Johannes A Van Der Ven
Biographic Data
| ID | 1694352 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johannes A Van Der Ven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johannes A |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Ven |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER VEN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | 3Department of Practical Theology University of South Africa P O Box 392, Pretoria, 0003 Republic of South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 34 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Religion in Process
On the Brink of Death Euthanasia from the Angle of Law, Morality and Religion
The Religious Legitimacy of Socioeconomic Human Rights among Suriname Youth
This paper is about the extent to which Suriname youth support the socioeconomic rights which are inscribed in todays’ Suriname constitution. First some of this constitution’s highlights are presented (1). Then this constitution’s main socioeconomic rights are described from the perspective of international human rights declarations and treaties (2). After that a report is given about the endorsement of these rights by Suriname youth, divided int…
Human Rights and the Impact of Religion
From Natural Rights to Human Rights
At first sight the relation between natural rights being derived from natural law on the one hand and human rights on the other seems to be an innocent topic, but if one delves into its historical background the scene appears to be different. This applies even more so when the political background of both types of rights and their concomitant legitimisation is taken into consideration. This article aims at clarifying what political role they play…
Tensions Within and Between Religions and Human Rights
A Chapter in Public Theology from the Perspective of Human Rights
Normativity and Empirical Research in Theology
The idea for this volume originates from the first meeting of the International Society of Empirical Research in Theology (ISERT) in 2002 at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In this volume, researchers and academics from South Africa, Great Britain, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands debate about the fundamental question of the role of theological normativity in empirical research in theological fields. In fourteen contributions this book w…
Human Rights
In the light of many severe social-economic and health problems many South Africans today experience a situation of helplessness and despair. In the face of these problems we ask whether there is a better solution than leaving the country and starting a new life elsewhere. If Christianity still has anything to say regarding these social-economic problems it must be the belief in salvation - salvation from a situation of helplessness and despair. …
Moral Consciousness of Secondary School Students
This article explores the moral consciousness of Dutch secondary school students. On the basis of a typology of six moral values a measuring instrument is designed, which is used to inquire after the moral orientations of these students. Theoretically these orientations are distinguished along two dimensions of moral reasoning, teleology and deontology, and three categories of moral values relating to first-person, second-person and third-person …
An Empirical or a Normative Approa Ch To Practical-Theol o gIcal Research
The article tries to explain the notion that practical theology is normative, not despite but because of its empirical character, as follows. A condition for the claim that practical theology is a normative science is that the empirical research conducted in this discipline must not be positivist but should be seen as wholly theory-laden. For the normative orientation itself, with reference to one of the founders of empirical methodology, Karl Po…
Students' Moral Consciousness Teleology, Deontologyand Pra Ctical Wisdom
This article explores the moral consciousness of Dutch secondary school students. It focuses on the question how teleological and deontological considerations function in processes of moral decision-making? Do young people especially refer to teleological considerations when asked to pass a moral judgment or to deontological considerations? Or do they refer to both? Analyses of the judgments passed by the students with regard to three bio-medical…
Human Rights in the Name of God
This article is a study of the tension which arises because South Africa is a religious society within a secular state, or a secular state embedded in a religious society. The belief in God among Grade 11 students in the Johannesburg/ Pretoria region is investigated, and questions are posed as to the role belief in God plays in the formation of their attitudes towards human rights. Fundamental aspects of the relationship between belief in God and…
Is There a Church for Human Rights
In this article 1453 grade 11 students of private (anglican and catholic) and public schools are investigated with the help of a survey that was conducted in 1995/1996 in the Johannesburg/Pretoria-region in South Africa about the influence of their ecclesial attitudes on their human rights culture. These attitudes appear to positively contribute to their civil and environmental rights culture, negatively to their political rights culture, whereas…
Images of Death as Perspectives in a Life Crisis
Images of death are reflections of one's own attitude to life, and in existential crises such as a suicide crisis, their meaning should therefore not be underestimated. This article describes the results of a research that has attempted to discuss attitudes, which people adopt towards death in times of a suicide crisis. The analysis of the data shows that death is looked upon from an immanentistic and religious viewpoint. Within this context the …
