Piet J Strauss
Biographic Data
| ID | 6794828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piet J Strauss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piet J |
| FAMILY NAME | Strauss |
| SIGNATURE | STRAUSS P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Free State |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5324-8363 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Die pastor ‘Vader’ Kestell in die Anglo-Boereoorlog
The pastor ‘Father’ Kestell in the Anglo-Boer War: Pastoral in his conduct and writings. As a minister of religion in the Dutch Reformed Church of Harrismith, J.D. Kestell joined men of his congregation on commando during the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). From the outset, his aim was to serve the Boer forces as a chaplain in a non-military capacity. Throughout the war, he neither carried a weapon nor accepted a military rank. His purpose was mainly…
Die Heidelbergse Kategismus as ’n Geloofsbelydenis en die Voortrekker-Gelofte van 1838
Verskeie bronne huldig die oortuiging dat die korrekte viering vandag van die Gelofte van 16 Desember 1838 in Natal deur die Voortrekkers ’n Christelike en godsdienstige gebeurtenis behoort te wees: ’n godsdienstige gebeurtenis as deel van die lewe in sy geheel, wat op die eer van God gerig is. President Paul Kruger – die laaste president van die Boererepubliek in die ou Transvaal (1883–1900), oftewel die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) – was ’…
Paul Kruger
Paul Kruger: A Christian statesman and Boer politician in his speeches as president. Paul Kruger, the well-known president of the Boer Republic of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) from 1883–1900, openly confessed his Christian faith in God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. As a Reformed Christian and a committed Calvinist, Kruger believed that the triune God provided eternal principles for all aspects of life, including politics and …
Die Volkeregtelike Status van die Afgevaardigdes van die Boererepublieke by die Vrede van 31 Mei 1902
Die Anglo-Boereoorlog van 1899-1902 met sy kern Boer teen Brit betree teen middel 1900, met die Britse anneksering van die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek en die Republiek van die Oranje Vrystaat, ’n tyd van guerrilla-oorlogvoering deur die Boere. Hierdie oorlog eindig met vredesluiting op 31 Mei 1902. Die “nagenoeg” 20 779 Boere (vgl. Pretorius, 2001:21) wat in hierdie fase aan Boerekant geveg het, dra die naam Bittereinders. Hierdie Boere wat tot d…
Eredienste vertoon die geestelike stand van die NG Kerk
Worship services display the spiritual stand of the Dutch Reformed Church. In theological and clerical circles, it is accepted that the content of church services in Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) congregations shows its spiritual state as a church, or the basic convictions of its Christian faith. From their General Synod as the broadest assembly in this church, stipulations of the DRC Church Order, as well as other resolutions about church services…
Paul Kruger oor die gelofte van 1838
Paul Kruger on the covenant of 1838: Was he on target? Many Afrikaners and those associating with them, keep the promises made by the Voortrekkers in the Covenant of 16 December 1838 in connection with the battle of Blood River between them and the Zulu impis of King Dingane. As a champion of the Afrikaner in the 19th century, Paul Kruger as the elected president (1883–1900) of the Boer Republic, called the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, partook in…
NG Kerkorde 1998
The church order of the Dutch Reformed Church of 1998: An expression of unity on the status of Scripture and Confessions? The Dutch Reformed Church claims to be a modern church in the Dutch Reformed tradition as seen in the historical line from the National Synod of Dordt of 1618–1619 to Dutch orientated reformed churches of today. In its church order accepted by the first General Synod of 1962, it accepted two articles namely article 1 and 2 whi…
Die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis en drie besondere ampte
The Confessio Belgica and the three offices: Article 30 inflexible? The Confessio Belgica or Dutch Confession of Faith from 1561, one of the Three Formulas of Unity in the Dutch Reformed tradition, confesses in article 30 that the government of the church, as an institution of the Christian faith, should be spiritual and conducted by chosen consistories. These consistories should consist of ministers, elders and deacons. The norm or constant of t…
Church discipline without content in a plural church
Verbum et Ecclesia is a theological research journal that challenges traditional discourses within and between the fields of biblical, religious, social and human sciences as well as the constructive engagement with the natural sciences. It is an instrument of engagement between theological disciplines, on the one hand, and theology and other disciplines, on the other
Johan Heyns en Beyers Naudé as profete teen die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk se steun aan apartheid
