Die Stellenbosche Heyns: Nagedink oor die vroeë, middel en latere jare van ’n akademiese loopbaan

Verbum et Ecclesia

 
 
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Title Die Stellenbosche Heyns: Nagedink oor die vroeë, middel en latere jare van ’n akademiese loopbaan
 
Creator Conradie, Ernst M.
 
Subject Christian theology Apologetics; Johan Heyns; neo-Calvinism; Pretoria; Reformed theology; secularism; Stellenbosch; Henk Stoker
Description This contribution is structured in the genre of an academic letter to a deceased colleague, in this case Prof. Johan Adam Heyns (1928–1994). He was appointed for a short period from 1966 to 1970 as a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University. This contribution offers a reappraisal of this period in the academic career of Prof. Heyns. His main focus at the time, in line with his teaching duties, was on apologetics and, to some extent, also ethics. The author engages with Prof. Heyns’s views at the time and offers a sixfold mirror to position this phase of his career, namely in terms of the tensions between orthodoxy and modernity, between the philosophical influence of Henk Stoker and the theological influence of Herman Bavinck, and between the implementation of apartheid and the struggle against that. This mirror is held up in order to reflect on the early, middle and later stages of any academic career including that of the author, to contrast the radiance and risk of youthful academic rigour and the wisdom but also the rigidity that may come with mature age.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The research done, is not of an interdisciplinary nature. This article contributes to a growing corpus of literature assessing the legacy of Prof. Johan Adam Heyns.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor None
Date 2024-08-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Literature review
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/ve.v45i1.3204
 
Source Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 45, No 1 (2024); 10 pages 2074-7705 1609-9982
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage South Africa 20th century 62, male, Euro-African
Rights Copyright (c) 2024 Ernst M. Conradie https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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