Attitudes Towards Human Rights Among South African Youth
In this article we examine the attitudes towards human rights of a group of 538 Grade 11 students from Anglican and Catholic church-affiliated schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region. A distinction is made between civil, political and judicial (first generation') human rights, socio-economic ('second generation') rights, and environmental ('thirdgeneration') rights. The frame of reference is Ricoeur's theory of human rights. This forms part o…
Nature
Generally speaking, nature is supposed to have disappeared from theology when the natural sciences emerged after the beginning of modernity. The gap between these sciences became zuider and wider, with the effect of lacking almost all contact. Several factors played a role in the rejection of theology in general of philosophical-theological attempts in which themes such as nature and creation could flourish. In practical theology it is possible t…
Social Location of Attitudes Towards Human Rights Among South African Youth
In the previous article we inquired into the attitudes towards human rights of a group of 538 Grade 11 students in Anglican and Catholic church-affiliated schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoricz region. We distinguished between civil, political and judicial rights, socio-economic rights, and environmental rights. In this article we examine the social location of these attitudes. We arrived at the following profile of students who favour human right…
Nature
Generally speaking, nature is supposed to have disappeared from theology when the natural sciences emerged after the beginning of modernity. The gap between these sciences became wider and wider, with the effect of lacking almost all contact. Several factors played a role in the rejection of theology in general of philosophical-theological attempts in which themes such as nature and creation could flourish. In practical theology it is possible to…
Attitudes Towards Human Rights Among South African Youth
In this article we examine the attitudes towards human rights of a group of 538 Grade 11 students from Anglican and Catholic church-affiliated schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region. A distinction is made between civil, political and judicial ('first generation') human rights, socio-economic ('second generation') rights, and environmental ('third generation') rights. The frame of reference is Ricoeur's theory of human rights. This forms part…
Social Location of Attitudes Towards Human Rights Among South African Youth
In the previous article we inquired into the attitudes towards human rights of a group of 538 Grade 11 students in Anglican and Catholic church-affiliated schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region. We distinguished between civil, political and judicial rights, socio-economic rights, and environmental rights. In this article we examine the social location of these attitudes. We arrived at the following profile of students who favour human rights…
Faith and autonomy a Taste of Wales
This paper reports on one particular aspect of a survey conducted in Wales- namely the relation between Christian belief and two of the most characteristic marks of post-Enlightenment modem society. These are (i) personal autonomy or freedom and (ii) egalitarianism or social autonomy in a pluralistic society. The question, therefore, is whether there is any causal-relation, positive or negative, between modernity and current perceptions of God an…
Social Location of Transformative Orientations Among South African Youth
In the previous article we asked the question of to what extent a group of 538 Grade 11 students from Anglican and Catholic church-affiliated schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region show transformative orientations in the fields of ecology, economics and politics. In this article we deal with the question of what the social location of these transformative orientations is. The more transformatively oriented students are to be found among fema…
Interreligious Orientations Among South African Youth
In this article we investigate the interreligious orientations of a sample of 538 students from Standard 9 (Grade 11) who attended Anglican and Catholic schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region during 1995. In the first part of the article we describe the religious diversity of South Africa. This religious diversity was neglected in the past, but due to the establishment of the first democratically elected parliament and the adoption of a new …
Transformative Orientations Among South African Youth
In this article we ask the question of to what extent a group of 538 Grade 11 students from Anglican and Catholic church-affiliated schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region show transformative orientations in the fields of ecology, economics and politics, and which population characteristics mark the more transformative students among them. The frame of reference is taken from Habermas's colonisation theory and the critical comment on it from …
From Natural Rights to Human Rights
At first sight the relation between natural rights being derived from natural law on the one hand and human rights on the other seems to be an innocent topic, but if one delves into its historical background the scene appears to be different. This applies even more so when the political background of both types of rights and their concomitant legitimisation is taken into consideration. This article aims at clarifying what political role they play…
