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Festschrift : WA Dreyer
Get PDFNOTE : Special Collection: Wim Dreyer Dedication.No abstract available.http://www.hts.org.zaam2024Science of Religion and MissiologyNon
Ecclesia reformata semper reformanda : WA (Wim) Dreyer and the reformation of the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa
Get PDFDATA AVAILABILITY : Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data
were created or analysed in this study.This research is part of the project, ‘The Church and Poverty in South Africa’, directed by Prof. Johan van der Merwe, Department of Systematic and Historical Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria.Special Collection: Wim Dreyer Dedication, sub-edited by Jaco Beyers (University of Pretoria, South Africa).Prof. W.A. Dreyer played an important role in the continuous reformation of the
Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika (NHKA). This contribution to his Festschrift is not
about him. He would not want that. It is about the church and how his understanding of
reformed ecclesiology became the basis on which the transformation from ‘Volkskerk’ to
missional church took place. According to himself, that was his calling and his life’s work.
The importance of his contribution cannot be understood without the historical
background in which it played out. Neither is it possible to envisage what really happened
without acknowledging the theologians who played an important part in his life. This
article therefore starts with a short overview of the history of the NHKA. It then proceeds
with an overview of how important theologians in the NHKA influenced his ecclesiology.
It concludes with three specific contributions that Prof. W.A. Dreyer made which makes
him a key role player which led the NHKA on the way of Ecclesia reformata semper
reformanda.
CONTRIBUTION : Prof. W.A. Dreyer became an important church leader in the Netherdutch
Reformed Church. His leadership resulted in important changes in the church and especially
in the ecclesiology of the church. This article, which is part of his Festschrift, gives an
overview of his theological contribution through the lens of semper reformanda. By doing
so, it indicates how important is the role of church leaders. All the research is based on his
scholarly work.http://www.hts.org.zaam2024Dogmatics and Christian EthicsSDG-05:Gender equalit
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Oorsprong van die drievoudige struktuur van die Heidelbergse Kategismus
Get PDFThis research is part of the
research project, ‘Ecumenical
creeds and Confessions’,
directed by Dr Wim Dreyer,
Department of Church
History and Church Polity,
Faculty of Theology,
University of Pretoria.This article is based on research done by A. Janse van Rensburg for the completion of the degree Magister Theologiae, under
supervision of Dr W.A. Dreyer, Department of Church History and Church Polity, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria. The support
of the University of Pretoria and the Johannes a Lasco Institute (Emden, Germany), is hereby acknowledged with gratitude.The Heidelberg Catechism was one of many catechisms that originated during the 16th-century
Reformation. It is also known that the authors of the Heidelberg Catechism made use of existing
catechisms. The content of 16th-century catechisms consisted mainly of the Decalogue, the
Apostolicum and the Lord’s Prayer. The Heidelberg Catechism starts with the famous
introduction, dealing with man’s only comfort, and in three sections with knowledge of our sin
and misery, knowledge of our deliverance, and knowledge of how we should be grateful for
our deliverance. This contribution points out that the threefold structure of the Heidelberg
Catechism is not unique, but appeared in different ways in different catechisms of prominent
16th-century reformers. It is also argued that the Heidelberg Catechism should be read against
Lutheran and Calvinistic backgrounds. Finally, it is shown that the Heidelberg Catechism
articulated the basic Christian faith in such a beautiful and poignant manner that it stood the
test of time as a catechism and confession.http://www.hts.org.zaam2016Church History and Church Polic
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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