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Verbum et Ecclesia Volume 25 Issue 1 (2004)
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)John 1:18 spells out the purpose of the incarnation of the Son of God (to make God known - ejxhgei`sqai ) and functions as the transition from the prologue to the rest of the Fourth Gospel. With verse 18 the Evangelist ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)Many Israelis, but also many Christian Palestinians, today understand the current conflict around the possession of the land in a Bible-oriented way. They associate it with the radical destruction of all inhabitants of the ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)The intended object of this article is to undertake an investigation in connection with the importance of creative preaching from a meta-theoretical perspective on the value of communication and brain function. The important ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)Psalm 137 has become notorious for the brutality and bloodthirstiness that characterise its last verses. In the face of many past criticisms which rejected the Old Testament as a book of violence, both Christians and Jews ...
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War, religion, and white supremacy in comparative perspective : South Africa and the American South (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)The southern states of the United States of America and South Africa share a number of analogous historical realities. One of these, which is the main subject of this article, is the way in which the memory of a lost war ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)A distinct conceptualisation of the imperial cult is common in NT scholarship, in which worship of the emperor is portrayed as a "foreign" development which served primarily political aims, with little integrity and no ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)The paper explores "discipleship" in the discipline of "Building up the local church". The empirical research indicates a perceived difference in what it means to be a disciple and what it means to be a Christian with the ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)This article considers various personal and academic influences on Ben Marais. The essence of these influences helped form his principles, was present in his early childhood, and is founded in his deep-rooted faith in God. ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)In Psalm 44, the author accuses Yahweh of sleeping. This is an extremely serious accusation, especially in the light of Psalm 121:4 which explicitly states that Yahweh, in contrast with the gods of the other nations, never ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)The purpose of this paper is to critically evaluate and compare some of the recent and not so recent works on Israelite history regarding their methodology. Particular emphasis is placed on their treatment of the covenant ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)The book Die vreemde God en sy mense (The enigmatic God and his people) - published in 1998 - marks the beginning of a new debate about God amongst Afrikaans-speaking people of the reformed tradition. The fall of the ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)The new medium of the internet offers possibilities for teaching Theology unforeseen by previous generations of theological scholars. In this paper, the authors explore some difficulties inherent in such theological ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)In a large sample of full-time University of Pretoria main campus students it was found that a very high percentage of all the students reported an affiliation to religious bodies. They also generally regarded themselves ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)Different versions of the Sabbath law (Exodus 20:8-11; 23:12; 31:12-17; 34:21; 35:1-3; Leviticus 23:3; Deuteronomy 5:12-15) and several prophetic texts (Amos 6:1-7 - the name "Sabbath" is text-critically reconstructed in ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)The Book of Daniel is characterized by a change of language, from Hebrew to Aramaic to Hebrew (in Dan 2:4b to Aramaic and in Dan 8:1 to Hebrew). What caused the change from the 'sacred' to a 'heathen' language and back? ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)This article gives the motivations, methodology and some results of a study done in Christian healing interventions in African contexts of stress and violence. Healing in community has been viewed through the prism of ...