HTS Teologiese Studies-Theological Studies

Article	Citations
The Küng is dead, long live the Küng: The value of Hans Küng’s theology	67
Women’s statement at the 1990 Rustenburg Church Conference: Still an important voice from the past	65
Challenges of Church Planting in the Book of Acts, its implications for Contemporary Church	51
Thoughts on China’s contemporary religious relationship: Discussion in view of current theories	45
Political and socio-economic convergence of religions in Nigeria: Positive views and interests	29
Church of Nigeria’s (Anglican Communion) response to domestic violence against women in Nsukka local government area	27
Sexuality in Folktales: Asset or Liability to Socialisation of Learners in Zimbabwean schools	26
Sacred contradictions: Religion, conflict and peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria	23
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 5 (2023)	21
Realist literature, gender and gullibility in African Pentecostalism: The case of Chiundura Moyo’s Kereke Inofa	19
The Revised Standard Version (1952) and its revisions as a linear emergence of the Tyndale–King James Version tradition	15
Mission as ‘being with’ in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	15
Realities and challenges for mission transformation in Sabu people	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	14
A Bonaventurian rousing of the metaphysics of primary causality to counter New Materialism	12
The founding of Marxist study of religion and its theoretical sources of humanities	12
The Nehanda mythology: Dialectics of gender, history and religion in Zimbabwean literature	12
Imago Dei and artificial intelligence: A theological inquiry into personhood and human ontological boundaries	12
Biblical discourses and compulsory monogamy among the Vatsonga people in South Africa	12
Quran interpretation methodology, new media, and ideological contestation of Salafi in Sambas	10
Catalysts or antidotes to downward social mobility? Critique of the ‘Big Three’ in Zimbabwe	10
Evaluation of the role of Islamic lifestyle in communication skills of Muslim couples	10
Violence and apocalyptic notions in Mark 13	10
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies is turning over a new page	9

Jesus: The apex of biblical canons	9
Nurturing inclusivity among Durban University of Technology students through reflective writing	9
Theologies of women’s submission and the COVID-19 pandemic	9
Community land conflicts and pro-poor urban land access in Enugu, Nigeria: Church involvement for social inclusion	9
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 3 (2023)	9
Ulwaluko: A critical site for black theological reflection	8
The agency of the church during COVID-19 and beyond: Koinonia and ubuntu in the context of poverty and unemployment in South Africa	8
Fatherhood crisis: Drawing inspiration from hunhu/ubuntu and Saint Joseph	8
Herman Jean de Vleeschauwer (1899–1986) se interpretasie van Middeleeuse filosofie aan UNISA (1951–1964)	8
Is God evolving? Totems in contemporary art	8
1 Timothy 6:6–14 and materialism amongst Nigerian Christian youths	8
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	8
Divine play: Religious interpretation of play philosophy	7
The task and future of New Testament Studies	7
Qanun, religious education, religiosity and sexual activity among Muslim youth	7
Christian gathering and the digital ecclesia: A post-COVID-19 reading of Hebrews 10:25	7
Adult religious morality development from the Quranic perspective: Strategies to overcome Islamophobia and Christianophobia	7
Biblical discourse as a technology of ‘othering’: A decolonial reading on the 1840 Moffat sermon at the Tabernacle, Moorfields, London	7
Mission schools as seedbed for social transformation: Lessons drawn from the Methodist Church	7
Diplomatic or eclectic critical editions of the Hebrew Bible? Considering a third alternative	7
Missio Dei’s complexity prefaced in synergism	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
The role of the Korean Protestant church in the democratisation of technology	7
The struggle and Islamic patriotism of Sunan Kalijaga in folktales of Central Java, Indonesia	7
Islamic religiosity and job satisfaction among Muslim teachers in Malaysia	7
Corrigendum: Romanian Orthodox elementary denominational schools in Transylvania (1868–1921)	6
The mutual corruption of volition and nature? A closer reading of Ad Thalassium 42	6
