HTS Teologiese Studies-Theological Studies

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Tradition critical study of 1 Chronicles 21	51
Erratum: ‘Flowing’ under the radar in a multifaceted liquid reality: The ekerk narrative	47
Motherhood and biosafety measures: Negotiating a compromise between traditional funeral customs and public health needs in Zimbabwe in the wake of COVID-19	39
Reflecting on archaeology and the understanding of Song of Songs	34
The need for social theology to strengthen the social functions of Islamic banking in Indonesia	25
Some considerations on monasticism according to Father André Scrima	25
COVID-19 crisis in relation to religion, health and poverty in Zimbabwe: A case study of the Harare urban communities	23
The cognitive science of religion: A critical evaluation for theology	14
The building blocks of the universe	14
Nü Jidu in Matthew 24:27: An exegetical evaluation of Dongfang Shandian in China	12
Behartiging van het onderwijs in coronatijd in Nederland en Zuid-Afrika: een vergelijkende studie	11
Building blocks of sexuality	11
A matter of consciousness – Introducing Zora Neale Hurston and Katie G. Cannon	10
Die waarde van Philipp Melanchthon se beskouing oor die verhouding tussen teologie en filosofie	8
Construction of spiritual meaning in the transformation of gratitude for freshmen	8
An injured and sick body – Perspectives on the theology of Psalm 38	7
The trees in the middle of Paradise (Gn 2:9) during the Great Lent: Orthodox hymnography as biblical interpretation	7
שָׁלוֹם proclamations in the Book of Jeremiah: The dilemma of Jeremiah 4:10 and 23:17	7
Nehemiah as a leader	7
Erratum: So, what’s your story? – The role of storytelling in nurturing inclusive congregational identity	7
The irrevocable pedagogical value of the Bible: Liberation transcends technology	7
New religious movements and the problem of syncretism: A study of Anioma Healing Ministry, Nawgu, Nigeria	7
Stephan J. Joubert (South African academic and visionary): His response to questions related to his academic views	6
Women generating, reproducing and disseminating texts in a Deobandi madrasa in South Africa	6
Corrigendum: Medieval philosophy and theology	6

Observing systemic conflict: The emotional affect on pastors in the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa	6
God, vertroue en twyfel: Die vroue in die konsentrasiekampe tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog	6
A spring of living waters in a pool of metaphors: The metaphorical landscape of 1QHa 16:5–27	6
The revelations of Revelation: The book that fits, even when it does not	6
Eerherstel aan Cas Labuschagne – Goed genoeg, betyds genoeg?	6
Table of Contents Vol 77, No 2 (2021)	6
The scope of human creative action: Created co-creators, imago Dei and artificial general intelligence	6
Nietzsche and our discourses on identity	6
The non-romantic idea of nature in African theology	6
The ecclesiastical crisis of human sexuality: ‘Critical solidarity’, ‘critical distance’ or ‘critical engagement’	6
Studying the role of spirituality in quality of work life amongst Muslim employees in Indonesia	6
Al-Bantānī and the Interpretation of Ṣifāt verses in Marāḥ Labīd	5
Animism: Comparing Durkheim and Chidester’s analyses of EB Tylor’s theory of religion	5
Corrigendum: Authenticity doubt on the Tomioka (Yishen Lun) manuscript: A discourse analysis	5
A Spirit-Word-Community hermeneutic for the ‘preaching as reimagination’ approach	5
‘The people divided by a common language’: The orthography of Sesotho in Lesotho, South Africa, and the implications for Bible translation	5
The spirit of Islam in Javanese mantra: Syncretism and education	5
Metaphysics of cosmological models	5
Christian hospitality in Javanese bancaan tradition	5
Communication skills according to Islamic teachings and students’ life skills	5
Religion as ‘universal obsessional neurosis of humanity’? Re-reading Freud on religion	5
Die hermeneutiese proses onderliggend aan Paulus se eksegese van Eksodus 17:6 en Numeri 20:7–11 in 1 Korintiërs 10:1–4	5
Periodisation of the philosophy of Islamic rationalism in the perspective of Zaki Naguib Mahmud	5
The conquest of black African women: A collusion of church and coloniality in Africa	5
Corrigendum: Engaging children as ‘agents of change’: The Grahamstown Scout Group	5
Kerk en burgerlike owerheid: Die Nederlandse geloofsbelydenis en drie kerkordes	5
A few remarks on the Inedita Pseudo-Chrysostomic Homily De transfiguratione et eleemosyna (CPG 5009; BHGn 1996t)	4
