Cas Wepener
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6003407 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cas Wepener |
| NOMBRES | Cas |
| APELLIDO | Wepener |
| FIRMA | WEPENER C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7468-1481 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
“Liturgies in Kaaps” as demotic discourse for generating spiritual capital among youth
There is a close relationship between language, especially a first language or mother tongue language, and identity formation. There is furthermore a connection between liturgical celebrations, faith and identity formation. Recent debates about being Khoisan or Coloured reflect contestation to the term “Coloured” as an imposed racial identifier resulting in some living in a continuous state of displacement, migration or liminality. Kaaps is the l…
Paedagogia Homiletica Viatorum
The four movements of the “Lukan liturgy” on the road to Emmaus, specifically the gathering, word, table and sending, are used to develop route markers for a homiletical pedagogy of the road for Africa. An argument is advanced for a special kind of contact between lecturer and students that takes seriously a variety of epistemologies and ontologies; for prioritising listening to speaking; for a pedagogy that serves a postcolonial imagination; and…
Liturgie en geloofsvorming
The relation between liturgical action and faith formation is the theme of this article. By means of a literature study this relation is explored and critically reflected upon. The literature scrutinised in this regard include liturgical-, practical theological- and cultural anthropological sources. It is argued that there is indeed a relationship between liturgical practices and faith formation, however, this formation can be of a positive and n…
Cura vocalis
In this article the fields of speech and language pathology and of homiletics join hands to explore the theological and spiritual aspects of preaching in combination with the aspects influencing voice production in the (South) African context; this is done to highlight the importance of reflexivity/self-awareness and the self-care of preachers. The main aim of the article is to promote the need for a distinctly (South) African cura vocalis by exp…
Ancient Catechumenate
In this article the development of the ancient liturgical-didactic practice of the catechumenate is explored by making use of both primary and secondary liturgical-historical sources. The aim is to sketch a liturgical-historical overview regarding the rise, the flourishing, and the demise of the catechumenate; describing what the catechumenate involved, why it existed as well as reasons for changes to this Christian practice from the late fourth …
Doen metodologies wat akademies verkondig word
Bringing methodology and theory closer: Development and challenges in South African homiletics. The homiletic landscape in South Africa is rich and varied. In this contribution, we attempt to paint with broad brushstrokes this landscape. We write as practical theologians with a shared love for homiletics, but also with an interest in doing what we preach in terms of research and teaching. Put differently, we argue in the light of existing literat…
Angry Worship and Preaching
In a world plagued by injustices such as gender-based violence, racism, poverty, and inequality, preaching and liturgy can foster a prophetic imagination that simultaneously criticizes and energizes. In two articles, the potentially positive role that anger can play in this kind of liturgy and preaching is explored. After a narrative-style introduction, the first article provides a contextual and theoretical background by describing a South Afric…
Angry Worship and Preaching
In the second part of this article exploring angry liturgy and preaching, a preliminary theory of liturgical and homiletical praxis for angry liturgy and preaching is developed. The theoretical exploration of anger from Part 1 is developed by means of explicating the themes of angry listening, angry hermeneutics, practices, and strategies for angry preaching, and angry liturgy as a liturgical and homiletical praxis theory
Timing grace in lockdown liturgies
The similarities and differences regarding responses in the media to the phenomenon of lockdown liturgy in the Netherlands and South Africa is firstly explored in this article. The findings of Goyvaerts and Woude, which is based on their study of discussions in Dutch media, is briefly presented and thereafter compared to responses in the South African Afrikaans media. Based on this comparison, core themes are identified and discussed as creative …
Angry listening and a listening God
The potential value of the bodily expression of anger and lament has been explored in literature, also the value and need for rituals and liturgies of anger and lament. One aspect of angry liturgy that has not yet received much attention is the spiritual practice of listening to anger and lament. This article explores listening to anger in the liturgy as a faith practice. It is argued that embodied liturgical expressions of anger should more read…
