Headley, Selena Diane(University of Pretoria, 2021-11)
This study begins by framing the challenges for theological education/formation
which remain disconnected from urban realities. The rationale for the study stems
from a personal experience as a participant in a praxis-based ...
Mdingi, Hlulani M.(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2023-11-30)
The African world view is not monolithic or homogeneous.
However, that being the case, there is a strong metaphysical
and existential leaning in terms of Spirit and the world. The
Spirit is the medium whereby revelation ...
Swanepoel, N.; Van Wyk, Tanya(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2023-06)
Feminist historiography indicates that spirituality has
historically been one of the instruments whereby women
could “speak”. This “voice” implied recognition and
authority, to a certain degree, in a patriarchal-orien ...
Kato, Szabolcs-Ferencz(New Testament Society of South Africa, 2022-06)
In 1 Corinthians 15:20 and 23, Paul calls Jesus “the first fruits of those who are asleep.” According to John, Jesus died on the Eve of Passover and was resurrected on the third day, which was the day of the Omer ritual, ...
South Africa General Mission (SAGM) missionaries evangelized the Chimanimani
District of Zimbabwe from 1897 onwards. SAGM missionaries focused exclusively
on this Ndau territory in the light of the pact between missionaries ...
Chinyena, E.(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2022-06)
There is a raging debate in scholarly discourse on
the role of religious faith traditions in influencing firm
dispositions on various institutions and economic growth.
Religious faith traditions are fighting rampant ...
Thomaskutty, Johnson(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2022-06)
This article re-reads John 11:1-45 in light of post-normal times. It analyses aspects such as 4Ss, 3Cs, and 3Ts, in order to expound on the Johannine community situation and to understand the paradigmatic significance of ...
This paper argues that one should not speak of an “original aniconism” in the cult of Yhwh, the god of Israel. In the Northern kingdom and in the first temple of Jerusalem, this god was represented in a theriomorphic and ...
Delport, Khegan M.(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2023-11)
The Christian doctrine of theosis teaches that the natural end of creatures is union with the Holy Trinity, the supernatural end of nature – both human and non-human. However, through certain developments in modernity, ...
The modernity of the West has generally tended to construct the relation between magic and religion according to a developmentalist schema, chiefly as a movement from the primitive to the modern, from superstition to ...
Potgieter, Annette; Du Toit, Andre(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2023-12)
Theological education has come all the more under the scope as economic challenges and pressures of a changing society calls for renewed thinking on what theological education should entail. As Reformers, the quest is ...
Potgieter, Annette; Johannisen, Jessica(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2023-10)
During the national lockdown in 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa voiced concern about the ongoing problem of gender-based violence (GBV) in South Africa, calling it a pandemic alongside the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 ...
The Galatian community is disrupted with different notions of the gospel than Paul intended. Paul, surprised that this community is confused so easily, sets out in Gal 3 to explain what justification by faith entails. Paul ...
The Ark of the Covenant, or Ark of Yhwh, has stimulated the imagination of many people from biblical times up to today: it has served as the inspiration for many stories, as the subject of paintings, and even the fodder ...
Becker-Ferreira, Anel; Van Eck, Ernest(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 ...
The »foe from the north« is a well-known trope in the book of Jeremiah.
In 1989 David Reimer argued that this enemy should be understood as a nonspe-
cific earthly enemy, with mythical overtones deriving from the location ...
Nthite, Sello Solomon(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Substance abuse by learners in South African schools has become a daunting task
that requires all the stakeholders to work together to normalise the situation which has
escalated to greater heights because of the illicit ...
This article discusses the difficulties experienced by evangelical missionary practitioners in the West from the perspective of soteriology. This is done ‘from below,’ that is, based on recent empirical studies. First, the ...
Onazi, Andrew O.; Van Wyk, Tanya(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2022-03-29)
In this contribution, it is argued that Joseph Ratzinger had a profound influence on the
Christology and specifically resurrection belief of the Catholic Church. This is evident in the
way Ratzinger approached the challenge ...
Jansen van Rensburg, Marthinus Jacob(AOSIS, 2023-06)
The aim of this article is to look at the
development of the deacon’s position in the Dutch Reformed Church of Africa by investigating
the founding, development, and management of the deacon’s position in the church. It ...