HTS Teologiese Studies-Theological Studies

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Women’s statement at the 1990 Rustenburg Church Conference: Still an important voice from the past	67
Challenges of Church Planting in the Book of Acts, its implications for Contemporary Church	65
Thoughts on China’s contemporary religious relationship: Discussion in view of current theories	51
Political and socio-economic convergence of religions in Nigeria: Positive views and interests	45
Church of Nigeria’s (Anglican Communion) response to domestic violence against women in Nsukka local government area	29
Sexuality in Folktales: Asset or Liability to Socialisation of Learners in Zimbabwean schools	28
Sacred contradictions: Religion, conflict and peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria	26
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 5 (2023)	24
Realist literature, gender and gullibility in African Pentecostalism: The case of Chiundura Moyo’s Kereke Inofa	23
The Revised Standard Version (1952) and its revisions as a linear emergence of the Tyndale–King James Version tradition	22
Realities and challenges for mission transformation in Sabu people	16
Mission as ‘being with’ in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	15
Taking stock of oral history archives in a village in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa: Are preservation and publishing feasible?	15
Elderly women and COVID-19 vaccination in the indigenous religio-culture of the Ndau of south-eastern Zimbabwe	15
The Nehanda mythology: Dialectics of gender, history and religion in Zimbabwean literature	14
A Bonaventurian rousing of the metaphysics of primary causality to counter New Materialism	12
Imago Dei and artificial intelligence: A theological inquiry into personhood and human ontological boundaries	12
Violence and apocalyptic notions in Mark 13	12
Quran interpretation methodology, new media, and ideological contestation of Salafi in Sambas	12
Community land conflicts and pro-poor urban land access in Enugu, Nigeria: Church involvement for social inclusion	12
Evaluation of the role of Islamic lifestyle in communication skills of Muslim couples	12
Nurturing inclusivity among Durban University of Technology students through reflective writing	10
The founding of Marxist study of religion and its theoretical sources of humanities	10
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 3 (2023)	10
Biblical discourses and compulsory monogamy among the Vatsonga people in South Africa	10

Herman Jean de Vleeschauwer (1899–1986) se interpretasie van Middeleeuse filosofie aan UNISA (1951–1964)	9
The role of the Korean Protestant church in the democratisation of technology	9
Diplomatic or eclectic critical editions of the Hebrew Bible? Considering a third alternative	9
1 Timothy 6:6–14 and materialism amongst Nigerian Christian youths	9
Missio Dei’s complexity prefaced in synergism	9
The struggle and Islamic patriotism of Sunan Kalijaga in folktales of Central Java, Indonesia	9
Corrigendum: The pastor as spiritual mediator between God and the congregation: Corruptions of the relationships of the ‘under-shepherd’, the ‘flock’ and the ‘chief shepherd’ in a Zambian context and	9
Adult religious morality development from the Quranic perspective: Strategies to overcome Islamophobia and Christianophobia	9
Qanun, religious education, religiosity and sexual activity among Muslim youth	9
Text, theory and methodology: Ruminations from the horizon of a reader from the south	8
Christian gathering and the digital ecclesia: A post-COVID-19 reading of Hebrews 10:25	8
Leadership failure and divine renewal: A theological study of Elijah in 1 Kings 19	8
Islamic religiosity and job satisfaction among Muslim teachers in Malaysia	8
The role of the church in the public space in Zimbabwe (2017–2023): Lessons drawn from Johannine Jesus in John 21:15–18	8
Corrigendum: Romanian Orthodox elementary denominational schools in Transylvania (1868–1921)	8
Mission schools as seedbed for social transformation: Lessons drawn from the Methodist Church	7
Protecting the rights of Muslim women in Indonesian diaspora marriages in Russia: An Islamic Law Perspective	7
The agency of the church during COVID-19 and beyond: Koinonia and ubuntu in the context of poverty and unemployment in South Africa	7
Divine play: Religious interpretation of play philosophy	7
The task and future of New Testament Studies	7
Intertextuality and Moses imagery in Matthew’s infancy narrative	7
Erratum: ‘Living God, renew and transform us’ – 26th General Council of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, in Leipzig, Germany, 29 June to 07 July 2017	7
