February 15, 2018
Dr Tanya van Wyk appointed as Senior Lecturer in Spirituality
Spirituality is an exciting and expanding theological and religious subject discipline and now has a home in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the...
May 31, 2017
Johan Heyns Memorial Lecture 2017
The Johan Heyns Memorial Lecture 2017 was delivered on Wednesday, 24 May 2017 by prof Etienne de Villiers, emeritus professor in Christian Ethics in UP’s...
April 12, 2017
“In the end, there is a beginning”
An honorary doctorate degree was conferred on world-renowned theologian Prof Jürgen Moltmann, who formed part the Faculty of Theology’s centenary literary...
May 12, 2016
Postdoctoral fellow investigates whole-brain spirituality
Dr Gys Loubser, a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Theology’s Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics, is researching whole-brain spirituality in...
April 19, 2016
Johan Heyns as interdisciplinary theologian re-evaluated during memorial lecture
The Faculty of Theology is hosting the annual Johan Heyns Memorial Lecture on 25 May 2016 in the Senate Hall of the University of Pretoria. The lecture, themed...
October 21, 2015
Theology boasts two newly rated NRF scholars
The Faculty of Theology has two newly rated National Research Foundation (NRF) scholars in its midst. Prof Nelus Niemandt, Head of the Department of Science of...
August 24, 2015
Research on morality and development showcased in Japan
Dr Willem Fourie, senior lecturer in the Faculty of Theology’s Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics, recently made his contribution on the theme of...
July 20, 2015
Leadership in Africa
Dr Willem Fourie from the Department of Dogmatics and Christian Ethics in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria, in collaboration with Suzanne...
May 13, 2015
Research about leadership in Africa reviewed in first-of-its-kind paper
The first paper reviewing peer-reviewed research on leadership in Africa published from 1950 to 2009, to appear in one of the leading international journals for...
February 27, 2015
Theological research reconsiders being human from evolutionary perspective
The reconceptualisation of theological concepts from an evolutionary perspective is currently tackled as departmental research project by die Department of...