Programme

Wednesday 24 November

8:30 Registration

8:45 Welcome address 

9:00 Bible, Spirituality and Method: Continuing the debate, Christo   Lombaard (UP)

9:50  Finding God in an Infinite Present: Theology in a Time of         Covid19, Juliana Claassens, (SU)

10:40 Coffee break

11:10 Pentecostal spirituality in the context of faith and hope          gospel (Prosperity Preaching): A Pentecostal response to                 COVID 19 pandemic, Peter White (SU)

12:00 Chapel

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Navigating Nothingness, Lisel Joubert (SU)

14:20 A study of the tension between experiences of nothingness and hope in Isaiah 7 and 8 from a perspective of trauma hermeneutics, Liza Esterhuizen & Alphonso Groenewald (UP)

15:10 Coffee

15:30 Experiencing God’s Patience Alongside Pharaoh’s Politics —and the plagues and politics of South Africa, Gavin Fernandes 16:20 Radical Nominalism of Daniel Everett and its Implications for Theology and Spirituality, David Biernot (Charles University Prague)

17:10 End of day

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18:00 Chapel

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Thursday 25 November

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9:00 GODISNOWHERE: Poverty and spirituality in the theology of Qohelet, Jaco Gericke (NWU) 

9:50 Becoming Ruth or the lamenting psalmist – finding hope in pain, June Dickie (UKZN)

10:40 Coffee break

11:10 Youth and Environmental Consciousness: Does Religion, Faith and Spirituality matter? Jacques Beukes (UP)

12:00 Chapel

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Hope in pain: South African spiritualities in the theology of music: a post Covid 19 lens to Jerusaleima by master KG ft. Nomcebo through Psalms 121, Dorcas Chebet Juma (Pwani University, Kilifi, Kenya)

14:20 Hope in the midst of death?: a reading of the book of Job in the time of despair, Hassan Musa (ECWA Theological seminary Kagoro, Nigeria)

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15:00 Hope beyond hopelessness – a narrative reading of Romans 8, Guillaume Smit (SU)

15:45 Finding hope in things I missed before – a spatial rhetoric of hope in Romans 5–8? Annette Potgieter (Hugenote Kollege)

16:30 End of day

18:00 Chapel

Friday 26 November

8:45 Dreampossible: From nothingness to hope! Jeremy Wyngaard (SU)

9:30 “Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow”: exploring avenues of allyship in anti-racism work through spirituality, Louis van der Riet (SU)

10:15 Coffee

10:30 Evagrian practice and attention economy, Khegan Delport (Hugenote Kollege)

11:15 The Future of Nothingness: The End of the World or its Insistence?, Calvin Ulrich (Ruhr Universität Bochum)

12:00 Chapel

12:30 for 12:45 Conference lunch at Val du Charon