On the border between religion and superstition: Schleiermacher on religion	4
Review of the method of Talmud instruction at Yeshivat Maʿalot	4
Pentecostal leadership disputes in Zimbabwe: A pastoral challenge	4
The strategy for planning the future of a Christian believer in the exegetical context of James 4:13–15	4
Women’s theologies challenging the status quo	4
Theological interpretation of the Ma’parappo tradition in Christian marriage in the Tanalotong tribe, West Sulawesi	4
John Knox Bokwe (1855–1922): A model of creative tension in the late 19th and early 20th-century South Africa	4
Domestic violence in the Old Testament and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A question of identity	4
Strategy for improving the spirituality of the GBI Church in Bandung based on 2 Timothy 2:1–13	4
The Bible, faith formation and a virus – Exploring the influence of a pandemic on faith formation content and practices for children and teenagers	4
The orthodox liturgical year and its theological structure	4
Augustinus en vroulike homoërotiek in die vroeë Middeleeue: ’n Foucaultiaanse ideëhistoriese interpretasie	4
Catalysts or antidotes to downward social mobility? Critique of the ‘Big Three’ in Zimbabwe	4
@stephanjoubert: Tweeting the gospel aphoristically	4
Values of local wisdom in Rambu Solo’ from the perspective of Pentecostal spirituality and character education	4
Erratum: From three congregations to one autonomous church: The Swaziland Reformed Church	4
A realistic reading as a feminist tool: The Prodigal Son as a case study	3
Hated without a reason (injustice personalised): A case study	3
Does meaning matter? Nietzsche, Jung and implications for global leadership	3
The power of chiasmus: Exploring the prayer of Esther in LXX Esther	3
Sexuality in Folktales: Asset or Liability to Socialisation of Learners in Zimbabwean schools	3
Die ‘bekentenisse van die vlees’ in die sentrale Middeleeue: ’n Verruiming van Foucault se lesing in Histoire de la sexualité 1 (La volonté de savoir)	3
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 5 (2023)	3

Violence and apocalyptic notions in Mark 13	3
The dynamic process of syncretism: Datuk Gong worship in Malaysia	3
The irony of ability and disability in John 9:1–41	3
The ambivalent impact of COVID-19 on churches: The case of Nigeria	3
Understanding Islamic-oriented non-governmental organisation and how they are contrasted with NGO in outdoing Malaysia LGBT phenomenon	3
Counter-narrative strategies in deradicalisation: A content analysis of Indonesia’s anti-terrorism laws	3
Students’ perspectives on drugs and alcohol abuse at a public university in Zambia	3
A just and civilised humanity: An integrative model between reformed theology and the ideology of Pancasila	3
Power and vulnerability: Re-reading Mark 6:14–29 in the light of political violence in Zimbabwe	3
Religious beliefs and work conscience of Muslim nurses in Iraq during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
The Christian interpretations on the nature of heaven’s mandate in late Ming and early Qing dynasties	3
Hated without a reason – Contending with issues of human sexuality in a South African ecclesial context: A case study	3
Realities and challenges for mission transformation in Sabu people	3
The Jewish background of the oneness language in John’s Gospel	3
Prevent the rise of a black messiah: Madness or revolution	3
Astrotheology’s contribution to public theology: From the extraterrestrial intelligence myth to astroethics	3
The building blocks of matter	3
Erratum: The theology of non-violent Islamic education based on Al-Sira Al-Nabawiyya	3
Virtual Religious Conflict: From Cyberspace to Reality	3
The Nehanda mythology: Dialectics of gender, history and religion in Zimbabwean literature	3
The Küng is dead, long live the Küng: The value of Hans Küng’s theology	3
Engaging Jungian function-orientations in a hermeneutical community: Exploring John 11: 1–17	3
Homes as ‘cages of violence’ during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pastoral care approach to the case of Botswana	3
Challenges of Church Planting in the Book of Acts, its implications for Contemporary Church	3
Nature and human being, a renaissance of the 20th century	3
Reading a few exemplary books or texts in the Pentateuch and comparing how these books or texts portray the theme of violence and disempowerment	3
Critical consideration of God’s essence and his features in open theism	3
Orality, gender and sacred texts in the context of tele-evangelism	3
Quran interpretation methodology, new media, and ideological contestation of Salafi in Sambas	3
