Attie Van Niekerk

Biographic Data

ID6454864
NAMEAttie Van Niekerk
GIVEN NAMESAttie
FAMILY NAMEVan Niekerk
SIGNATUREVAN NIEKERK A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Pretoria
ORCID0000-0002-8552-1512
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS17
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Raising the future together

    Open AccessAntoinette van der Merwe, Catherine Senyolo et al.ARTICLESustainable Futures2024References: 3

    Due to their child-centric approach, CHICS meetings had higher attendance than regular meetings. • CHICS is a support platform to unite and mobilise, correlated with increase life satisfaction. • In the long term, unity boosted agency and mobilisation to address issues children are facing. • In the long term, parents wanted to learn new skills and information about early child development. Parental involvement in a child's school is crucial durin…

  • Andrew Murray’s “Missionary Problem”

    Open AccessAttie Van NiekerkARTICLEStellenbosch Theological Journal2022

    The article compares two views on the missionary problem: one was expressed in Andrew Murray's book The Key to the Missionary Problem, about 120 years ago. Murray emphasised the low level of the spiritual life of the church as the main missionary problem; the key to solving this problem is the revival of a strong personal spiritual life in all missionaries and in all church members. The second view on the missionary problem has to do with one of …

  • Managing the Covid-19 pandemic in poor urban neighborhoods

    Open AccessKathrin Durizzo, Elizabeth Asiedu et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2020Cited by: 15

    Without a vaccine, practicing social distancing and protective hygiene are the most effective measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. In order to understand how the urban poor mitigate their risk of infection, we conducted a survey with more than 1,400 poor households in two of the African cities with the most COVID-19 infections, Accra and Greater Johannesburg, early in the pandemic, during lockdowns of public life. We find that many of the urb…

  • Syncretism and inculturation in the Nso’ context of Cameroon

    Open AccessPeter Siysi Nyuyki, Attie Van NiekerkARTICLEStellenbosch Theological Journal2016

    This article gives a brief history and meaning of the terms syncretism and inculturation. The article highlights the fact that over the centuries Christianity has wrestled with syncretism. Following Lamin Sanneh (1989) the authors discuss three styles Christianity has employed in engaging cultures with the Gospel. The three styles are: quarantine, syncretist, and reform. The article draws examples from the history of missions to illustrate how th…

  • A centre for community life in its fullness

    Open AccessAttie Van NiekerkARTICLEVerbum et Ecclesia2015Cited by: 2

    This article considers some theological reasons why there is a Centre for Sustainable Communities at the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria. The role of the Centre is discussed within the global and local search for sustainability; the world-wide trend in churches towards a missional approach, which emphasises the church s life-giving role in all areas of life, and the theological reflection on the relationship between the church communi…

  • The role of the Institute for Missiological and Ecumenical Research in the past and present

    Open AccessAttie Van NiekerkARTICLEVerbum et Ecclesia2009References: 2

    IMER, the Institute for Missiological and Ecumenical Research, was initiated in 1979, when the 20th century missionary movement in the Dutch Reformed Church had already started to unravel. IMER s history gives us insight into these events. IMER has focused on the missionary calling of the church and on guiding the church in its broad responsibility to Southern African society. IMER conducted a comprehensive study on the unfinished task in the eig…