SCRIPTURA  

Bernard C Lategan

All the contributions in this volume, however different they may be in terms of subject matter and specific focus, deal with aspects of interpretation. More particularly, they deal with the challenge that a changing situation is presenting to the interpre... see more

Klaus Nürnberger

This article wants to demonstrate that soteriological paradigms found in the Bible emerged and continued to involve in response to changing situations of need. It traces the historical trajectory of the oldest of these soteriological paradigms, the promis... see more

Louis Jonker

The quest towards a multidimensional exegetical approach arises from the present state of the exegetical discipline. Presently, this discipline is characterized by an overwhelming variety of methodology, but also by exclusivistic claims made by exegetes. ... see more

E M Conradie

In an attempt to discern some guidelines for the South African debate on a public way of doing theology, it may be helpful to draw on recent debates on the issue of public theology in the USA. I will argue that the call for a public theology should be und... see more

D P Veldsman

As against the everyday suspicion of imagination as fantasy or illusion and thus untrue, this paper inquires about the ‘guilt and/or innocence ‘of the role of imagination in the process of knowing. Referring to Kant, Warnock Neuman and Murray, the role of... see more

D E de Villiers

The economic system in South Africa is clearly in need of thorough reconstruction. Economists differ in their policies for such a process of economic reconstruction (usually emphasizing either private enterprise of public enterprise). This essay discusses... see more

Jan Botha

Towards the end of the era of fixation on text immanent approaches, (such as structuralism, reading the New Testament as literature, etcetera) which characterized South African New Testament scholarship during the 70’s and 80’s, more and more voices could... see more