Joining the Spirit: Missio Dei and artificial intelligence in digital missional praxis	6
Embracing mapalus traditional management values for Christian religious education	6
‘We too are human’: Religious experiences of gay and lesbian Christians in Harare	6
Religious fanaticism and thugocracy: Catalysts to the brain drain in Nigeria	6
Text, theory and methodology: Ruminations from the horizon of a reader from the south	6
Spirituality and survivorship: Dealing with COVID-19	6
The role of the church in the public space in Zimbabwe (2017–2023): Lessons drawn from Johannine Jesus in John 21:15–18	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
Intertextuality and Moses imagery in Matthew’s infancy narrative	6
Protecting the rights of Muslim women in Indonesian diaspora marriages in Russia: An Islamic Law Perspective	6
‘Creatures in our bed’: Pandemics, posthumanism and predatory nature in World War Z (2013)	6
A sociotheological interpretation of Genesis 50:25 in a Zimbabwean context	6
Rereading Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd’s method of interpreting religious texts	6
Corrigendum: Challenges of Islamic Education in the New Era of Information and Communication Technologies	6
Leadership failure and divine renewal: A theological study of Elijah in 1 Kings 19	6
A study on perceptions of immigrant acceptance in Korean society: Focusing on the concept of ὁμοιός in the New Testament	5
Schreiner family narratives: Written and oral sources in biographical research	5
New lenses for a new future. Why science needs theology and why theology needs science	5
Retraction notice to: The struggle for the construction of places of worship of minority religions in Indonesia	5
Patriarchy, couple counselling and testing in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Zimbabwe	5
Rediscovering the way of Islamic propagation by continuing the tradition of religion-based agriculture	5
Theology for sustainable development in Zimbabwe: Unpacking Deuteronomy 20:19–20 in light of SDG 15	5

Interreligious dialogue	5
Theological belief towards Islamic spiritual belief: Evidence from South Sulawesi, Indonesia	5
Ancient Israelite conceptual system for heaven in the Hebrew Bible	5
Canon, sex and gender in Theodoret of Cyrus’s exposition of LXX Ruth	5
Against discontinuity: Augustine’s theory of happiness reconsidered	5
Decolonising chaplaincy in the South African National Defence Force	5
The feminisation of poverty: A study of Ndau women of Muchadziya village in Chimanimani Zimbabwe	5
Expanding our horizons for new discourses about ʾIslām and Islamic living	5
Metaphysics of cosmological models	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
Anthropomorphism according to Al-Ghazali (d. 1111) and Maimonides (d. 1204): A comparative discourse	5
Challenging building blocks: Art, music and agriculture	5
Woven with meaning: Lawung and Sumping as expressions of faith in New Testament theology	5
The humanisation of women in the Tafsir Faidh Ar-Rahmân by Kiai Saleh Darat	5
COVID-19 and Sunday worship in the wake of the pandemic at Our Lady of Loreto, South Africa	5
Retraction notice to: ‘The influence of Chinese ancient poetry and literature on college students’ mental anxiety’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 79(4), a8837	5
Nyawiras as communal liberators: Accounting for life preservation roles among African women	5
COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy in South Africa: Biblical discourse	4
Righteousness in Luke 1:6: Considering marital stability amid barrenness in Nigerian societies	4
Enough is not enough! Confronting church leadership’s mental health in Zimbabwe	4
Do the arguments for God cohere? An analysis of inter-argument relations and the application of Thagard’s model of explanatory coherence	4
Christian communities and intimate partner violence in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review	4
Representation of cultural values in Tempuutn Senarikng of Dayak Benuaq and Tunjung tribes	4
The labourers in the vineyard, theory of value and agriculture	4
Table of Contents Vol 81, No 1 & 2 (2025)	4
Research ethics to consider when collecting oral histories in wilderness areas such as the Kruger National Park	4
The ministry of presence in absence: Pastoring online in Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Understanding challenges and prospects of partnership in Christian missions in Nigerian Baptist convention	4
