum of Reformed Orthodoxy. From the time of his entry onto the public theological stage, Keach quickly became identified with those with whom he networked intellectually. From his branding as a Fifth Monarchist to his identification first as a General Baptist and later as the most prominent Particular Baptist, those connections proved to be the most idiosyncratic characteristic of Keach’s theological pilgrimage. Those connections crossed the conventional lines of systematic theology and boundaries of religious sects, resulting in Keach’s theology crossing those same lines yet remaining Reformed in its major assertions. Following the organizational structure of Keach’s catechisms and confessions, this work proceeds by expounding and interrogating Keach’s major theological positions—his understanding of the Trinity including this doctrine’s foundational role in ecclesiology, the significance of the covenants, justification, and eschatology. Throughout this exposition, Keach’s theological lenses, shaped by his contacts and his independent, creative thought, become clear. Ultimately, Keach proves himself to be a capable Reformed theologian, able and willing to dialogue with the most influential theologians, yet consistently forging his own ground within Reformed Orthodoxy as a whole and more specifically Particular Baptist theology.
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Preciado, Michael Patrick. "The compatibility of guidance control and reformed theology." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=235593.
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In this thesis, I ask whether reformed theology is compatible with guidance control. I conclude that they are compatible. The main areas of compatibility are fourfold. First, both deny the sourcehood condition. Second, both deny the alternative possibilities condition. Third, both are types of reasons-responsive theories. Finally, both have a similar subjectivist condition. This conclusion implies that the resources of guidance control can be constructively used, developed and applied by reformed theologians and philosophers. Guidance control can be applied to the debates on free will and moral responsibility as well as to ethics and other related fields.
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Rutoro, Rangarirai. "Lay leadership development in the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5490.
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Thesis (DTh (Practical Theology and Missiology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The dissertation explores lay leadership developments in the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe by investigating the leadership history of the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe (RCZ) from 1891 when it was founded in Zimbabwe, to the present.
Chapter 1 introduces the problem statement, i.e. the exclusion of laity and women in the broader church structures, dominated by male clergy. It currently blocks transformation. The hypothesis of this study is that lay leadership is not sufficiently represented in the leadership structures of the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe. Reasons for this can be that the influence of the clerical paradigm model of leadership, or the hierarchical Shona culture structures, adopted by the missionaries of the RCZ are still haunting the leadership of the church. The methodological framework for the study is practical theology, used by Hendriks (2004). Some important working concepts are explained and a short historical background of the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe is laid out.
In Chapter 2 different views on church offices are discussed. Methodologically, the Word of God provides the normative basis from which the problem statement is addressed.
In Chapter 3 some aspects of the historical background of the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe are described. The Shona cultural background and its hierarchical structures are discussed in order to determine how the Shona culture influenced the leadership structures of the church to exclude laity and women.
In Chapter 4 the history of leadership in the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe is explored and the position of the lay people from 1891 to the present is discussed. This is done to determine whether there have been developments in the area of laity inclusion in the broader leadership structures of the church and to prove or disapprove the statement that the broader leadership structures of the church were dominated by male clergy.
Chapter 5 presents the empirical part of the study. Attitudes towards women in the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe are analyzed through qualitative research methods. The data was gathered through interviews that assessed the relation between laity and clergy and men and women in the church. Negative and positive attitudes have been noted from the different groups that were interviewed.
Chapter 6 describes the Zimbabwean situation which influences the church leadership due to the pressure of the political, economic, education and health situation in the country. The influence of modernism and postmodern megatrends towards church leadership styles are discussed. These trends seek participation of every individual member for transformation to take place.
In Chapter 7 the focus is on five strategies to empower lay leadership to participate in all the broader structures of the RCZ. It also focuses on the applicability of lay leadership development in the RCZ.
Finally, the overall summary, conclusion and recommendations are given in Chapter 8. The recommendations need to be considered by the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe in order to strengthen the inclusion of laity and women in the broader structures of the church.
The research proved that lay leadership development is gradually taking place in the RCZ, but empowerment of laity and women is still needed.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie proefskrif is 'n verkennende studie oor ongeskoolde leierskapontwikkelings in die Gereformeerde Kerk in Zimbabwe. Leierskap geskiedenis van die Gereformeerde Kerk in Zimbabwe word ondersoek vanaf 1891 toe dit tot stand gekom het in Zimbabwe tot huidiglik.
