Andries Van Aarde

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Andries Van Aarde (born 1951) is an honorary professor of theology and a research fellow at the University of Pretoria. [1] [2] [3] He is also an ordained minister in the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa. [3] He has shown interest in the Historical Jesus debate. [3]

Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the supernatural, but also deals with religious epistemology, asks and seeks to answer the question of revelation. Revelation pertains to the acceptance of God, gods, or deities, as not only transcendent or above the natural world, but also willing and able to interact with the natural world and, in particular, to reveal themselves to humankind. While theology has turned into a secular field, religious adherents still consider theology to be a discipline that helps them live and understand concepts such as life and love and that helps them lead lives of obedience to the deities they follow or worship.

A research fellow is an academic research position at a university or a similar research institution, usually for academic staff or faculty members. A research fellow may act either as an independent investigator or under the supervision of a principal investigator.

University of Pretoria university in South Africa

The University of Pretoria is a multi-campus public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. The university was established in 1908 as the Pretoria campus of the Johannesburg-based Transvaal University College and is the fourth South African institution in continuous operation to be awarded university status. The university has grown from the original 32 students in a single late Victorian house to approximately 49,000 in 2015. The University was built on 7 suburban campuses on 1,120 hectares.

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  1. ↑ Prof Andries van Aarde [ permanent dead link ], University of Pretoria
  2. ↑ Andries van Aarde Chairperson, Department of New Testament Studies, University of Pretoria, South Africa Archived 9 November 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  3. 1 2 3 De Villiers, G., 2011, ‘Andries van Aarde – A sideways glance: His theological and hermeneutical contribution to the South African scene, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 67(1), Art. #1033, 10 pages. doi.10.4102/hts.v67i1.1033. ISSN   0259-9422 (print) ISSN   2072-8050 (online). This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)


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