Ulwaluko: A critical site for black theological reflection	7
Is God evolving? Totems in contemporary art	7
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies is turning over a new page	7
Rereading Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd’s method of interpreting religious texts	6
The mutual corruption of volition and nature? A closer reading of Ad Thalassium 42	6
Spirituality and survivorship: Dealing with COVID-19	6
Challenging building blocks: Art, music and agriculture	6
Against discontinuity: Augustine’s theory of happiness reconsidered	6
Theological belief towards Islamic spiritual belief: Evidence from South Sulawesi, Indonesia	6
Woven with meaning: Lawung and Sumping as expressions of faith in New Testament theology	6
Kutanda botso [self-shaming]: A suffering-related therapeutic ritual in Shona society	6
Exploring gender relations in Paul’s use of salutations to house churches and the ubuntu oral praxis of sereto or isiduko	6
Theologies of women’s submission and the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Religious fanaticism and thugocracy: Catalysts to the brain drain in Nigeria	6
Ancient Israelite conceptual system for heaven in the Hebrew Bible	6
A study on perceptions of immigrant acceptance in Korean society: Focusing on the concept of ὁμοιός in the New Testament	6
Decolonising chaplaincy in the South African National Defence Force	6
Joining the Spirit: Missio Dei and artificial intelligence in digital missional praxis	6
‘Creatures in our bed’: Pandemics, posthumanism and predatory nature in World War Z (2013)	6
Biblical discourse as a technology of ‘othering’: A decolonial reading on the 1840 Moffat sermon at the Tabernacle, Moorfields, London	6
Anthropomorphism according to Al-Ghazali (d. 1111) and Maimonides (d. 1204): A comparative discourse	6
Schreiner family narratives: Written and oral sources in biographical research	6
Retraction notice to: The struggle for the construction of places of worship of minority religions in Indonesia	6
Canon, sex and gender in Theodoret of Cyrus’s exposition of LXX Ruth	6
Embracing mapalus traditional management values for Christian religious education	5
Eziko: Feasts of power, gender roles and sacred spaces in Luke 22:14–20	5
Enough is not enough! Confronting church leadership’s mental health in Zimbabwe	5
Corrigendum: Challenges of Islamic Education in the New Era of Information and Communication Technologies	5

The feminisation of poverty: A study of Ndau women of Muchadziya village in Chimanimani Zimbabwe	5
Theology for sustainable development in Zimbabwe: Unpacking Deuteronomy 20:19–20 in light of SDG 15	5
Religious beliefs in public administration and behaviour surrounding abortion decriminalisation in COVID-19 era	5
Metaphysics of cosmological models	5
Christian communities and intimate partner violence in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review	5
Do the arguments for God cohere? An analysis of inter-argument relations and the application of Thagard’s model of explanatory coherence	5
Investigating the effect of Islamic values on citizenship behaviours of Muslim citizens	5
Rediscovering the way of Islamic propagation by continuing the tradition of religion-based agriculture	5
Retraction notice to: ‘The integration path of mental health education and college students’ ideological and political education’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 79(4), a8873	5
Interreligious dialogue	5
Righteousness in Luke 1:6: Considering marital stability amid barrenness in Nigerian societies	5
New lenses for a new future. Why science needs theology and why theology needs science	5
Surrogacy in Indonesia: The comparative legality and Islamic perspective	5
Wat is verlossing? ’n Teologies kritiese en kanonies-linguistiese ondersoek	5
The humanisation of women in the Tafsir Faidh Ar-Rahmân by Kiai Saleh Darat	5
Grace in Second Clement: Priority, incongruity, superabundance, and reciprocity	5
Expanding our horizons for new discourses about ʾIslām and Islamic living	5
Patriarchy, couple counselling and testing in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Zimbabwe	5
The reception of the alternative voice by Afrikaans readers (1994–2002)	5
The influence of Internet economy on consumer psychology in the post-epidemic era	4
Exploring the resilience and epistemic access of first-year female students in higher education	4
Erratum: Exploring 19th-century medical mission in China: Forging modern roots of Chinese medicine	4
A need for Reformed traditions to transform towards a womanist turning point	4