Hoofstuk 1 omskryf die probleemstelling, naamlik die uitsluiting van ongeskooldes en vroue in breë kerk strukture wat gedomineer word deur manlike klerke. Huidiglik stuit dit transformasie. Die hipotesis van die studie is dat ongeskoolde leierskap nie voldoende verteenwoordig word in die leierskapstrukture van die Gereformeerde Kerk in Zimbabwe nie. Redes hiervoor kan wees dat die invloed van die klerklike paradigma model van leierskap of die hierargiese Shona kultuur, wat deur die sendelinge van die Gereformeerde Kerk in Zimbabwe aangeneem is, steeds die leierskap van die kerk oorheers. Die metodologiese raamwerk van die studie is praktiese teologie, soos gebruik deur Hendriks (2004). Van die belangrike konsepte word verduidelik en 'n kort historiese oorsig van die Gereformeerde Kerk in Zimbabwe word uiteengesit.
In Hoofstuk 2 word verskillende standpunte van kerkkantore bespreek. Metodologies verskaf die Woord van God die normatiewe basis vanwaar die probleemstelling aangespreek word.
In Hoofstuk 3 word sekere aspekte van die historiese agtergrond van die Gereformeerde Kerk in Zimbabwe beskryf. Die Shona kulturele agtergrond en sy hierargiese strukture word bespreek sodat daar bepaal kan word hoe die Shona kultuur die leierskapstrukture van die kerk beinvloed het om ongeskooldes en vroue uit te sluit.
In Hoofstuk 4 word die geskiedenis van leierskap in die Gereformeerde Kerk in Zimbabwe verken en die posisie van ongeskoolde mense, vanaf 1891 tot huidiglik, word bespreek. Dit word gedoen om te bepaal of daar enige ontwikkelings in die area van die insluiting van ongeskooldes in die breë leierskapstrukture van die kerk was en om te bepaal of die stelling dat die breë leierskapstrukture van die kerk gedomineer is deur manlike klerke waar of onwaar is.
Hoofstuk 5 behels die empiriese deel van die studie. Houdings teenoor vroue in die Gereformeerde Kerk in Zimbabwe word geanaliseer deur middel van kwalitatiewe navorsingsmetodes. Die data is versamel deur middel van onderhoude wat die verhouding tussen ongeskooldes en klerklikes en mans en vroue in die kerk assesseer. Negatiewe en positiewe houdings is genotuleer komende vanaf die verskillende groepe wat deelgeneem het aan die onderhoude.
Hoofstuk 6 beskryf die Zimbabwiese situasie wat die kerkleierskap beïnvloed deur middel van die druk wat die politieke, ekonomiese, onderwys en gesondheidsituasie in die land daarop plaas. Die invloed van modernisme en postmodernistiese mega-neigings teenoor kerkleierskap style word bespreek. Hierdie neigings streef na die deelname van elke individuele lid sodat transformasie kan plaasvind.
Hoofstuk 7 fokus op vyf strategieë om ongeskoolde leierskap te bemagtig om deel te neem aan die breë strukture van die RCZ. Dit fokus ook op die toepaslikheid van ongeskoolde leierskapontwikkeling in die Gereformeerde Kerk in Zimbabwe.
Die algehele opsomming, slot en aanbevelings word in Hoofstuk 8 bespreek. Die aanbevelings moet deur die Gereformeerde Kerk in Zimbabwe oorweeg word sodat die insluiting van ongeskooldes en vroue in die breë strukture van die kerk versterk kan word.
Hierdie navorsing bewys dat ongeskoolde leierskap ontwikkeling geleidelik besig is om plaas te vind in die Gereformeerde Kerk in Zimbabwe, maar dat bemagtiging van ongeskooldes en vroue steeds nodig is.
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Wheeler, Nigel David. "Eminent spirituality and eminent usefulness Andrew Fuller's (1754-1815) pastoral theology in his ordination sermons /." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-09252009-000732/.
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Van, Zyl Jacobus 1962. "The impact of reformed missions on the origin, growth and identity of the Reformed Church of East Africa, 1905-2000." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52536.
