Robert Vosloo
Biographic Data
| ID | 2521389 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Vosloo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Vosloo |
| SIGNATURE | VOSLOO R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stellenbosch University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7144-9644 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On Beethoven, the Blues and receiving Nicaea today
This article explores how the Nicene Creed may be received today by drawing an analogy between theological tradition and musical reception. Beginning not with doctrinal exposition but with music, the essay engages the work of musician Jon Batiste, particularly his album Beethoven Blues, as a case study in how a classic, in the sense of David Tracy’s notion, can be received as part of a living tradition rather than merely reproduced. From this van…
Beyond mere repetition: On tradition, creativity and theological speech
This article argues for understanding Christian theological speech, including a Reformed engagement with confessions, as ‘traditioned creativity’. The argument is introduced by highlighting a theological hermeneutic that underlies the Belhar confession’s accompanying letter. This discussion points towards an account of Christian discourse that is ‘traditioned’ by the past but also moves beyond the mere repetition of the tradition’s authoritative …
The Reformed conceptualisation of morality
This article distinguishes, on the one hand, between the characteristic features of Reformed ethics and Reformed conceptualisations of morality on the other. With this distinction in mind, the article first highlights – by drawing on the work of some contemporary Reformed theologians and their interpretation of some key figures and texts from this tradition – the centrality of categories such as belonging, gratitude, the law and holiness for a Re…
Knowing the Time: Temporality, love and confession in Barth’s Der Römerbrief
This essay will consider the theme of temporality in the second edition of Karl Barth’s Romans commentary – a hundred years after it was first published. By offering a close reading of Barth’s text, it will firstly indicate how – in the wake of the First World War – Barth argues for a categorical distinction between time and eternity, with the former standing under the judgement of the latter. Secondly, the essay will show how, for Barth, this ra…
With Calvin, beyond Calvin
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…
Pedagogy After Babel: Reading After Whiteness “After” Apartheid
Memory, embodiment, ethics: In conversation with Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work on theological anthropology
This article focuses on Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work on theological anthropology, attending especially to his emphasis on the temporal and narrative dimension of personal identity. In this regard, Van Huyssteen draws on the thought of Paul Ricoeur, including his view that memory is the gateway to the self. With this in mind, the first part of the article highlights some key features of Van Huyssteen’s engagement the last decade or two with the qu…
The Belhar Confession
The Belhar Confession of 1986 arose in a very specific historical context, and the genesis of this confession should be understood in the light of the injustices and divisions associated with South Africa’s colonial and apartheid past. Yet the Belhar Confession is about more than apartheid, and as such it is a confession that is not merely part of some Reformed churches’ historical past, but in many ways it is still may be part of the future agen…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Reformation Day Sermons and Performative Remembering
In this article, I examine Bonhoeffer’s relationship to the legacy of the Reformation in the light of some of his remarks, sermons, and meditations related to the celebration of Reformation Day. These engagements, or so this article argues, point to the fact that for Bonhoeffer commemorating the Reformation did not entail mere restatement of seemingly timeless truths, but rather renewed and unscripted engagement with the legacy of the Reformation…
Time Out of Joint and Future-Oriented Memory: Engaging Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the Search for a Way to Deal Responsibly with the Ghosts of the Past
This article explores in conversation with some of the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer the question of how the experience of the dislocation of time and the visitation of "the ghosts of the past" (also in contexts marked by historical injustices) is related to responsible ethical action. The question is also posed as to how the reconfiguration of the relationship of past, present and future functions on an implicit and explicit level in this rega…
Democracy is coming to the RSA: On democracy, theology, and futural historicity
This article brings the concept of democracy as an open-ended tradition in conversation with notions dealing with historicity and the future, such as democracy to come , promise , and a democratic vision . It is argued that although these notions are rightfully associated with the future, they also imply that democracy should not be disconnected from an emphasis on an inheritance from the past. With this emphasis in mind, the first part of the ar…
Difficult Forgiveness? Engaging Paul Ricoeur on Public Forgiveness within the Context of Social Change in South Africa
In the context of public discourse in South Africa, this article engages Paul Ricoeur’s influential and thought-provoking work on forgiveness, also as it intersects with the work of Jacques Derrida. The article argues that Ricoeur’s discussion of ‘difficult forgiveness’ provides important conceptual clarification in the search for responsible discourse on forgiveness, and offers some brief remarks regarding the promise and pitfalls of using the n…
The Displaced Calvin: 'Refugee Reality' as a Lens to Re-examine Calvin's Life, Theology and Legacy
Drawing on scholarship that highlights the fact that Calvin was a refugee who ministered to other refugees, this essay argues for a re-evaluation of 'the displaced Calvin' as source and motivation for Reformed witness today. The first part of the essay attends to some biographical details that amplify the centrality of the 'refugee reality' in Calvin's life. The second part of the paper traces the impact of this experiential reality on Calvin's t…
Oom Bey for the Future - Engaging the witness of Beyers Naudé
CITATION: Hansen, L. & Vosloo, R. (eds). 2006. Oom Bey for the future : engaging the witness of Beyers Naudé. Stellenbosch: AFRICAN SUNMeDIA. doi:10.18820/9781920109301.
