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"Not peace but a sword": Jesus and the sword in Matthew
(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 ...
Attempting to develop a Pentecostal theology of worship
(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 ...
The notion of the Holy Spirit as Paraclete from a Pentecostal perspective
(AOSIS, 2016)
Pentecostals share an interest in the work and person of the Holy Spirit although not at the cost of a well-developed Christology. The term Paraclete (παράκλητος) appears four times in the Gospel according to John in ...
Pentecostalism and the Early Church: on living distinctively from the world
(School of Religion & Theology, University of KwaZulu Natal, 2015)
The Pentecostal movement is a primitivistic1 movement that perceives the early church as "its role model, in imitation of other movements like the Montanists, Radical Reformers, "Quakers, Pietists, Moravians, Wesleyans and ...
Attempting to define a Pentecostal Hermeneutics
(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 ...
Mark's distinctive emphasis on the temple's torn curtain
(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 ...
What is ‘the sign of the Son of man in heaven’ (Mt 24:30)?
(AOSIS, 2015)
What does the ‘sign of the Son of man in heaven’ in Matthew 24:30 denote? In broad terms, there are two ways to interpret the phrase. Firstly, that the coming of the Son of man in the clouds is the ‘sign of the Son of man’ ...
Benutting van liturgiese ruimte in Pinksterkerke
(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 ...
An attempt to define the constitutive elements of a pentecostal spirituality
(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 ...
Rather Spirit-filled than learned! Pentecostalism's tradition of anti-intellectualism and Pentecostal theological scholarship
(AOSIS, 2016)
The beginnings and first half-century of South African Pentecostalism are characterised by a tradition of anti-intellectualism consisting of a rejection of theological training, a critical and negative attitude towards ...