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Commemoration, communion and courage, not celebration: public prophetic theology 500 years after the Reformation
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2017)Five hundred years after the Reformation, it is tempting to celebrate this influential and significant event. The Reformation, however, as an incident which also tore apart the Church, should be commemorated, but not ... -
Communalism and hospitality in African urban congregations: Pastoral care challenges and possible responses
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Communalism and hospitality in African urban congregations: pastoral care challenges and possible responses
(University of South Africa, 2009)This article investigates the problem behind the protracted crisis of how hospitality ought to be understood and practised in the urbanised and pluralistic congregations of Zambian Society ("the problem of hospitality"). ... -
Communities: development of church-based counselling teams
(AOSIS, 2015)Pastoral care is a biblical mandate to the Church to be involved in the lives of God’s people. A key metaphor used by Jesus to describe his pastoral role was that of a shepherd. Thus, to be God’s shepherds and instruments ... -
Competing with Christ? A critical Christological analysis of the reliance on Pentecostal prophets in Zimbabwe
(AOSIS, 2017)How can we make Christological sense of the Zimbabwean Pentecostal prophets' mediatory role? This article analyses the domineering and mediatory role of the Pentecostal prophets from a Christological perspective. The ... -
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. ... -
The concept of shalōm as a constructive bereavement healing framework within a pluralist health seeking context of Africa
(OASIS, 2013)Absence of health, that is, sickness in Africa is viewed in personalistic terms. A disease is explained as effected by ‘the active purposeful intervention of an agent, who may be human’, non-human (a ghost, an ancestor, ... -
Conceptual unity of the prologue and final doxology in Romans: an Alexandrine approach
(Unisa/Sabinet, 2012)The prologue of Paul's Epistle to the Romans (1:1-7) and the doxology in the final chapter (16:25-27) share core theological concepts about humankind's relationship with God. In what is only the limited space of three ... -
A confident call to faith: rediscovering the relevance of Christian catechisms
(OASIS, 2013)Protestant heritage is synonymous with the traditional employment of catechisms and catechetical teaching of both young and old. Many denominations have shifted from this historical approach, not least because of the ... -
Considering the this-worldly religious focus of the African traditional worldview as found in South Africa
(AOSIS, 2017)Most articles evaluating the African traditional worldview focus an attack on the ancestor cult or highlight positive aspects of the worldview. In either case, mention of the this-worldly religious focus tends to be 'in ... -
A constant reminder from the Revelation of God in the Apocalypse of John about who God is in times when philosophical concepts blur Biblical clarity
(CTBS, 2015)The Exodus from Egypt was a defining moment in the history of Israel. They "were promised nationhood, but that required the sense of being a people, united" in their historical origin, religion and sovereignty over a ... -
Constructing a living deity - framing the god of Israel in the stories of Daniel and Bel and the dragon
(SASNES (Southern African Society for Near Eastern Studies), 2015)This article is the concluding part in a series of articles on "Bel and the dragon". These articles are an investigation into the Greek editor's/author's use of body, space, narrative and genre in creating a new reality ... -
Constructing ancient slavery as socio–historic context of the New Testament
(OASIS, 2013)Considering the vast scope of material on slavery in antiquity, this article aimed to design a search filter that delimits the scope of socio-historical aspects specifically relevant to the New Testament passages dealing ... -
Constructing the economic-historic context of 1 Peter: exploring a methodology
(AOSIS, 2011)This article explored a methodology to construct the economic–historic context of the addressees of 1 Peter, which could serve as basis for an economic interpretation of 1 Peter and other New Testament books. After discussing ... -
Constructing the rights and duties of slave-owners as socio-historic context of the New Testament
(Die Gereformeerde Teologiese Vereniging, 2009)This article aims to construct the rights and duties of slave-owners in antiquity as part of the socio-historical context of the New Testament. In order to achieve this aim, the primary sources referring to Greek, Roman ... -
A contextualised reading of Matthew 6:22-23: 'Your eye is the lamp of your body'
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)For the modern reader the logion ‘The eye is the lamp of the body’ is puzzling. While most scholars concur that it has something to do with greed and envy, they often fail to explain this correlation between inner attitudes ... -
Contextualised worship amongst the Nanticoke-Lenape American Indians
(AOSIS, 2017)The Christian history of the Nanticoke-Lenape people who live in three American Indian tribal communities of 'first contact' around the Delaware Bay (USA), is over three centuries old and continues in the contemporary ... -
Continuous formation of liturgy through social cognition
(AOSIS, 2016)This article researches two focal points, namely liturgical formation and the influence that social cognition has on liturgical formation. Within a South African context it is evident that Western liturgical traditions ... -
Contours of pacificism: Ramsden Balmforth's advocacy of peace in the union of South Africa and beyond
(Sabinet, 2013)Among the many dimensions of Christian pacifism in South Africa which remain underexplored is the ministry of the Unitarian minister Ramsden Balmforth (1861-1941). For approximately four decades beginning shortly after his ... -
The contribution of deontological Christian ethics to the contemporary human rights discourse
(Gereformeerde Teologiese Vereniging, 2009)This article examines the possible role of a Christian deontological ethics in the contemporary human rights debate. It concludes that a Christian deontological ethics in the Reformed tradition can be positively engaged ...