SCRIPTURA  

Patrick Hartin,Malan Nel,Stephan Joubert

This issue of Scriptura is the sixth publication for which the Southern African Biblical Studies Society is responsible.  Following the Society's policy, some of the papers read at its 1992 annual congress have been published here.  Held at Vist... see more

Pieter G R de Villiers

After, in the first part of this essay, contextual theologies are defined, theologies are grouped together which seem to be different, but which are in fact all, generally speaking, contextual in nature. Then misunderstandings about and difference between... see more

Piet Naudé

This paper outlines the methodology of constructing a local African theology of enculturalisation from the perspective of an outsider theologian.In the first section the concept of a ‘local theology’ (Schreiter) is explained. The second section explores t... see more

Jannie Malan

A dual root problem for the promotion of Biblical Studies in a democratic, multi-faith South Africa identified: the (often well intended?) distortion of the original Christian tradition and authority into a pressuring combination of ‘Christian’ traditiona... see more

F A Swanepoel

Popularising contextual is the challenge of our time. If we are talking about popularising contextual theology we must have clarity about the terms ‘popularising’ and ‘contextual’. Both of these are being used in various ways, leading to misconceptions an... see more

J C de Smidt

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the origin, history and philosophy of chiliasm/millennialism. The origin of this concept is ascribed to an erroneous interpretation of Jewish apocalyptic imaginary.Christianity is shown to have been infl... see more