Understanding Islamic law in the context of vaccination: Reducing the doubt cast on COVID-19 vaccines	3
The 50-year jubileum of the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies in the John Scottus Eriugena (815–877) research, 1970–2020	3
Alternative revisions of the American Standard Version (1901) and retranslations within the Tyndale–King James Version tradition	3
Gender equality in Catholic religious and character education: A multiculturalism perspective	3
Online theological education within the South African context	3
Political and socio-economic convergence of religions in Nigeria: Positive views and interests	3
The effect of Islamic visionary leadership on organisational commitment and its impact on employee performance	3
Thoughts on China’s contemporary religious relationship: Discussion in view of current theories	3
Medieval philosophy and theology	3
Youth, faith, climate change and environmental consciousness: A case for sustainable development	3
Women’s statement at the 1990 Rustenburg Church Conference: Still an important voice from the past	3
Realist literature, gender and gullibility in African Pentecostalism: The case of Chiundura Moyo’s Kereke Inofa	3
Trajectory of Islamic psychology in Southeast Asia: Problems and prospects	3
Evaluation of the role of Islamic values in improvement of spiritual health among Iraqi Muslims	2
Russia–Ukraine war: Understanding and responding to wars and rumours of wars as ἀρχὴ ὠδίνων	2
Understanding riddah in Islamic jurisprudence: Between textual interpretation and human rights	2
Religious confusion and emptiness: Evaluating the impact of online Islamic learning among Indonesian Muslim adolescents	2
Observing systemic conflict: The emotional affect on pastors in the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa	2
Mercy Oduyoye’s model of ‘partnership between women and men’ in African Christian ministry	2
An investigation into the commercialisation of initiation schools: A case of Eastern Cape, South Africa	2
Exploring the responses of non-churchgoers to a cathedral pre-Christmas son et lumiere	2
Proverbs 31 in dialogue with Acts 9:36–43: An Afro-feminisation of Mother Earth for equity	2
Hearing God’s call one more time: Retrieving calling in theology of work	2
The science of congregation studies and psychographic segmentation: O come all ye thinking types?	2
African women, religion and pandemics: Some initial responses to COVID-19	2
The effect of religiosity on life satisfaction: A meta-analysis	2
Biblical discourses and compulsory monogamy among the Vatsonga people in South Africa	2
A critical analysis of tithe and seed sowing on contemporary Christianity in Nigeria	2
Azan Pitu: The Pacification of Plagues rituals during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Evaluation of the role of Islamic lifestyle in communication skills of Muslim couples	2
A semantic comparison of the conclusion of LXX Tobit and Semitic 4QTobit	2
The complexity of the relationship of vocalisation signs of Semitic pointing systems	2
Sailing through the waves: Ecclesiological experiences of the Gereja Protestan Maluku archipelago congregations in Maluku	2
Just war theory and scapegoat mechanism: An analysis of missio Dei and social order	2
Building blocks of language	2
The founding of Marxist study of religion and its theoretical sources of humanities	2
Theology and cosmology in the Visuddhimagga of Buddhaghosa	2
A Bonaventurian rousing of the metaphysics of primary causality to counter New Materialism	2
Understanding theodicy and anthropodicy in the perspective of Job and its implications for human suffering	2
Theological education, spiritual formation and leadership development in Africa: What does God have to do with it?	2
Taking stock of oral history archives in a village in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa: Are preservation and publishing feasible?	2
Hierarchies of basic goods and sins according to Aquinas’ natural law theory	2
Thoughts on China’s contemporary religious relationship: Discussion in view of current theories	2
Retraction notice to: ‘The influence of ideological and political culture construction on students’ psychological quality’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 79(4), a8883	2
Islamic boarding schools (pesantren), Sufism and environmental conservation practices in Indonesia	2
Spiritual warfare in Africa: Towards understanding the classical model in light of witchcraft practices and the Christian response	2
