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    • A distinctive Pentecostal hermeneutic: possible and/or necessary? 

      Nel, M. (University of the Free State, 2017)
      Over the past twenty years, Pentecostal theologians have published extensively on hermeneutical issues, a subject that had not received much consideration before the mid-1990s. In their discussion of hermeneutical issues, ...
    • "Apostoliese tye as onherhaalbaar en uniek": Pinksterkerke en Lukas-Handelinge 

      Nel, Marius (Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2017)
      Some Christians' scientifically-informed worldview leave little room for supernatural phenomena or divine interventions outside the accepted system of explainable cause and effect. They do not expect a supernatural/divine ...
    • An attempt to define the constitutive elements of a pentecostal spirituality 

      Nel, Marius (AOSIS, 2015)
      Pentecostal spirituality is defined as the integration of beliefs and practices into the affections that are themselves evoked and expressed by those practices and beliefs. This article investigates these practices and ...
    • Attempting to define a Pentecostal Hermeneutics 

      Nel, Marius (University of Stellenbosch, 2015)
      What is distinctive about Pentecostals' reading of the Bible? In what way do Pentecostal people read the Bible so that they reach different conclusions than believers of other denominations? Is it possible to speak of a ...
    • Attempting to develop a Pentecostal theology of worship 

      Nel, Marius (AOSIS, 2016)
      Pentecostals affirm the power of Pentecost in worship where they experience the Spirit's revelation of Christ and teach and preach about worship. However, Pentecostal theologians have not written much about a theology of ...
    • "Baptised in the Spirit and fire": single or double baptism? 

      Nel, Marius (New Testament Society of Southern Africa, 2016)
      The Synoptic Gospels as well as John's Gospel contain the words ascribed to John the Baptist, that one is coming who is greater than John who will baptise people "in the Holy Spirit." Matthew and uke add that the baptism ...
    • Benutting van liturgiese ruimte in Pinksterkerke 

      Nel, Marius (AOSIS, 2015)
      Afrikaans-speaking Pentecostal Churches were originally part of a revival movement that for various historical reasons chose not to be known as a church. The liturgical space in their churches reflected the anticlerical ...
    • Church and war: a change in hermeneutical stance among Pentecostals 

      Nel, Marius (AOSIS, 2017)
      At its inception and for the first 40 years of its existence, Pentecostalism was a pacifist movement preaching non-violence and non-retaliation. At the end of the Second World War, the movement changed its stance, in many ...
    • Daniel 3 as satirical comedy 

      Nel, Marius (University of Stellenbosch Faculty of Theology, 2012)
      The tale in Daniel 3 is told to people living in the second century BCE whose lives were threatened by the Syrian Antiochus IV Epiphanes when they disobeyed his command to forsake their religion as a desperate measure of ...
    • Daniel 9 as part of an apocalyptic book? 

      Nel, Marius (AOSIS, 2013)
      Daniel 9 relates how Daniel studies the Hebrew Holy Scriptures and finds the prophecy of Jeremiah that Jerusalem will lie desolate for seventy years. He reacts by devoting himself to prayer and fasting in order to remind ...
    • Daniël 2 as satire 

      Nel, Marius (AOSIS, 2012)
      Readers use intuitive and acquired knowledge about genres in interpreting what they read and hear, underlining the importance of establishing the genre of a specific piece of literature. The genre of the tales in the Book ...
    • Development of theological training and hermeneutics in Pentecostalism: a historical perspective and analysis 

      Nel, Marius (Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2016)
      The article hypothesises that the historical development of Pentecostal hermeneutics is closely related to and illustrated by Pentecostals' attitude towards theological training. A short survey is given of the development ...
    • Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism: Blood Nephews? 

      Nel, Marius (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 ...
    • Integrating spirituality and rationality the long and arduous journey of the historical development of theological training in the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa 

      Nel, Marius; Janse van Rensburg, Fika (AOSIS, 2016)
      The chequered path of the development of theological training in the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM of SA) started with animosity towards any form of training in favour of the presumed equipment provided by ...
    • John G. Lake as a fraud, con man and false prophet': critical assessment of a historical evaluation of Lake's ministry 

      Nel, Marius (The Church History Society of Southern Africa Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa, 2016)
      This article assesses the evaluation of John G. Lake, one of the founders of South African Pentecostalism, by some historians regarded as a fraud, con man and false prophet in terms of several elements of his life: his ...
    • Mark's distinctive emphasis on the temple's torn curtain 

      Nel, Marius (AOSIS, 2015)
      This article asks several questions: What is distinctive about Mark’s description about the rending of the curtain in the Jerusalem Temple during Jesus’ crucifixion?; What is his rhetorical strategy in doing so?; What role ...
    • "Not peace but a sword": Jesus and the sword in Matthew 

      Nel, Marius (New Testament Society of Southern Africa, 2015)
      South African society is characterised by the violence of crime, poverty and inequality as well as civil rebellion and disobedience, posing the question to Christians whether they should and may participate in violence ...
    • Pentecostal hermeneutical considerations about women in ministry 

      Nel, Marius (The Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2017)
      At first, the Pentecostal movement made no distinction between genders in the ministry. Anyone anointed by the Spirit was allowed to minister, whether to pray for the sick, testify about an encounter with God, preach or ...
    • Pentecostal talk about God: attempting to speak from experience 

      Nel, Marius (AOSIS, 2017)
      Pentecostals have their own ethos to bring to the theological table. Although they represent a diverse spectrum of beliefs, they share a basic preference for experience co-determining their theology, along with their ...
    • 'Pentecostal theology' as contradictio in terminis: a perspective on the past and present 

      Nel, Marius (University of Stellenbosch, 2017)
      The Pentecostal movement, especially in its early days, has been accused of anti-intellectualism and a lack of a developed theological tradition, and it is conceded that it is justifiably so. In the early movement, to speak ...