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African Ethiopia and Byzantine imperial orthodoxy: Politically influenced self-definition of Christianity
The ancient Ethiopian Christian empire was an emergent and notable power in Eastern Africa and influenced its surrounding regions. It …
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Rethinking the message of the church in the 21st century: An amalgamation between science and religion
Throughout its history, Christianity has stood in a dichotomous relation to the various philosophical movements or eras (pre-modernism, modernism, postmodernism …
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‘Do you hear what these are saying?’ (Mt 21:16): Children and their role within Matthew’s narrative
This article sketches the broad outlines of Matthew’s ironic portrayal of children, examining first the ‘lower level’ of the narrative …
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Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Reden and the problem of religious plurality
Modern knowledge of the world’s religions brings to light the problem of religious plurality, meaning the problem of why there …
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The Matthean community’s state of coexistence between Jews and Gentiles
The past century has seen various studies on the nature of Matthew’s community, and conclusions are still being debated. The …
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Reflections on Schleiermacher’s God
Schleiermacher’s approach to the doctrine of God has attracted interest in contemporary theological scholarship. The article tries to map the …
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Uninterrupted prayer – A spiritual challenge
This contribution probes the question how the biblical instruction to pray continuously was understood in the history of Christian spirituality. …
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First steps into the discipline: On the ‘spirit’ in the discipline of Christian spirituality
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Christus medicus – Christus patiens: Healing as exorcism in context
The aim of this article is to argue that healing stories in the Jesus tradition should be understood as exorcisms, …
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Leadership development for missions in poor urban communities
Leadership development is an ongoing need in Africa. Good leadership is key to the building of any society. This article …
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The dangerous role of politics in modern millennial movements
This article investigates the political nature and involvement of millennialism as a religious phenomenon. It, firstly, offers a brief analysis …
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Looking through the eyes of Job: A transpersonal–psychological perspective
The current context of a turn to the visual and the transpersonal–psychological potential of the book of Job forms the …
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Teaching theology from a distance: Experiences of the Institute of Distance Learning at St Tikhon’s Orthodox University in Moscow, Russia
This article considers the basic problem of online education owing to the lack of direct contact between all participants in …
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Gendered African (biblical) scholarship: An ode to Talitha
Attributed in Christian scripture to Jesus’s very lips, the intriguing Aramaic phrase ‘Talitha, Kum!’ has emerged as an important refrain …
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The Throne of God as a prototype of primacy in the Church and in creation
This study emphasises the cosmic dimensions of the Church understood as the Throne of God, analysing its understanding in this …
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Embracing the eye of the Apple: On anthropology, theology and technology
The playful re-working of the idiomatic expression ‘the apple of my eye’ to the ‘eye/I of my Apple’ provides the …
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A realistic reading of the parable of the Lost Coin in Q: Gaining or losing even more?
This article aims to present a realistic reading of the parable of the Lost Coin in Q. A realistic reading …
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Religion, religion! Wherefore art thou, religion? Enactment in interreligious encounters as walking the talk
‘Interfaith dialogue’ is a term that generally assumes dialogue between different faiths. Much has been written about why, how and …
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Redressing the past, doing justice in the present: Necessary paradoxes
In this contribution, the connection between redressing the past and doing justice in the present is explored by presenting the …
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The Infiniscience of the hospitable God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: Re-interpreting Trinity in the light of the Rublev icon
Because of the impact of church doctrine and many documents explaining the official confession of many denominations in Christianity, Trinity …