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Finding guidelines on social change in the two-tiered narrative and diakonia in the Gospel of John
(AOSIS, 2015)It is shown in this article that the Gospel of John describes a battle between darkness and light, life and death, chaos and God’s new order. Although the certainty is given right at the beginning of the Gospel that the ... -
The first scholarly South African interpretation of Wagner? Ramsden Balmforth's Fabian analysis of the Ring and Parsifal
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)2013 marks both the bicentenary of Richard Wagner’s birth and the centenary of performances of his Ring cycle in Cape Town, which contemporary critics hailed as a noteworthy advance in the cultural life of the Mother ... -
A flame of sacred love: mission involvement of women in the 19th century
(OASIS, 2013)In the 19th century, women missionaries found acceptance in the public domain and opportunities for achievement that they were denied at home. Whilst they spearheaded movements for Christianising and modernising Asian ... -
Focus on the world: the Keswick Convention and mission
(AOSIS, 2015)In a copy of Pierson’s (n.d.) work, The acts of the Holy Spirit, presented to the hostess of Salisbury House in Keswick (UK), are the signatures of 11 missionaries from all over the world who attended the Convention in ... -
Forecasting the future of religion in the 1920s: Ramsden Balmforth's post-orthodox prognostications
(The Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015)Standing at the apogee of post-Protestant theological liberalism, the scholarly Unitarian minister Ramsden Balmforth, who served the Unitarian Church in Cape Town from 1897 until 1937, responded to a broad spectrum of ... -
Forgiveness and impunity in a situation of transition: A socio-political perspective
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Forgiveness in the intertestamental period
(AOSIS, 2012)The article suggests answers to the following questions: what are the characteristics of God’s forgiveness in the intertestamental literature and what connection do these characteristics have with the Old Testament? ... -
Forgiveness: a Christocentric perspective
(AOSIS, 2015)Forgiveness is at the core of Christianity and is a gift of God in conquering sin and its destructive fruits. It is therefore important to understand the biblical principles and norms in this regard. This will be done from ... -
The formation of a conservative Catholic Intellectual: Douglas Francis Jerrold as a disciple of Hilaire Belloc
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)That the highly prolific and versatileAnglo-French littérateur, historian, editor, and commentator Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953), like his friend and confrère Gilbert Keith Chesterton, made a profound impact on many Englishmen ... -
The formerly–now motif in Ephesians demonstrating the Pauline "in Christ" indicative and its correlating ethical imperative
(Cape Town Baptist Seminary, 2013)The formerly-now motif in Ephesians is investigated in this article. Since the motif is an expression of conversion, it must correlate with the Pauline indicative-imperative theology. Conversion is a matter of change in ... -
The foundational statement in Matthew 5:17-20 on the continuing validity of the law
(APSIS, 2011)The statement of Jesus in Matthew 5:17-20 forms a pivotal point of Matthew’s teaching on the law. Yet, some scholars argue that these verses reveal a strong Jewish character, with eclectic layers of traditions that even ... -
A framework for crafting and implementing a congregational strategy in the local congregations of the Reformed Churches of South Africa
(AOSIS, 2012)The church is not like any other institution or organisation in society. Although the church is primarily invisible and spiritual, it is a visible organisation in the world, and it spans across borders of nations, languages ... -
From a comedy of errors to tragedy: the cessation of Italian opera in Cape Town in 1877
(South African Society for Cultural History, 2016)The history of grand Italian opera (opera seria) in South Africa remains largely unwritten. With regard to the pre-Union period, the few scholarly investigations into this topic have revealed that European touring companies ... -
From periphery to the centre: towards repositioning churches for a meaningful contribution to public health care
(AOSIS, 2012)The role of communities in health care has gained prominence in the last few years. Churches as community structures have been identified as instrumental in health-care delivery. Whilst it is widely acknowledged that ... -
Fulfilled through the prophets
(AOSIS, 2016)Matthew's use of plēróō to contextualise the Hebrew prophets validates his thesis that Jesus is the Christ, son of David, son of Abraham (1:1).1 To demonstrate this concept, this article examines seven of Matthew's fulfilment ... -
The function of the Easter moment in the observance of the Eucharist amongst Christian communities framed by traditional African and current Western time-concepts
(AOSIS, 2011)Problematic elements in both the traditional African and current Western time-concepts seem to manifest in a manner that – in some or other way – causes humanity to become disconnected with the fulfilment of life in a ... -
Fundamental human rights in Calvinist church polity: an orientation
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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 ... -
‘Fundamentalism’ and ‘fundamentalist’ semantically considered: their lexical origins, early polysemy, and pejoration
(OASIS, 2013)The words fundamentalist (as both a noun and an adjective) and fundamentalism were coined in 1920 within the Northern Baptist Convention when that and other American Protestant denominations were experiencing theological ... -
Funny Bone finds a home: a musical featuring the Body of Christ
(OASIS, 2013)This play is a teaching tool and examines the concepts of unity and disunity in the Body of Christ. Based on 1 Corinthians 12:12–27, the play contains as characters the body parts mentioned by Paul in his instruction on ...