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  • The artifice of eternity : transhumanism and theosis 
    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 unthought of modernity : magical thinking in science, philosophy, and theology 
    Delport, Khegan M. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2023-12)
    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 ...
  • Exploring online theological education at Hugenote Kollege 
    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 ...
  • Resilience and gender-based violence : an interdisciplinary reflection on shaping stories of resilience from an institutional perspective 
    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 ...
  • Re-enchanting Paul? 
    Potgieter, Annette (Brill Academic Publishers, 2023-12)
    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 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 ...
  • “Ander” : Lukaanse Jesus en Lévinas 
    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 North (ṣāpôn) in the Book of Jeremiah 
    Crouch, Carly Lorraine (De Gruyter, 2023)
    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 ...
  • Substance abuse by learners : a pastoral care challenge 
    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 ...
  • Soteriology in evangelical practice : a view from the street 
    Paas, Stefan (Brill Academic Publishers, 2022-12)
    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 ...
  • Joseph Ratzinger’s contribution to the interpretation of resurrection belief : the Nicholas Copernicus of Catholic theology 
    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 ...
  • Diakonale reis van die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk 
    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 ...
  • Diakonaat en jeug in Afrikaanssprekende Gereformeerde gemeentes in Suid-Afrika 
    Beukes, Jacques W. (AOSIS, 2023-07-31)
    South Africa is characterised by various socio-economic and socio-political challenges (fractures) not easily met (or healed). ‘Fractures’ refer to social, economic, religious, spatial, ecological, environmental, and ...
  • Sinawe’ [we are with you] : local churches as change agents in the lives of traumatised youth 
    Knoetze, Johannes Jacobus; Black, Timothy Jay (AOSIS, 2023-04)
    The church has a key role to play in addressing the chronic levels of grief and trauma experienced by the youth in South Africa. It has a biblical mandate to bring hope and healing and has a unique station within South ...
  • Newman, Wesley and the logic of unity : an inductive approach to ecumenism 
    Morris-Chapman, Daniel John Pratt (AOSIS, 2023-03)
    It is a privilege to be invited to contribute to the Festschrift dedicated to Professor Johan Buitendag, Emeritus Dean, Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. While his own work often ...
  • (Practical) theology : a story of doubt and imagination 
    Muller, Julian C. (AOSIS, 2023-04)
    Theology as a story of doubt and imagination is to be understood against the background of interdisciplinary social science and in contrast to the traditional paradigm of theology as a system of propositional certainty. ...
  • Diens van barmhartigheid of diakonaat – hoe belangrik is ’n naam? 
    Van der Merwe, Willlie (AOSIS, 2023-06)
    Churches hold different views regarding the office of deacon and role of deacons in the church. Churches also use different terms for their social ministries. This lack of a common language regarding the church’s ...
  • Enkele teologiese uitdagings rakende diakonia in van die Afrikaanse Suid-Afrikaanse kerke 
    Knoetze, Johannes Jacobus (AOSIS, 2023-06)
    This article attends to the theological foundation of the diaconate from the missio trinitatis Dei and its implications, especially for the Afrikaans-speaking Reformed churches. The missio Dei, of the Father, Son, and ...
  • Eschatological events in Matthew 24:1–15 and COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria 
    Ukeachusim, Chidinma P. (AOSIS, 2023-08)
    Jesus in Matthew 24 presaged to his disciples about the eschatological happenings that would prepare the world for his Parousia and the end of this age. Using the redaction exegetical approach of doing biblical research, ...
  • The red cow in Numbers 19 : from elimination ritual to sacrifice to elimination ritual 
    Meyer, Esias E. (University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2022)
    The red cow in Numbers 19 has perplexed scholars for quite some time. The paper engages with many of the questions they have raised, but especially with why this ritual is called a חטַָּאת and how the red cow ritual relates ...