Hierdie studie handel oor seksuele frustrasie binne die konteks van die huwelik, en dit gesien vanuit 'n prakties-teologiese vertrekpunt. Vanaf die Bybelse tyd word die seksuele daad verkeerd verstaan. Die sekulere mens beskuldig godsdiens as die oorsaak van seksuele frustrasie wat die mens in vandag se lewe beleef. Eeue-lange misverstande oor God se siening oor die seksuele, het veroorsaak dat seks as sonde en as iets vuil beskou word. As gevolg hiervan het die sekulere mens genoeg gehad daarvan om voorgeskryf te word dat die seksuele net vir die huwelik is. Al die grondbeginsels wat God neergele het vir die gebruik van die seksuele, word saam met die Bybel by die agterdeur uitgevee. Daarteenoor is die seksuele een van die wonderlikste dinge wat God geskep het. God het seks so wonderlik gemaak, dat Hy selfs een hele boek in die Bybel daaraan afgestaan het. Binne die raamwerk van die huwelik, behels die huweliksdaad een van die mees ongelooflikste ervarings en genot wat die mens kan smaak, wat nie vuil is nie en nog minder sonde is. God het dan immers in die begin gese dat alles wat Hy gemaak het "baie goed" is. Hierby ingesluit is die seksuele. Die doel van hierdie studie was om deur middel van Zerfass se model die basis-en metateoretiese perspektiewe vir seksuele frustrasie te ondersoek en 'n praktykteorie vir teologiese berading te ontwikkel. Die navorsing het aangedui dat seksuele frustrasie selfs in die Bybelse tyd nie iets ongewoons was nie, en binne die konteks van God se raamwerk behoort daar nie seksuele frustrasie in die huwelik te wees nie. Die gevolgtrekking van hierdie navorsing is dat mense wat gebuk gaan onder seksuele frustrasie in die huwelik, gehelp kan word om van hierdie frustrasie ontslae te raak en dan 'n voile lewe in Christus, sowel as in hulle huwelik, te kan leef. / Thesis (M.A. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.

Thesis (M.A. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.

Beginning with the assumption that the church is a liberative space where everyone, single women in particular, can experience wholeness, this thesis investigates the extent to which the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) executes pastoral ministry to single women. The hypothesis of the study is that the concept of women in the COCIN, the COCIN’s pastoral training and its inability to appropriate the shepherding and facilitatory model of Jesus, have not enabled an effective pastoral ministry to single women. This thesis therefore proceeds to assess the COCIN’s theology of marriage and singleness, the role of women in the COCIN, marriage and family life in Jos today, the theological education and pastors’ training of the church and the execution of pastoral ministry to single women. This is to ascertain how these have impacted on the way the COCIN offers pastoral care to single women. This work is a combination of insights from social analyses, feminist cultural hermeneutics and feminist pastoral care and communal contextual pastoral care frameworks. While establishing that culture has had a strong influence on the pastoral ministry practice of the COCIN, methods were identified from the ideas generated by participants as well as relevant literature on the subject, that could be used for the execution of pastoral ministry to single women in the COCIN Regional Church Council, Gigiring, Jos. The data for the study was collected using in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and participant observation. Participants were categorised into church leaders, clergy, seminary lecturers, magistrates, adult children from divorced marriages and single,never married women and men and divorced women. The findings of the study indicate that with respect to ministry to single women, pastoral ministry in the COCIN has not been liberative, empowering and transformative. Most of the participants indicate that the lack of an effective pastoral ministry to single women is a result of inadequate preparation for dealing with gender complexities in the pastoral training of the church. Although the study has significant implications for the overall pastoral ministry of the church,the findings of this study highlight the necessity of a gender-inclusive pastoral ministry in the COCIN for single women and for the entire church. The study underscores the need for the COCIN to utilise the communal care practice characteristic of African culture for effective pastoral ministry to the different categories of people, particularly the single,never married and divorced women in its congregations. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2014.