Synodality: Communion, participation and mission in action	2
The ontology of men and women’s relationships in contemporary African ecclesiology: Towards a theology of authority-submission in the church	2
Interaction management leadership in Minahasa for Christian children’s education in digital era	2
Sacramental view of creation: Denis Edwards on God’s presence in natural world	2
Sovereign responsibility: An impossible solidarity	2

Leading Maranatha Reformed Church of Christ beyond hundred years through serving and cell groups	2
Yahwistic incongruency and enigma: A challenge to relinquish violence?	2
Elderly women and COVID-19 vaccination in the indigenous religio-culture of the Ndau of south-eastern Zimbabwe	2
Erratum: Ethics in compulsory education – Human dignity, rights and social justice in five contexts	2
‘Thursdays in Black campaign’ and the blackening of the widow’s body: A hermeneutic of suspicion to blackening of the body to resist gender-based violence	2
The colonial matrix of power: Image ontology and the question of blackness	2
Focalisation and its performative nature in John 3:1–21	2
Youth religious moderation model and tolerance strengthening through intellectual humility	2
Redemption, settlement and agriculture in the religious teachings of Hovevei Zion	2
Mitigating radicalism amongst Islamic college students in Indonesia through religious nationalism	2
Human rights: The convergence of the second sila of Pancasila and Hans Kung’s global ethics in Indonesia	2
Understanding the atheism phenomenon through the lived experiences of Muslims: An overview of Malaysian atheists	2
Descriptive empirical perspectives on participants’ attitudes on virtual worship services kindle an ineluctable revisiting of ecclesial assumptions in a post-pandemic world	2
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	2
Cyclone Idai Disaster in Zimbabwe: A New Testament ethical analysis of Matthew 24:37–39	2
Deuteronomy and Contextual Teaching and Learning in Christian-Jewish religious education	2
‘I loved to be included’ (Proverbs 1:8–19): The Church and Tiv Christian Youth Development	2
‘Ecological justice’: Towards an integrative concept of the protection of creation	2
Multilingualism in incarnational ministry: A quest to reach the neglected	2
The concept of time management based on Ephesians 5:15–17 and relevance to contemporary Christian leaders	2
The radical, righteous and relevant Jesus in a coronavirus disease-defined world	2
Hifz Al-Din (maintaining religion) and Hifz Al-Ummah (developing national integration): Resistance of Muslim youth to non-Muslim leader candidates in election	2
The original justice in the context of natural sciences: Thomistic insights	2
LXX Judith: Removing the fourth wall	2
The colonisation of Setswana: A decolonial rereading of the 1840 Gospel of Luke	2
The performativity of ‘defining’ asides in the Fourth Gospel: A speech act perspective	2
Re-imaginations of women’s theology for female bodies: A panacea for a future with hope among teen girls selling sex at Epworth Booster, Harare	2
The struggle for the construction of places of worship of minority religions in Indonesia	2
Addressing physical pain with religion and spirituality during and after the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Prosperity theology versus theology of sharing approach	2
Mission as ‘being with’ in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	2
Gendered small-scale crops and power dynamics: A case of uninga (sesame) production amongst the Ndau of south-eastern Zimbabwe	2
Understanding ministerial accountability in the New Pentecostal Prophetic churches	2
Alcohol abuse in African traditional religion: Education and enlightenment as panacea for integration and development	2
Patriarchal nature of mourning from an African perspective	2
Exegetical study of John 16:25–33 and the Church in persecution in Nigeria	2
The place of water in the Ndau religion of Zimbabwe	2
Since when have humans had a soul?	2
Selective reading of 1 Corinthians 14:26–40 resulting in the marginalisation of women	2
In the state administration system of Indonesia: No space for Khilafah!	2
Unmasking Nigeria’s leadership conundrum: The role of the church	2
The Revised Standard Version (1952) and its revisions as a linear emergence of the Tyndale–King James Version tradition	2
Education of children and young people in Pope Francis’ Amoris Laetitia and Laudato Si’	2
The education of children in an Islamic family based on the Holy Qur’an	2
The role of the Church in the quest for political restructuring in Nigeria	2