Teaching religion as change for social transformation in contemporary African and non-African universities: a South African manifesto	4
Revisiting the Kairos document after 40 years: A challenge to the churches in South Africa	4
Constructing a Christ-centred identity: A social identity reading of the Epistle to Titus	4
From Kairos to Kairos: Prophetic witness in post-apartheid and Global South contexts	4
Research ethics to consider when collecting oral histories in wilderness areas such as the Kruger National Park	4
‘Radical discipleship’: The public theology of archbishop David Mukuva Gitari towards democratisation of Kenya	4
Theology and botho/ubuntu in dialogue towards South African social cohesion	4
Towards an eco-practical theology: An eschatological horizon of true hope	4
Table of Contents Vol 81, No 1 & 2 (2025)	4
Retraction notice to: ‘The influence of Chinese ancient poetry and literature on college students’ mental anxiety’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 79(4), a8837	4
A comparative approach to the theistic proofs of Anselm of Canterbury’s ‘Monologion’	4
The dynamics of empowering women in the post-missionary Church of Christ in Zimbabwe	4
When wounds meet hope: African Christian thoughts of Augustine and Tutu	4
The performative function of turmoil, trauma and tenacity in Judith 9–16: A speech act analysis	4
Ethics in medicine: Challenges in the 21st century	4
Nyawiras as communal liberators: Accounting for life preservation roles among African women	4
COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy in South Africa: Biblical discourse	4
Representation of cultural values in Tempuutn Senarikng of Dayak Benuaq and Tunjung tribes	4
COVID-19 and Sunday worship in the wake of the pandemic at Our Lady of Loreto, South Africa	4
The labourers in the vineyard, theory of value and agriculture	4
Nurturing agency in emerging adults of local churches: a case study from Soshanguve	4
The ministry of presence in absence: Pastoring online in Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Beatific presence: The praxis of priestly mission in a wounded country	4
A re-reading of Judges 19 in juxtaposition to the Zimbabwean women’s vulnerability to ‘punitive rape’	4
Religion and identity polarisation: A slight note from the frontier region	4
Thorny the paths they tread, Zimbabwean women and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A womanist reflection	4
Towards redeeming ‘loyalty’ in functionalist Bible translation using the Hebrew ḥesed concept	4
The logos Christology in the fourth gospel (Jn 1:1–5, 14): A soteriological response to an Ewe cosmic prayer	3
Hesychasm as a locus theologicus: The epistemology of experience in Gregory Palamas	3
Review of the method of Talmud instruction at Yeshivat Maʿalot	3
A biblical response to Arwah Be Am Nai as mediator between humans and God in Hauteas tradition	3
The complexity of the relationship of vocalisation signs of Semitic pointing systems	3
Searching legal format: Reshaping the role of state and religion in Indonesia post-Suharto	3
In which time and world do we live?	3
Fir trees or chariots in Nahum 2:4? The study of ancient texts	3
The lack of knowledge on HIV by pastors in the Thulamela Municipality: Pastoral power	3
The irony of ability and disability in John 9:1–41	3
Building blocks of imagination	3
Hierarchies of basic goods and sins according to Aquinas’ natural law theory	3
Worshippers smoking in mosques: Violation of fatwas of ulemas and governor regulation	3
Ukukhonza as an ethic-oriented ontology to ensure harmonious existence among AmaZulu	3
Erratum: Religious views on the origin and meaning of COVID-19	3
Women generating, reproducing and disseminating texts in a Deobandi madrasa in South Africa	3
Women in Zimunya and the musha mukadzi or umuzi ngumama philosophy for sustainable livelihoods	3
Meaning of life and death during COVID-19 pandemic: A cultural and religious narratives	3
The sleeping soul doctrine of metaphysical anthropology in the Javanese death tradition	3
Double negatives in New Testament Greek texts and their translations in the Dangme Bible	3
Religious confusion and emptiness: Evaluating the impact of online Islamic learning among Indonesian Muslim adolescents	3
Values of local wisdom in Rambu Solo’ from the perspective of Pentecostal spirituality and character education	3
The Kairos in the past, present and future in South Africa: Prophetic voice after 40 years of the Kairos Document	3
Students’ perspectives on drugs and alcohol abuse at a public university in Zambia	3
A Kairos for mental health: Intercultural pastoral theology and transformative action for elderly well-being in Botswana	3
