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Dion Forster

Religious Studies

#770

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#1428

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Christian Theology

#55

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#82

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Theology

#480

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#986

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Dion Forster's Degrees

Bachelors Theology Stellenbosch University
Masters Theology Stellenbosch University
Doctorate Theology Stellenbosch University

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According to Wikipedia, Dion Angus Forster is an academic and clergyman. He serves as a professor of Public Theology in the Faculty of Religion and Theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is a Research Fellow in the Department of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology, in the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University where he previously served as full professor and head of department until October 2023. In addition, Prof Forster is a Research Fellow at Wesley House, Cambridge, and an Associate of the Allan Gray Centre for Values Based Leadership at the University of Cape Town, Graduate School of Business.

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Dion Forster's Published Works

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A generous ontology: Identity as a process of intersubjective discovery – An African theological contribution (2010) (34)
African relational ontology, individual identity, and Christian theology (2010) (24)
What hope is there for South Africa? A public theological reflection on the role of the church as a bearer of hope for the future (2015) (20)
Validation of individual consciousness in strong artificial intelligence: an african theological contribution (2006) (13)
Prophetic witness and social action as holiness in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa's mission (2008) (11)
Where is the church on Monday? : awakening the church to the theology and practice of ministry and mission in the marketplace (2015) (8)
Called to work: A descriptive analysis of Call42’s research on faith and work in South Africa (2014) (8)
Justice and the Missional Framework Document of the Dutch Reformed Church (2017) (5)
Translation and a politics of forgiveness in South Africa? What black Christians believe, and white Christians do not seem to understand (2018) (5)
Between Capital and Cathedral: Essays on Church-State relationships (2012) (5)
State Theology and Political Populism? A Kairos Critique of Religious Populism in South Africa (2020) (4)
Mandela and the Methodists: Faith, fallacy and fact (2014) (4)
A public theological approach to the (im)possibility of forgiveness in Matthew 18:15-35: Reading the text through the lens of integral theory (2017) (3)
The religious linguistic characteristics of the presence of the Kingdom in the light of Speech Act Theory : Christian ethical implications (2017) (3)
“I Must Honestly Confess That I Am Afraid of You” (2021) (2)
A state church? A consideration of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in the light of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ‘Theological position paper on state and church’. (2016) (2)
Aspects of the cosmic Christ in the spirituality of Dom Bede Griffiths (2001) (2)
New directions in evangelical Christianities (2019) (1)
The (im)possibility of forgiveness (2017) (1)
Post-human Consciousness and the Evolutionary Cosmology (2007) (1)
Revival, Revolution and Reform in Global Methodism: An Understanding of Christian Perfection as African Christian Humanism in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (2018) (1)
A Social Imagination of Forgiveness (2019) (1)
Alienation and Connection: Suffering in a Global Age (2011) (1)
Towards an (Im)possible Politics of Forgiveness? Considering the Complexities of Religion, Race and Politics in South Africa (2020) (1)
More red than green : a response to global warming and the environment from within the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (2008) (1)
Freedom of Religion at Stake : Competing Claims among Faith Traditions, States, and Persons (2019) (1)
An appreciative contextual response to Jean-Pierre Wils, ‘Is there a future for “medical ethics”?’ Just Health as a public theological concern (2016) (1)
African Public Theology? A conceptual engagement to keep the conversation alive (2022) (1)
Born Free? South African Young Adults, Inequality, and Reconciliation in Stellenbosch (2021) (1)
The possibility of Forgiveness (2019) (0)
Can contextual theology bridge the divide? (2020) (0)
The (im)possibility of forgiveness? (2017) (0)
Reflecting on the nature of work in contemporary South Africa: A public theological engagement with calling and vocation (2020) (0)
Nelson Mandela and his faith (2015) (0)
Spirituality and Workplace Diversity Practices in Africa (2017) (0)
On the 250th anniversary of A plain account of Christian perfection: A historical review of Wesleyan Theological Hybridity and its implications for contemporary discourses on Christian Humanism (2018) (0)
The church has AIDS : towards a positive theology for an HIV+ church (2010) (0)
Social identity complexity and a politics of forgiveness among black and white South Africans (2021) (0)
A Southern African Response to ‘Pastoral Theology as Attention’ (2007) (0)
A politics of forgiveness? Engaging the ontological and the structural in the dialogical theology of John de Gruchy (2020) (0)
Book review (2021) (0)
Reconciliation, Forgiveness and Violence in Africa: Biblical, pastoral and ethical perspectives (2020) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Book Review: Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor CSSp, Morality Truly Christian, Truly African: Foundational, Methodological, and Theological Considerations (2016) (0)
Post-foundational theology and the contribution of African approaches to consciousness and identity (2021) (0)
Book review (1998) (0)
Activating moral imagination: EXPOSED 2013 as a fourth generation faith-based campaign? (2015) (0)
A Kairos Moment for the Methodist Church of Southern Africa? Engaging Nationalism and State Theology in the Democratic South Africa (2019) (0)
Dataset corresponding to 'The (im)possibility of forgiveness? An empirical intercultural Bible reading of Matthew 18.15-35' (2017) (0)
Towards a Future with Greater Freedoms for All (2021) (0)

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