Doen metodologies wat akademies verkondig word
In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi is a theological and acclaimed Open Access journal that serves as the official journal of the Reformed Theological Society (Gereformeerde Teologiese Vereniging). It has a broad coverage that promotes multidisciplinary, religious and biblical aspects of studies in the international theological arena, aiming to further Reformational Theology on a scientific basis. It encourages research that challenges traditional disc…
International Handbook of Practical Theology
Practical theology has outgrown its traditional pastoral paradigm. The articles in this handbook recognize that faith, spirituality, and lived religion, within and beyond institutional communities, refer to realms of cultures, ritual practices, and symbolic orders, whose boundaries are not clearly defined and whose contents are shifting. The International Handbook of Practical Theology offers insightful transcultural conceptions of religion and r…
Cláudio Carhalhaes, Praying With Every Heart. Orientating Our Lives to the Wholeness of the World
Researching preaching beyond the (transcribed) text in (South) Africa
In (South) Africa, preaching should in addition to textual studies of recorded and transcribed sermon texts, also be studied as an enacted performance and thus beyond the transcribed text. This article develops an argument regarding the need for the field of Homiletics in (South) Africa to firstly broaden the object of empirical homiletical research and study preaching as an enacted or performed liturgical ritual and secondly, augment its existin…
Practice of Ritual Sacrifice and the Role of Religion in Development
The practice of ritual sacrifice within the South African context is explored in the light of the emerging global discussion regarding religion and development. Firstly, some aspects of the theory of René Girard on sacrifice is discussed, as well as African theories pertaining to sacrifice and modern ways in which sacrifice/offering enters language. The following section presents three case studies pertaining to sacrifice from South Africa: one f…
Twyfelaars wat glo
Die treffende titel Twyfelaars wat glo kom uit ʼn gedig van I.L. de Villiers getiteld “Balansstaat”. Die boek se opset in sy geheel herinner aan ʼn soort balansstaat en die “weegskaal” waarna daar ook in dieselfde gedig verwys word. Wanneer die een skrywer sy twyfel en kommer verwoord, en die skaal se balans na die een kant kantel, kom die weerwoord van die gespreksgenoot en vriend, lig die arm wat gekantel het, en word die balans herstel. Die ba…
Erediens en Die Lewe
Worship service and life: a practical-theological exploration“Does the Sunday worship service have an impact on believers’, Christian identity and way of life?” is the main question explored in this article. Using the Grounded Theory method of empirical research, this research studied the experiences of worshippers (from three different denominations, in the East of Pretoria), with regards to the worship service and liturgical rituals. The focus …
Preaching
In this article the event of preaching is explored by making use of both older and newer sources. Whilst taking cognisance of continuous contextual changes and developments within the discipline of Homiletics, core hermeneutical, theological and homiletical aspects of preaching are revisited. The aim of this exploration is to formulate a preliminary theory of preaching that can be revisited and revised as part of a larger empirical homiletical in…
Reimagining pedagogy for theological education at a South African University
Curriculum transformation within Higher Education has been an ongoing process within South Africa Universities. For a long time, apartheid and the conception of race have shaped the education framework. Recently, decolonisation discourses have led to a rethinking about Curricula of Higher Education. Theological Education has been highlighted, as theological faculties within Universities perpetuate European epistemologies. In order to contribute t…
Ubuntu in the worship service as heterotopia
Through taking an interdisciplinary approach to studying liturgy, a connection has been made in this article between three theological concepts: koinonia, liturgical inculturation and the utopian ideal of inclusivity in the form of ‘ heterotopias ’. These concepts are all, to some degree, comparable to the African concept of ubuntu , an ideal or utopia in itself. This article aims to draw comparisons between the collection of normative ideals abo…
Prayer and being church in postapartheid, multicultural South Africa
The research presented in this article was conducted as a continuing concern over ‘being church’ in a multicultural urban setting in postapartheid South Africa. It has been nearly 30 years since the end of apartheid and South Africans are still learning to live together in unity, as the pioneers of democracy envisaged. In this contribution, it is suggested that in this context, prayer could be utilised as an instrument for church-praxis. This is …
