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HTS Volume 61, Number 1&2 (2005): Recent submissions

  • Griekse manuskrip van die Kindheidsevangelie van Tomas in Kodeks Sinaïtikus (Gr 453) vertaal in Afrikaans 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    Fourteen Greek manuscripts and early translations exist of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. The Greek version in Codex Sinaiticus (Gr 453) represents the most authentic version. The article shows that the reproduction of this ...
  • Vaderskap in die Pauliniese korpus volgens 1 Korintiërs 
    Malan, F.S. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    The word pathvr appears five times in 1 Corinthians: three times referring to God (1:3; 8:6; 15:24), once to Paul (4:15), once to Israel in the desert (10:1), and once to a physical father (5:1). Paul’s idea of fatherhood ...
  • Conversion, persecution, and malaise : life in the community for which Hebrews was written 
    Koester, Craig R., 1953- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    Hebrews was written for Christians whose situation had developed as a result of several stages. Firstly the readers’ community was established when the message of salvation led to conversion and was confirmed by experiencing ...
  • Kindheidsevangelie van Tomas - historiese allegorie of mite in die vorm van 'n biografiese diskursiewe evangelie? 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    The article argues that the Greek version of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas in Codex Sinaiticus (Gr 453) represents the genre of a discursive-biographical gospel type and as a result, the narrative and argumentative structure ...
  • Handelinge in die erediens : die verryking van die liturgie deur musiek 
    Kloppers, Elsabe (Elizabeth Catharina) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    The worship service in the Reformed Churches in South Africa has of late come under pressure. On the one hand it is experienced as too rigid and “traditional”. On the other hand superficial forms of renewal create tension. ...
  • A challenge to change developments in feminist theology and feminist christology 
    Bons-Storm, Riet (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    Contextual theologies have made it clear that context, and the particular experiences a context gives, shapes thinking about the Divine and the world into a particular, contextual theology. Feminist theologians stress the ...
  • "Nader Mij Niet" 
    Bieringer, Reimund (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    The article demonstrates that the diverse iconographic interpretations of the resurrected Jesus’ demeanour to Mary Magdalene could be the result of ambiguity in Jesus’ words “Do not hold me” (in Latin: noli me tangere) in ...
  • From text to intertext : intertextuality as a paradigm for reading Matthew 
    Alkier, Stefan (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    In this article intertextuality is introduced as one important part of a theory of the semiotics of biblical texts. Intertextuality is an essential factor for the generation of the meanings of a text in the acts of the ...
  • Liturgie as fontein van die lewe : 'n oorsigartikel oor die kosmiese kartering van Gordon W Lathrop se boek, Holy ground: a liturgical cosmology 
    Buitendag, Johan (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    An interpretative review is given of the recently published book by Lathrop, which completed his trilogy on liturgy. Lathrop succeeded in bringing two previously disparate themes, that is faith and cosmos, together in a ...