Faculty of Theology
The Faculty of Theology is a faculty of Stellenbosch University. We are a faculty for theology, and through research, teaching and learning and community action we are a knowledge partner for other academic communities, various church denominations and institutions of broader society.
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Recent Submissions
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Transforming congregational culture : suburban leadership perspectives within a circuit of the DRC
(OASIS Publishing, 2015)On 27 April 2014 we celebrated twenty years of democracy in South Africa. Celebrating this important day in our history also afforded us the opportunity to reflect on what has transpired in our country during the past two ...
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Die Hermannsburgse sending-genootskap in Suid-Afrika met 'n beskouing oor hul beleid en metodes op die sendingstasies Ramaliane en Bethel in Wes-Transvaal
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1947)No abstract available.
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Mediated religion : implications for religious authority
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)The relationship between media and religion seems to be a well established research topic today. Themes like identity formation and community with regard to digital religion are well researched, but religious authority is ...
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A cultural turn in New Testament studies
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016)This article considers intersections between cultural studies and New Testament studies. It ponders and focuses on possible approaches to the bearing of the ‘cultural turn’ on biblical studies. Following a brief consideration ...
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Direkte vertaling van die Bybel as antieke teks : net ’n nuwe benaming vir ’n stokkerige woordelikse vertaling
(LitNet, 2014-12)Die term direkte vertaling kan maklik vereenselwig word met ’n stokkerige letterlike of woordelikse vertaling. Die doel van hierdie artikel is om te illustreer dat hierdie term soos wat dit in Die Bybel: ’n Direkte vertaling ...
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... But also just : reflections on the severe God of the catechism
(University of the Free State, 2014)The seemingly harsh texts about God's justice and wrath in the Heidelberg Catechism turn out to be the core of the comfort that the catechisms proclaims, if we read the catechism contextually. The same is the case with ...
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Klaagliedere 3:42 : vergifnis of nie-vergifnis
(University of the Free State, 2014)This article investigates the short prayer of Lamentations 3:42, the only text in the prayer literature that uses the particle לא (no) together with the term סלח (forgive). The exegetical study focuses on the literal, ...
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The Heidelberg Catechism on prayer : relevance of a 16th century confession for 21st century households
(University of the Free State, 2014)In a world characterized by power abuse and violence, where and how would people with the life-affirming ethos of God's alternative kingdom be formed? In view of this challenge, the essay explores the potential of the third ...
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Identity claims, texts, Rome and Galatians
(University of the Free State, 2014)This contribution explores the interplay between Paul's use of the Scriptures of Israel and the imperial setting in claims about Abraham and the negotiation of identity in the Galatians letter. The letter, from Paul's ...
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What happened to the Galatian Christians : Paul's legacy in Southern Galatia
(University of the Free State, 2014)Paul's Letter to the Galatians points to the influence of his missionary attempts in Galatia. By reconstructing the missionary journeys of Paul and his company in Asia Minor the author argues once again for the south ...
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Democracy is coming to the RSA : on democracy, theology, and futural historicity
(AOSIS Publishing, 2016-05-25)This article brings the concept of democracy – as an open-ended tradition – in conversation with notions dealing with historicity and the future, such as ‘democracy to come’, ‘promise’, and ‘a democratic vision’. It is ...
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The linguistic, conceptual, and pragmatic challenges of communicating Galatians 3:1-14 in Chewa
(University of the Free State, 2014)The aim of this study is, first of all, to present a rhetorically oriented analysis of the central pericope of 3:1-14, with special reference to its pertinent oral-aural qualities. This forms the basis, in turn, for a ...
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Danger Ingozi Gevaar : why reading alone can be bad for you
(OASIS Publishing, 2016)A discussion of the 1974 film, ‘The Conversation’, by Francis Ford Coppola serves as an introductory illustration of the dangers of interpretation in isolation. The film, starring Gene Hackman, highlights the contextual ...
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Hotel Rwanda : individual heroism or interconnectedness in the portrayal of Paul Rusesabagina?
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2016)Why does the protagonist in the film ‘Hotel Rwanda’ (2004) shelter almost 1300 refugees and in the process risk his own life? Most critics say it is because Paul Rusesabagina is a hero. Yet heroism as an individual act of ...