Prophetic preaching in the socio-economic and socio-political crisis of Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe, there are different preachers who have great names, but when it comes to prophetic preaching they lag behind as compared to South Africa, which has great preachers in prophetic preaching like Desmond Tutu. In this era, however, we are challenged with a situation of socio-economic and socio-political crisis: the enormous poverty among approximately 95% of the population. This article discusses the circumstances for prophetic preaching…
Angry Preaching
Expressions of anger can be observed all over South Africa and by individuals and groups from different social, economic and racial backgrounds. In this article the argument is advanced that such expressions of anger can be expressions of love and signs of hope showing that people still care. Therefore, anger should not be avoided, but instead be embraced and channelled for positive ends. This article furthermore develops an argument in favour of…
Vuurvas (Carel Antonissen)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
The tradition of Practical Theology at the University of Pretoria
The focus of this chapter is the tradition of PT at the UP. We consider it as practiced in the Department of PT at the UP at the time of celebrating the centenary of the FT by looking at it from different angles in order to focus on its unique position and especially its future in its particular context. By looking at the history of the subject and the Department as well as the global and local context within which the discipline is practiced in …
Bliksem!'/Damn it! A ritual-liturgical appreciation of a deadly sin for an angry nation
This article addresses the current levels of anger within South African society from a practical theological perspective. Following a description of the current context with regard to the on-going processes of reconciliation and transformation two theories are revisited and critiqued. Normative insights are thereafter gained by making use of several stories from the book of Judges, and in conclusion an outline for a liturgical and homiletical the…
Prayer and being church in postapartheid, multicultural South Africa
The research presented in this article was conducted as a continuing concern over ‘being church’ in a multicultural urban setting in postapartheid South Africa. It has been nearly 30 years since the end of apartheid and South Africans are still learning to live together in unity, as the pioneers of democracy envisaged. In this contribution, it is suggested that in this context, prayer could be utilised as an instrument for church-praxis. This is …
Prophetic preaching in the socio-economic and socio-political crisis of Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe, there are different preachers who have great names, but when it comes to prophetic preaching they lag behind as compared to South Africa, which has great preachers in prophetic preaching like Desmond Tutu. In this era, however, we are challenged with a situation of socio-economic and socio-political crisis: the enormous poverty among approximately 95% of the population. This article discusses the circumstances for prophetic preaching…
Wat maak n kerkorrel gereformeerd? n Verkenning van Afrikaanse gereformeerde musiek in die jare 1980 en 1990 in Suid-Afrika
In this article, the meaning of a combination of the adjective reformed and the noun music is explored. The main question is: What can be termed reformed music ? In order to answer this question, some of the work on liturgy by the theologians Smit, Old and McKee will be explored, specifically their understanding of reformed liturgy . Throughout, the article takes the form of a historical reflexive autoethnographic journey into the life and experi…
Snert
The questions of how social capital is measured and how it is generated have received ample attention in recent years. This article is an attempt at making a modest contribution towards addressing these issues and specifically also as a contribution from the fields of Liturgical and Ritual Studies. It is argued that commensality can be taken as both lens/barometer with regard to the presence or absence of social capital, as well as being a potent…
Still because of the weakness of some? A descriptive exploration of the Lord’s Supper in South Africa, 1948-2002
This article is a preliminary descriptive exploration of the celebration of the Lord’ s Supper in selected Reformed churches in South Africa over a period of 54 years. Methodologically, it employs a broad anthropological approach towards liturgy, thereby trying to reconstruct parts of the enacted ritual of the Lord’ s Supper from its historical debris. By making use of the comparative method, significant differences have been highlighted and inte…
Ritual and the Generation of Social Capital in Contexts of Poverty
This article forms a part of a larger research project in the Paarl area of South Africa. This specific contribution comes from the field of liturgy. Ritual data were collected in several congregations by means of participatory action research. Some of the data gathered will be analyzed and interpreted here by means of ritual criticism. In this article, the theoretical foundation is briefly explained, as well as the specific way in which ritual c…