Russia–Ukraine war: Understanding and responding to wars and rumours of wars as ἀρχὴ ὠδίνων	3
Islamic ethics and commitment among Muslim nurses in Indonesia	3
Alcohol abuse in African traditional religion: Education and enlightenment as panacea for integration and development	3
African cities by 2063: Fostering theologies of urban citizenship	3
Jesus’ identity in Matthew 16:13–20 and identity crisis among gospel preachers in Nigeria	3

Socio-rhetorical re-examination of Luke 9:51–56: Mission, migration, and nationalism	3
Divine ambiguity: A philosophical inquiry into God’s uncertain decisions	3
Understanding challenges and prospects of partnership in Christian missions in Nigerian Baptist convention	3
שָׁלוֹם proclamations in the Book of Jeremiah: The dilemma of Jeremiah 4:10 and 23:17	3
Investigating the effect of humility of Muslim leaders on the moral behaviours of followers and spirituality at work in Islamic society	3
Contextualising Church music with traditional Karungut music in Central Kalimantan	3
The original justice in the context of natural sciences: Thomistic insights	3
The colonisation of Setswana: A decolonial rereading of the 1840 Gospel of Luke	3
Theological education and character formation: Perceptions of theological leaders and students	3
The role of the Church in the quest for political restructuring in Nigeria	3
Power and accountability – Using Biblical lenses to explore contemporary challenges in Africa	3
Construction of spiritual meaning in the transformation of gratitude for freshmen	3
Black women’s bodies as sacrificial lambs at the altar	3
Conceptualisation of ideal church leaders in the Society Revolution 5.0	3
Six decades of Moltmann’s Theology of Hope and tangible hope in South Africa today	3
Nature and human being, a renaissance of the 20th century	3
Women’s images and gender equality in Arabic textbooks for non-Arabic speakers: A case study on Al-Asas in Sudan	3
Reappraising the Nsukka Ọmabe festival through the lens of ethno-aesthetics, therapy and healing	3
Deconstructing gendered glorification of charitable work: A case of women in Nomiya Church	3
Lived theology and narrative identity: A phenomenological-hermeneutical study of religious moderation in the local churches of South Sulawesi, Indonesia	3
The role of religious and cultural education as a resolution of radicalism conflict in Sibolga community	3
Alternative revisions of the American Standard Version (1901) and retranslations within the Tyndale–King James Version tradition	3
Isupo: Assessing the relevance of Deuteronomy 25:5–10 in the Nigerian Christian context, with particular reference to the Yoruba	3
Athletes’ religiosity: How it plays a role in athletes’ anxiety and life satisfaction	2
A holistic–integrative approach of the Muhammadiyah education system in Indonesia	2
Research on psychological satisfaction of education work and learning of literary works	2
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 4 (2023)	2
Jesus and nostalgia: A nostalgia construction of ‘ho theos tōn paterōn – ὁ θεὸς τῶν πατέρων’ for facing an identity crisis (Mt 22:32)	2
The contribution of infaq funds to socio-economic resilience during COVID-19 pandemic: An Islamic economics insight from Indonesia	2
Abdul Hadi’s translations of Ahmad Raza: An internal logics approach	2
A case study of the Methodist Church in the light of Luke 18:1–8 to address the plight of women	2
Πάτερ, ημων ο εν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς (Mt 6:9a): Reading the Lord’s Prayer with insight from Ewe cosmology	2
Typologies of congregational hospitality to strangers: A Q methodology study in Indonesian churches	2
Theologica variatio? An examination of the variation in the Greek rendering of יהוה and אֱלהִים in LXX Proverbs	2
Giving an account of oneself: Tracing the Moravian Edwards family through six generations of Lebenslauf life writing	2
From Three-in-One Doctrine to the Religion of Three-in-One: Lin Chaoen’s syncretic religion	2
Perspectives on music and evolution	2
The mission theology of P.S. Dreyer and his contribution to the Maranatha Reformed Church	2
Examining the autonomy of Zulu Ingoma from the 1930s to present: Image or authentic experience?	2
The intersection of Christian education and philosopher-feminist thought: Addressing child marriage in Indonesia	2
Dispassionate hospitality as a Christian value: A pastoral narrative	2
Youth key persons’ digital discipleship process during the pandemic and post-pandemic era	2
A critical analysis of Purnomo and colleagues’ interpretation in Matthew 6:9–13	2
‘I bu Delaila ji aguba’: Revisiting the perception of sociopaths in an African community	2
