Browsing Chapters in Books (Old and New Testament) by Title
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Conquering evil : engaging violence from the perspective of Paul’s letter to the Romans
(African Sun Media, 2020)The scholarly definition of violence has created conceptual complexity across disciplines. It is not possible to deal with all proposed definitions of violence in this brief chapter and therefore it will only focus on a ... -
God the Saviour in Greco-Roman popular philosophy
(BRILL, 2019)God is often referred to as Saviour (σωτήρ) in Greco-Roman popular philosophy. His function as saviour is described as both cosmological and ethical: On the cosmological level, God is responsible for the preservation of ... -
Matthew's reconfiguring of salvation in a context of oppression
(African Sun Media, 2020)Socio-historically both the story of Jesus narrated by Matthew, and the community he wrote for, can be located within Rome’s sphere of influence (Wainwright, 2017:30).2 According to Jonker (2018:6), it is important to ... -
Of "Basters" and "Bastards" : overcoming the problematic connection of race and gender in the Hebrew Bible and its interpretation
(African Sun Media, 2020)During the fallout from the now infamous Sport Science article,1 a colleague of mine in the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University shared an anecdote of some coloured woman who was removed from a shortlist for ... -
The reconciliation of lepers in Luke 5:12-15 and its implications for human dignity : an African perspective
(African Sun Media, 2020)Reconciliation is an important topic in contemporary political, social, economic and religious spheres since it has the ability to redefine human relationships therein. Without the possibility of reconciliation it would ...
