Faculty of Theology
Recent Submissions
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Clergies and self-care during the COVID-19 pandemic : a challenge to pastoral care
(AOSIS, 2022)On the 15th of March 2020, the current president of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, declared a National State of Disaster as a response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A range of regulations ... -
A critical assessment of Church and political engagement in Zimbabwe under the new dispensation
(AOSIS, 2022)Since the reign of the late Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Zimbabwe has been seized by retrogressive puppetisation of partisan gospel ministers and churches, worsened by state victimisation of those who stand against political ... -
The Church as God’s agent in uniting immigrants and natives: A case from Ephesians 2:11–22
(AOSIS, 2022)As the number of people migrating from many different countries to South Africa constantly increases, there is bound to be immense tension between the immigrants and the citizens for many and different reasons. Within ... -
Development and the role of the church : exploring public pastoral care positioning within congregational ministry
(2022)Discussions on development have been ongoing for many decades. Within these discussions, approaches such as human and community-focused development have gained prominence in recent years. Churches are acknowledged as ... -
Evangelicalism’s identity crisis: The meaning and application of qōdhesh and hágios for Christian holiness and distinctiveness in a post-Christian South Africa
(2022)South African evangelicalism finds itself in the midst of an identity crisis. In many sections of evangelicalism, there seems to be a pervasive worldliness which has resulted in a lack of holiness and distinctiveness ... -
The ‘lived experiences’ of the love of God according to a prayer in the letter of Ephesians
(2022)The epistle to the Ephesians is regarded as a circular letter, yet it also contains two specific intercessory prayers (1:15–23; 3:14–21) in which the Trinity concept features persuasively. On the one side, this research ... -
The concept and activity of 'obedience' in the Gospel of John
(AOSIS, 2022)The concept and activity of obedience can be regarded as fundamental to human existence as well as to Christian religion. The focus of this study was to investigate the occurrence of this concept in the Gospel of John. ... -
Spiritual leaders’ experiences of a comprehensive HIV stigma reduction intervention
(AOSIS, 2018)HIV is a deadly reality in South African communities, where people living with HIV (PLWH) do not only face physical sickness but also severe stigmatisation. Literature shows that spiritual leaders (religious leaders/traditional ... -
Cultural coping as a risk for depression and hypertension: the SABPA prospective study
(Clinics Cardive, 2018)Objectives: In past studies, a lack of social support has been associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, particularly in black Africans. However, whether or not coping strategies have beneficial effects on blood ... -
Plotinus and Buddhism
(University of Hawaii Press, 2017)The relationship between Plotinus and Buddhism has not been overly studied, in part because of the paucity of evidence. This article retraces some familiar terrain, enumerating parallels between the philosophy of Plotinus ... -
An ethos of vulnerability: a kindom perspective on the princile of respect for vulnerability within the UNESCO declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights
(Asia Journal of Theology, 2017)The Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights (UDBHR) by UNESCO regards respect for vulnerability (article 8) as a new independent bioethical right and obligation of all communities. On the one hand, vulnerability ... -
Roman Religion in the Time of Augustus
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017)This article first discusses the term "Roman religion" and the different views and meanings that it possesses, favoring an analysis of the sacra publica. It then considers the model of the polis-religion, both its common ... -
Profesie in die Hebreeuse Bybel, die vroeë Christendom en eietydse Pinksterkerke: 'n vraag oor kontinuïteit en diskontinuïteit
(LitNet, 2017)Die meeste klassieke Pinksterkerke beskou profesie as 'n charismatiese woord wat aan God toegeskryf word, as voortsetting van die beoefening van profesie in die Hebreeuse Bybel en die vroeë Christelike kerk, selfs al verskil ... -
Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism: Blood Nephews?
(American Theological Library Association, 2017)Pentecostalism and fundamentalism are viewed by many as closely related, both as expressions of a conservative Christian response to modernism and postmodernism. It is argued in the article that although the Pentecostal ... -
The text-critical utility of the Peshitta to Ezekiel in view of recent research
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017)Following recent studies demonstrating that the Peshitta to Ezekiel is largely a translation that was rendered at the level of semantic frames or the idiomatic level, the logical question to be asked from the point of view ... -
A stress test for the strong homogeneity thesis
(AOSIS, 2017)Over the last 30 years, there has been an attempted return to a particular way of framing and interpreting the primary Jesus narratives. This approach contextualises Jesus against the backdrop of the wider religious world. ... -
Charismatic movements, state relations and public governance in Sierra Leone
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017)Sierra Leone has seen the rise of Charismatic movements that are bringing about greater levels of co-operation with the state. This new church development aims at renewing the Christian faith and projecting a more proactive ... -
Pastoral caregiving as life science: towards an existential hermeneutics of life within the interplay between pastoral healing (cura vitae) and spiritual wholeness
(AOSIS, 2017)Currently, the media is creating an illusion of youthful wellbeing: 'healthism'. But is life merely about physical health? What is meant by spiritual healing in pastoral caregiving? By means of the ontology of life and an ... -
Reading Romans 1 on homosexuality in the light of Biblical/Jewish and Greco-Roman perspectives of its time
(De Gruyter, 2017)In seeking common ground with his readers Paul uses same sex relations to depict human depravity. In doing so he uses many of the arguments familiar from ethical discourse in the Greco-Roman world of his time, but employs ... -
The development of the origin sense of the preposition מִן in Biblical Hebrew
(Southern African Society for Near Eastern Studies (SASNES), 2017)The origin sense of the preposition מִן in Biblical Hebrew has been treated in various ways by traditional grammars and lexica. The discrepancy between the entries for מִן in these sources indicates that a systematic and ...