• Editorial : special collection of Verbum et Ecclesia : ‘morality in history’ 

  De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS, 2023)

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• What is morality? A historical exploration 

  De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS, 2023-12-18)

  The objective of the article was to get more clarity on what morality is by addressing the question: ‘Can, in spite of undeniable adaptation and change through the ages, core elements of morality be detected that might ...
• Religion, morality, science – and the (?) story of Homo sapiens 

  Veldsman, D.P. (Daniel Petrus), 1959- (AOSIS, 2023-12-18)

  From the most recent and directive dimensions of the (?) story of Homo sapiens (Hs), presented as a very limited overview and in broad outlines from an anthropological perspective, the focus will ultimately fall on three ...
• The revelation of God : Black liberation theology and African knowledge systems ask : how and to whom does God reveal God self 

  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 ...
• Feminist spiritualities, gender equality, and sustainable development : the possibilities of a countermovement 

  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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• Unearthing the liturgy’s true meaning to counter church secularisation : Father Alexander Schmemann 

  Streza, Ciprian I. (AOSIS, 2023-01)

  Secularism is a very popular topic in social sciences and in theology. Father Alexander Dmitrievich Schmemann (1921–1983) addressed this topic and raised many questions, which are still very relevant in today’s Eastern ...
• The transformation of theology in the present climate crisis 

  Moltmann, Jurgen (AOSIS, 2023-04)

  Humanity is facing an ecological catastrophe. Culprits include a linear understanding of time which looks only to the future and the human belief in progress. This ideology has remained the same in the search for solutions; ...
• The significance of freedom in God’s plan 

  May, Andreas (AOSIS, 2023-01)

  By means of a synthesis of Christian faith, theology and natural sciences, the significance of freedom in God’s plan of creation and redemption was contemplated. The triune God is the foundation of all freedom. The freedom ...
• The original justice in the context of natural sciences : Thomistic insights 

  Roszak, Piotr (AOSIS, 2023-01)

  The picture of the beginnings of humankind presented by natural science is often contrasted with what is conveyed in Scripture. It has been pointed out that the Edenic state before sin – which we refer to as original justice ...
• 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 ...
• The bride of Christ with a hellish existence on earth : insights from Eboni Turman, the black church and black liberation theology 

  Mdingi, Hlulani M. (AOSIS, 2023-02)

  This research is based on the reading of Eboni Turman’s work that focuses on body politics, especially through a theological paradigm. The study confirms that the body is a theological problem, and the extent of the problem ...
• The address of reality as the voice of God in theological interpretation 

  Benjamins, Rick (AOSIS, 2023-08)

  The relationship between theology and the sciences can be studied from a hermeneutical point of view. Essential to religion are experiences in which reality calls or addresses us. Ingolf Dalferth and John Caputo have ...
• Neo-Pentecostal political activism vis-a-vis good governance in Nigeria : a theological analysis 

  Orogun, Daniel; Pillay, Jerry (AOSIS, 2023-02)

  This article presented the Nigerian neo-Pentecostal political activism (NNPA) in the last two decades and its impact on good governance. A brief historical analysis shows that pulpit political activism (PPA) may have ...
• Fornication and adultery in the city of Debrecen (1547–1625) compared with the morality of Geneva 

  Magyar, Balazs D. (AOSIS, 2023-04)

  To be sure, the more productive field of the international research on Protestantism is related to the subject of social history. In the case of the Calvin studies, for instance, readers will see, much has been written ...
• Political and socio-economic convergence of religions in Nigeria : positive views and interests 

  Orogun, Daniel (AOSIS, 2023-08)

  Extensive review of academic writings on the convergence of religions (COR) in Nigeria shows that many online academic papers and related conversations gave more attention to its negative implications. Agreeably, Nigeria ...
• Teaching religion as change for social transformation in contemporary African and non-African universities : a South African manifesto 

  Simut, Corneliu Cristian (AOSIS, 2023-06)

  This article is a research report on the international colloquium entitled ‘Re-Imagining Curricula for a Just University in a Vibrant Democracy’, hosted by the University of Pretoria in 2017 to address a series of prospective ...
• Romanian Orthodox elementary denominational schools in Transylvania (1868–1921) 

  Brusanowski, Paul (AOSIS, 2023-02)

  This article presents the development of elementary schools supported by the Orthodox Church in Transylvania between 1868 and 1921. Until 1918, Transylvania belonged to Hungary. In 1918, it was united with the Kingdom of ...

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