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Browsing Research Articles (University of Pretoria) by Subject "Jesus"
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2021-07-01)Against the conventional reading of Luke 18:18–23 as a micro-narrative that revolves around discipleship and the dangers of wealth with regard to inheriting the Kingdom of God, this article reads the text using patronage ...
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(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2023-12)Emmanuel Lévinas’s philosophy of the “other” is investigated and brought into conversation with how Jesus regarded his “other” through a Lukan perspective (the gospel of Luke) of Jesus. Lévinas’s philosophy of the ...
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(AOSIS, 2021-09)Luke 12:49–59 contains two pericopes whose only bond of unity is conflict. The first pericope (49–53) deals with the kind of conflict best described as persecution because of Jesus, whereas, the first part of the second ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-12-03)The study proposes a link between Mark’s healing stories in chapter 1 and praise songs and/ or poems performed at Apollo’s temple and other possible shrines of Asclepius in Southern Antioch. Mark chapter 1 begins with ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11-20)The author focuses on the historically-reliable gospel pericopes in which a woman is the lead character. She argues that these women provide the complete gospel − Jesus teaches, heals, preaches and is anointed in the ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-10-28)This article responded to the question about the right methodology needed for the reconstruction of a viable African Christian theology. It equally contributed an answer to earlier concerns by Appiah-Kubi, Stinton and ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2021-09-30)This paper makes an original contribution against the background of relevant postcolonial discourse by means of the methods of postcolonial and social-scientific biblical exegesis from the perspective of critical ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-11-14)Eben Scheffler wrote much on poverty and social injustice, and this article focusses on his understanding of the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts in order to comprehend the different dimensions of suffering and the ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)Church formation in the history of early Christianity emanated from the kerygma about Jesus after his death. The kerygma was based on memories of Jesus which were used in the Christian cult as both explanation and apology ...
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(Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2014)The interpretation and polemical use of Ps 110 by Ephrem the Syrian (c.306–373 C.E.) are investigated. It seems that Ephrem was hesitant to speculate about the relationship between God the Father and Jesus on the basis ...
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(AOSIS, 2020-10)The article is on the exegesis of the parable of the Good Samaritan (Lk 10:25–35) and its relevance to the challenges that are being posed by COVID-19. Through the historicalcritical approach, the article has concluded ...
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(AOSIS, 2021-06-14)Feeding of the hungry is a theologically significant miracle in the ministry of Jesus, little wonder it is recorded by all the gospel writers (Mathew, Mark, Luke and John). In Judaism, feeding the hungry and hearkening ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-05-28)Inspired by Goffman and Mead Social Interactionism theory and Ghanaian traditional leadership model, this article interprets Mark 7:24–30 as text that re-imagines alternative leadership practice. The study suggest that ...
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Jesus and Afro-Pentecostal prophets : dynamics within the liminal space in Galilee and in Zimbabwe (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-07-23)What happens when religious and spiritual interventions are used to explain concrete social economic reality? This study suggests that Afro-Pentecostal prophets in Zimbabwe exist within the liminal context; the prophets ...
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(University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2018)This article deals with Jesus and the outsiders in John 4, with particular focus on John 4:1-42. Methodologically, the study focuses on social identity theory, and asks the question of how Jesus gets the Samaritan woman, ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 1999)The patriarchal view of reality in first-century Mediterranean culture was based on a disparity between man and woman. It was a hierarchical system in which man was considered to be above woman, as God is above human ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)Jesus’ option for the poor should be reclaimed in a clear theological and ecclesial option for the dumping sites of our cities and towns. That is the basic proposal of this article. Reflecting upon three different dumping ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-08-15)Using pull and push factors inspired by the migration theory, this study explains Matthew’s Sondergut concerning Jesus’ flight to Egypt from the perspective of possible pull–push factors associated with Egypt and Palestine ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-17)The Marcan account of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, cursing the fig tree and overturning the tables of the money changers in the temple provides a classic scriptural reference point for a Christian discussion ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2015-05-11)This article argues that fear is central to the state of being of Jesus’ disciples when their religious experience is characterised as ‘little faith’ in the Gospel of Matthew. A pragmatic-linguistic reading strategy is ...
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