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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Fearing the stranger? : homiletical explorations in a fear-filled world
(AOSIS, 2019)The large number of xenophobic attacks that broke out in different places in South Africa during 2008 was still continuing unabated 10 years later. We were stressed to come to terms with the reality that this occurred in ... -
Returning women to their place? : religious fundamentalism, gender bias and violence against women
(Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa, 2018)Religious fundamentalism drawing from biblical texts and/or natural law has had a considerable impact on Eastern European politics, notably on issues concerning women. This paper addresses the misuse of biblical texts that ... -
Christian humanism, progressive Christianity and social transformation
(Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa, 2018)This article explores my understanding of Christian humanism in conversation with Martin Prozesky's notion of progressive Christianity and their relevance for social transformation. Central to the conversation is how we ... -
The linguistic characteristics of the language of human rights and its use in reality as the kingdom of God in the light of Speech Act Theory
(AOSIS, 2019)Human rights, a language that keeps public order, is realised in ordinary life by language characteristics according to social rules. Despite this fact, research that considers the linguistic features of human rights ... -
Freedom of religion : from the Church Order of Dordt (1619) to South Africa (2018)
(AOSIS, 2018-11-01)This article is about freedom of religion as an integral part of the Reformation of the 16th century and how it was expressed in the Church Order of Dordt (1619) and later at the Cape of Good Hope under the rule of the ... -
Mark 4:1–34 : a simple structure for the mystery of the kingdom
(AOSIS, 2018-04-24)Existing proposals regarding the structure of Mark 4:1–34 have not met with unqualified approval. This article proposes a simple structure for Mark 4:1–34, then highlights relevant presuppositions before providing an ... -
Thou shalt not smoke : content and context in the Lord’s Resistance Army’s concept of the Ten Commandments
(AOSIS, 2019)With the Ten Commandments as a case, the overall focus of this article is how a reader’s a priori concept of a text influences how he or she allows textual content and interpretive context to interact. The frame of the ... -
Reconsidering Deuteronomy 26:5–11 as a small historical creed : overtures towards a migrant reading within the Persian period
(AOSIS, 2019)Against the backdrop of recent scholarship related to Deuteronomy 26:5–11, the influential hypothesis formulated by Gerhard von Rad that this verse entails a ‘small historical creed’ will be re-evaluated. In addition to ... -
South African perspective on sexual slavery, sex work and exploitation
(IntechOpen, 2019)After millennia, formal slavery in most jurisdictions worldwide eventually came to an end by the middle of the nineteenth century. Yet, all kinds of trapped forms of labour took its place, among others sexual slavery—one ... -
Where is our home?
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2018)Early Christians considered themselves strangers in the world. This view was deeply rooted in the forgoing Jewish tradition. The Torah begins with human beings who are not at home; they had been driven away from the garden ... -
The concept of the holy seed as a coping strategy in Ezra-Nehemiah and its implications for South Africa
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2018)In a study describing the problems experienced by former political exiles who have returned to South Africa since 1990, Majodina argues that the psychological study of reintegration of refugees/exiles deserves a place in ... -
Jeremiah 8:8 : why are scribes accused of corrupting the Torah?
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2019)Why are scribes accused, in Jeremiah 8:8-9, of corrupting the "tôrah"? The article contemplates possible answers to this question against the background of what is presupposed in the Book of Jeremiah with regards to "tôrah" ... -
Anything new under the sun? : exploring further avenues for writing another commentary on Chronicles
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2018)Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of new commentaries on Chronicles. Scholars may justifiably ask whether there is anything new under the sun to investigate in another commentary on this book. Having ... -
From traumatic to narrative memories : the rhetorical function of birth metaphors in Micah 4-5
(University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2018)This article proposes that trauma hermeneutics and, in particular, greater theoretical reflection on the relationship between trauma and metaphor may help explain the birth metaphors in Micah 4:9-5:3, where the woman-in-labour ... -
The restoration of the dry bones in Ezekiel 37:1-14 : an exegetical and theological analysis
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2019)The visionary presentation of "Dry Bones" in Ezekiel 37 presupposes the possibility of the restoration of Yahweh’s covenant people to their ancestral land in ancient Palestine. What, therefore, is the underpinning theological ... -
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 ... -
Towards a visionary and historical consciousness : Rowan Williams’s four quartets lectures (1974–1975)
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2017)The aim of this essay is to provide a critical exposition of Rowan Williams’s unpublished lectures on T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. A thorough examination of these texts has been lacking in various interpretations of Williams’s ... -
St Paul’s Anglican Theological College during the transition towards a democratic South Africa, 1986–92
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2017)St Paul’s Theological College was established in Grahamstown, South Africa, in 1902 to train white Anglican students for the ministry. During the last six years of its existence, from 1986 to 1992, the college went through ... -
British imperial wars and the strengthening of the Dutch Reformed Church's mission : Mashonaland in the late 19th to early 20th centuries
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2017)This focus is on conflicts in which the British South African Company (BSAC) had a direct hand, and in which British forces were victorious. Three specific conflicts will be highlighted: the First Matabele War (1893-1894), ... -
From England to under African skies : the quest for an African Anglican liturgical voice
(Church History Society of Southern Africa and Unisa Press, 2017)The prayer book of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa is currently being revised. The slogan “Under Southern Skies—In an African voice” is the rallying cry of this liturgical consultative process. It captures one of ...
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