Access to students’ perspectives on substance abuse is essential for effective youth intervention
projects development. This study aimed to explore students’ perspectives on abuse of drugs and
alcohol with probable ...
Hombana, Mphumezi Asprilla(University of Stellenbosch, Department of Old and New Testament, 2023)
In this article, the Markan Passion Narrative has been juxtaposed with Africanness, shedding light on vital aspects of Jesus' identity and the significance of his sacrifice within an African context. While existing scholarship ...
The New Testament presents Jesus as a transformational leader whose ministry had a holistic
approach to challenges that were prevalent in his contemporary world. This article is a
theological reflection of the role of ...
Matthean scholars have predominantly viewed Jesus’ healing ministry through the lens of
‘fulfillment of prophecy’, which connects his healings to David the shepherd and the
fulfilment of the covenant, the restoration of ...
Sakitey, Daniel; Van Eck, Ernest(AOSIS, 2023-12-22)
This article interprets the logos Christology in the fourth gospel within Ewe-Ghanaian
cosmic setting. The article employs a combination of the exegetical and mother tongue
biblical hermeneutics as its methodologies. The ...
While the origin and etymology of the name Beelzebul have received some scholarly at‑
tention, very little attention has been given to the more basic question of why the scribes would
choose this particular name for their ...
In Matthew 24, Jesus prophesied to his disciples about ‘wars and rumours of wars’ and
other eschatological birth-pangs to prepare them in advance on how they are to be
responding to eschatological events as they would ...
The Gospel of John seems to show different thematic emphases that reveal socio-historical cultural tensions and a stressed community. The tensions between Jesus, the Pharisees and Jewish authorities, John and religious ...
Gharbin, Godibert K.; Van Eck, Ernest(AOSIS, 2023-12-22)
Both the Johannine and Akan cultures are described in scholarly literature as collectivistic
communities that value love as a communal value. Nonetheless, a scholarly analysis of
the Akan concept reveals that Akan ...
This article examined the story of the beheading of John the Baptist according to the Gospel of
Mark (6:14–29) and drew lessons for the situation of politically motivated violence perpetrated
by the youth in Zimbabwe. ...
University campuses are framed as sexualised spaces marked by high sexual risk-taking
behaviour and toxic masculinities that often fuel abusive relationships and sexual violence.
More often, the most vulnerable groups, ...
The ethics of Paul has been a subject of research for decades, and they have been applied in
various contexts globally. Paul was a founder and nurturer of various early Christian
assemblies. He addressed moral matters ...
Undisputed letters of Paul and Acts of the Apostles are replete with details of the Gentile
Missionary’s multiple imprisonments, so much as to qualify him a ‘jailbird’ description. Paul’s
incarceration in Herod’s palace ...
This article has interrogated the prophetic role of musicians in Zimbabwe's political discourse with Winky D's latest album Eureka Eureka (which was launched on 31 December 2022) being the case study. Two tracks (Dzimba ...
John 8:3–11 depicts the story of a woman who is condemned to death because she was caught
in the act of adultery. The Pharisees and Scribes who condemned the woman cited
Deuteronomy 22:23–24 and Leviticus 20:10 which ...
Francis, Leslie John; Smith, Greg; Stevenson, Adam J.; Village, Andrew(AOSIS, 2023-12-20)
Working within the sensing, intuition, feeling, thinking (SIFT) approach to biblical
hermeneutics, the present study invited a hermeneutical community of 23 type-aware
participants to explore the account of the Death of ...
This article attempts to rethink the early church praxis of selling the land and possessions in
response to some of the problems the 1st century church were confronted with. Hence, this
article attempts to answer the ...
That Jesus changed his mind about God twice is demonstrated by applying Heidegger’s idea of
conscience to Jesus’ decisions for baptism and later for leaving John’s group. The common
concept of conscience is similar to a ...
The Epistle to the Hebrews contains several so-called “warning passages”. In these texts,
the author of Hebrews warns the addressees that they may not tarnish their Christ-given identity
through apostasy and leaving the ...
This article proposed a polyvalent hermeneutical paradigm to evolve multiple meanings and divergent voices embedded within and beyond the text. Polyvalent hermeneutic considers multiple aspects, spectrums, consciousnesses ...