Robert Vosloo
Stellenbosch University
South Africa

Robert Vosloo is professor in Systematic Theology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is the head of the Department of Systematic Theology and Church History. In addition he is the editor of the Stellenbosch Theological Journal, and executive head of the Beyers Naudé Center for Public Theology.  He has authored and edited several books, including, with Mary-Anne Plaatjies van Huffel, Reformed Churches in South Africa and the Struggle for Justice: Remembering 1960-1990 (Stellenbosch: Sun Media, 2013).  His research interests include philosophical questions dealing with memory and historiography; 20^th century South African church and theological history; and philosophical and theological discourses on the notion of hospitality.  About 50 of his articles have been published in peer-reviewed academic journals, including: “The writing of history as remedy or poison?  Some remarks on Paul Ricoeur’s reflections on memory, identity and ‘the historiographical operation’” in  Jonker, L (ed.), Texts, Contexts and Methods: Reflections on Historiography and Identity in the Persian Period Jehud. München: Mohr Siebeck (2011); “Memory, History, and Justice:  In Search of Conceptual Clarity”, NGTT 53/3 (2013); “The art of forgetting and historical justice,” The South African Oral History Journal 2/2 (2014); and, most recently, “Difficult Forgiveness? Engaging Paul Ricoeur on Public Forgiveness within the Context of Social Change in South Africa,” International Journal of Public Theolgy 9/3 (2015).