Daniël P Veldsman studied at the universities of Port Elizabeth, Pretoria and as DAAD Scholar, with Prof Walter Schmithals at the Kirchliche Hochschule, West-Berlin, Germany. He completed a dissertation on the understanding of faith in the theologies of three German scholars, namely Albrecht Ritschl, Wilhelm Herrmann and Rudolph Bultmann. Previously at Unisa (1995-2007), he now teaches since 2007 in the Department. He is a NRF rated researcher.
Veldsman retired in July 2024 but is still contractually involved with the department. He continues with his research on themes relating to religious experience, cultural literacy, and evolutionary theology – especially the science-theology dialogue. He is also responsible for teaching traditional dogmatic themes.
Recent pulications:
2019. Embracing the eye of the Apple: On anthropology, theology and technology
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 75, No 1 | a5498 | DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v75i1.5498
2020 Coming face to face through narratives: evaluating from our evolutionary history the contemporary risk factors and their conceptualisation within a technologized society. Scriptura 119 (2020:3), pp. 1-12.
2020 God’s spirit (of wisdom) has been sent into the world, not Covid-19: A contextual systematic-theological perspective. HTS Teologiese Studies Vol 76, No 1.
2020. From fides quarens intellectum to fides quarens sapientia: Revisiting and reformulating for the public good Anselmus’ famous formulation within a contemporary theology-science perspective. Transilvania 9, 1-8
2020 Science, in: African Public Theology. Edited By Sunday Bobai Agang and Dion A. Forster. Hippo Books, Langham Publishing
2020 From Harari to Harare, in: Van den Berg, J-A (ed). Engaging the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Perspectives from theology, philosophy and education. SunMedia: Bloemfontein
2021. Suffering as expressed in the Psalter and beyond: An unfinished Systematic-Theological Perspective on Evolutionary “Theodicy”. OTE 34/1 (2021) 220-240
2021. A celebratory turning alone to Wentzel van Huyssteen: an academic appreciation. Verbum et Ecclesia Vol 42, No 2.
2022. Does Rian Venter Make (Theological) Sense? Reader in Trinitarian Theology. Henco van der Westhuizen (ed). UJ Press, 497-507
2022 Doing theology-science in South Africa. Journal of Systematic Theology. Vol 1 issue 7 1-38
2022. On religious experience in South Africa. Journal of Systematic Theology. Vol 2 issue 2 1-34
2023 Religion, morality, science - and the (?) story of homo Sapiens. Verbum et Ecclesia Vol 44, No 1
Only most recent papers read:
2021 From Harari to Harare: On mapping and theologically relating the Fourth Industrial Revolution with human distinctiveness. Expert Seminar with PThU
2022 Making sense of embodied personhood, technology and pandemics. Expert Seminar with PThU.
2022 Science and religion – and the story of Homo Sapiens. ProMores, Pretoria (Sept 2022)
2022 Why would theologians try to speak publicly, and who would care to hear their voices: on Wentzel van Huyssteen’s post-foundational approach to truth and progress. AAR, Denver, USA
2023. Ag hemeltjie tog: is dit kerkwees? Excelsus Lentekonferensie
2023 Public Lecture: Ethics and dialogue: on the underlying anthropological dynamics (Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life)
2023. Shallow anthropological reflection masks superficial technological discernments (Expert Seminar, Amsterdam)
2023. On the heart of human dialogue: systematic-theological reflection on the underlying anthropological dynamics (Debrecen Reformed University, Hungary)
2024. En wat van die God wie God se asem ophou oor die skepping? Lentekonferensie Pretoria
2024. At the heart of our life’s stories lies the heart: on making (fictional) sense of reality ESSSAT, Split University, Croatia
2024. Die evangelie is aan die kerk toevetrou – maar kan die kerk daarmee vertrou word? Kerkwees200 Kongres, Pretoria
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