18 – 19 Augustus teen die Swartberge Dit is nie ’n kursus nie.  Dis nie ’n konferensie nie. Dis ook nie lesings nie. Dis ..... ’n Indaba! Presies dit: Om as lidmate, dominees en gemeentes mekaar te help met dit waarmee die Hoof van die Kerk elkeen geseën het. Ons...

GEMEENTES MET HOOP Die derde Cedarberg Konferensie word deur VG en NG gemeentes van Citrusdal in samewerking met Communitas aangebied op 26 & 27 Augustus 2010 .  Die konferensie fokus veral op die bediening in die platteland.  Ons fokus ook op ALLE...

The impact of the ‘liquid church’ discourse in Dutch evangelical churchesA practical-theological analysis Dr.René ErwichDepartment of Practical TheologyETF Leuven   AbstractThis paper considers the current state of the ‘liquid church’ discourse and seeks to relate...

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...

  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...

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...

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...

‘Paper for the conference Being Surprised by God: Embodied Ecclesiology in Local Contexts, Utrecht, June 21-24, 2010Rein Brouwer (www.pthu.nl/rbrouwer; rbrouwer@pthu.nl) How can theological language be of help in describing and interpreting the empirical reality of...

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...

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...