SCRIPTURA  

Jeremy Punt

In theology African culture, thought and worldview had to wait until the demise of colonialism to be fully explored? In post-colonial (or neocolonial, Martey 1993) Africa there is an ever-increasing emphasis on theology as perceived and done in Mrica... see more

Rudolph Oosthuizen

The renewed call for relevance in the so-called new South Africa renders possible an exciting new stage in the development of Old Testament scholarship. Reading the Bible (2 Sam 14:1-24) from a perspective informed by our own context, Africa, sheds new li... see more

Michel Clasquin

This article is part of a larger research project on patterns of religious pluralism in the city of Pretoria, and is based on field research conducted in in the period 1993-1995 by the author, Prof JS Kruger and Mr MS (Victor) Molobi. Material extraneous ... see more

Gerald West

This article attempts to chart the reading strategies and resources of ordinary African 'readers' of the Bible and to probe the place of the socially engaged biblical scholar in relation to these strategies and resources. The first part of the article off... see more

Hans P Müller

A very public debate and some street confrontations show that many South Africans find it difficult to come to terms with the idea that Africans from outside South Africa live and work in South Africa. Contrary to a dominant discourse using religion and c... see more