In die onderhawige artikel word aangedui dat die mening dat in die Dordtse Leerreëls (DL) met 'n meedoënlose predestinasie gewerk word (vgl. Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika [NHKA] 2016a:779-794; 2016b:194-196), nie reg aan die inhoud en bedoeling van die Dordtse Leerreëls laat geskied nie. Hierdie siening kom daarop neer dat sommige mense buite Christus om van ewigheid af uitverkies of verwerp is. Die Leerreëls kan as 'n formulier van eenheid, tot troos van gelowiges gehandhaaf word. Daar word toegegee dat die omgang met die betrokke belydenisskrif hermeneuties bepaald moet wees om reg aan die inhoud te laat geskied en ontnugtering te voorkom. Die Dordtse Leerreëls is derhalwe nie eksklusief nie, maar inklusief. Die Dordtse Leerreëls (1618-1619) vorm deel van die sogenaamde formuliere van eenheid (vgl. Bakhuizen van den Brink 1976:49-50), naas die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis ([NGB] 1561) en die Heidelbergse Kategismus ([HK] 1563). Die Sinode wat in Dordrecht plaasgevind het, was in die sinodes sedert Emden ( 1571) 'n bepaalde afsluiting van die kerkregtelike ontwikkeling en formulering van die kerkorde wat tydens hierdie Sinode vasgestel is. Naas die kerkordelike stryd was daar ook 'n stryd om die belydenis van die kerk, wat hand aan hand met seggenskap van die owerheid in die kerk geggaan het. Die klem op menslike vryheid en verantwoordelikheid loop uit op 'n nasionaal gereformeerde beweging wat ten gunste was van die owerheid se inspraak in die kerk en wat die binding aan die belydenis krities bejeën het. Die sogenaamde 'kerkelijken' het egter die invloed van die owerheid in die kerk afgewys en was ten gunste van die handhawing van die belydenis soos in die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis en die Heidelbergse Kategismus verwoord is. Slegs 'een confessionele basis kon aan de Gereformeerde Kerk een identiteit verlenen, die hem theologisch en sociaal opzicht van andere confessies onderscheidde'. Dit was veral die standpunt van Gomarus en die latere Contra-Remonstrante 1 (Selderhuis 2006:414-415). Die bedoeling was egter nie om 'n addisionele belydenis tot die kerk se belydenisskat toe te voeg nie, maar om die dispuut tussen hierdie twee strydende partye tot 'n einde te bring (Sinnema 2011b:313).Die verrigtinge van die Sinode is oorskadu deur die dispuut wat tussen twee hoogleraars aan die Universiteit van Leiden ontstaan het, naamlik Jacobus Arminius (1560-1609) en Franciskus Gomarus (1563-1641), asook hulle volgelinge (Pont 1994:85; vgl. Van 't Spijker 1987a:32). Agtergrond en aanloop tot die Sinode van Dordrecht 1618-1619Arminius, gebore in 1560 op Oudewater (Hoeksema 1980:6), word vanaf sy aanstelling as hoogleraar aan die Universiteit van Leiden (1603) bekend, ondanks die feit dat 'n Amsterdamse predikant, Petrus Plancius (1552-1622) hom reeds van onregsinnigheid beskuldig het (Pont 1994:85). Arminius se siening oor die predestinasie tree aan die lig in 'n disputatie (redestryd) voor studente op 7 Februarie 1604 (Selderhuis 2006:417) waarin hy 15 stellings behandel het. Johannes Wtenbogaert 1 Die Contra-Re...
The relationship between Colossians and Ephesians as a synoptic problem. Research by different scholars concluded that some letters traditionally ascribed to Paul were probably not written by him and drew a distinction between Pauline and Deutero-Pauline letters. The majority of scholars nowadays are of the opinion that the letters to the Colossians and the Ephesians are Deutero-Pauline and that Ephesians, at least, was surely not written by Paul. The results of research on the synoptic problem can be used and applied to the two letters under discussion because a comparison shows that there are striking similarities between the two. The most recent research shows that Ephesians made use of the letter to the Colossians but not without redactional changes to suit the author’s literary purpose. This method is exegetically known as redaction-criticism, linked to the social-science viewpoint that the author of the letter to the Ephesians acted as a change agent on behalf of a change agency.
Theology has been an integral part of the University of Pretoria since its inception and Church History has been taught since the establishment of the Faculty of Theology in 1917. At that time, the Presbyterian Church of South Africa and the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (NHK) were partners. The Presbyterian link with the Faculty ceased in 1933. From 1938 the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) joined the NHK and this remained the situation until 2002 when the Uniting Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa re-established its links with the Faculty. At the present time, the Department of Church History and Church Polity is staffed by representatives of all three partner churches.
Church-denomination: A nineteenth century attempt to reformationThe view exists that the term denomination is especially evident of the nineteenth century Netherlands at the time when an attempt was made to accomplish change in the Nederlandse Hervormde Kerk. The decay in the Church at the time can mainly be ascribed to the influence of the authorities on the church, material welfare, as well as the climate of thought which originated in the Aufklärung. During this period two theologians were prominent, namely P J Hoedemaker and A Kuyper. The latter protested against the synodic structure of the existing Church and proposed an alternative locally free church in its place, consisting of chosen, reborn members of the church who become part of the church by confession. At the time denomination had a prominent function in the integration of all local churches into a single denomination with the confession being the common source of fellowship.
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