SCRIPTURA  

H L Fouché,Dirk J Smit

The concept of ‘dialogue’ can have radically different meanings to different people (Cf Müller 1991; Doeser 1983; Handgraaf 1983; Vroom 1983; Tracy 1981, 1987, 1989).  But it can also serve as an umbrella-description for major questions.  In thi... see more

James R Cochrane

The dialogue of Christians about their faith, expressed in literature, confessions, creeds, liturgical rituals, symbolic acts and proclamations of dogma, is a public record.  As with all public records, one may ask to what extent this one is in the f... see more

Dirk J Smit,Francois Wessels

This article is a plea for ‘an ethics of writing’.  In a first section, the authors point to the power of writing, drawing on Martin’s recent study of the nature and the power of writing and Thiel’s study of the vocational responsibility of theologia... see more

Bernard Lategan

The meeting of context, also in theological discourse, inevitably results in the development of some form of dialogue.  Theological discourse is characterized by a series of variables, related to different aspects of such a dialogue.  The articl... see more

Ernst M Conradie

This paper discusses David Tracy’s contribution to the (South Africa) ‘dialogue on dialogue’.  It analyses the development of Tracy’s notion of ‘dialogue with the other’ with special reference to his recent articles.  In three subsections it is ... see more

Ferdinand Deist

Christian tradition has always idealized the ‘writing prophets’.  That view has, however, been undermined over the past two decades.  We know very little about the origins of these books and even less about the origins of prophetic tradition.&nb... see more

HJ Bernard Combrink

According to Bakhtin dialogue is the essential symbolic medium through which all social relations are necessarily constituted.  This must be seen against the background of a literary approach which is not comprehensive enough.  There are differe... see more

Gerald West

At the core of this article are two questions.  Where do metaphors come from?  What do metaphors do?  As the article will demonstrate these are not idle questions, but questions that matter.  The article presents a literary and sociolo... see more