The Role of Religious Ritual in Social Capital Formation for Poverty Alleviation and Social Development. Theoretical and Methodological Points of Departure of a South African Exploration
The article is a presentation of a South African research project in which researchers in the fields of ritual-liturgical studies and social development are collaborating to explore the role of religious ritual in the kinds of social capital formation that have a direct significance and implication for alleviating poverty and promoting social development at grassroots level. Focusing on Christian congregations in poor socio-economic contexts in t…
Snert
The questions of how social capital is measured and how it is generated have received ample attention in recent years. This article is an attempt at making a modest contribution towards addressing these issues and specifically also as a contribution from the fields of Liturgical and Ritual Studies. It is argued that commensality can be taken as both lens/barometer with regard to the presence or absence of social capital, as well as being a potent…
Ritual Burning and Slaughtering in an AIC
This article offers the results of research in which two theological fields cooperated in order to investigate one specific repertoire of liturgical rituals. From the perspective of both Liturgical Studies, and its focus on the functioning of ritual within its cultural context, and Old Testament Studies, and a focus on how biblical critics understand certain rituals described in the Priestly texts in the Pentateuch, ritual burning and slaughterin…
Wat maak n kerkorrel gereformeerd? n Verkenning van Afrikaanse gereformeerde musiek in die jare 1980 en 1990 in Suid-Afrika
In this article, the meaning of a combination of the adjective reformed and the noun music is explored. The main question is: What can be termed reformed music ? In order to answer this question, some of the work on liturgy by the theologians Smit, Old and McKee will be explored, specifically their understanding of reformed liturgy . Throughout, the article takes the form of a historical reflexive autoethnographic journey into the life and experi…
Liturgie en Letterkunde - n Herfs -liturgie vir Paasfees in die Suidelike Halfrond
Liturgy and Literature An Autumn liturgy for Easter in the Southern Hemisphere. The aim of this article was to explore possibilities regarding the liturgical inculturation of the Easter liturgy in the Southern Hemisphere. The Easter liturgy originated in the Northern Hemisphere, where it was and is celebrated during Spring with all its concomitant symbolism of new life. That symbolism seems to be lacking in the Easter liturgy in the Southern Hemi…
Die klank van aanbidding
How to cite this book review: Wepener, C., 2013, Die klank van aanbidding , Verbum et Ecclesia 34(1), Art. #850, 1 page. http://dx.doi. org/10.4102/ve.v34i1.850
Die erediens as fees of die fees as erediens
Worship as feast or feast as worship? Re-reading an Andrew Murray prizewinner one quarter of a century later. The aim of this contribution is to bring the book Die erediens as fees into discussion with the surrounding culture almost one quarter of a century after its publication. The surrounding culture, we shall call, following Martin Stringer and his so-called discourse of globalisation and consumerism, the feast as worship service . Based on t…
Burning incense for a focus group discussion
In this article the author critically reflects on his experiences while \nconducting qualitative liturgical research in local communities in South Africa. \nAfter a brief sketch of the context and introducing his approach, three types of \nexamples are presented and reflected upon critically. In conclusion, an argument \nis presented for a specific kind of spirituality that is needed in order to undertake \nethnographic-style participatory observ…
The 'cognitive' and the 'emotive' component in Christian songs
This research article is based on the author s doctoral research into the question of quality criteria for Christian songs. In many Christian congregations today, the question of music is an emotive issue as the service and its music touch the heart of people s faith life and shapes people s theology. Of the many issues that were investigated in the dissertation, this article focuses on one question only, the question of the cognitive and the emo…
Bliksem!'/Damn it! A ritual-liturgical appreciation of a deadly sin for an angry nation
This article addresses the current levels of anger within South African society from a practical theological perspective. Following a description of the current context with regard to the on-going processes of reconciliation and transformation two theories are revisited and critiqued. Normative insights are thereafter gained by making use of several stories from the book of Judges, and in conclusion an outline for a liturgical and homiletical the…
