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Border War Stories
This collection of stories--some of them humorous and others sad--describes how a young medical officer of the South African Defence Force experiences various episodes of the Border War of 1966-1989 in northern Namibia and southern Angola and the accompanying military and political situation. His often daring and dangerous exploits provide a glimpse into the circumstances and actions of various participants during the war and its aftermath.
The Atom Bomb
Two young South African scientists, a medical specialist and a nuclear physicist, are stranded in Germany at the start of the Second World War and they have to choose between a concentration camp or cooperation with the Nazis. Both survive the war, although their German wives die during an American bombing raid on Berlin. They cannot dare to return to South Africa after the war and they stay involved with Nazi activities in Argentina—until one of them manages to destroy the Nazi dream of an atom bomb.
To Hell with the Devil
This book asks: Do we need the devil and demons to explain adversity, bad behavior, crime, disease, evil, and failures? Must we understand all allusion to the devil and demons in the holy Scriptures in a literal sense? Do these beings really exist? Or is Satan only a personification of all that is atrocious, bad, criminal, disagreeable, evil, frightening, gross, horrible, indecent, and wrong? It often happens that people live in fear and terror for the devil and his helpers, all sorts of evil spirits, sorcerers, wizards, and witches. How realistic is this fear? This is another ground-breaking book by theologian and scholar Albertus Pretorius. As in his previous books, he manages to provide new insights regarding controversial biblical subjects. In this case, he deals with the existence or non-existence of Satan and sinful spirits. The author explores what the conventional beliefs on Satan entail, as well as what a critical investigation of the holy Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam can teach people of the twenty-first century about these perilous and pestilential personages.
Effective Communication in the Church
The business of the Christian Church is communication. Its job is to spread a good message--the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Word of God. The church that doesn't know how to communicate with its members and with its environment is a doomed church. It is, therefore, necessary that Christian churches have to understand how communication works and how effective communication has to take place. This book deals with the following aspects of communication in the church: the pastoral conversation, marketing the church in the world and the art of composing an effective sermon. It is aimed at all preachers and church leaders.
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How to Manage a Flourishing Church
Nobody in a leadership position in the church who is interested in leading a healthy and thriving church, can ignore this book. There is certainly need for a manual on how to manage and administrate a church of which Jesus Christ is the head and the king. There are various indications in the New Testament how churches were led in those times and there are numerous examples of good leaders and administrators in the Bible. There are indications that this aspect doesn't receive enough attention in the training of pastors and many leaders in the church have to learn the hard way by making mistakes. This book is meant for all who have to play a leading role in their churches--ministers, pastors, priests, elders, and administrative persons.
The U-Boat Filled with Gold
A young man from South West Africa goes to Germany to study nautical engineering and falls in love with a girl whom he later marries. That forces him to stay in Germany and to join the Kriegsmarine, the German Navy, as a submarine officer. During the Second World War he becomes the captain of a successful U-boat, while his wife is killed during an American bombing raid. He finds the new love of his life in occupied Norway. At the end of the war, he is involved in a secret operation, namely to smuggle three tons of Nazi gold to South America in the newest type of U-boat.
Shell-Shock
A German-speaking South African sportsman who competes in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, remains in Germany after the Games to join the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force. He falls in love with his instructor’s sister and marries her. During the Second World War, he serves as a pilot in bomber units and survives various near brushes, until he and his wife escape with his aircraft in July 1944 to neutral Turkey, due to his wife’s indirect involvement with the assassination attempt on Hitler.
Heaven and Hell
What happens when we die? Is there an immortal soul that survives death and enters an eternal afterlife – either in heaven, or in hell? What exactly is the soul? How is it possible that a human being can have a soul, a psyche, self-consciousness, a mind, an ego, and memories that define his identity? These questions have kept millions of people busy through the ages. This book is an effort to illuminate the mystery of death and its aftermath from the perspectives of various religious and philosophical traditions, with the focus mostly on the Sacred Scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Some enigmatic and often overlooked biblical passages are given an original analysis and explanation. This mystery is also viewed from a scientific perspective, especially the science of neuropsychology. A clarification is provided of why scientists have failed to identify, pinpoint, and explain the soul, the ego, the seat of consciousness inside the human brain. This book is meant for all people interested in religion, philosophy, and science, whether academics or lay people. Technical terms are kept to a minimum.