Johan Heyns and Beyers Naudé as prophets against the Dutch Reformed Church supporting apartheid: Heyns prophesising from within and Naudé from without. Both Johan Heyns and Beyers Naudé came from a strong Dutch Reformed and Afrikaans background. Both supported and motivated a policy of apartheid in the Dutch Reformed Church and South Africa in their earlier years. As for Naudé, this conviction changed in December 1960 at the Cottesloe consultatio…
Die NG Kerk oor ‘Kerk en Samelewing’ voor en na 1994 – ’n Evaluering van drie dokumente
The Dutch Reformed Church about ‘Church and Society’ before and after 1994 – An evaluation of three documents. In its aim, to guide the members of its congregations in the last days of official apartheid in South Africa in a pastoral and ethical way, the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church formulated the documents Church and Society of 1986 and 1990. The General Synod applied its interpretation of biblical norms like love thy neighbour, ju…
Generaal JH De la Rey in Mei 1902
General J.H. de la Rey in May 1902: a die-hard Boer opting for peace General J.H. (Koos) de la Rey was, according to historians, a Christian Afrikaner and a Boer aristocrat. Not only did he play a leading role in the Boer community of the old Transvaal – in the 1890s he was a well-known member of the Volksraad or highest governing authority in the South African Republic – but in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902 he became a Boer general who disting…
Generaal JH De la Rey in Mei 1902
General J.H. de la Rey in May 1902: a die-hard Boer opting for peace General J.H. (Koos) de la Rey was, according to historians, a Christian Afrikaner and a Boer aristocrat. Not only did he play a leading role in the Boer community of the old Transvaal – in the 1890s he was a well-known member of the Volksraad or highest governing authority in the South African Republic – but in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902 he became a Boer general who disting…
Kerkorde en erediens
A church order and church service – Article 48 of the Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church investigatedFor the church order of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), article 48, the core of a church service is the fact that the Triune God is meeting his church and that this meeting should be determined by the core truths or lines of the relationship between God and his church or believers. This point of departure for a church service has been main…
Die lewensbeskouing van D.F. Malan (1874–1959) soos weerspieël in openbare standpunte
The world view of D.F. Malan as reflected in his public stance. D.F. Malan was born in 1874 and grew up on a farm near Riebeeck-Wes in the Western Cape. He died in 1959 in Stellenbosch. Malan started his career as a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. Before that he regarded himself as a student in Theology with a vocation. In 1905 he became a Doctor in Theology at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He entered politics in June 1915 …
Die Algemene Sinode van die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk van 1990 en die Gelofte van 1838
The General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church of 1990 and the Covenant of 1838. The Dutch Reformed Church as a church consisting of mainly Afrikaners, was confronted by a new societal dispensation and a new government in South Africa in and after 1994. The trend of the new constitution of 1996, as well as a new public discourse laid the emphasis on the individual and his rights in a society open to all. This discourse implicitly communicated neg…
The Service of the Believers
The theme of article 55 of the 2015 Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church was formulated for the first time in 1974 and amended in 2011. For this service, the term “the service of the believer” was used instead of the popular term “office of the believer”. Article 55 of the 2011 Church Order linked this service aimed at the church and the kingdom of God, without mentioning the congregation as the starting point thereof. The emphasis was on th…
Kerk en burgerlike owerheid
Church and state authorithy: The Confessio Belgica and three church orders. In reformed churches the Bible is regarded as the norm of the norms. The confessions of faith of these churches are the second norm and subjected to the Bible. The church order is less powerful than the Bible and the confessions but of a higher status than the normal decisions of church assemblies. Therefore, the influence of the Belgic Confession on three church orders i…
Die Bittereindevrede van 31 Mei 1902
The die-hard peace of the 31st May 1902: a historical ethical perspective The remainder of Boers fighting the last part of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), are known as the die-hards. However, the characteristics of a die-hard or bitter end were not defined or uninamously recognized by the Boers. In the circumstances of April-May 1902 peace talks began and led to the signing of a peace treaty on 31 May 1902. In the development of the discussions a…
Paul Kruger – ’n ‘Dopper’ van sy tyd