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The relationship between the Markan ἀφίημι-chreia and the historical Jesus
(OASIS Publishing, 2016)The theme of Jesus and the forgiveness of sin has always been a contentious one within historical Jesus research. This article gives a brief overview of the debate on the authenticity of various forgiveness logia in the ...
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A church judicial analysis of the office of the deacon in the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-01)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research study analyses the office of the deacon in the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe (RCZ). This is done by taking the Scriptural and Reformed church polity understanding of the office of a deacon ...
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Patriarchal inscribed bodies : a feminist theological engagement with body and sexuality in the “Worthy Women Movement”
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-01)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Gretha Wiid is the female leader of the Worthy Women Movement in South Africa. Wiid‟s discourse promotes female subordination and male headship. Her teachings seem to suggest that when wives submit to ...
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Socio-cultural and gender perspectives in John 7:53-8:11 : exegetical reflections in the context of violence against women in Zambia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-02-18)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Considering the numerous moral dilemmas facing the world of the twenty-first century, gender-based injustice is just one such example, and can be seen in the many occurrences of male violence against ...
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Lyflikheid en liturgie : prakties teologiese perspektiewe op die interbeliggaming van aanbidding
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study researches, from the perspective of gender-related body theology considerations, to what extent is intercorporeal worship realised within the DRC worship services and specifically in contemporary ...
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Mission as prophetic dialogue in Christian-Muslim encounters in Northern Nigeria
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-14)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since receiving its independence in 1960, Nigeria has struggled to unite its many people, ethnic and religious groups under one national identity. In recent decades, religiously motivated encounters between ...
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“To know the real one” Christological promeity in the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-01)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer will be examined for its potential to address the problem of God and world, i.e. to provide a conception of the transcendent God’s immanence in reality faithful to the ...
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Peacebuilding amongst Christian and Muslim in Nigeria : a critical study of "a model of and for" religion leaders as peace brokers
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-14)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: We live in a world where religious diversity is increasingly affecting and changing everything around us and ourselves as well. No religious community is exempt from the pressures of diversity. The crisis ...
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What science? who’s theology? : a reformed theological response to Andrew Newberg’s neurotheological model
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-01)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Religious, mystical and spiritual experiences are some of the most important and complex experiential qualities of human life. It has always been our greatest endeavour to make sense of our reality, and ...
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Empowerment by hope : a phenomenological study on the health and wellbeing of African refugee migrants
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Ours is a century of migration. It has become more necessary for people to migrate than ever before in human history due to a variety of reasons including political instability and economic opportunities. ...
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Rape as Torture : re-reading the rape of the Levite’s concubine in Judges 19
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-02-18)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Rape has become a way of life in South Africa. From narratives lived and shared, we know how pervasive violence against women is, to such a degree that some refer to it as a gender civil war in South ...
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Deuteronomy 21:1-9 a programmatic anomaly? : a thematic and programmatic analysis of Deuteronomy 21:1-9 within the context of the Deuteronomist’s agenda
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-02-18)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Deuteronomy 21:1-9 falls within the Deuteronomic legal corpus and, more broadly, within the Deuteronomistic History. Its final form, as recognized by several scholars, betrays an origin of earlier ...
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Empowering hope? : Jürgen Moltmann’s eschatological challenge to ecclesiological responses in the Zimbabwean context of poverty
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-01)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study wrestles with Jürgen Moltmann’s eschatological concept of the ‘church of hope for the poor’ within the Zimbabwean context of poverty, in search for an empowering and liberating ecclesiological ...
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Geloofsonderskeiding in die Oostelike Sinode van die NG Kerk tydens die besluitnemingsprosesse oor die wysiging van Artikel 1 van die Kerkorde
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-14)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During 2014, the DRC came to a point where they had to decide whether they would amend their confessional base to include the Belhar Confession as part of their official doctrine. The General Synod ...
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Being in touch : embodying Christian hospitality in an urban context
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03-01)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study argues that an adequate Christian theology of hospitality understands hospitality as an embodied practice that seeks in proximity and vulnerability, and often from the margins, to welcome the ...
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A social-scientific study of the Parable of the Shrewd Steward in Luke 16:1-9
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-02-18)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The understanding of the parable of the shrewd steward in Luke 16:1-9 has been problematic throughout its interpretive history. The main challenge is Jesus’ praise and commendation of the dishonest acts ...
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