Hierdie studie handel oor seksuele frustrasie binne die konteks van die huwelik, en dit gesien vanuit 'n prakties-teologiese vertrekpunt. Vanaf die Bybelse tyd word die seksuele daad verkeerd verstaan. Die sekulere mens beskuldig godsdiens as die oorsaak van seksuele frustrasie wat die mens in vandag se lewe beleef. Eeue-lange misverstande oor God se siening oor die seksuele, het veroorsaak dat seks as sonde en as iets vuil beskou word. As gevolg hiervan het die sekulere mens genoeg gehad daarvan om voorgeskryf te word dat die seksuele net vir die huwelik is. Al die grondbeginsels wat God neergele het vir die gebruik van die seksuele, word saam met die Bybel by die agterdeur uitgevee. Daarteenoor is die seksuele een van die wonderlikste dinge wat God geskep het. God het seks so wonderlik gemaak, dat Hy selfs een hele boek in die Bybel daaraan afgestaan het. Binne die raamwerk van die huwelik, behels die huweliksdaad een van die mees ongelooflikste ervarings en genot wat die mens kan smaak, wat nie vuil is nie en nog minder sonde is. God het dan immers in die begin gese dat alles wat Hy gemaak het "baie goed" is. Hierby ingesluit is die seksuele. Die doel van hierdie studie was om deur middel van Zerfass se model die basis-en metateoretiese perspektiewe vir seksuele frustrasie te ondersoek en 'n praktykteorie vir teologiese berading te ontwikkel. Die navorsing het aangedui dat seksuele frustrasie selfs in die Bybelse tyd nie iets ongewoons was nie, en binne die konteks van God se raamwerk behoort daar nie seksuele frustrasie in die huwelik te wees nie. Die gevolgtrekking van hierdie navorsing is dat mense wat gebuk gaan onder seksuele frustrasie in die huwelik, gehelp kan word om van hierdie frustrasie ontslae te raak en dan 'n voile lewe in Christus, sowel as in hulle huwelik, te kan leef. / Thesis (M.A. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2009.

Thesis (M.A. (Pastoral))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2010.

This study examines the efforts of British universities and colleges to educate students for the ministry of preaching. It evaluates the hypothesis that a preaching lecturer's theology significantly influences his teaching, both in its content and methodology. A summary and comparison of seven twentieth century theologies of preaching serves as the foundation for this study. The research considered each theology as presented by either its originator or a leading exponent: Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rudolf Bultmann, Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, James Stewart, and Karl Rahner. Surveys completed by fifty-five lecturers in preaching provided the second primary focus of research. These surveys both described current practices in homiletical education and offered a means of dividina the lecturers into subgroups for purposes of comparing their teaching. In order to evaluate the primary hypothesis that theology exerts great influence on the teaching of preaching, the study compares the teaching practices of theological subgroupings of lecturers (each grouping matched with one of the theologians mentioned above). Likewise, it compares the teaching of other lecturer subaroupings formed on the basis of contrasting institutional and denominational settings. Institutional and denominational setting does affect the teaching of preaching, but, as hypothesized, not to the degree theology does. The manner in which a lecturer's theology determines his teaching is most noticeable in relation to three questions relating to teaching content: (1) From what source(s) should preachers seek preaching content? (2) On what basis should preachers select content from their source(s)? (3) Once the content has been determined, by what criteria should preachers prepare material for delivery? A comparison of contemporary preaching theologies (and the resultant contrasts in homiletical education) bespeak the rich breadth within the Western Christian tradition.

This thesis examines the development of goat and sheep herding in the Levant during the Neolithic period, and focuses particularly on the emergence of caprines as major early domesticates and the development of specialised pastoral economies. It is divided into two sections. The first consists of a critical review of published palaeoclimatic, archaeological, archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological data, which are integrated to provide baseline interpretations of caprine domestication and the development of specialised pastoral economies. The second section presents the results of a zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal assemblage from the Neolithic site of 'Ain Ghazal, located in the Jordanian Highlands, which are evaluated in the context of the two baseline interpretations presented in the first section. The relative merits of the different methods by which archaeological caprine remains can be identified to species are also discussed. It is argued that goats were probably first domesticated in or immediately adjacent to the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon Mountains during the 10th millennium b.p., and that mouflon were probably first domesticated in the piedmont zones of the Taurus and Zagros Mountains during the first half of the 9th millennium b.p. The independent domestication of goats in the Zagros Mountains during the first half of the 9th millennium b.p. is regarded as a strong possibility. It is concluded that the concepts of there have been a temporal gap between the appearance of the earliest permanent agricultural villages and the earliest domestic caprines, and that significant periods of loose-herding preceded the full domestication of these species, may need to be reconsidered. Pastoral economies during the Levantine Neolithic seem to have been based on sedentary animal husbandry aimed at subsistence-orientated meat production. There is however some evidence that simple forms of distant pastures husbandry, still focused on subsistenceorientated meat production, may have developed during the Neolithic period.

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This doctoral thesis deals with the topic of Pastoral Psychology. It is a comparative study of the Psychoanalyst Karen Homey and the Father of the Church, Saint Maximus the Confessor. The central part of the thesis is a comparison of Karen Homey's psychological theory of neurosis and Saint Maximus the Confessor's anthropological understanding of the nature of human fallenness. This is preceded by a comparative study of the understanding of the potentialities of healthy human nature, or human nature as God intended it, and followed by a comparison of the therapeutic methods proposed by Karen Homey on one hand and Saint Maximus on the other. The whole study is prefaced by a historical introduction that seeks to place the American Psychoanalyst and the Father of the Church in their respective historical and intellectual context. This study closes with conclusions and an epilogue that deals with the current position of Karen Homey's psychoanalysis, and the way in which Saint Maximus the Confessor's teaching on Creation, Man and World contributes to the teaching of the Church today.