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The absurdity of reconciliation. What we (should) learn from Rustenburg and the implications for South Africa
(Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)
The quest for reconciliation in South Africa is an exercise in the absurd. To say it is an
exercise for the absurd might also have some merit. Like Sisyphus, the figure in Greek
mythology, those engaged in the quest for ...
Church’s response to migrants’ quest for identity formation
(AOSIS, 2021)
Migration has received diverse responses from the dominant powers in the political, social
and religious spheres. Assimilation, domination and cohesion are some of the responses to the
integration of people who cross ...
Young people – citizens in times of climate change? A childist approach to human responsibility
(AOSIS, 2021)
The matters of climate change are presently of concern existentially and ethically to the children
and the youth. Worldwide school strikes in 2018–2019 and the Fridays for Future movement
demonstrate how the young citizens ...
The Seventh-Day Adventist church and the quest for transformational development in contemporary Nigeria perspectives from an empirical study
(Southern African Missiological Society, 2022)
This article discusses the findings of an empirical study that investigated the attitudes
of different sections of the membership of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA)
Church to the socio-economic and political struggles ...
African Pentecostal churches and racialized xenophobia: International migrants as agents of transformational development?
(SAGE, 2022)
Scholarship on Pentecostal potential and practice forms a significant part of the debate on religion and development, not least when the focus is on sub-Saharan Africa. Yet in this debate African Pentecostal migrant
communities ...
Beyond a “political priest”: exploring Desmond Tutu as a “freedom-fighter mystic”
(Black Theology, 2021)
The purpose of this essay is to critically review the remarkably unique account of Desmond Tutu’s life presented by Michael Battle in his book “Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa’s Confessor.” The central ...
Beyond a “Political Priest”: Exploring Desmond Tutu as a “Freedom-Fighter Mystic”
(Black Theology An International Journal, 2021)
The purpose of this essay is to critically review the remarkably unique account of Desmond Tutu’s life presented by Michael
Battle in his book “Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa’s Confessor.” The central ...
A journal for biblical, theological and / or contextual hermeneutics?
(Stellenbosch University, 2020)
This contribution reflects on the current sub-title of the journal Scriptura, namely
“Journal for Biblical, Theological and Hermeneutics”. It showsthat this has been
a core interest of the journal over a period of forty ...
Rulers or servants? A re-reading of psalm 8 concerning the place of humankind in the age of the anthropocene
(Stellenbosch University, 2022)
With the Age of the Anthropocene and the clear signs of ecological destruction that have resulted from this rule of humans over the creation of God, it is essential that biblical scholars revisit the texts, both in the Old ...
Nigerian Pentecostal megachurches and development: A diaconal analysis of the redeemed Christian church of God
(MDPI, 2023)
The Nigerian social, public, political and religious landscapes have changed significantly
over time with the emergence and proliferation of Pentecostal megachurches. The majority of these
churches are structured and ...