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Thesis (DTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2001<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Mission work was done consecutively by two Reformed missionary enterprises in Kenya and led to
the establishment of the Reformed Church of East Africa (RCEA).
The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (DRC), which established congregations amongst South
Africans who had come to Kenya from 1905 onwards, played an important role during the phase of
church- planting: initially through a spontaneous congregational outreach towards the local people
of western Kenya during the 1930s and subsequently through formal missionary action which began
with the calling ofBB Eybers as a full-time missionary in 1944. Thus the foundations were laid for
the establishment of what is today the RCEA. Before Eybers left in 1960 three congregations had
come into existence under the auspices of the DRC. The second phase of the missionary endeavour
began in 1961 with an agreement between the DRC and the Reformed Mission League in the
Netherlands (RML) whereby the latter was asked to continue the work started by the DRC.
The Reformed Church of East Africa (RCEA) was formally instituted in 1963. Despite almost a
century of activities, a thorough investigation of the history of the founding of this Church has not
yet been done. Due to the fact that information regarding this topic has been widely dispersed to
different parts of the world, and that it was written in several languages, there is a real danger that
such information may be lost or become irretrievable.
Considering this situation, the aim of the study was to investigate the history of the RCEA and to
determine the influence of the two missionary enterprises on the current identity of the RCEA. The
mission's objectives, policies and methods implemented by the South African DRC until 1961 were
compared to the objectives, policies and methods used by the Netherlands RML as from 1961 until
the present day. The study then attempted to determine what effect these two enterprises with their
respective and varying emphases had on the formation and development of the RCEA. An identity
analysis of the RCEA was undertaken to determine the influence of the two missionary enterprises
on the current identity of the RCEA. In various respects this identity reflects the influence of the DRC
in South Africa and the Reformed Mission League in the Netherlands on the RCEA. It appears that the impact of the Missions is evident in a variety of aspects of the church life of the
RCEA. The ecclesiastical model introduced by the DRC and continued by the RML remained
dominant in the RCEA. The fundamentals of Reformed theology (sola scriptura., sola gratia, sola
fide), the church concept (proclamational), the style of communication, the worship and the liturgy
reflect the lasting influence of both missions on the RCEA.
The findings were evaluated from a critical missiological perspective to indicate what the effect of
the dual involvement of the two Missions was on the RCEA. Still, the RCEA is no carbon copy of
either of these missionary enterprises. The identity of the RCEA developed within the culture and
context of the people of Kenya amongst whom it was established and, as such, formed a Church
unique in its own right.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die ontstaan van 'n inheemse gereformeerde kerk op die ewenaar, die Reformed Church of East
Africa (RCEA), was die gevolg van sendingwerk wat opeenvolgend deur twee gereformeerde
sendinge in Kenia gedoen is.
Die Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk in Suid-Afiika (Ned. Geref. Kerk), wat sedert die begin van die
twintigste eeu gemeentes onder Suid-Afrikaners gevestig het, het 'n belangrike rol gespeel gedurende
die kerkplantingsfase. Dit het aanvanklik plaasgevind deur 'n spontane gemeentelike uitreik-aksie
na die plaaslike bevolking in Wes Kenia gedurende die 1930s. Dit is voortgesit deur formele
sendingwerk wat in 1944 begin het toe BB Eybers as voltydse sendeling beroep is. Gedurende
Eybers se dienstyd is die grondslag gele vir die kerk wat vandag bekend staan as die Reformed
Church of East Africa. Voordat Eybers in 1960 weg is, het drie gemeentes onder die toesig van die
Ned. Geref. Kerk ontstaan.
Die tweede fase van die sendingaksie het in 1961 met 'n ooreenkoms tussen die Ned Geref. Kerk
en die Gereformeerde Zendingsbond in Nederland (GZB) waartydens laasgenoemde gevra is om die
werk oor te neem. Die Reformed Church of East Africa (RCEA) het in 1963 tot stand gekom.