Paul Kruger, who was the president of the South African Republic ( Zuid-Afrikaansche Republic [ZAR]) from 1883 until 1900, was a symbol of Boerrepublicanism in the 19th century. In the development of this image, he also became an honoured prototype of an Afrikaner for his fellowmen. Kruger was born and bred in the North Eastern Cape as a member of that element of Afrikaners which became known as the ‘Doppers’. They were a group of people from whi…
Die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk se afskeid van apartheid
Some church historians are of the opinion that the Cottesloe Consultation of 1960 rejected apartheid and, by doing so, paved the way for the General Synods of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) of 1986 and 1990 with their documents, ‘Church and Society’, to do the same. This article investigates this statement. In its final declaration, Cottesloe made room for representatives of the DRC who believed that a policy of differentiation in South Africa c…
Die Dordtse Kerkorde van 1619 en die NG Kerkorde van 1962
The Church Order of Dordtrecht of 1619 and of the Dutch Reformed Church of 1962: The latter a developement of the former on church discipline? A spokesman for the Commission of Actuarii who drafted the Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church for a newly founded general synod in 1962, J.D. Vorster, called it an example of the Church Order of Dordt of 1619 for present times. That meant that this Church Order used the same principles or constants …
Ouderling en Oud-Ouderling Sarel Cilliers
Sarel Cilliers as an elder or former elder in church: The well-known Voortrekker Sarel Cilliers was in the first place not recognised as a military or cultural leader, but a spiritual leader and respected elder in church. Apart from his emotional approach to the affairs of the Dutch Reformed Church of which he was a member in a congregation, Cilliers was a reformed member who strifed to obey the Bible, the Reformed confessions of faith and the so…
Kerkorde en Leer en Aktuele Sake
Church order, doctrine and current affairs: a perspective on the church order article 56 of the Dutch Reformed Church In 1982 at the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church of that year, a new article 56 was added to its church order. This article stipulated that the church, through its assemblies and other work, strives to stimulate views in church and society that depart from Scripture. The Dutch Reformed Church wants to see such an approach…
Kerkorde en herderlike sorg – Artikel 51 van die kerkorde van die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk van 2015
Church order and pastoral care as in article 51 of the church order of the Dutch Reformed Church. The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) finds its historical roots in the Reformed Church in the Netherlands of the 16th and 17th century. The so-called individual or family-oriented visitation of members by office bearers in congregations in reformed churches dates to the Reformer John Calvin (1509–1564). In recent copies of the church order of the DRC this…
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Watter sake hoort by meerdere vergaderings
Which issues should be dealt with by major assemblies? It seems as if the reformed churches, in their distinction between minor and major assemblies, will always have to keep a balance between maintaining the right of the congregation as a fully-fledged church and the necessity or right of the church as a denomination. In order to achieve this, Article 30 of the Church Order of Dordt 1619 was the temporary end of a development in that church orde…
Die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk en die Republiek van die Oranje-Vrystaat
A close relationship existed between the Dutch Reformed Church in the Orange Free State and the Republic of the Orange Free State during the existence of the latter in 1854-1902. This was due to a shared worldview and the fact that more than 80% of the voters of the Republic were members of a Dutch Reformed congregation. It has been said that the Dutch Reformed Church in the Free State was a state-church. Although it benefited in the circumstance…
JD Kestell as veldprediker 1899-1902
Reverend John Daniel (Father) Kestell (1854-1941) was a wellknown minister of religion in the Dutch Reformed Church. Through various actions he earned himself the nickname of “Father (Vader) Kestell” among his fellowmen. Although he supported the actions of the Republic of the Orange Free State and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republic in the South African War (1899-1902), he declined to fight or take up a military rank. He in stead tried to strengthen …
Paul Kruger – toesprake en korrespondensie 1881-1900
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Die kerkorde van die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk 2013
The church order of the Dutch Reformed Church of 2013: Channel or stumbling block for church discipline? There is a widely accepted stand in reformed churches not to accept detailed prescriptions in its church order for church discipline. Church assemblies tasked with church discipline need space to undertake this according to God’s Word, with a pastoral approach, the well-being of the church and its members in mind, and a good deal of common sen…
Die hervormingsdaggetuienis van agt Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk-dosente op 31 Oktober 1980 – ’n oproep tot hervorming