Body and Health in the Light of the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Time Out of Joint and Future-Oriented Memory: Engaging Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the Search for a Way to Deal Responsibly with the Ghosts of the Past
This article explores in conversation with some of the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer the question of how the experience of the dislocation of time and the visitation of "the ghosts of the past" (also in contexts marked by historical injustices) is related to responsible ethical action. The question is also posed as to how the reconfiguration of the relationship of past, present and future functions on an implicit and explicit level in this rega…
Difficult Forgiveness? Engaging Paul Ricoeur on Public Forgiveness within the Context of Social Change in South Africa
In the context of public discourse in South Africa, this article engages Paul Ricoeur’s influential and thought-provoking work on forgiveness, also as it intersects with the work of Jacques Derrida. The article argues that Ricoeur’s discussion of ‘difficult forgiveness’ provides important conceptual clarification in the search for responsible discourse on forgiveness, and offers some brief remarks regarding the promise and pitfalls of using the n…
Oom Bey for the Future - Engaging the witness of Beyers Naudé
CITATION: Hansen, L. & Vosloo, R. (eds). 2006. Oom Bey for the future : engaging the witness of Beyers Naudé. Stellenbosch: AFRICAN SUNMeDIA. doi:10.18820/9781920109301.
Body and Health in the Light of the Theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
The Displaced Calvin: 'Refugee Reality' as a Lens to Re-examine Calvin's Life, Theology and Legacy
Drawing on scholarship that highlights the fact that Calvin was a refugee who ministered to other refugees, this essay argues for a re-evaluation of 'the displaced Calvin' as source and motivation for Reformed witness today. The first part of the essay attends to some biographical details that amplify the centrality of the 'refugee reality' in Calvin's life. The second part of the paper traces the impact of this experiential reality on Calvin's t…
Difficult Forgiveness? Engaging Paul Ricoeur on Public Forgiveness within the Context of Social Change in South Africa
In the context of public discourse in South Africa, this article engages Paul Ricoeur’s influential and thought-provoking work on forgiveness, also as it intersects with the work of Jacques Derrida. The article argues that Ricoeur’s discussion of ‘difficult forgiveness’ provides important conceptual clarification in the search for responsible discourse on forgiveness, and offers some brief remarks regarding the promise and pitfalls of using the n…
Democracy is coming to the RSA: On democracy, theology, and futural historicity
This article brings the concept of democracy as an open-ended tradition in conversation with notions dealing with historicity and the future, such as democracy to come , promise , and a democratic vision . It is argued that although these notions are rightfully associated with the future, they also imply that democracy should not be disconnected from an emphasis on an inheritance from the past. With this emphasis in mind, the first part of the ar…
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Reformation Day Sermons and Performative Remembering
In this article, I examine Bonhoeffer’s relationship to the legacy of the Reformation in the light of some of his remarks, sermons, and meditations related to the celebration of Reformation Day. These engagements, or so this article argues, point to the fact that for Bonhoeffer commemorating the Reformation did not entail mere restatement of seemingly timeless truths, but rather renewed and unscripted engagement with the legacy of the Reformation…
Time Out of Joint and Future-Oriented Memory: Engaging Dietrich Bonhoeffer in the Search for a Way to Deal Responsibly with the Ghosts of the Past
This article explores in conversation with some of the writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer the question of how the experience of the dislocation of time and the visitation of "the ghosts of the past" (also in contexts marked by historical injustices) is related to responsible ethical action. The question is also posed as to how the reconfiguration of the relationship of past, present and future functions on an implicit and explicit level in this rega…
The Belhar Confession
The Belhar Confession of 1986 arose in a very specific historical context, and the genesis of this confession should be understood in the light of the injustices and divisions associated with South Africa’s colonial and apartheid past. Yet the Belhar Confession is about more than apartheid, and as such it is a confession that is not merely part of some Reformed churches’ historical past, but in many ways it is still may be part of the future agen…
With Calvin, beyond Calvin
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…
Pedagogy After Babel: Reading After Whiteness “After” Apartheid
Memory, embodiment, ethics: In conversation with Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work on theological anthropology
This article focuses on Wentzel van Huyssteen’s work on theological anthropology, attending especially to his emphasis on the temporal and narrative dimension of personal identity. In this regard, Van Huyssteen draws on the thought of Paul Ricoeur, including his view that memory is the gateway to the self. With this in mind, the first part of the article highlights some key features of Van Huyssteen’s engagement the last decade or two with the qu…
Knowing the Time: Temporality, love and confession in Barth’s Der Römerbrief
This essay will consider the theme of temporality in the second edition of Karl Barth’s Romans commentary – a hundred years after it was first published. By offering a close reading of Barth’s text, it will firstly indicate how – in the wake of the First World War – Barth argues for a categorical distinction between time and eternity, with the former standing under the judgement of the latter. Secondly, the essay will show how, for Barth, this ra…
Beyond mere repetition: On tradition, creativity and theological speech
This article argues for understanding Christian theological speech, including a Reformed engagement with confessions, as ‘traditioned creativity’. The argument is introduced by highlighting a theological hermeneutic that underlies the Belhar confession’s accompanying letter. This discussion points towards an account of Christian discourse that is ‘traditioned’ by the past but also moves beyond the mere repetition of the tradition’s authoritative …
The Reformed conceptualisation of morality
This article distinguishes, on the one hand, between the characteristic features of Reformed ethics and Reformed conceptualisations of morality on the other. With this distinction in mind, the article first highlights – by drawing on the work of some contemporary Reformed theologians and their interpretation of some key figures and texts from this tradition – the centrality of categories such as belonging, gratitude, the law and holiness for a Re…
On Beethoven, the Blues and receiving Nicaea today
This article explores how the Nicene Creed may be received today by drawing an analogy between theological tradition and musical reception. Beginning not with doctrinal exposition but with music, the essay engages the work of musician Jon Batiste, particularly his album Beethoven Blues, as a case study in how a classic, in the sense of David Tracy’s notion, can be received as part of a living tradition rather than merely reproduced. From this van…
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