Alhoewel die vroee geskiedenis van die RCEA byna 'n eeu gelede begin het, is 'n deeglike ondersoek
aangaande die ontstaan en ontwikkeling van die kerk nog nie gedoen nie. Weens die feit dat inligting
oor hierdie onderwerp oor verskillende dele van die wereld verspreid is, en in verskillende tale geskryf
is, bestaan die gevaar dat hierdie inligting verlore kan raak.
In die lig hiervan was die doel van die studie om die geskiedenis van die RCEA na te gaan en te
bepaal watter invloed die twee sendingaksies op die huidige identiteit van die RCEA gehad het. Die
sendingdoelstellings, -beleid en -metodes van die Ned. Geref. Kerk tot in 1961 word vergelyk met
die doelstellings, beleid en metodes van die GZB vanaf 1961 tot en met 2000. Die studie probeer
bepaal watter effek die twee sendingaksies met hul onderskeie aksente op die ontstaan en
ontwikkeling van die RCEA, gehad het. Die bevindinge is geevalueer vanuit 'n kritiese missiologiese
perspektief. Dit was nodig om 'n identiteitsanalise van die RCEA te doen ten einde die invloed van
beide die Ned. Geref. Kerk in Suid-Afrika en die Gereformeerde Zendingsbond in Nederland op die kerk te bepaal.
Die navorsing het getoon dat die impak van die twee sendingaksies die identiteit van die RCEA
inderdaad in 'n groot mate bepaal het. Die ekklesiologiese model wat eie is aan die Ned. Geref. Kerk
en deur die GZB voortgesit is, is ook kenmerkend van die identiteit van die RCEA vandag. Die
grondslae van die Reformasie (sola scriptura, sola gratia, sola fide), die kerkbegrip
(verkondigingsmodel), die kommunikasiestyl, die erediens en die liturgie weerspieel die voortgaande
invloed van beide sendingaksies op die RCEA.
Hierdie bevindige is geevalueer vanuit 'n krities-rnissiologiese perspektief om aan te to on wat die
effek van die invloed van die sendingaksies op die RCEA was. Nogtans is die RCEA nie 'n blote
deurslag kopie van een of beide van hierdie sendingaksies nie. Die identiteit van die RCEA het
ontwikkel binne die kultuur en konteks van die mense van Kenia onder wie dit gevestig is. Sodoende
het 'n Kerk met 'n eiesoortige karakter ontstaan.
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Glidden, Michael Wayne. "Leading and nurturing the broken church." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Chan, Shun Lai. "Reflection on the concept of the church in the reformed tradition." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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Stein, Donald M. "Pastoral care groups." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Voak, Nigel. "Richard Hooker and reformed theology : a study of reason, will, and grace /." Oxford : Oxford university press, 2003. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38953768b.
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Lee, Roger D. "The role of preaching in church revitalization at University Baptist Church in Ames, Iowa." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p054-0278.
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Van, Rooi Leslie Bernard. "In search of ecclesial autonomyy : a church historical and church juridical study of developments in church polity in the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in South Africa (DRMC) and the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA) from 1881-1994." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4025.
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Thesis (DTh (Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology))--University of Stellenbosch, 2010.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) and the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa
(DRCA) was established in 1881 and 1910 respectively. As pointed out in this study both
these churches grew from the mission endeavours of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC).
In April 1994 the DRMC and the DRCA united in forming the Uniting Reformed Church in
Southern Africa (URCSA). This church has as confessional base the Belgic Confession of Faith,
the Canons of Dordt and the Heidelberg Catechism as well as the Belhar Confession. The
church order of the URCSA is built on these Confessions and in particular on the Belhar
Confession. In this study I argue that it was only after the unification of the mentioned
churches that a history characterised by guardianship, subordination and semi-autonomy
came to an end.
However this may be the histories of the DRMC and the DRCA point out that, on a church
juridical level, these churches where subordinate and to a large extent directly governed by
the DRC. Here the model for the church planting as followed by the DRC will receive
attention. By looking into the primary documents through which these churches were
governed as well as the documents that formed the church orderly backbone of the
mentioned churches in that, through their principles and stipulations, the DRMC and DRCA
were organised internally, I attempt to evaluate these documents. These documents include
the initial constitutions for the governance of the DRMC and the DRCA, the deeds of
agreement between the regional synods of the DRC and the regional synods of the DRCA as
well as the Deeds of Agreement between the DRC in South Africa (the Western and
Southern Cape Synod of the DRC) the Synod of the DRMC, the first church orders of the
DRMC and the DRCA and, to a lesser extent, the church order of the URCSA.
