The FT at the UP celebrates its centenary in 2017. This coincides with a renewed urgency
for free, decolonised education, fuelled by student protests on campuses across the national …

South African universities and theological faculties are in a process of fundamental
transformation and restructuring. In recent times, several theological faculties were closed or …

The liturgical theologian Geoffrey Wainwright employs the beautiful image of rowers to
illustrate the concept and process of tradition. In an article entitled 'Back to the future' …

Nearly fifty years' worth of organised New Testament research has South Africa firmly
secured on the world map as a locale for serious biblical scholarship. A little over half of this …

In a recent article of mine, I argued that the 21st century has opened up a new niche for
theology at a public university (Buitendag 2016). In my view, theology is a scholarly …

Did Jesus rise bodily from the dead? Even those who give an affirmative answer to this
question do not all agree on the reasons why. According to the Gospels, Jesus's close circle …

Science of Religion has been taught at the FT since its inception 100 years ago. Together
with Philosophy of Religion, it formed part of the original group of subjects that have been …

'D'où parlez-vous?'was always the first question that the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur
(1913–2005) asked of his students in the 1970s in his Philosophy seminars in Paris, France …

A brief review of signifi cant developments in South African historical Jesus research during
the past three decades is given. Although historical Jesus investigations are not …

In this scholarly book, a century's theology presented by the Faculty of Theology at the
University of Pretoria, is celebrated. All authors are academics or research associates of the …