Browsing HTS Volume 66, Number 1 (2010) by Title

Browsing HTS Volume 66, Number 1 (2010) by Title

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  • A generous ontology : identity as a process of intersubjective discovery – an African theological contribution 
    Forster, Dion A. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-07)
    The answer to the question ‘who am I?’ is of fundamental importance to being human. Answers to this question have traditionally been sought from various disciplines and sources, which include empirical sources, such as ...
  • Hammarskjöld’s interpretation of the Bible 
    Huls, Jos (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)
    This article describes the use of the Bible in Dag Hammarskjöld’s famous and widely read publication, Markings (1988). It asks the question whether his use of the Bible reflects his personal experiences or whether it ...
  • Hope and depression 
    Bothma, Gerhardus (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)
    In this book Jeanne Els puts her skills as freelance journalist to good use in which she tells her story of her struggle with depression, whilst simultaneously imparting valuable information on the nature and impact of ...
  • Intertextuality : on the use of the Bible in mystical texts 
    Waaijman, Kees (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)
    This article discussed the use of the Bible in mystical texts by focusing on intertextuality as a literary approach which analyses the intersection of texts. It investigated how mystical texts, as phenotexts, relate to ...
  • Issues of faith and war 
    Smith, Willem Jacobus (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)
    Former military officers, Marsha Hansen (former US Naval officer) and Peter Huchthausen (retired Captain in the US Navy), the writers of Finding God in the shadows: Stories from the battlefield of life, take the reader ...
  • The Laos tou Theou – an orthodox view of the ‘people of God’ 
    Nicolaides, Angelo (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-07)
    The creation of the Ekklesia by the incarnate logos of God created a new and unique relationship with God’s people that allows humanity to enter into the Covenant and to become part of the ‘people of God’ (Laos tou Theou). ...
  • Messianic figures in Biblical literature 
    Cromhout, Markus (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)
    This investigation deals with a very important topic, namely, the question of the divinity of the messiah. The authors argue that the divinity of Jesus was not some later development and something unique to Christianity, ...
  • Ministry in today’s context 
    Van der Merwe, Christo (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-11)
    The author is Associate Professor of Youth, Culture and Mission at Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa. With this publication he gives a voice to a Lutheran contribution to the wider emerging church conversation. ...
  • The powerful transformation of the young man in Mark 14:51–52 and 16:5 
    De Villiers, P.G.R. (Pieter Gideon Retief) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)
    This article investigates the references to the young man in two different, but related episodes in Mark 14:51–52 and 16:5. First of all, it clarifies some exegetical questions in the two sections. It then analyses the ...
  • Primordial spirituality 
    Waaijman, Kees (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)
    This article explores the primordial spirituality of the Bible, as expressed in names, narratives and prayers. It looks at the nomadic families of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob, Lea and Rachel, moving around ...
  • Prophetic witness and public discourse in European societies – a German perspective 
    Bedford-Strohm, Heinrich (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-10)
    The role of prophetic witness of the churches in the public discourse of modern civil societies is analysed on the basis of three public memorandums of the German Protestant churches on economic questions and their impact ...
  • A psychological perspective on god-belief as a source of well-being and meaning 
    Van der Merwe, E. Karen; Van Eeden, Chrizanne; Van Deventer, Hans J.M. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-06)
    This article reports on a qualitative exploration of the well-being and meaning that second- and third-generation Christians from an African context experience because of their integration of religion in their life and ...
  • A psychological perspective on the source and function of religion 
    Van der Merwe, Karen (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)
    This article explored psychological perspectives on the following: the reasons for humans’ religiousness, the influence of religion on people’s perspective on life and the importance of understanding the impact of religion ...
  • Q & A worshipping 
    Van der Merwe, Christo (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)
    In the preface to his wonderful book, Ted Loder explains how he started what he describes as, taking a Sunday and replacing the sermon with an opportunity for people to ask questions to which he would respond spontaneously. ...
  • Reading Philemon as therapeutic narrative 
    Jordaan, Pierre J.; Nolte, S. Philip (Stephanus Philippus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-03)
    This article analysed the different narratives implied in Philemon by utilising the narrative therapeutic approach, as developed by Epston and White (1990). A dominant narrative (the harsh treatment of slaves in the early ...
  • Religion in the public sphere : what can public theology learn from Habermas’s latest work? 
    Pieterse, Hendrik J.C. (Hennie); Dreyer, Jaco S. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-10)
    The complex and problematic role of religion in the public sphere in modern, democratic societies raises many questions for a public theology. The aim of this article is to contribute to the ongoing debate about the task ...
  • Roman domestic art and early Christian traditions 
    Van Henten, Jan W. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)
    David Balch is well-known for his research into early Christian house churches and families. This innovative book is a collection of revised essays, which have been published separately elsewhere. It focuses on the ...
  • Skrif is aan ons toevertrou : die implikasie van τὰ λόγια τοῦ θεοῦ in Romeine 3:2 
    Zuiddam, Benno A. (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-06)
    In Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, the expression τὰ λόγια τοῦ θεοῦ refers to speech of God that was entrusted to the Jews as a people. This includes everything He spoke through Moses and the prophets. The apostle presents ...
  • Speaking the language of the kingdom of God in the context of a society in transition 
    De Wet, F.W. (Fritz) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-07)
    Venturing to speak the biblical language of the kingdom of God, with its distinct covenantal intensity, in the context of a South African society in transition from paternalistic power structures to liberal democratic ...
  • Spirituality and the hermeneutics of faith 
    Brummer, Vincent (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-11)
    The first part of this essay argues that religious experience should not be viewed as an extraordinary kind of extra-sensory perception (visions, ecstasies etc) but as ‘hermeneutical’ in the sense that it entails an ...