Abstract
Church discipline: A fair and just pastoral-ecclesiatical act? Is article 60.3 of the Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church a spiritual offspring of the Church Order of Dordt? Departing from the viewpoint that church discipline is spiritual in nature, article 60.3 of the Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church states that it should be exercised in a fair and just pastoral-ecclesiatical way. In doing so, this Order should be obedient to the Word of God, the confessions of faith of this church, its church order and the normative character of the church as an institution of society. This requirement, in terms of the formulation of article 60.3, is investigated. In addition, article 60.3 is compared with the Church Order of Dordt to determine whether the former may be regarded as a spiritual offspring of the latter. It is concluded that article 60.3 is indeed scriptural, according to the confessions and determined by the character of the church. It is therefore also an offspring of the Church Order of Dordt.
Highlights
In die hersiening van sy Kerkorde (Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerkorde – NGKO) het die Algemene Sinode van die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NG Kerk) van 1998 ’n nuwe artikel, 59.3, oor die kerklike opsig en tug gemaak: ‘Amptelike kerklike opsig en tug is pastoraalkerkregtelik van aard en moet uit ’n Bybelse en geestelike oogpunt billik en regverdig toegepas word’ (NGKO 1998:20)
Die vraag is of hierdie bepaling in die verlengde of ’n latere ontwikkeling van die Dordtse Kerkorde (DKO) lê – die DKO soos aanvaar deur die Nasionale Sinode van Dordrecht (1618–1619)
Op sy beurt was die DKO die eindpunt van die kerkordelike ontwikkeling in die Gereformeerde Kerk in Nederland in die sestiende en sewentiende eeu
Summary
Kerklike tug: Pastoraal-kerkregtelik van aard en daarom billik en regverdig? NG Kerkorde, artikel 60.3 ’n geesteskind van die Dordtse Kerkorde?. Departing from the viewpoint that church discipline is spiritual in nature, article 60.3 of the Church Order of the Dutch Reformed Church states that it should be exercised in a fair and just pastoral-ecclesiatical way In doing so, this Order should be obedient to the Word of God, the confessions of faith of this church, its church order and the normative character of the church as an institution of society. Die Nederlandse Geloofsbelydenis (NGB), een van die Drie Formuliere van Eenheid of belydenisse van geloof soos aanvaar by dieselfde Dordtse Sinode (Donner & Van den Hoorn s.j.:325), bely in artikel 29 dat die ware Christelike kerk aan drie merktekens uitgeken word: die suiwere bediening van die Woord en die sakramente, en die handhawing van die kerklike tug – merktekens wat. 1.Die Dordtse Kerkorde (DKO) van die Dordtse Sinode van 1618–1619 is, na die vertrek van die 23 buitelandse teoloë of afgevaardigdes uit Duitsland, Engeland en Switserland, deur meer as 50 Nederlandse afgevaardigdes in Mei 1619 gefinaliseer (Donner & Van den Hoorn s.j.:935; Pont 1981:168)
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