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Herodias and Salome in Mark’s story about the beheading of John the Baptist
According to Mark 6:14–29, John the Baptist was beheaded by the order of Herod Antipas. This dramatic event became inevitable …
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Schleiermacher as preacher: A contemporary South African perspective
South African homiletics is in a crisis and it has – contrary to our expectation – nothing to do with …
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The Dutch Reformed Church is continuously changing: Revision of the church order of 1998
As the name of the title suggests, the Dutch Reformed Church is continuously changing or reforming. This change focuses on …
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Practical guidelines to ameliorate the effects of internal and external deployments on the marriages of soldiers
This article critically looks at the challenges that are incumbent in the deployment of married soldiers who work for the …
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Engaging children as ‘agents of change’: The Grahamstown Scout Group
This article, as a narrative, offers a ‘learning journey’ of the Grahamstown Scout Group, and reveals how ‘the child’s right …
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The Norwegian Pentecostal Mission’s work in Kenya between 1955 and 1984: A historical perspective
This article attempts to reconstruct an early history of the Norwegian Pentecostal Mission’s (NPM) work in Kenya. The Free Pentecostal …
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Genesis 27:27–29 in the face of the popular Christian concept of blessing in Nigeria
Conspicuous in the Old Testament (OT) is the literary genre of blessing that is often construed in poetic forms. They …
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The Bantu Presbyterian Church in South Africa and Ecumenism, 1940–1999
From 1940, ecumenical developments in the Presbyterian/Congregational corpus in Southern Africa became more tortuous and complex, with an expansion of …
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The cleansing of the leper in Mark 1:40–45 and the secrecy motif: An African ecclesial context
This article examines the reason behind the charge to secrecy imposed by Jesus on the leper in Mark 1:40–45, in …
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Living a good life?: Considering technology and pro-social behaviour
This article explores the notions of a good life as understood in religion and psychology. The markers of altruism and …
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(Re)constructing God to find meaning in suffering: Men serving long-term sentences in Zonderwater
Offender populations experience their incarceration through different lenses and often as a spiritual journey of suffering. During 2017 and 2018 …
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‘A pretty decent sort of bloke’: Towards the quest for an Australian Jesus
From many Aboriginal elders, such as Tjangika Napaltjani, Bob Williams and Djiniyini Gondarra, to painters, such as Arthur Boyd, Pro …
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An integrated African pastoral care approach to unaccompanied refugee minors based on Verryn’s Child interventions
The African proverb ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ has been compromised and exposed by the migration of …
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The ‘wonderful’ donkey – Of real and fabled donkeys
An ethological appreciation of the donkey has confirmed that it is a special and unique animal. The donkey is a …
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A critical study of Acts 6:1–3 and its implications for political restructuring in Nigeria
The nascent church in Jerusalem represented in Acts 6 verses 1–3 was promptly challenged by the problem of inequity and …
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Wathint’ Umfazi, Wathint’ Imbokodo, Uzakufa [You Strike a Woman, You Strike a Rock, You Will Die]: Dinah and Tamar as rape protestors
This article reflects on two rape stories, namely, the rape of Dinah and the rape of Tamar. In the two …
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Reconstructing black identity: The Black Panther, Frantz Fanon and Achilles Mbembe in conversation
It is dehumanising to identify people in terms of colour. Stereotyping and discrimination come with racial identification. Black identity has …
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Towards a decolonial hermeneutic of experience in African Pentecostal Christianity: A South African perspective
The idea for this article was developed in ecumenical discussion regarding the worrisome developments in some neo-Pentecostal ministries where stories …
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Schism, syncretism and politics: Derived and implied social model in the self-definition of early Christian orthodoxy
The first 400 years of Christianity posed an intricate scenario of social dynamics. The interplay of these social dynamics or …
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Nicaea as political orthodoxy: Imperial Christianity versus episcopal polities
Fourth-century Christianity and the Council of Nicaea have continually been read as a Constantinian narrative. The dominancy of imperial Christianity …