SCRIPTURA  

Godwin Akper

 ‘Talking back’ in a non-confrontational way, this essay engages the German theologian Volker Küster’s ‘reading’ of what it views as resistant discourses from the global South. In the first instance, the essay attempts to ‘read’, with Küster, global ... see more

Bryan Beeckman

In a time when Hellenism came to a rise, other streams of thinking, such as Judaism, were challenged by the Greek way of thinking. Due to this Hellenising trend, some Jews tended to devaluate the Law of Moses. Jewish literature of that time often worked a... see more

Pieter J J Botha

Concepts such as orality, media criticism, manuscript culture, oral reading and performance have been introduced to New Testament scholarship since the 1980s, but their impact on and contribution to mainstream research are still in question. A resurgent i... see more

Ernst M Conradie

 In an earlier contribution on the use of the term ‘worldview’ in various theological discourses I commented on the confusing connotations attached to the term in neo-Calvinism, the sociology of knowledge, African theology, ‘science and theology’ and... see more

Ernst M Conradie

This contribution offers some critical reflections on the Diagnostic Overview produced by the South African National Planning Commission. The argument is structured in the form of catena and commentary with main sections devoted to the assumption of the n... see more

June Frances Dickie

Many of us do not see God in our suffering as we have mistaken notions of who God is and of how God interacts with us. If we are to see God in our suffering, we need a new understanding of who God is. Valuable insights into the nature of God and the natur... see more

Mookgo Solomon Kgatle

Previous works on Saint John Apostolic Faith Mission have focused on the establishment of the church by its female founder, Christina Nku. Other works have studied the reasons that caused the church to undergo several schisms over the years. Some scholars... see more

John Stephanus Klaasen

What contribution does a narrative approach make to effective care for those affected by gender based violence? Notwithstanding the contributions of feminist theologians who take experience and identity serious (Ackermann and Ruether), open ended narrativ... 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 liberal values and attitudes among the following samples of South Africans: Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa and isiZulu speakin... see more

Paul Lekholokoe Leshota

The influence of the great Roman Empire on almost every facet of life in the first century Mediterranean world can hardly be ignored. It comes as no surprise therefore that the gospels, which took shape within this context, reflect the machinations of the... see more

Kirk Robert MacGregor

 This article argues that the pre-Markan passion narrative ended with a starkly unadorned account of the empty tomb, an account which raises as many questions about Jesus’s fate as it does answers. Employing tradition and redaction criticism, I revea... see more

Takesure Mahohoma

 This article seeks to demonstrate the impact of community life in promoting unity from an African perspective. We use the proto-community in Acts 2:42. The aim is to encourage all Africans and other people to cultivate a sense of belonging and valui... see more

Bennie Marais,Ernest van Eck,Jacobus Kok

This article deals with Jesus and the outsiders in John 4, with particular focus on John 4:1-42. Methodologically, the study focuses on social-identity theory, and asks the question of how Jesus gets the Samaritan woman, who is a member of the outside gro... see more

Mogomme Masoga,Temba Rugwiji

Ritual murders have recently been widespread among African societies in general. Reports of such murders . have become cause for concern. African countries that are implicated in ritual killing include but are not limited to: Botswana, Nigeria, South Afri... see more

Barnabé Anzuruni Msabah

There is growing interest in the wellbeing of refugees and particularly the strategies they employ in their quest for improved livelihoods. This article reports on a recent study on the dynamics of the refugee phenomenon. It focuses largely on the long-te... see more

Matthew Oseka

The present paper examines the plural forms found in Genesis 1:26, 3:5 and 3:22 which might appertain to the Divine and which acted as focal points for theological and exegetical discussion within the framework of the Jewish tradition. Thus, the paper stu... see more

Jake Otonko

 The growing population of Christians in Africa, Asia and Latin America is one of the success stories of the Christian faith of the modern era. The central importance of this paradigmatic shift in the gravitational centre of Christianity to Africa ha... see more

Jeremy Punt

 Continuing to read the Pauline letters as ‘Christian’ theological treatises side-lines their author’s Jewishness and life in the Roman Empire. Paul’s Jewishness within Empire is important for understanding the letters’ take on power and also the pow... see more

Teddy C Sakupapa

 This purpose of this essay is to provide an overview of approaches to ecclesiology in the African context with specific reference to various institutional expressions of the ecumenical movement. While wider ecumenical ecclesiological debates have po... see more

Mark Wilson

Luke’s phrase ???te???? µ??? in Acts 19:1 has been an interpretative conundrum for scholars of Acts for centuries. How Paul came to Ephesus at the start of the third journey is the geographical issue. The article begins with a brief lexical discussion. It... see more