The witness on Reformation Day, 31 October 1980, by eight Dutch Reformed Church lecturers – a call for reformation? Eight well-known lecturers, members of the Dutch Reformed Church, made a call on Reformation Day, 31 October 1980, for the churches in South Africa to strive for the reformation of the order of society in apartheid South Africa. They pleaded to the churches to help the cause of a new, integrated country based on love, justice and hu…
Kerkorde en ekumene. Die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk in die jare 1962–2015
Church order and ecumenism: The Dutch Reformed Church in 1962–2015. The church order accepted by the first General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), the church order or DRC-CO of 1962, showed a preference for ecumenism with reformed churches. However, the term ‘correspondence’ with which it described the closest possible ties with a reformed church, was not explicit in the details of these ties. When the DRC broke its ties with the Reform…
Paul Kruger – ’n ‘Dopper’ van sy tyd
Paul Kruger, who was the president of the South African Republic ( Zuid-Afrikaansche Republic [ZAR]) from 1883 until 1900, was a symbol of Boerrepublicanism in the 19th century. In the development of this image, he also became an honoured prototype of an Afrikaner for his fellowmen. Kruger was born and bred in the North Eastern Cape as a member of that element of Afrikaners which became known as the ‘Doppers’. They were a group of people from whi…
Die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk se afskeid van apartheid
Some church historians are of the opinion that the Cottesloe Consultation of 1960 rejected apartheid and, by doing so, paved the way for the General Synods of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) of 1986 and 1990 with their documents, ‘Church and Society’, to do the same. This article investigates this statement. In its final declaration, Cottesloe made room for representatives of the DRC who believed that a policy of differentiation in South Africa c…
Die Dordtse Kerkorde van 1619 en die NG Kerkorde van 1962
The Church Order of Dordtrecht of 1619 and of the Dutch Reformed Church of 1962: The latter a developement of the former on church discipline? A spokesman for the Commission of Actuarii who drafted the Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church for a newly founded general synod in 1962, J.D. Vorster, called it an example of the Church Order of Dordt of 1619 for present times. That meant that this Church Order used the same principles or constants …
Ouderling en Oud-Ouderling Sarel Cilliers
Sarel Cilliers as an elder or former elder in church: The well-known Voortrekker Sarel Cilliers was in the first place not recognised as a military or cultural leader, but a spiritual leader and respected elder in church. Apart from his emotional approach to the affairs of the Dutch Reformed Church of which he was a member in a congregation, Cilliers was a reformed member who strifed to obey the Bible, the Reformed confessions of faith and the so…
Kerkorde en Leer en Aktuele Sake
Church order, doctrine and current affairs: a perspective on the church order article 56 of the Dutch Reformed Church In 1982 at the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church of that year, a new article 56 was added to its church order. This article stipulated that the church, through its assemblies and other work, strives to stimulate views in church and society that depart from Scripture. The Dutch Reformed Church wants to see such an approach…
Kerkorde en herderlike sorg – Artikel 51 van die kerkorde van die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk van 2015
Church order and pastoral care as in article 51 of the church order of the Dutch Reformed Church. The Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) finds its historical roots in the Reformed Church in the Netherlands of the 16th and 17th century. The so-called individual or family-oriented visitation of members by office bearers in congregations in reformed churches dates to the Reformer John Calvin (1509–1564). In recent copies of the church order of the DRC this…
Die Ned. Geref. Kerkorde 1962 en Sinodes
The church order of the Dutch Reformed Church 1962 and synods: The church order of Dordrecht adapted to our day? After the completion of their concept of the first church order for the whole Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), an order which was accepted by the first general synod of the DRC in 1962, one of the members of the drawing committee, J.D. Vorster, declared that this concept was a modern example of the church order of the Synod of Dordrecht in…
Kerkorde en erediens
A church order and church service – Article 48 of the Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church investigatedFor the church order of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), article 48, the core of a church service is the fact that the Triune God is meeting his church and that this meeting should be determined by the core truths or lines of the relationship between God and his church or believers. This point of departure for a church service has been main…