Practical Theology
In this article the history of practical theology is reconstructed from the perspective of its main problem: the relation between theory and praxis. The first part refers to the academic status of practical theology, interpreted as applied theology. This interpretation fails to solve the problem, as we shall see. The second part entails a proposal towards the re-interpretation of practical theology in terms of empirical theology. After a critical…
Formation and Reflection
Death
The question, which this article deals with, is whether or not, and if so, to what extent religious socialization succeeded or failed. It focuses on the belief of life after death, which is an exemplary theme, that belongs to the very core of the Christian faith. Several religious-thanatalogical approaches within this belief are empirically investigated, like for instance the teleology, interaction, intervention, rising, deism, agnosticism, imman…
Effects of the Religio Us Socialization Leading To or Slowing Down Suicide
The individual biography is relevant to the relation between suicide and religion. The religious socialization can have an indirect influence on the origin of a suicide crisis and on the way both young people and adults deal with solving this problem. This is the outcome of an empirical-theological research into seven case-studies. In connection with physical, psychological and social factors, the effects of the religious socialization cause, at …
L’approche empirique en théologie pratique
Départ ement de théol ogi
The Structure of the Church
The article presented here, has been written with regards to the conceptions of Catholics in relation to the general structure of the church. Starting from the Statements of the Second Vatican Council and post-counciliary theology, the authors outline a hierarchical, egalitarian and transitive structural principle of the church. After an appropriate operationalization, these three structural principles are to be presented to 441 respondents of Du…
Learning Theodicy
This article focuses on the problem of theodicy as a subject-matter for religious education. The question is raised whether it is possible to gain comprehension of theodicy models and, if so, to what extent. Empirical research on the effects of a theodicy course, dealing with the retaliation model, the plan model and the compassion model, shows that it indeed is possible to 'learn' theodicy models. Furthermore, our results also show that students…
Moral Consciousness, Religion and Peace Action
A communitarian ethical approach is at least as important for the pastoral dealing with peace issues in the church as a procedural ethical approach. Empirical support for this thesis is gathered through a survey among 175 members of Dutch church peace movements and 127 church members who are not active in a peace movement. First, a conceptualisation of communitarian peace attitudes is elaborated. Then, the effects of communitarian peace attitudes…
Ed Ucation for Coping With Suffering
Every human being will sooner or later suffer some sort of evil predicament. Suffering, therefore, is an integral part of life; it's a reality which cannot be denied. As a consequence, everybody sooner or later also has to cope with suffering by attributing some sort of meaning to his evil predicament. Given this fact, the question is raised whether an educational programme can contribute to a person's ability to cope with suffering from a religi…
Religious Attitudes and Societal Values
The main question of this paper is to what extent do religious attitudes regarding God and Jesus influence societal values like economism, familialism, social criticism, hedonism and autonomy, and how is this influence to be evaluated? Religious attitudes and societal values are determined by a process of pluralism. In order to cover this plurality the distinction is made between traditional and posttraditional attitudes and values. First the att…
The Legitimation of Parish Leadership
The article examines the sources of legitimacy of local church leadership against the background of the modernization of Western society. The empirical question as to the extent to which the forms of legitimation offered by the Catholic Church are endorsed by parish members at the grass-roots level, forms the point of departure for a discussion based on an empirical study carried out in Germany and the Netherlands. The assumption that modern and …
The Religious Self--A Historical and Empirical Question
The author suggests that before Browning's question, Can psychology escape religion? can be meaningfully answered, two prior questions must first be addressed: What role did religion play in the history of the human self? and What role does religion play in the construction and reconstruction of meaning of the self today
Transformative Orientations Among South African Youth
In this article we ask the question of to what extent a group of 538 Grade 11 students from Anglican and Catholic church-affiliated schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region show transformative orientations in the fields of ecology, economics and politics, and which population characteristics mark the more transformative students among them. The frame of reference is taken from Habermas's colonisation theory and the critical comment on it from …
Social Location of Transformative Orientations Among South African Youth
In the previous article we asked the question of to what extent a group of 538 Grade 11 students from Anglican and Catholic church-affiliated schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region show transformative orientations in the fields of ecology, economics and politics. In this article we deal with the question of what the social location of these transformative orientations is. The more transformatively oriented students are to be found among fema…
