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  • Multidissiplinêre benadering tot praktiese ekklesiologie 
    Dreyer, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2011-11-07)
    In this contribution the author proposes a multi-disciplinary approach to ecclesiology. Ecclesiology receives some attention in all theological disciplines; however, the various methods and approaches of the different ...
  • Multipartism and the matrilineal governance system of the bemba speaking people of Zambia : an african theological perspective 
    Muwowo, Simon (University of Pretoria, 2015)
    This study is an African theological contribution towards the rehabilitation of an appropriate plural democracy which demonstrates a Zambian- African value system in governance. It is argued that Zambia’s political salvation ...
  • Multisensoriese liturgie (Afrikaans) 
    Du Plessis, Izak (University of Pretoria, 2007-07-07)
    Text in AfrikaansMulti-sensory worship is a popular term in postmodern worship. It involves seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching, and experiencing. This approach is an attempt to enhance communication in worship ...
  • Mupasi as cosmic s(S)pirit : the universe as a community of life 
    Nalwamba, Kuzipa M.B. (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017-08-23)
    Mupasi recalls the belief that humans form part of the community of life within the realm of the cosmic spirit. The assertion seems like a truism that requires no further enunciation. However, belief in the Creator-Spirit, ...
  • Muscular Christianity in contemporary South Africa : the case of the Mighty Men Conference 
    Dube, Siphiwe Ignatius (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-07-01)
    Drawing on key aspects of Muscular Christianity identified through this movement’s literature, this article ventures that the major contemporary Evangelical Christian men’s movement in South Africa, the Mighty Men ...
  • Music, singing and dancing in relation to the use of the harp and the ram’s horn or shofar in the Bible : what do we know about this? 
    Lebaka, M.E.K. (Morakeng Edward Kenneth) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-10)
    There are many possible approaches to describing the effects and uses of music in a particular society. It would be a mistake to assume that music in the Bible is not the cement of social life and has no liturgical ...
  • Musiek en musiekinstrumente in die OT en antieke Nabye Ooste (Afrikaans) 
    Groenewald, Johannes Hermanus (University of Pretoria, 2012-01-13)
    Musiek was geen vreemde verskynsel in die Ou Testament en antieke Nabye Ooste nie. Om die waarheid te sê was musiek en die instrumente wat gebruik was om musiek te maak, deel van elke volk binne die antieke Nabye Ooste en ...
  • Muti rituals and the biblical portrayal of child sacrifice 
    Ncala, Jackie N. (University of Pretoria, 2018)
    The question addressed by this study would be to ask where there is any semantic overlap in the way in which on the one hand child sacrifices functioned in the OT and on the other hand how muti rituals function in contemporary ...
  • The mutual corruption of volition and nature? A closer reading of Ad Thalassium 42 
    Moldovan, Sebastian (AOSIS, 2023-02)
    This article closely examines the content of an important passage in Maximos the Confessor’s Ad Thalassium 42, in which we can identify a ternary soteriological structure (Adam-Christ-us) recurring in the work of the ...
  • ‘My city of ruins’ : a city to come 
    Meylahn, Johann-Albrecht (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-11)
    ‘My city of ruins’ is the title of a song by Bruce Springsteen and will accompany a public theological reflection of imagining alternative cities. A city of ruins is either a city of ruins in the sense that it is a city ...
  • My father’s tobacco-jar, Church Square Pretoria and Freedom Park : an autoethnographical exploration 
    Barnard, Marcel (OpenJournals Publishing, 2014-08-06)
    Julian Müller, in his advocacy of a narrative theology, has called for an autobiographical theology. In addition to Julian Müller’s plea, the author turned to what may be seen as the liturgical and ritual variant of this ...
  • The mysteries of the Ark of the Covenant 
    Romer, Thomas Christian (Routledge, 2023)
    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 ...
  • The mysteries of the Kingdom of heaven according to Matthew 13:10-17 
    Nel, Marius Johannes (New Testament Society of South Africa, 2009)
    This article is a socio-rhetorical interpretation of Jesus' disclosure in Matt 13:10-17 that he had revealed the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven exclusively to his disciples. It utilises the methodology of socio-rhetorical ...
  • The mystery and the unity of the church : considerations from an Eastern orthodox perspective 
    Mosoiu, Nicolae V. (AOSIS, 2021-08-31)
    This article attempts an approach to discuss the mystery and the unity of the church and firstly, it underlined that the church cannot have a formal definition as the divine life extended from Christ’s resurrected body ...
  • The mystery of the missing core in Pauline theology : the case for a multi-dimensional interpretation with reference to J H Roberts and J C Beker 
    Loubser, J.A. (Johannes Albertus), 1949- (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2001)
    This article analyses features concerning the search for a centre for Pauline theology and indicates why such an endeavour is better carried out within the context of multi-dimensional scriptural exegesis. The text theory ...
  • Mysticism and mental health : a critical dialogue 
    Drazenovich, George; Kourie, Celia (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-09)
    Contemporary research suggests that a path is now open for critical dialogue between mysticism and mental health. Data are accumulating regarding the frequency with which mystical experience occurs in the general population. ...
  • Myth as metaphor 
    Malan, Gert Jacobus (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-07-08)
    Modern Christianity has failed to update its myths and has even eliminated them, thus, excluding the metaphysical experience indispensable to religion (Jung). Myths should be interpreted, not eliminated. Answering the ...
  • Myth as revelation 
    Miller, Robert D. (Université Laval, Faculté de philosophie and Faculté de théologie et de sciences religieuses, 2014-10)
    Cette contribution examine la fonction du mythe biblique. L’auteur y défend que le mythe est utilisé comme un instrument de révélation dans l’Écriture. Dans la première partie de cet article, l’auteur définit ce qu’est ...
  • Mythological Eve : progenitor of mankind and prototype of women 
    Mondriaan, Marlene Elizabeth (Old Testament Society of South Africa, 2007)
    Eve - progenitor of mankind - was, from ancient times, enveloped in myths and legends. Although mentioned only four times by name in the Bible, she is an important biblical figure and archetype. She became 'the mother of ...
  • Mythology, poetry and theology 
    Groenewald, Alphonso, 1969- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006-09)
    Human beings have always been mythmakers. However, in view of the heavy negative connotations attached to the word "myth", the aim of this article may, inter alia, be seen as an attempt to "rehabilitate" the word "myth" ...