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HTS Volume 64, Number 1 (2008): Recent submissions

  • Kerk, die huwelik en seks - 'n morele krisis? 
    Dreyer, T.F.J. (Theunis Frederik Jacobus), 1946- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    Within Western societies the church is challenged by a new sexual "morality". Seemingly, the traditional theological answers do not address the challenge sufficiently. The incompetence of the church to change people's minds ...
  • The "sanctity" of marriage - an archaeology of a socio-religious construct : mythological origins, forms and models 
    Dreyer, Yolanda (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    The aim of the article is to argue that the sexual difference between female and male should be regarded as soteriologically indifferent. Though a biological reality of being human, sexuality is profoundly influenced by ...
  • Post-Reformation reformed sources and children 
    Neele, A.C. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    This article suggests that the topic "children" received considerable attention in the post-Reformation era - the period of CA 1565-1725. In particular, the author argues that the post-Reformation Reformed sources attest ...
  • Sexuality and partnership : aspects of theological ethics in the field of marriage, unmarried and homosexual couples 
    Kortner, Ulrich H.J. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    The attitudes towards sexuality in Western society are undergoing dramatic change. One of the main problems sexual ethics has to deal with today is the question whether the church should acknowledge unmarried long-term ...
  • God our King 
    Muis, Jan (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    This article discusses whether the metaphor of "king" can still be used in Christian God-talk. Firstly, it is argued that the "king" metaphor for God is an indispensable key metaphor in both the Old and the New Testament. ...
  • Space, time and group identity in Jubilees 8-9 
    Venter, P.M. (Pieter Michiel), 1947- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    Jubilees 8-9 is a rewriting of Genesis 10. It changed a depiction of Israel's identity in genealogical terms into one using spatial terms. This ideological construct was based on a Noah tradition and on Biblical texts ...
  • Apologie vir die Christelike lewenswyse en etiek 
    Van Wyk, I.W.C. (Ignatius William Charles) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    Many young Afrikaners have turned their backs on the Calvinistic churches in South Africa. Many of them have difficulty with the Christian morality. Works of by "Boetman" and Koos Kombuis are analysed in order to get ...
  • Women, honor, and context in Mediterranean antiquity 
    Osiek, Carolyn (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    Much has been written about how the social structures of honor and shame affected women in Mediterranean antiquity. Sometimes "honor and shame" are taken out of context and used as absolute opposites, an oversimplification. ...
  • Eskatologie en koninkryk in die Markusevangelie 
    Van Eck, Ernest (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    This article investigates the concepts of eschatology and kingdom in Mark from a narratological point of view. Special attention is given to the narrator's use of story time and plotted time, the narrative function of Mark ...
  • Postcolonial theory as a hermeneutical tool for Biblical reading 
    Rukundwa, L.S. (Lazare Sebitereko) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    In this article, postcolonial theory is presented as a tool for Biblical interpretation, in an attempt to find colonial intentions (be they political, cultural or economic) that informed and influenced the writer's context. ...
  • "The Arabs" in the ecclesiastical historians of the 4th/5th centuries : effects on contemporary Christian-Muslim relations 
    Grafton, David D. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    Historical inquiry into the origin and history of "the Arabs" has long been a part of Western Orientalist literature. However, Christian scholars from the 7th century onward sought to understand the rise of Islam from ...
  • Justice with mercy : about a contemporary Palestinian theology 
    Jeppesen, Knud (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    Arab Christianity has a long history, longer than the history Christianity has in many European countries, a fact we seem to have forgotten in the west. According to Acts 2:11, some Arabs together with several other people ...
  • History and theory of Scripture translations 
    Loba-Mkole, Jean-Claude (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    This article argues for the importance of Bible translations through its historical achievements and theoretical frames of reference. The missionary expansion of Christianity owes its very being to translations. The early ...
  • Matthew, Paul and the origin and nature of the gentile mission : the great commission in Matthew 28:16-20 as an anti-Pauline tradition 
    Sim, David C. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    The Great Commission at the conclusion of Matthew's Gospel is one of its key texts. In this tradition the risen Christ overturns the previous restriction of the mission to Israel alone and demands that the disciples ...
  • "Op die aarde net soos in die hemel" : Matteus se eskatologie as die koninkryk van die hemel wat reeds begin kom het 
    Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    ATKV/SA AKADEMIEPRYS BESTE ARTIKEL 2008. In the article time as both "imagined" and "experienced" is explained against the background of the first-century Mediterranean conceptualisation of time. This reading scenario is ...
  • A place to share : some thoughts about the meaning of territory and boundaries in our thinking about God and humanity 
    Bons-Storm, Riet (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    This article proffers some thoughts in reply to the following question : how can we think about God in a theology that takes into account the concept of place in such a way that we are able to live together in a salvific ...
  • HTS Theological Studies and Verbum et Ecclesia - the journals of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria : historical overview and strategic planning 
    Human, Dirk J.; Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.) (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008)
    This article celebrates the centenary of the University of Pretoria (UP) in 2008. The editors of Verbum et Ecclesia and HTS Theological Studies, the two theological journals associated with the Faculty of Theology at UP, ...
  • Early Presbyterian influences at the University of Pretoria 
    Duncan, Graham A. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008)
    Presbyterianism, through two significant personalities, provided an important impetus to the formation and development of the early University of Pretoria. Their contribution has to be understood in terms of the contexts ...
  • Ecclesia reformata semper reformanda - die ongemaklike eis 
    Buitendag, Johan (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008)
    This article is a reworked version of the Moderator's opening address at the 68th General Assembly of the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa in October 2007. Against the fourth-century background of Emperor Constantine's ...
  • Om die horison te verken : op soek na 'n eietydse homiletiese hermeneutiek 
    Vos, C.J.A. (Casparus Johannes Adam), 1945- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-03)
    In hierdie artikel word die hermeneutiese insigte van Paul Ricoeur vir die homiletiek ontsluit. Die hipotese is dat Ricoeur se hermeneutiek die homiletiek kan verryk. Die voorwaarde is egter dat Ricoeur se hermeneutiese ...