Prof Tanya van Wyk

Prof Tanya van Wyk is an associate professor in the Department of Systematic and Historical Theology. She is a NRF rated scholar with a Y2 rating.  Van Wyk’s lecturing responsibilities include Christian Spirituality, Christian Ethics and Systematic Theology. Her current research foci include discourses about inclusive language, political theology, gender, feminist theology and ethics, and religion and sustainable development with a focus on gender equity. Van Wyk is the Deputy-Chairperson of the Faculty's Research Ethics Committee. She is currently a research fellow with the Programme for Religious Communities and Sustainable Development at Humboldt University (Berlin) and associated with the International Network for Religion and Sustainable Development. She is an ordained minister of the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa (NRCA/NHKA).

Recent publications include:

2020:
  •  "Protesting patriarchal power: The task of political theology in creating solidarity and sustaining activism" (Concilium Internationl Journal for Theology)
  • "'To die and to let die: A just theology of ceding space" (Acta Theologica 40(1)
2019: 
  • "Reproductive health, deconstructed: A nonbinary understanding of the womb" (in Reconceiving reproductive healthAOSIS BOOKS)
  • "Redressing the past, doing justice in the present: Necessary paradoxes: (HTS Theological Studies 75(4))
2018:
  • An unfinished reformation: The persistence of gender exclusive language in theology and the maintenance of a patriarchal church culture (Verbum et Ecclesia 39 (1)
 
 

 

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