SCRIPTURA  

Yaw Adu-Gyamfi

The Akan people of Ghana’s beliefs and practices, enforced by taboos regarding ecosystemconservation, foster a sustainable use of the environment. Akan beliefs and practiceshighlight their moral import, are crucial in preserving the environment, and prote... see more

Ernst M. Conradie

This contribution offers a broad orientation regarding theological discourse on the churchand the environment. The question is what the church as church can do in addressingenvironmental threats. The eschatological uniqueness of the church is taken into a... see more

Douglas Lawrie

The article argues that discourse about the Bible and the environment is often insufficientlymaterialistic and insufficiently theological. Ideas are not the motive force of history, butarise in a complex dialectic in which humans create and are created by... see more

Miranda N. Pillay

Based on the premise that both anthropocentricism (humans over the environment) andpatriarchy (men over women and children) operate as hierarchies to oppress and subjugate‘others’, this article makes a connection between patriarchy and prosperity preachin... see more

Hans S. A. Engdahl

In this article Afrikaner theology articulated by FJM Potgieter is compared to contemporaryfundamentalism. Potgieter’s theology is built on certain biblical principia thatrepresent revealed truth and therefore are irreducible principles applicable in all ... see more

Aron Pinker

The difficult Qoh 3:11 is emended to read ?????????? ?????? ????? ???????? ???? ??????????? ????? ????????? ???? ??????????????????? ??????? ??????????????? ???????????? ?????????? ?????? ?????????? (“all he made well in its time, yethe placed the unknowa... see more

Obvious Vengeyi

This article serves as a critique of the gospel of prosperity in general although particularfocus is on Zimbabwean Pentecostal churches. The model for this critique is the propheticbook of Amos. The article assumes that Amos dethroned a theology similar t... see more

Benno A. Zuiddam

Hebrews uses the words ?????? t?? ?e?? to denote authoritative Divine speech. These aretreated as oracles from heaven with an inherently divine quality. Hebrews’ use of ?????? assuch implies a divine source and this is reinforced by t?? ?e??. Both the wid... see more

H. L. Bosman

Mark S Smith is the Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studiesat New York University and has received scholarly acclaim for previous bookson the religion of ancient Israel, such as The Early History of God: Yahweh andOther Deities in Anc... see more