Through their histories these churches were granted church juridical liberties. These
liberties form the foundation for the initial development in the polity of these churches. The
content of the abovementioned documents highlights these liberties as well as the effect it
had on the theological identities of the DRMC and the DRCA.
As the histories of these churches depict a strong strive towards reaching a position of
ecclesial autonomy and the acknowledgment of their autonomy by the DRC, special
attention is given to the concept and interpretation of ecclesial autonomy. In this regard I
remark on the historical interpretation of ecclesial autonomy as it played out in the histories
of the DRMC and the DRCA. Through the works of renowned Reformed theologians, I
further look into historical interpretations of this theological principle, which is ecclesial
autonomy. In doing this I attempt to formulate a specific understanding of ecclesial
autonomy based on a particular interpretation of the Lordship of Christ. As outcome this
interpretation shows towards the interdependant relation between churches. It can be
argued that this impacts directly on the relation between the DRC, the DRMC and the DRCA,
specifically in the ongoing processes of church re-unification. In a final turn in which I affirm
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the interdependent and interrelatedness between churches, I argue towards the building of
a vulnerable ecclesiology which impacts directly on an understanding of ecclesial autonomy,
the specific polity of a church, as well as on the structures embodied by a community of
believers.
Some of the tenets and convictions of Reformed church polity, as they are relevant to this
study, are discussed in detail. In turn I use these principles in evaluating the church juridical
position of the DRMC and the DRCA in the mentioned period. As such I point towards the
strong deviations in Reformed church polity as it played out in the history of the churches
within the family of Dutch Reformed Churches. In this regard I also point towards the
interrelatedness of these churches within the broader social context of South(-ern) Africa. I
argue that these unique deviations are to a large extent distinct from the ecclesial context
of South(-ern) Africa. Concluding remarks are made in this regard. Through the unpacked
notion of what is termed an ecclesiology of vulnerability, built on the interdependent
relation between churches, I make brief suggestions regarding the ongoing process of
church re-unification between the churches within the family of Dutch Reformed Churches.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sendingkerk (NGSK) en die Nederduitse Gereformeerde
Kerk in Afrika (NGKA) het onderskeidelik in 1881 en 1910 tot stand gekom. Soos wat hierdie
studie uitwys, het beide hierdie kerke gegroei vanuit die sendingaktiwiteite van die
Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK).
In April 1994 het die NGSK en die NGKA verenig in die Verenigende Gereformeerde Kerk in
Suider-Afrika (VGKSA). Hierdie kerk het as konfessionele basis die Nederlandse
Geloofsbelydenis, die Dordtse Leerreëls, die Heidelbergse Kategismus sowel as die Belydenis
van Belhar. Die kerkorde van die VGKSA is dan ook gebou op hierdie belydenisskrifte en dan
in besonder op die Belydenis van Belhar. In hierdie studie redeneer ek dat dit eers ná die
eenwording van die vermelde kerke was dat ’n geskiedenis gekenmerk deur voogdyskap,
ondergeskiktheid en semi-outonomie agterweë gelaat is.
Dit kan vermeld word dat die geskiedenis van die NGSK en die NGKA duidelik uitwys dat
hierdie kerke, op ’n kerkregtelike vlak, ondergeskik was aan, en tot ’n groot mate regeer is
deur die NGK. Die model vir die planting van kerke soos gevolg deur die NGK geniet in
hierdie verband in die studie aandag. Verder het ek probeer om die inhoud van die primêre
dokumente waardeur die NGSK en die NGKA regeer is, sowel as die dokumente wat as
kerkordelike basis vir die interne organisering van hierdie kerke gebruik is, te evalueer. Die
vermelde dokumentasie sluit in die oorspronklike Grondwette vir die regering van die NGSK
en die NGKA, die Aktes van Ooreenkoms tussen die streeksinodes van die NGK en die
streeksinodes van die NGKA sowel as die Aktes van Ooreenkoms tussen die NGK in Suid-
Afrika (die sogenaamde Kaapse Kerk) en die sinode van die NGSK, die eerste kerkordes van
die NGSK en die NGKA, en, tot ’n mindere mate ook die kerkorde van die VGKSA.