Attributes of God in Ephesians: Meaning and relevance	2
African women’s theology and the re-imagining of community in Africa	2
A cultural analysis of eco-Islam: How young German Muslims live religion through environmental activism	1
Ambivalence and the unsettling aftershocks: Postcolonial perspectives on Vellem’s spirituality	1
Revisiting Black Theology of Liberation in South Africa: Through ‘new voices’ of women black theologians	1
The Lord’s Prayer in Matthew 6:9–13: Reconstructing based on Byzantine text	1
Pentecostal preaching and Christology: An empirical study	1
Fatherhood crisis: Drawing inspiration from hunhu/ubuntu and Saint Joseph	1
Al-Bantānī and the Interpretation of Ṣifāt verses in Marāḥ Labīd	1
Black Consciousness and Black Theology: Di ya thoteng di bapile (relationship for liberation)	1
Neither prelegal nor nonlegal: Oral memory in troubled times	1
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies is turning over a new page	1
Adult religious morality development from the Quranic perspective: Strategies to overcome Islamophobia and Christianophobia	1
The labour alienation of civil servants in Zimbabwe: Towards an ubuntu spirituality of work	1
Divine play: Religious interpretation of play philosophy	1
Diplomatic or eclectic critical editions of the Hebrew Bible? Considering a third alternative	1
Religious spaces as continually evolving modernities: Forms of encounter with modernity in Christian Orthodoxy and Islam	1
Corrigendum: Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on church ministries in Africa: A literature analysis focusing on South Africa	1
Public art aesthetics and psychological healing	1
A theological response to racism in post-apartheid South Africa: A Korean perspective	1
Understanding 1 Timothy 3:1–7 and the need for righteous church overseers in Nigerian Christendom	1
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	1
Qanun, religious education, religiosity and sexual activity among Muslim youth	1
Spreading the value of inter-faith dialogue through Gus Dur’s Haul video	1
Interreligious dialogue as a myth	1
Environmental determinant of religious names: A study of Úgwú and naming among the Nsukka-Igbo people of Nigeria	1
1 Timothy 6:6–14 and materialism amongst Nigerian Christian youths	1
Rethinking identity theory in light of the in-Christ identity in the African context	1
Effect of spiritual intelligence on spiritual health during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
The Bible of the poor in the context of poverty, COVID-19 and vaccine nationalism: Hermeneutics of liberation from the perspective of the poor	1
Cultivating the worshipful self in an algorithmic age: Reflections on an Asadian conclusion	1
The naked truth or prophecy as folly? A performative interpretation of Isaiah 20	1
Students’ perspectives on religious moderation: A qualitative study into religious literacy processes	1
From semiotic exegesis to contextual ecclesiology: The hermeneutics of missional faith in the COVIDian era	1
Model of a pastoral sermon for handling the problem of sexual violence against women in Maluku	1
Analytic philosophy and scriptural interpretations	1
The role of storytelling as a possible trauma release for war veterans: A narrative approach	1
Character focalisation and its function in the story of Susanna	1
The legacy of Sir Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd in Zimbabwean public life history	1
Pakikipagkapwa-tao as a mode of inter-religious dialogue in the contemporary Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Humans and the de-creation of God in the contemporary society	1
Herman Jean de Vleeschauwer (1899–1986) se interpretasie van Middeleeuse filosofie aan UNISA (1951–1964)	1
Doctrine as security? A systematic theological critique of the operational theological framework of the controversial South African neo-Pentecostal prophets	1
Profession as a road to God – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s and Dag Hammarskjöld’s spiritual autobiographies: A case study	1
Personification of empire and Israel and the role of appearance and speech in the Judith story	1
Sharia housing and millennials in Indonesia: Between religious and economic motives	1
Psalm 29 as a poetological example of Peshitta Psalms translation	1
Preaching: An initial theoretical exploration	1
Enhancing religious education through emotional and spiritual intelligence	1
Maqashid Quran’s critical view on Indonesian Ulema Council’s fatwa on Halal certification of COVID-19 vaccine	1