Die lewensbeskouing van D.F. Malan (1874–1959) soos weerspieël in openbare standpunte
The world view of D.F. Malan as reflected in his public stance. D.F. Malan was born in 1874 and grew up on a farm near Riebeeck-Wes in the Western Cape. He died in 1959 in Stellenbosch. Malan started his career as a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. Before that he regarded himself as a student in Theology with a vocation. In 1905 he became a Doctor in Theology at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. He entered politics in June 1915 …
Die Algemene Sinode van die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk van 1990 en die Gelofte van 1838
The General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church of 1990 and the Covenant of 1838. The Dutch Reformed Church as a church consisting of mainly Afrikaners, was confronted by a new societal dispensation and a new government in South Africa in and after 1994. The trend of the new constitution of 1996, as well as a new public discourse laid the emphasis on the individual and his rights in a society open to all. This discourse implicitly communicated neg…
The Service of the Believers
The theme of article 55 of the 2015 Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church was formulated for the first time in 1974 and amended in 2011. For this service, the term “the service of the believer” was used instead of the popular term “office of the believer”. Article 55 of the 2011 Church Order linked this service aimed at the church and the kingdom of God, without mentioning the congregation as the starting point thereof. The emphasis was on th…
Kerk en burgerlike owerheid
Church and state authorithy: The Confessio Belgica and three church orders. In reformed churches the Bible is regarded as the norm of the norms. The confessions of faith of these churches are the second norm and subjected to the Bible. The church order is less powerful than the Bible and the confessions but of a higher status than the normal decisions of church assemblies. Therefore, the influence of the Belgic Confession on three church orders i…
Die Bittereindevrede van 31 Mei 1902
The die-hard peace of the 31st May 1902: a historical ethical perspective The remainder of Boers fighting the last part of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), are known as the die-hards. However, the characteristics of a die-hard or bitter end were not defined or uninamously recognized by the Boers. In the circumstances of April-May 1902 peace talks began and led to the signing of a peace treaty on 31 May 1902. In the development of the discussions a…
Johan Heyns en Beyers Naudé as profete teen die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk se steun aan apartheid
Johan Heyns and Beyers Naudé as prophets against the Dutch Reformed Church supporting apartheid: Heyns prophesising from within and Naudé from without. Both Johan Heyns and Beyers Naudé came from a strong Dutch Reformed and Afrikaans background. Both supported and motivated a policy of apartheid in the Dutch Reformed Church and South Africa in their earlier years. As for Naudé, this conviction changed in December 1960 at the Cottesloe consultatio…
Die NG Kerk oor ‘Kerk en Samelewing’ voor en na 1994 – ’n Evaluering van drie dokumente
The Dutch Reformed Church about ‘Church and Society’ before and after 1994 – An evaluation of three documents. In its aim, to guide the members of its congregations in the last days of official apartheid in South Africa in a pastoral and ethical way, the General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church formulated the documents Church and Society of 1986 and 1990. The General Synod applied its interpretation of biblical norms like love thy neighbour, ju…
Generaal JH De la Rey in Mei 1902
General J.H. de la Rey in May 1902: a die-hard Boer opting for peace General J.H. (Koos) de la Rey was, according to historians, a Christian Afrikaner and a Boer aristocrat. Not only did he play a leading role in the Boer community of the old Transvaal – in the 1890s he was a well-known member of the Volksraad or highest governing authority in the South African Republic – but in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902 he became a Boer general who disting…
Generaal JH De la Rey in Mei 1902
General J.H. de la Rey in May 1902: a die-hard Boer opting for peace General J.H. (Koos) de la Rey was, according to historians, a Christian Afrikaner and a Boer aristocrat. Not only did he play a leading role in the Boer community of the old Transvaal – in the 1890s he was a well-known member of the Volksraad or highest governing authority in the South African Republic – but in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902 he became a Boer general who disting…
NG Kerkorde 1998
The church order of the Dutch Reformed Church of 1998: An expression of unity on the status of Scripture and Confessions? The Dutch Reformed Church claims to be a modern church in the Dutch Reformed tradition as seen in the historical line from the National Synod of Dordt of 1618–1619 to Dutch orientated reformed churches of today. In its church order accepted by the first General Synod of 1962, it accepted two articles namely article 1 and 2 whi…
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