15 articles in this issue
Louis Jonker
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Alec Basson
Andries Daniels
Winston R Kawale
Joel Manda
This article forms part of a joint research project that reflects on the use of the Bible in the legitimisation of certain social issues. One of the case studies of this project specifically focuses on women participation in the Church of Central Af... see more
Arie Van der Kooij
This article firstly summarizes the research results of the project "The influence of different contexts of social transformation on Biblical interpretation". If indicates and discusses the trends with regard to the interaction between social transf... see more
James N Amanze
One of the most contentious issues in the missionary field both in the past and at present has been the relationship between Christianity on the one hand and African culture on the other. Quite often Christianity has been set against everything that... see more
KTh August
The problem of race, ethnicity and multi-culturalism is one critical universal issue of our time. Issues of race, ethnicity, language, culture and religion, bear an enourmous emotional content. South Africa is in a process of major socio-polit... see more
Bernard Combrink
The mother tongue of the cultural deaf, that is people who were born deaf, is sign language. Being born deaf involves a severe linguistic handicap. So far, only an English translation for the deaf has been published in the USA in 1992. A... see more
Jeremy Punt
In the recent past a number of calls, particularly in the African context, were issued for rewriting the Bible. Apart from attention to what such rewriting would entail, an investigation of the purported reasons for such calls is imperative. I... see more
This volume contains the proceeding of a colloquium attended by eighty participants and held at the Lake Shore Campus of Loyola University on June 12-14, 1998 in memory of the late Bill Thompson. He died rather prematurely in September 2996. T... see more
Lisel Kruger Joubert
This book is a welcome translation of an important work and a definite contribution to the field of Biblical anthropology. The authors describe it as a little snippet in this field with the theme "body and bodliness". Even so this book has the... see more