The influence of Internet economy on consumer psychology in the post-epidemic era	4
Investigating the effect of Islamic values on citizenship behaviours of Muslim citizens	4
Religious beliefs in public administration and behaviour surrounding abortion decriminalisation in COVID-19 era	4
Erratum: Exploring 19th-century medical mission in China: Forging modern roots of Chinese medicine	4
Application of E-textual research in Chinese Buddhist studies	4
Islam Nusantara: An integration opportunity between Christianity and culture in Indonesia	4
Towards redeeming ‘loyalty’ in functionalist Bible translation using the Hebrew ḥesed concept	4
Teaching religion as change for social transformation in contemporary African and non-African universities: a South African manifesto	4
Ethics in medicine: Challenges in the 21st century	4
The performative function of turmoil, trauma and tenacity in Judith 9–16: A speech act analysis	4
‘Radical discipleship’: The public theology of archbishop David Mukuva Gitari towards democratisation of Kenya	4
Nurturing agency in emerging adults of local churches: a case study from Soshanguve	4
Wat is verlossing? ’n Teologies kritiese en kanonies-linguistiese ondersoek	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
Surrogacy in Indonesia: The comparative legality and Islamic perspective	4
The reception of the alternative voice by Afrikaans readers (1994–2002)	4
Eziko: Feasts of power, gender roles and sacred spaces in Luke 22:14–20	4
Exploring the resilience and epistemic access of first-year female students in higher education	4
Religion and identity polarisation: A slight note from the frontier region	4
A comparative approach to the theistic proofs of Anselm of Canterbury’s ‘Monologion’	4
A need for Reformed traditions to transform towards a womanist turning point	4
Meaning of life and death during COVID-19 pandemic: A cultural and religious narratives	3
Beatific presence: The praxis of priestly mission in a wounded country	3
The logos Christology in the fourth gospel (Jn 1:1–5, 14): A soteriological response to an Ewe cosmic prayer	3
From Kairos to Kairos: Prophetic witness in post-apartheid and Global South contexts	3
Power and accountability – Using Biblical lenses to explore contemporary challenges in Africa	3
The original justice in the context of natural sciences: Thomistic insights	3
Russia–Ukraine war: Understanding and responding to wars and rumours of wars as ἀρχὴ ὠδίνων	3
Deconstructing gendered glorification of charitable work: A case of women in Nomiya Church	3
The irony of ability and disability in John 9:1–41	3
A biblical response to Arwah Be Am Nai as mediator between humans and God in Hauteas tradition	3
Alternative revisions of the American Standard Version (1901) and retranslations within the Tyndale–King James Version tradition	3
Conceptualisation of ideal church leaders in the Society Revolution 5.0	3
The Kairos in the past, present and future in South Africa: Prophetic voice after 40 years of the Kairos Document	3
Building blocks of imagination	3
The sleeping soul doctrine of metaphysical anthropology in the Javanese death tradition	3
The lack of knowledge on HIV by pastors in the Thulamela Municipality: Pastoral power	3
Revisiting the Kairos document after 40 years: A challenge to the churches in South Africa	3
Double negatives in New Testament Greek texts and their translations in the Dangme Bible	3
Investigating the effect of humility of Muslim leaders on the moral behaviours of followers and spirituality at work in Islamic society	3
Erratum: Religious views on the origin and meaning of COVID-19	3
Contextualising Church music with traditional Karungut music in Central Kalimantan	3
Women in Zimunya and the musha mukadzi or umuzi ngumama philosophy for sustainable livelihoods	3
Divine ambiguity: A philosophical inquiry into God’s uncertain decisions	3
שָׁלוֹם proclamations in the Book of Jeremiah: The dilemma of Jeremiah 4:10 and 23:17	3
The colonisation of Setswana: A decolonial rereading of the 1840 Gospel of Luke	3
In which time and world do we live?	3
Isupo: Assessing the relevance of Deuteronomy 25:5–10 in the Nigerian Christian context, with particular reference to the Yoruba	3
Hierarchies of basic goods and sins according to Aquinas’ natural law theory	3
The role of the Church in the quest for political restructuring in Nigeria	3
