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Research Articles (New Testament Studies): Recent submissions
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(Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, 2019)Jesus’ retreat into the wilderness soon after being baptized by John has been interpreted from three perspectives –as an echo of exodus narrative, an echo of Isaiah restoration narrative and as a baptismal liturgy. Because ...
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(Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, 2019)One characteristic of John’s community as evidenced in the Gospel of John, is its awareness of social identity categories –the insiders are God’s children while the non-believers are children of Satan who are symbolised ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2019)When Zimbabwe attained her independence from colonial powers in 1980, prospects of a peaceful nation were high, especially following the pledge made by the Prime Minister Elect in his victory speech. Isaiah 2:4b was ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-04-23)New Perspective scholars challenge Protestant interpretations of Paul. It used to be the case, they state, that Protestants assumed that Paul was to Judaism as Luther was to Medieval Catholicism. Both men supposedly ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-02)The future of labour appears as one of the crucial themes of the sociological and economic reflections. Sociologists and economists proclaim a shrinking scope of labour and, consequently, a certain elitism of jobs. In ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-02-18)Syncrisis as literary motif in the story about the grown-up child Jesus in the temple (Lk 2:41–52 and the Thomas tradition): The article explores hermeneutical solutions for the negative response from the child Jesus ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-10-23)Conspicuous in the Old Testament (OT) is the literary genre of blessing that is often construed in poetic forms. They are of various types and were significant to their initial audience. A careful analysis of their texts ...
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Digitalisation and the church – a corporeal understanding of church and the influence of technology (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2019)We live in a digital era, where connection and connectivity move away from physical presence, but find shape in online communities and forums. This trend extends from the secular world into the religious experience, as ...
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(South African Theological Seminary, 2019-09)The Gospel of Matthew, across the centuries, has provided the bedrock for the instruction of Christians, especially new converts. The Gospel offers a multifaceted portrait of Jesus, perfect for an understanding of the Reign ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-10)The quest for accountability in Christian theology is both immediate and ultimate. This, thus, suggests that individuals and groups within spiritual and secular spaces subscribe to some form of immediate and ultimate ...
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(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2019-12-13)George Lakoff and Mark Johnson’s seminal book Metaphors we live by (1980) makes us realise that a metaphor is not merely a linguistic phenomenon, but also a conceptual, socio-historical, neural, and bodily phenomenon ...
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(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2019-12-13)This article examines the phrase ἀλλὰ ῥῦσαι ἡμãς ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ in Matthew’s rendition of the Lord’s Prayer through the Ewe-Ghanaian demonological lens. It employs a combination of the historical-critical and indigenous ...
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(Sciendo, 2019-03)This paper explores the role of the appeal to the early Church in Old Catholic theology, describing how this appeal has been challenged and further developed through ecumenical dialogue in particular. Noting the various ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-01-29)Democracy as an administrative system is maintained through party representation and election in which everybody is duly represented, and through a constitution which is prepared in the interest of equity, justice and ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-11-14)This article aims to present a realistic reading of the parable of the Lost Coin in Q. A realistic reading of the parable focuses on the social realia invoked by the parables, that is, the social realities and practices ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-12-12)A person with disabilities is a person suffering from some acquired or congenital dysfunctions in the development or in his mobility, mentality or sensual perception, which prevent his normal functioning in the social, ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-10-31)This article examines the reason behind the charge to secrecy imposed by Jesus on the leper in Mark 1:40–45, in the context of African experience, the implications of the meaning conveyed and the challenges posed on the ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-10-24)Much recent work on the masculinities enacted by early Christians has focused upon Christian texts and claims about their heroes and practices among elite Christians. Lucian’s Passing of Peregrinus offers another avenue ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-10-31)The nascent church in Jerusalem represented in Acts 6 verses 1–3 was promptly challenged by the problem of inequity and lack of fair play among the various stakeholders and such disaffection reached a situation of murmur ...
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‘Do you hear what these are saying?’ (Mt 21:16) : Children and their role within Matthew’s narrative (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-11-19)This article sketches the broad outlines of Matthew’s ironic portrayal of children, examining first the ‘lower level’ of the narrative (i.e. the way things appear to be in the everyday world) and then the ‘upper level’ ...
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