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Browsing HTS Volume 59, Number 2 (2003) by Type "Article"
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Taylor, N.H.
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
This study examines the eschatological discourses in Matthew and Luke. Each is considered in its narrative context, and with detailed attention given to developments in the transmission from their common source, Mark. ...
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Volschenk, G.J. (Gert Jacobus)
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
The aim of this article is to describe the economy in the time of the Bible as a household economy. Firstly, the results of social scientific research indicated that the family institution was the primary socio-economic ...
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Dreyer, Yolanda; Jeong, Eun Ok
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
This article introduces Korean women’s experience as seen through the lense of social and cultural backgrounds, from the premodern through to the postmodern era. Korean literature is used as a source to investigate Korean ...
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Groenewald, Jonanda
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
In the symbolical and social world of the first Christians, baptism functioned as a “cultural symbol”. Ensuing from Gerd Theissen’s (1999) work, A theory of primitive Christian religion, the paper explains the opinion ...
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Buitendag, Johan
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
This article investigates the rather unknown theme of “corporate identity and corporate image” as applied to the church. Starting from the premise that corporate identity enables us to communicate change, direction and a ...
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Dreyer, Yolanda
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
A church as a denominational entity cannot but contemplate where it would like to be in the near future. Reasons for this are the losses of the past, the issues of the present and the uncertainties of the future. In the ...
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Kloppers, Elsabe (Elizabeth Catharina)
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
In this article the women's society of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk is discussed and the character of the society is related to certain aspects of postmodernism. It is argued that in many respects, the women's society ...
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Lombaard, Christoffel Johannes Stephanus
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
Christian spirituality draws strongly on the Bible. Yet, it is the New Testament that almost without exception features most prominently. Ten possible reasons are offered why the Old Testament takes on such a disproportionately ...
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Van Aarde, A.G. (Andries G.)
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
In his Christmas Eve Dialogue (Die Weinachtsfeier: Ein Gespräch), Schleiermacher reflected on the theological tension between the quest for the historical Jesus and the dogma of the incarnation of Christ as “true God” and ...
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Volschenk, G.J. (Gert Jacobus)
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
The article describes the relationship between land tenancy and social structure of Palestine. Secondly it describes the conflicting perceptions of land tenancy within the social structure of Palestine. The conflicting ...
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Van Wyk, J.H. (Amie)
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
Allan Boesak is a well known theologian and political reformer in the South African context. In this article the author scrutinises the political theology of Boesak in general and his anthropology in particular. The last ...
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Nel, G.C.J. (Gerhardus Cornelius Johannes)
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
According to the two source-theory, large parts of the material in Matthew and Luke which show conformity and which are not found in Mark, point to the existence of a source which comprises sayings of Jesus and reminds one ...
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Dreyer, Yolanda
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)
The premise of this article is that narrative hermeneutics as a method of research in theology departs from a dialectical relationship between hermeneutics and the method of interpretation. The article aims to describe ...