Women generating, reproducing and disseminating texts in a Deobandi madrasa in South Africa	3

Theological education and character formation: Perceptions of theological leaders and students	3
Black Theology and the unheard cry for impilo of people living with disabilities	3
A Kairos for mental health: Intercultural pastoral theology and transformative action for elderly well-being in Botswana	3
Thorny the paths they tread, Zimbabwean women and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A womanist reflection	3
Six decades of Moltmann’s Theology of Hope and tangible hope in South Africa today	3
The dynamics of empowering women in the post-missionary Church of Christ in Zimbabwe	3
Islamic ethics and commitment among Muslim nurses in Indonesia	3
Constructing a Christ-centred identity: A social identity reading of the Epistle to Titus	3
Socio-rhetorical re-examination of Luke 9:51–56: Mission, migration, and nationalism	3
When wounds meet hope: African Christian thoughts of Augustine and Tutu	3
Women’s images and gender equality in Arabic textbooks for non-Arabic speakers: A case study on Al-Asas in Sudan	3
Jesus’ identity in Matthew 16:13–20 and identity crisis among gospel preachers in Nigeria	3
Fir trees or chariots in Nahum 2:4? The study of ancient texts	3
Review of the method of Talmud instruction at Yeshivat Maʿalot	3
The role of religious and cultural education as a resolution of radicalism conflict in Sibolga community	3
Nature and human being, a renaissance of the 20th century	3
Searching legal format: Reshaping the role of state and religion in Indonesia post-Suharto	3
Understanding Islamic law in the context of vaccination: Reducing the doubt cast on COVID-19 vaccines	3
Reappraising the Nsukka Ọmabe festival through the lens of ethno-aesthetics, therapy and healing	3
African cities by 2063: Fostering theologies of urban citizenship	3
Black women’s bodies as sacrificial lambs at the altar	3
A re-reading of Judges 19 in juxtaposition to the Zimbabwean women’s vulnerability to ‘punitive rape’	3
Ukukhonza as an ethic-oriented ontology to ensure harmonious existence among AmaZulu	3
Worshippers smoking in mosques: Violation of fatwas of ulemas and governor regulation	3
Analysis of the relationship between heaven and man in Neo-Confucianism from an ecological perspective	2
The contribution of infaq funds to socio-economic resilience during COVID-19 pandemic: An Islamic economics insight from Indonesia	2
Beyond dualism: The sacred value of biological totems in Christian Platonic thought	2
A postcolonial reading of the early life of Sara Baartman and the Samaritan Woman in John 4	2
Abdul Hadi’s translations of Ahmad Raza: An internal logics approach	2
Negotiating tradition and change in pastoral training in the Church of the Nazarene in Africa	2
Profession as a road to God – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s and Dag Hammarskjöld’s spiritual autobiographies: A case study	2
Dispassionate hospitality as a Christian value: A pastoral narrative	2
Divine aseity and the paradox of divine self-limitation	2
Opportunities for tackling sexual harassment in Zimbabwe: Lessons from the Global North	2
The address of reality as the voice of God in theological interpretation	2
Gender-based violence in South Africa: A narrative reflection	2
The mission theology of P.S. Dreyer and his contribution to the Maranatha Reformed Church	2
Religious moderation of Islamic university students in Indonesia: Reception of religious texts	2
Feminist trauma theology of miscarriage as an embodied experience	2
Preliminary thoughts on the interplay between face, masking and self-presentation in a liturgical-ecclesiological praxeology in a pandemic time	2
African eco-spiritualities and climate justice: Afro-ecofeminism perspectives on Genesis 2:4–17	2
Romanian Orthodox elementary denominational schools in Transylvania (1868–1921)	2
The complexity of the relationship of vocalisation signs of Semitic pointing systems	2
Sanctuary schematics and temple ideology in the Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls: The import of Numbers	2
Unearthing the Liturgy’s true meaning to counter church secularisation: Father Alexander Schmemann	2
Towards a Kairos theology	2
Isupo: Assessing the relevance of Deuteronomy 25:5–10 in the Nigerian Christian context, with particular reference to the Yoruba	2
Missio Dei refuting the pactum salutis	2
