SCRIPTURA  

Godwin I Akper

This essay explores the role of the “ordinary reader” in Gerald O West’s hermeneutics.Firstly, it offers a brief overview of the background context of liberationfrom which West developed his hermeneutics. Secondly, West’s hermeneutics ofliberation in its ... see more

KTh August

Reconciliation is a very central teaching and practice fundamental to the life andwitness of the Church. The position taken in this paper is from the Judeo-Christianperspective, which is essentially a christo-centric perspective on reconciliation.Whereas ... see more

Ernst M Conradie

There is an emerging consensus in contemporary theology that human finitudeshould be affirmed and that attempts to overcome the limitations of mortality,transience and finite human knowledge and power should be resisted. Nevertheless,the Christian traditi... see more

C. W. Du Toit

In what way does research done in Africa differ from research done on othercontinents – if at all? Should African rationality be distinguished from Western orEastern rationality? This article approaches the problem by linking Africanrationality to African... see more

Erhard S. Gerstenberger

One of the most serious errors theologians make, at least in the Western hemisphere,has been to see themselves as having the absolute truth, so that all other theologicalpositions become error. This arrogant certitude has a long history. It can be found i... see more

Erhard S. Gerstenberger

One of the most serious errors theologians make, at least in the Western hemisphere,is to see themselves as having the absolute truth, so that all other theologicalpositions become error. This arrogant certitude has a long history. It can be foundin some ... see more

Maretha M. Jacobs

In this article attention is paid to 1 Timothy 2:9-15 within its historical-cultural context and tothe history of interpretation of this passage. In this way the human contexts and reasons for thenature and immense influence of this passage are exposed. A... see more

Yeol Kim,H. F. Van Rooy

This article is the third and final one in a series of articles on Psalm 78. The differentarticles are part of an experiment in a multidimensional reading and each ofthem deals independently with an aspect of the interpretation of Psalm 78. While theprevi... see more

Zacharias Kotzé

This article emphasises the need of a cognitive linguistic approach to the study ofthe emotion of anger in the Old Testament. Most of the works to date have reducedthe concept of wrath to a just principle of retribution. The detailed Classical Hebrewlangu... see more

Chul Woo Lee

Rom. 7:1-6 is an important passage for describing the relationship between believersand the law, but contains various hermeneutical problems that causedifficulty in understanding. This article first argues that Paul is speaking to a mixedaudience of Roman... see more

Christo Lombaard

In this contribution, the proposals made by four South Africans as a viable centraltheme for “Scriptural spirituality” – that is, a spirituality that seeks explicitly tocentre on the Bible – is taken under review. These proposals have been made in:

David O. Moomo

The translation of the OT into African languages is on the increase. OT scholarsand translators are discussing the problems of translating names that refer to Godand his attributes. In this article I argue that such discussions should be based on atheoret... see more

Piet Naude

This paper explains how a “theology of apartheid” was constructed in the first halfof the twentieth century in SA from a combination of three nineteenth centuryEuropean theological currents: The neo-Calvinism of Kuyper, the missiologicalthinking of Warnec... see more

Lilly Nortjé-Meyer

Gender studies also relate to a homosexual interpretation of biblical texts. Ahomosexual reading of biblical texts involves the rereading and re-examination ofthose passages that condemn homosexuals. It is the questioning of the traditionalinterpretation ... see more

Dirk J. Smit

The paper makes a contribution to the official Roman Catholic-Reformed dialoguebetween the Vatican and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. After severalyears of reflection on the notion of “the kingdom of God” it became obvious toparticipants in the ... see more

Ignatius Swart,Dawid Venter

In recent development studies a positive, yet critical reappraisal of the potentialcontribution of religion has emerged. Commentators like Galtung, as well asEdwards and Sen, seem to be moving development discourse beyond its habitualeconomic and technolo... see more

L. Juliana M. Claassens

Catherine Keller se nuutste boek Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming(London: Routledge, 2003) is ’n interessante kombinasie van konstruktiewe sistematieseteologie, post-strukturalisme, feminisme, en chaos-teorie. Face of the Deepis ten diepste ’n int... see more

Johann Cook

An International Symposium on the Copper Scroll was held at ManchesterUniversity’s Institute of Science and Technology in 1996. The results became acollection containing 22 papers of which most were presented at this symposium.The principle speakers were ... see more

Louis Jonker

In this monumental work, his most ambitious undertaking, the late Samuel Terrienbrings together a lifetime of scholarship on Psalms, long the wellspring of Jewishspirituality as well as the main hymnal of the Christian church.”With these words on the flap... see more