African eco-spiritualities and climate justice: Afro-ecofeminism perspectives on Genesis 2:4–17	2
Celebrating J.N. Findlay’s contribution to philosophy: A comparative textual analysis from a Mahāyāna Buddhist perspective	2
The role of embodied cultural capital on the development of social capital and spiritual health from the perspective of religion and negative Islamic teachings	2
Spritual reasoning of Samaniyah Tariqa’s seven grades in the context of integration of science	2
The objectives of pastoral accompaniment for married couples in the first years of married life in the light of the documents Amoris Laetitia and Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life	2
Schopenhauer and religion: Translating myth into metaphysics	2
‘Sharon’s’ blood through Judges 11:31–40: The sacrificial lambs in African women’s lenses	2
Table of Contents Vol 78, No 3 (2022)	2
Negotiating tradition and change in pastoral training in the Church of the Nazarene in Africa	2
Early-church praxis: Selling land and possessions – A socio-historical study of Acts 2:45, 4:32–37	2
Contextuality, interculturality and decolonisation as schemes of power relations	2
Systematic, substantive and functional comparison between the holy Qur’an and Pancasila	2
A Systematic Theological comparison of Religious Iconography: Referring to Groeber and Kinkade	2
Tacit dewesternisation in the ecumenical movement: The example of the World Council of Churches	2
That they may be one (Jn 17:11): Mending the seamless coat of Christ in Assemblies of God Nigeria	2
The transformation of theology in the present climate crisis	2
Reframing masculinity and fatherhood: Narratives on faith-based values in (re)shaping ‘coloured’ fathers	2
Healing together: Surviving substance use disorder with the church in Zimbabwe	2
Feminist trauma theology of miscarriage as an embodied experience	2
Black Consciousness and Black Theology: Di ya thoteng di bapile (relationship for liberation)	2
The process of spiritual transformation to attain Nafs al-muṭmaʾinnah in Islamic psychology	2
The making of the people in 2 Maccabees 3 in the Heliodorus scene	2
Implicit religion, Anglican cathedrals, and spiritual wellbeing: The impact of carol services	2
Towards a Kairos theology	2
New religious movements and the problem of syncretism: A study of Anioma Healing Ministry, Nawgu, Nigeria	2
Missio Dei refuting the pactum salutis	2
The effects of displacement, food crisis and a crippled economic production on women: The case of Ukraine and the book of Ruth	2
Preliminary thoughts on the interplay between face, masking and self-presentation in a liturgical-ecclesiological praxeology in a pandemic time	2
The significance of freedom in God’s plan	2
Union with God in Psalm 63:8 and Manunggaling Kawula Gusti: A contextual study in Javanese culture, Indonesia	2
‘Standing up’ Maḥallu al-Qiyām as cultural expression in Indonesia: A historical approach	2
The address of reality as the voice of God in theological interpretation	2
Humanistic and inclusive Christian education: A framework for learning transformation	2
A postcolonial reading of the early life of Sara Baartman and the Samaritan Woman in John 4	2
The purpose of the theological patterns in Jesus’ healing stories in the Gospel of Matthew	2
Beyond dualism: The sacred value of biological totems in Christian Platonic thought	2
Contemporary study of religion	2
The essential role of the entire community of peer-reviewers in championing the quality of scholarly publications	2
Natural theology after Darwin	2
The role of women in managing the environmental crisis: A case study of Cyclone Idai in Chipinge, Zimbabwe	2
Retraction notice to: ‘Innovation in ideological and political education in higher education institutions for student development’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 79(4), a8868	2
Towards developing an atmospheric space for inter-religious dialogue in Africa	2
Classical Pentecostals’ literalist reading of the Bible: Challenges and solutions	2
Interreligious dialogue as a myth	2
Religious inconsistency on corruption behaviour among Muslim politicians in Indonesia	2
Theology, philosophy and technology: Perspectives from the Hervormde Kerk	2
Reception of biblical discourse in Africa	2
Religion, politics and science education in Pakistan: Analysis of Islamisation of science textbooks in tribal districts	2
Romanian Orthodox elementary denominational schools in Transylvania (1868–1921)	2
Essence of religion, culture and indigenous language in a unified sexuality education system	2
Earth, gender and food security: Maria Zaloumis’ journey of feminising Agric-business in Zambia	2