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 4 (2023)	2
The intersection of Christian education and philosopher-feminist thought: Addressing child marriage in Indonesia	2
Table of Contents Vol 78, No 3 (2022)	2
The purpose of the theological patterns in Jesus’ healing stories in the Gospel of Matthew	2
The making of the people in 2 Maccabees 3 in the Heliodorus scene	2
Πάτερ, ημων ο εν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς (Mt 6:9a): Reading the Lord’s Prayer with insight from Ewe cosmology	2
Analysing the relationship between ethical leadership and the voice of Malaysian Muslim employees	2
Implicit religion, Anglican cathedrals, and spiritual wellbeing: The impact of carol services	2
‘Standing up’ Maḥallu al-Qiyām as cultural expression in Indonesia: A historical approach	2
Church and poverty in South Africa: Historical analysis and missional ecclesiology	2
‘Sharon’s’ blood through Judges 11:31–40: The sacrificial lambs in African women’s lenses	2
Religious inconsistency on corruption behaviour among Muslim politicians in Indonesia	2
Research on psychological satisfaction of education work and learning of literary works	2
Reception of biblical discourse in Africa	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
Earth, gender and food security: Maria Zaloumis’ journey of feminising Agric-business in Zambia	2
The effects of displacement, food crisis and a crippled economic production on women: The case of Ukraine and the book of Ruth	2
Alcohol abuse in African traditional religion: Education and enlightenment as panacea for integration and development	2
A critical analysis of Purnomo and colleagues’ interpretation in Matthew 6:9–13	2
New religious movements and the problem of syncretism: A study of Anioma Healing Ministry, Nawgu, Nigeria	2
Examining the autonomy of Zulu Ingoma from the 1930s to present: Image or authentic experience?	2
Classical Pentecostals’ literalist reading of the Bible: Challenges and solutions	2
The naked truth or prophecy as folly? A performative interpretation of Isaiah 20	2
The process of spiritual transformation to attain Nafs al-muṭmaʾinnah in Islamic psychology	2
The ordinary and the mystical? Exploring the intersections of Spirituality and Public Theology	2
The Bible and distortion of culture: Normalised distortions of Vhavenḓa culture through the Bible	2
Humanistic and inclusive Christian education: A framework for learning transformation	2
Religion, politics and science education in Pakistan: Analysis of Islamisation of science textbooks in tribal districts	2
Model of a pastoral sermon for handling the problem of sexual violence against women in Maluku	2
‘Islamic Culture’ textbook content and religious needs of literacy students	2
COVID-19, gender and health: Recentring women in African indigenous health discourses in Zimbabwe for environmental conservation	2
Reductionism or holism? The two faces of biology	2
A Systematic Theological comparison of Religious Iconography: Referring to Groeber and Kinkade	2
Youth key persons’ digital discipleship process during the pandemic and post-pandemic era	2
A case study of the Methodist Church in the light of Luke 18:1–8 to address the plight of women	2
Religion, gender-based violence and silence: A radical feminist reading of women’s agency in Chika Unigwe’s novel	2
Union with God in Psalm 63:8 and Manunggaling Kawula Gusti: A contextual study in Javanese culture, Indonesia	2
Spritual reasoning of Samaniyah Tariqa’s seven grades in the context of integration of science	2
Early-church praxis: Selling land and possessions – A socio-historical study of Acts 2:45, 4:32–37	2
Celebrating J.N. Findlay’s contribution to philosophy: A comparative textual analysis from a Mahāyāna Buddhist perspective	2
Values of local wisdom in Rambu Solo’ from the perspective of Pentecostal spirituality and character education	2
The significance of freedom in God’s plan	2
COVID-19 vaccines, sexual reproductive health and rights: Negotiating sensitive terrain in Zimbabwe	2
Athletes’ religiosity: How it plays a role in athletes’ anxiety and life satisfaction	2
‘I bu Delaila ji aguba’: Revisiting the perception of sociopaths in an African community	2
Typologies of congregational hospitality to strangers: A Q methodology study in Indonesian churches	2
Essence of religion, culture and indigenous language in a unified sexuality education system	2