Interreligious Orientations Among South African Youth
In this article we investigate the interreligious orientations of a sample of 538 students from Standard 9 (Grade 11) who attended Anglican and Catholic schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region during 1995. In the first part of the article we describe the religious diversity of South Africa. This religious diversity was neglected in the past, but due to the establishment of the first democratically elected parliament and the adoption of a new …
Attitudes Towards Human Rights Among South African Youth
In this article we examine the attitudes towards human rights of a group of 538 Grade 11 students from Anglican and Catholic church-affiliated schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region. A distinction is made between civil, political and judicial (first generation') human rights, socio-economic ('second generation') rights, and environmental ('thirdgeneration') rights. The frame of reference is Ricoeur's theory of human rights. This forms part o…
Nature
Generally speaking, nature is supposed to have disappeared from theology when the natural sciences emerged after the beginning of modernity. The gap between these sciences became zuider and wider, with the effect of lacking almost all contact. Several factors played a role in the rejection of theology in general of philosophical-theological attempts in which themes such as nature and creation could flourish. In practical theology it is possible t…
Social Location of Attitudes Towards Human Rights Among South African Youth
In the previous article we inquired into the attitudes towards human rights of a group of 538 Grade 11 students in Anglican and Catholic church-affiliated schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoricz region. We distinguished between civil, political and judicial rights, socio-economic rights, and environmental rights. In this article we examine the social location of these attitudes. We arrived at the following profile of students who favour human right…
Nature
Generally speaking, nature is supposed to have disappeared from theology when the natural sciences emerged after the beginning of modernity. The gap between these sciences became wider and wider, with the effect of lacking almost all contact. Several factors played a role in the rejection of theology in general of philosophical-theological attempts in which themes such as nature and creation could flourish. In practical theology it is possible to…
Attitudes Towards Human Rights Among South African Youth
In this article we examine the attitudes towards human rights of a group of 538 Grade 11 students from Anglican and Catholic church-affiliated schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region. A distinction is made between civil, political and judicial ('first generation') human rights, socio-economic ('second generation') rights, and environmental ('third generation') rights. The frame of reference is Ricoeur's theory of human rights. This forms part…
Social Location of Attitudes Towards Human Rights Among South African Youth
In the previous article we inquired into the attitudes towards human rights of a group of 538 Grade 11 students in Anglican and Catholic church-affiliated schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region. We distinguished between civil, political and judicial rights, socio-economic rights, and environmental rights. In this article we examine the social location of these attitudes. We arrived at the following profile of students who favour human rights…
Faith and autonomy a Taste of Wales
This paper reports on one particular aspect of a survey conducted in Wales- namely the relation between Christian belief and two of the most characteristic marks of post-Enlightenment modem society. These are (i) personal autonomy or freedom and (ii) egalitarianism or social autonomy in a pluralistic society. The question, therefore, is whether there is any causal-relation, positive or negative, between modernity and current perceptions of God an…
Human Rights in the Name of God
This article is a study of the tension which arises because South Africa is a religious society within a secular state, or a secular state embedded in a religious society. The belief in God among Grade 11 students in the Johannesburg/ Pretoria region is investigated, and questions are posed as to the role belief in God plays in the formation of their attitudes towards human rights. Fundamental aspects of the relationship between belief in God and…
Is There a Church for Human Rights
In this article 1453 grade 11 students of private (anglican and catholic) and public schools are investigated with the help of a survey that was conducted in 1995/1996 in the Johannesburg/Pretoria-region in South Africa about the influence of their ecclesial attitudes on their human rights culture. These attitudes appear to positively contribute to their civil and environmental rights culture, negatively to their political rights culture, whereas…
Images of Death as Perspectives in a Life Crisis
Images of death are reflections of one's own attitude to life, and in existential crises such as a suicide crisis, their meaning should therefore not be underestimated. This article describes the results of a research that has attempted to discuss attitudes, which people adopt towards death in times of a suicide crisis. The analysis of the data shows that death is looked upon from an immanentistic and religious viewpoint. Within this context the …
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