African Pentecostalism and politics: Reading Luke-Acts in its political, sociological and religious contexts

GA Etukumana - Verbum et Ecclesia, 2024 - journals.co.za
This article seeks to bring out the functionalities of the promise of the Holy Spirit by Jesus,
the risen Lord, to his new community in Luke-Acts. It queries the need for such promise …

A social imagination of forgiveness

D Forster - Journal of Empirical Theology, 2019 - brill.com
This article studies the complexity of understandings of forgiveness among a sample of
Black and White South Africans within the context of an empirical intercultural Bible reading …

A public theological approach to the (im) possibility of forgiveness in Matthew 18: 15-35: Reading the text through the lens of integral theory

DA Forster - In die Skriflig, 2017 - journals.co.za
Some 20 years after the dawn of participative democracy, there is little noticeable or
substantial hange in the living conditions of the average South African. The country remains …

Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa

AA Thyssen - African Journal of Gender and Religion, 2022 - JSTOR
Reimagining Christianity and Sexual Diversity in Africa (2021), continues to garner much
attention from the theological community. At the time of publication of this review in AJGR …

When the Bible Meets the Black Stuff: A Contextual Bible Study Experiment

T Webster - 2017 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
The original contribution to knowledge that this Biblical Studies research project offers is the
experimental analysis of the claim that the Bible reading methodology Contextual Bible …

Navigating the threshold: An African-feminist reading of the Hagar narrative in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

S Thabede - 2022 - scholar.sun.ac.za
This study focuses on the experiences of Hagar/Hajar, as depicted through the three
monotheistic traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The scriptures from these …

Anthropological Case Studies As Research Design For Intercultural Theology

D Jara - Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology, 2022 - journal.equinoxpub.com
This article explores the suitability of anthropological Case Studies (CSs) as a research
design for research related to intercultural theology. The introduction refers briefly to the …

Tamar Summons the Church to Account: Resisting Patriarchal (and Ecclesial) Impunity in 2 Samuel 13: 21

G West - Journal of Anglican Studies, 2024 - cambridge.org
This article documents and reflects on gender-based Contextual Bible Study (CBS) work on
2 Samuel 13: 1–22 over more than thirty-five years, much of it shaped by work with Anglican …

Convivencia Loading When People of the Way Read Authoritative Scriptures Together

TK Mapfeka - Scriptura, 2022 - scielo.org.za
This paper is a preliminary submission of the insights gained from the CIAS Conference (11-
13 September 2019) pilot scriptural reading sessions. The empirical component of the CIAS …

[PDF][PDF] Facilitating God's Preferred Future

MJ Nel, P van der Walt - academia.edu
Desmond Tutu is credited with saying,“When the missionaries first came to Africa, they had
the Bible and we had the land. They said,'Let us pray.'We closed our eyes. When we opened …