"Gaatjie-kinders word mos nie gekies nie." Ivor Swartz kom van die Gaatjie in Grabouw, 'n plek sonder hoop. Sy pa is vroeg dood en sy ma maak hom en sy sibbe alleen groot. Hulle oudste broer, hulle selfaangestelde"oppasser", terroriseer die gesin. Een aand besluit Ivor hy kan net nie meer nie. Hy en sy vriend neem 'n vreeslike besluit wat sy lewe ingrypend verander. Hierdie aangrypende verhaal, eerlik vertel deur Ivor self, sal jo ...
How can we live in such a way that we die only once? How can we organize a society that gives us a better chance to be fully alive? How can we reinvent religion so that it liberates us instead of consoling us? These questions stand at the center of Roberto Mangabeira Unger’s The Religion of the Future: an argument for both spiritual and political revolution. It proposes the content of a religion that can survive without faith in a transcendent ...
The meaning of politics and philosophy after the era of the modern state. In this ambitious work, Giacomo Marramao proposes a radical reconceptualization of the world system in our era of declining state sovereignty. He argues that globalization cannot be reduced to mere economics or summarized by phrases such as ‘the end of history’ or the ‘westernization of the world’. Instead, we find ourselves embarking on a passage to a new, post-nation st ...
Mia en haar gesin gaan hou vakansie in Stellenbosch. Dan is die hele gesin in 'n motorongeluk is waarin niemand seerkry behalwe Mia nie. Mia sterf, omdat sy nie 'n veiligheidsgordel aan het nie. Omdat haar ma die een keer gese het sy kan op haar skoot sit. Dit gaan oor hoe haar ma Mariska haar pyn en hartseer verwerk en haarself vergewe. Maar ook oor nuwe lewe, en jou lewe se herstel en terugbymekaar probeer kry na die dood van jou k ...
Does human life have any significance? The statements below have become widely accepted in the Western world: –Life is the accidental product of random events. –The laws of physics are totally deterministic. –Science does not accept a connection between physical matter and human consciousness. –Atheism is a conclusion from evidence while faith is speculation. –Science and faith are incompatible. –Suffering contradicts the existence of a lo ...
The biblical story is about more than sin and salvation. It is about the creator's purposes and the fulfillment of those purposes in the climactic revelation of God's glory in Sabbath with creation. Christ Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the one through whom all things are created and all things are fulfilled. We are creatures made in God's image, called to develop and govern the earth in service to God. The exercise of human r ...
For generations, scholars who study the letters of St. Paul have argued about «being-in-Christ» and «justification by faith» as though they were competing theologies. They have argued about faith as divine gift or human work, and more recently the faith of Jesus Christ has been called into question. Harrisville proposes a provocative and simple solution to these issues by examining scholarly assumptions and presenting the faith of St. Paul as a ...
The idea of the resurrection of the physical body and the eternal continuation of life with this body in a future paradisiacal kingdom of God on earth is one of the most enigmatic of religious ideas. It fully contradicts our knowledge of the transitoriness of all things in this universe. According to the author, the origin for this idea lies in certain forms of otherworld experiences, as, for example, reported by people who had near-death experi ...
