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Olehile A Buffel

 Despite promises of a ‘better life for all’ millions of mainly black South Africans are subjected to pain and suffering as a result of poverty. This calls for black theological reflection in the light of their experience and the Gospel. This also ca... see more

George Byarugaba

 Various research results point out poverty, inadequate food production and inadequate distribution as the main culprits for food insecurity in many African countries. This article wishes to contribute to the existing knowledge on food insecurity and... see more

Ntozakhe Simon Cezula

This article examines the fulfilment of the land promise in the OT as a source of hope. This is particularly significant in our contemporary context in which land has become a contested issue. The question this article asks is whether the fulfilment of th... see more

Johan Cilliers

 In this article the many in-between spaces of paradox that characterise the society of South Africa, up to this day, are seen as liminal breeding grounds for what could be called a vulnerable homiletic. Three key concepts are discussed as being inhe... see more

Anna Cho,Dion Angus Forster

 This article presents a novel Biblical ethical hermeneutic approach that emerges from an understanding of the presence of the kingdom of God in the Biblical text. The approach is predicated upon the use of speech act theory (abbreviated as SAT) in r... see more

June Frances Dickie

Psalms were composed to be sung, and translated psalms should also be carefully constructed so that they are easily singable. This requires an understanding of the features of (indigenous) song and rhythm. Towards that end, this paper seeks to summarize s... see more

Elelwani B Farisani

 Madipoane Masenya and Hulisani Ramantswana (2012:598-637) have argued that 18 years into the democratic dispensation, South African Old Testament scholarship is still trapped in Eurocentric methods of interpreting the biblical text, deliberately avo... see more

Mookgo Solomon Kgatle

 An enormous body of research has been done on Pentecostal Christianity examining different branches such as classical, African and charismatic Pentecostalism. Most of these studies concentrate on classical Pentecostalism and western personalities. T... see more

Hennie Kotzé,Reinet Loubser

 This article uses statistical data from the World Values Survey (WVS) and the South African Opinion Leader Survey to examine religiosity among the following samples of South Africans: Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa and isiZulu speaking Protestants, Ca... see more

Mavhungu Abel Mafukata

This paper details the life and ministry exploits of prophet Abel Mphagi. Snowballing was used in identifying Key Informants. Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) were employed to gather data for this paper. Abel Mphagi was a powerful religious personality in ... see more

Iakovos Menelaou

 The filioque clause is one of the major differences between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches. The decision of the Catholic Church to add the filioque clause in the Creed not only caused many problems, but it still keeps the two Churches in distanc... see more

Joel Mokhoathi,Nasila S Rembe

 This article looks at the relationship between religious liberties and the South African constitution as understood and implemented by religious establishments, particularly the Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches in South Africa. It calls for an immed... see more

Ndikhokele Mtshiselwa

African philosophy is a recognized field both in the Old Testament and philosophy studies in Africa. Jacobus W. Gericke argues that ‘methodological and conceptual debates in African philosophy are things that biblical scholars can learn from when seeking ... see more

Marius Nel

The Pentecostal movement, especially in its early days, has been accused of anti-intellectualism and a lack of a developed theological tradition, and justifiably so. However, although Pentecostals make negative remariks about “theology” they define it in ... see more

Philip Nel

This article arises from the author’s exposure and research in the field of Southern African religious collectivities as user communities at sacred sites in the Eastern Free State. The user communities consist of individual pilgrims, groups of In-dependen... see more

Ian A Nell

 In discourses on leadership within the African context one regularly finds that scholars make a contrast between so-called Western and African approaches to leadership. African leadership approaches are then often linked to notions of an African val... see more

Matthew Oseka

The present paper analyses the study of the grammatical and lexical features of God’s generic name contained in the classic Jewish compendium authored by Abraham ben Daud Halevi and situates it against the disquisitions of Judah Halevi, Maimonides and Jos... see more

Jeremy Punt

 The political nature of the NT documents is carefully hidden away in the folds of a centuries-long tradition of Christianising and spiritualising the NT (and the Bible overall). The depoliticisation and demilitarisation of the NT works hand in glove... see more

Hulisani Ramantswana

 This article argues that the African eyes through which we are called to reread the Bible need to be decolonised on two fronts: First, our being African and being socially located in Africa does not automatically imply that we read through African e... see more

Temba Rugwiji

 The Hebrew Bible portrays the view that the Jewish lifestyle was predominantly agrarian. The ideology that Jewish socio-economic survival depended largely on subsistence farming is a depiction that the biblical text presents in terms of ‘themes’ per... see more

Lilian Cheelo Siwila

  Missionaries that came to southern Africa had much to offer to the local people of this part of the continent. One of the tasks of the missionaries in the mission field was to introduce mission schools. In central Africa the London Mission Soc... see more

Lovemore Togarasei

 Introducing the Journal of New Testament Studies of 2004 which carried a number of articles on early Christian families, MacDonald and Moxnes (2004:3-6) observed that, "The hope is that a direct focus on ‘family matters’ will shed new light on such ... see more

Maarman S Tshehla

 What is the significance of Mark mentioning other boats in the stilling of the storm incident? Could this notion of ‘other boats’ be Mark’s deliberate intimation of Jesus’ consistent awareness of and openness to ‘others’ in the Christian community’s... see more

Ruben Van de Belt

Paul Ricoeur’s understanding of metaphorical language is of great importance in reflection of biblical hermeneutics, not the least when it comes to the parables of Jesus. This article first explores Ricoeur’s conception of metaphor, and moves to apply it ... see more