Deur die verloop van die geskiedenis is daar sekere kerkregtelike vryhede aan die NGSK en
die NGKA toegestaan. Hierdie vryhede vorm, myns insiens, die basis van die oorspronklike
kerkregtelike ontwikkeling(-e) in die vermelde kerke. Die inhoud van die bovermelde
dokumente wys juis hierdie vryhede uit sowel as die effek wat dit op die teologiese
identiteite van die NGSK en die NGKA gehad het.
Aangesien die geskiedenis van die NGSK en die NGKA ’n sterk strewe na kerklike outonomie
en die erkenning van hierdie outonomie deur die NGK uitwys, word spesiale aandag gegee
aan die bespreking van die konsep en interpretasie van kerklike outonomie. Die historiese
begrip van hierdie term word verduidelik en spesifiek hoe dit uitgespeel het in die
geskiedenis van die NGSK en die NGKA. Deur te verwys na die werke van welbekende
Gereformeerde teoloë, word daar ook aandag gegee aan die historiese interpretasie van
kerklike outonomie as teologiese beginsel. Daarvolgens probeer ek om ’n spesifieke begrip
vir kerklike outonomie te formuleer. ’n Bepaalde interpretasie van Christus se heerskappy is
hier as basis gebruik. As uitkoms dui hierdie geformuleerde interpretasie van kerklike
outonomie op inter-afhanklike verhoudinge tussen kerke. Myns insiens impakteer dit direk op die verhouding tussen die NGK, die NGSK en die NGKA en hier spesifiek dan op die proses
van kerklike hereniging tussen hierdie kerke.
In ’n finale rondte gaan my argument oor die bou van wat genoem word ‘n kwesbare
ekklesiologie. Hierdie argument is gebou op ‘n verstaan van kerklike outonomie wat wys op
die inter-afhanklike verhouding tussen kerke. Myns insiens impakteer hierdie argument
direk op ’n spesifieke begrip van kerklike outonomie, die spesifieke kerkreg wat uitspeel in
’n kerk, sowel as op die strukture wat beliggaam word in ’n gemeenskap van gelowiges.
Van die oortuigings van die Gereformeerde Kerkreg komend vanuit ‘n spesifieke konteks,
soos wat dit betrekking het op hierdie studie, word gedetailleerd bespreek. Ek het ook
hierdie oortuigings gebruik om die kerkregtelike posisie van die NGSK en die NGKA in die
vermelde periode te evalueer. In hierdie verband wys ek op hoe daar in die geskiedenis van
hierdie kerke sterk afgewyk was van die Gereformeerde Kerkreg. Melding word in hierdie
verband gemaak van die inter-afhanklikheid van hierdie kerke en die breër sosiale konteks
van Suid(-er)-Afrika. Myns insiens is hierdie vermelde eiesoortige afwykings tot ’n groot
mate uniek aan die kerklike konteks van Suid(-er)-Afrika. Slotopmerkings word in hierdie
verband gemaak. Wanneer die konsep van ’n kwesbare ekklesiologie, gebou op ‘n verstaan
van die inter-afhaklike verhouding tussen kerke, beskryf word, maak ek kort opmerkings
rakende die aangegaande proses van kerkhereniging tussen die kerke binne die familie van
NG Kerke.
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Thesis (DTh (Practical Theology and Missiology))-- University of Stellenbosch, 2011.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research starts with a descriptive study of the traditional missionary model used by the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in South Africa in planting what is now known as the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe (RCZ). The purpose of this descriptive part is to understand why certain mistakes are constantly repeated in cross-cultural outreach work and to prevent it from happening again. The RCZ is challenged to develop intercultural missionary theory and practice.
The outreach towards the Tonga communities living in the Binga district in Zimbabwe.s North-Western province is used as an extended case study in developing a new missional framework for the RCZ. The research question is thus: How is the RCZ appropriately, meaningfully and relevantly to express the missional praxis of God within the context of the Tonga people?
