Verbum et Ecclesia (previously published as Skrif en Kerk)

Verbum et Ecclesia (previously published as Skrif en Kerk)

 

Verbum et Ecclesia is the academic journal of the Dutch Reformed Church at the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria.

Accredited by the South African National Department of Education, has an international board of editors, and all articles are peer reviewed. Previously published as Skrif en Kerk


Vision

The periodical functions within the framework of the university's primary functions: training, research and community service. It is the vision of Verbum et Ecclesia to equip and inform students, ministers, theologians, and other interested people, on the latest theological research.

Frequency of publication

Verbum et Ecclesia appears twice a year (in July and November). A third edition is published periodically as a commemoration edition, or as a special edition on a specific subject or topic.

Verbum et Ecclesia is fulltext available on Open Journals Publishing.

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Inquiries

Prof Dirk Human
Faculty of Theology
University of Pretoria
Pretoria 0002
South Africa

E-mail: dirk.human@up.ac.za
Fax: +27 12 420 4016 or 12 420 -2887
Phone: +27 12 420 3154 or 012 420 3155

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Recent Submissions

  • Viviers, Hendrik (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    No taking or avoiding of chances, but utilising all chances! A socio-rhetorical appreciation of Ecclesiastes 11:1-6: The book of Vemon K Robbins, Exploring the texture of texts: A guide to socio-rhetorical interpretation ...
  • Van der Merwe, J.M. (Johan Matthys) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    Church Reformers we should not forget: On the fifth of November 1980, the Reformed Day Witness was published in Die Kerkbode by eight theologians of the Dutch Reformed Church. The Witness, as it became known, soon had ...
  • Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    The marriage arrangements in the Jerusalem Temple cult in opposition to Christian values: Equal access for everyone to God's grace in an unmediated way is a central aspect of Jesus' presentation of the Kingdom of God. ...
  • Spangenberg, I.J.J. (Izak J.J.) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    Although a number of scholars have criticised Casetti's analysis of Psalm 49. Zenger and Bossfeld employed his ideas in their recent commentary on the Psalms. According to these scholars the psalm consists of two ...
  • Prinsloo, Willem S. (Willem Sterrenberg), 1944- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    Isaiah 7:14 and the virgin birth: Despite the fact that Matthew 1:22-23 uses Isaiah 7:14 to legitimise the virgin birth - or, rather the virgin conception - Isaiah 7:14 can not be interpreted to be a prediction of the ...
  • Wethmar, Conrad Johannes (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    The church is one of the primary contexts in which theology is done. In the South African theology education debate the implications which this context has for the nature of theological education has not yet been ...
  • Meyer, E. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    A Theology of Revelations as imbedded in the hymns: This article is based on a twofold hypothesis, namely that the author of Revelation not only wrote the hymns in this book,' he also used them specifically to express ...
  • Vos, C.J.A. (Casparus Johannes Adam), 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    In the mirror of our times - Part 1: This article focusses on our changing times as well as the dinamic process of modernisation. The article also reflects on the effects of these changes on man's view of the image of ...
  • Veldsman, D.P. (Daniel Petrus), 1959- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    Quenching my thirst for God: On Johann Wilhelm Herrmann's understanding of the experience of God (part II): This article, which is divided into two parts, focusses on the concept of the "experience of God" as understood ...
  • Snyman, S.D. (Stephanus Daniel), 1954- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    Violence as theological problem is a relative newcomer to the scene of Old Testament studies. It was only during the 1970's that violence was given major attention by Old Testament scholars. In a number of studies the ...
  • Firth, D.G. (David Graham) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    The individual prayers for protection within the Psalter are marked by a consistency in terms of the context supposed and the nature of violence experienced by the psalmists. Consistently, these psalms also assert that the ...
  • Klauck, H-J. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    After some introductory remarks on the role of fear in religious discourse and on the vocabulary, Plutarch's treatise On Superstition is analysed according to its rhetorical outline. Questions of authenticity are discussed ...
  • Vroom, Hendrik M., 1945- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    Theology at the state universities in the Netherlands since 1876: State disciplines and church disciplines: In three contributions the organisation of (protestant) theology in the Netherlands since 1876 has been ...
  • Thirion, Willem Gabriel (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    An exegetic-hermeneutical research on the Jonah evidences in Matthew 12:38ff: The New Testament interpretation of the "sign of Jonah" (Math 12:38ff) cannot be applied as a criterion to legitimate the historical authenticity ...
  • Steyn, Gert Jacobus (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    Some remarks on the Christological interpretation of Scripture as hermeneutical key of New Testament authors: Some remarks are made in the following article regarding the christological use of Scripture by the early ...
  • Joubert, Stephan Jacobus, 1958- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    New Testament perspectives on the Sabbath and the Sunday: In order to come to terms with New Testament views on the Sabbath and the Sunday, an investigation of Jewish schematizarions of time and of the Sabbath in ...
  • Van Rooy, Harry F. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1997)
    The relation between the Syriac Psalm 151 and the Greek and Hebrew versions: This article studies the apocryphal Psalm 151, with special reference to the Syriac version in its relation to the versions of this psalm in ...
  • Du Rand, J.A. (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1999)
    Paul's ingenious intertwining of anthropology and eschatology in 2 Corinthians 4:7-5:10: It has been said that Paul is not really Pauline in his eschatological thoughts in 2 Corinthians 4:7-5:10. What could be the reason ...
  • Ahn, Myung Jun (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1999)
    Calvin presented his own distinctive method of the hermeneutics of Scripture in his Commentary on the Epistle of Paul, the Apostle, to the Romans. It is called the ideal of brevitas et facilitas. Calvin was not satisfied ...
  • Coetzee, J.H. (Johannes Hendrik) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1998)
    The rhetoric of religious politics in Psalm 2: The rhetorical argumentation strategies of Psalm 2 as a political-cultic poem are explored in order to highlight the function of these strategies, the exigency and the audience ...

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