Empirical research on the experience of the New Homiletic in South Korea
The purpose of this article is to present empirical research to reveal the reality of the New Homiletic in South Korea. This research was conducted by means of semistructured interviews with seven pastors and eight laypeople of the evangelical faith, residing in Seoul and its metropolitan areas, within the age limits of 20 59 years. The aim was to uncover the experience of the sermons by both the preachers and the hearers of the sermons. The rese…
The tradition of Practical Theology at the University of Pretoria
The focus of this chapter is the tradition of PT at the UP. We consider it as practiced in the Department of PT at the UP at the time of celebrating the centenary of the FT by looking at it from different angles in order to focus on its unique position and especially its future in its particular context. By looking at the history of the subject and the Department as well as the global and local context within which the discipline is practiced in …
Die onsienlike son (Jacobus van der Riet)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices
Sulamiet (Lina Spies)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
Karel Schoeman en die kuns van sterwe
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
Prophetic preaching in the socio-economic and socio-political crisis of Zimbabwe
In Zimbabwe, there are different preachers who have great names, but when it comes to prophetic preaching they lag behind as compared to South Africa, which has great preachers in prophetic preaching like Desmond Tutu. In this era, however, we are challenged with a situation of socio-economic and socio-political crisis: the enormous poverty among approximately 95% of the population. This article discusses the circumstances for prophetic preaching…
Angry Preaching
Expressions of anger can be observed all over South Africa and by individuals and groups from different social, economic and racial backgrounds. In this article the argument is advanced that such expressions of anger can be expressions of love and signs of hope showing that people still care. Therefore, anger should not be avoided, but instead be embraced and channelled for positive ends. This article furthermore develops an argument in favour of…
Vuurvas (Carel Antonissen)
Tydskrif vir Letterkunde is an online, peer-reviewed, accredited scholarly journal which publishes original, previously unpublished research and overview articles on theoretical, applied or comparative aspects of African literatures and cultural practices.
Prayer and being church in postapartheid, multicultural South Africa
The research presented in this article was conducted as a continuing concern over ‘being church’ in a multicultural urban setting in postapartheid South Africa. It has been nearly 30 years since the end of apartheid and South Africans are still learning to live together in unity, as the pioneers of democracy envisaged. In this contribution, it is suggested that in this context, prayer could be utilised as an instrument for church-praxis. This is …
Ubuntu in the worship service as heterotopia
Through taking an interdisciplinary approach to studying liturgy, a connection has been made in this article between three theological concepts: koinonia, liturgical inculturation and the utopian ideal of inclusivity in the form of ‘ heterotopias ’. These concepts are all, to some degree, comparable to the African concept of ubuntu , an ideal or utopia in itself. This article aims to draw comparisons between the collection of normative ideals abo…
Researching preaching beyond the (transcribed) text in (South) Africa
In (South) Africa, preaching should in addition to textual studies of recorded and transcribed sermon texts, also be studied as an enacted performance and thus beyond the transcribed text. This article develops an argument regarding the need for the field of Homiletics in (South) Africa to firstly broaden the object of empirical homiletical research and study preaching as an enacted or performed liturgical ritual and secondly, augment its existin…
Practice of Ritual Sacrifice and the Role of Religion in Development
The practice of ritual sacrifice within the South African context is explored in the light of the emerging global discussion regarding religion and development. Firstly, some aspects of the theory of René Girard on sacrifice is discussed, as well as African theories pertaining to sacrifice and modern ways in which sacrifice/offering enters language. The following section presents three case studies pertaining to sacrifice from South Africa: one f…
Twyfelaars wat glo
Die treffende titel Twyfelaars wat glo kom uit ʼn gedig van I.L. de Villiers getiteld “Balansstaat”. Die boek se opset in sy geheel herinner aan ʼn soort balansstaat en die “weegskaal” waarna daar ook in dieselfde gedig verwys word. Wanneer die een skrywer sy twyfel en kommer verwoord, en die skaal se balans na die een kant kantel, kom die weerwoord van die gespreksgenoot en vriend, lig die arm wat gekantel het, en word die balans herstel. Die ba…
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