8 articles in this issue
Bernard Lategan
The article examines the facilitating role of imagination in the process of transformation. Firstly, the suspicion that imagination is merely a license for subjectivity is addressed, before the phenomenological roots of imagination and its radical r... see more
James R Cochrane
With the end of apartheid in South Africa, and the conclusion of an era in the history of the Church in which the definitive challenge to respond to apartheid dominated theological discourse, space has emerged, gaps have arisen in public life into which l... see more
Gerald West
At a time when enigmatic titles are trendy there is no need to account for a title such as this article carries. But I do want to explain how I came to the title because the explanation has at its center a major (implicit) concern within Biblical St... see more
Ferdinand Deist
The story of Ehud’s dealings with King Eglon of Moab is not the kind of story ordinary Bible readers would expect to find in the Bible. To refresh our memories here, in short, is that story.
HJ Bernard Combrink
The Bible has to be rewritten in order to remain relevant also in Africa. This has implications for the translation and the transformation of its message. Translations can be categorized form literal to unduly free. The cultural and soci... see more
The typical critical issues concerning the interpretation of Matthew do not occur that often in the reception of Matthew in Africa. The issues addressed are especially contextual matters such as liberation and the relevance of God’s kingdom for soci... see more
Dirk J Smit
Literary critic George Steiner closed his controversial but seminal study After Babel with the words ‘It would be ironic if the answer to Babel were pidgin and not Pentecost’. In this paper, Steiner’s argument, leading to this conclusion, is explain... see more
Jan Botha
The Bible is one of the most significant bases for values-persuasion and the shaping of the ethos of the South African population. This significant influence of the Bible is potentially a serious stumbling block for social transformation and the adv... see more