The research argues that meaningful missional reflection has to start with knowing and understanding the Tonga people. The RCZ would then not fall in the same trap of the European missionaries who had an ethnocentric superiority attitude. This calls for a paradigm shift in the RCZ.s thinking and doing mission. The RCZ needs to participate in the Mission of God with love and humility.
The research argues that there is a need for the RCZ to revisit and carry out a critical analysis concerning her thinking and strategies of mission today. The RCZ is to develop a relevant framework that will allow the Tonga people to be conscious instruments of their own transformation in their own socio-cultural context. The goal of the study is to have a shift in the RCZ towards a missiological approach that is appropriate, meaningful and relevant in order to facilitate the transformation of the community she serves and ministers to. This framework for doing Christian mission should be Biblical, communal and contextual in the RCZ and at the same time encourage reflective involvement of the faith community in the missio Dei. The research proposes an intercultural mission as appropriate in our context, not a cross-cultural one.
The research concludes that the DRC.s traditional mission model profoundly influenced the identity and present mission practice of the RCZ. A better understanding of the identity of both the DRC and the RCZ will enlighten the members of the RCZ to accept the missio Dei as their vocation and challenge. Now and in future, it will help the RCZ members who are participating in intercultural mission to make more informed plans and decisions.<br>AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die navorsing begin met beskrywende studie van die tradisionele sendingmodel wat deur die Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) gebruik is in die totstandkoming van wat nou bekend is as die Reformed Church in Zimbabwe (RCZ). Die doel van die beskrywende deel is om te verstaan hoekom bepaalde foute gemaak is in die kruis-kulturele uitreike van die verlede en om nie daardie foute te bly herhaal nie. Die RCZ moet interkulturele missionale teorie en praktyk leer ontwikkel.
Die uitreik na die Tonga gemeenskap in die Binga distrik in Zimbabwe se Noord-Westelike provinsie word gebruik as uitgebreide gevallestudie in die ontwikkeling van nuwe missionale benadering vir die RCZ. Die navorsingsvraag is: Hoe moet die RCZ, binne die konteks van die Tonga volk, die missio Dei toepaslik, betekenisvol en relevant uitdruk?
Die navorsing aanvaar dat as die RCZ gepaste en betekenisvolle sending-benadering wil ontwikkel, hulle die Tonga volk moet ken en verstaan. Die RCZ moet nie die foute van die Europese sendelinge met hul etnosentriese meerderwaardige houding herhaal nie. Dit benodig paradigmaskuif in die RCZ se denke en sendingwerk want hulle was op pad om dieselfde foute te maak. Die RCZ moet met liefde en nederigheid deelneem aan die missio Dei. Haar optrede moet nie meerderwaardigheid teenoor die Tonga mense weerspieel nie.
Die navorsing stel dus voor dat die RCZ se herbesin en kritiese analise doen van haar huidige denke en strategiee. Die RCZ moet relevante raamwerk ontwikkel wat die Tonga volk sal toelaat om bewustelike instrumente van hul eie transformasie in hul eie sosio-kulturele konteks te wees. Die doel van hierdie studie is skuif in die RCZ na missionale benadering wat gepas, betekenisvol en relevant is ten einde die transformasie van die gemeenskap wat gedien en bedien word, te vergemaklik. Hierdie studie is poging om 'n raamwerk te ontwikkel vir die doen van sendingwerk wat Bybels, gemeenskaplik en kontekstueel binne die RCZ is en wat denkende betrokkenheid van die geloofsgemeenskap in die missio Dei sal aanmoedig. 'n Interkulturele benadering tot sending is in die konteks gepas, en nie 'n kruis-kulturele sending benadering soos voorheen deur die NGK gevolg nie.
Die navorsing konkludeer dat die NGK se tradisionele sendingmodel die RCZ se identiteit en benadering tot sendingwerk integraal beinvloed het. Daarom is die geskiedenis van die RCZ en die werk en invloed van die NGK op die RCZ eers ontleed. Die navorser wil die RCZ oortuig om haar eie identiteit missionaal te herontdek om sodoende in haar uitreik na ander kulture interkultureel te kan werk. In die proses wil die RCZ nie proseliete van die Tonga mense maak nie maar hulle bemagtig om self in die lig van die evangelie hulle kultuur te transformeer.
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