Acta Theologica

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Articles Memory, Jesus, and Mary Magdalene: Whose memory matters?	7
“This is what black girls do”: lamenting the bruised umntu and resisting dehumanisation	3
Decolonising Bibles? Image, imagination, and imagin(in)g in the postcolonial academy	3
Covid-19, racism and the ‘state of exception’? A theological ethical engagement with identity and human rights in an age of ‘Corona’ and beyond	3
Paul’s self-presentation and his opinion on the art of persuasion in 1 Corinthians	2
One size does not fit all – changing congregational culture	2
Reimagining the self in relation to God and all creation. Practices of silence in an urban context of societal acceleration	2
Jeremiah 29:5-7 reread through the lens of posttraumatic growth	2
Contemplation and liturgy: The experience of St. Mary Magdalene De’ Pazzi (Florence, 1566-1607)	1
Mission: The “labour room” of theology	1
Interview with Prof Sunggu A. Yang	1
Have we lost touch with the Prophet Amos's warning? Church leaders and blood money rituals among youths in Nigeria	1
Research on the Letter to the Galatians 2000-2020	1
To kneel or not to kneel: Appropriating a religious and sport symbol for racial justice in South Africa	1
Lesbianism: Deconstructing the Christian church and social hierarchies in South Africa	1
Semiotics of alterity and the cultural dimensions of Bible translation	1
Religious faith traditions tussle with rampant corruption toward sustainable development: Search for the missing links in light of ubuntu	1
Ecumenical ecclesiology as a tool for township congregations to facilitate transformation of the (South) African society	1
Biblical discourses and the subjugation of Africa: A Decolonial-Foucauldian perspective	1
Three influences on the spiritual experience of Titus Brandsma in the Lager	1
The hermeneutical concepts of Minjung theology in historical perspective	1
In love with the desert	1
Reviewers of articles processed in 2025	1
pryslied vir ’n vreeslose gewete	1
Luke for landlubbers: The translation and interpretation of ὑποπλέω in Acts 27	1

The bad habit of individualistic religion	1
Preaching: Truth sharing as a prophetic voice	1
The persuasive function of the blood of Jesus in Matthew 26:28	1
Resilient religion: What good is religion for?	1
Instilling values through literature: Analysing Everyman, a medieval morality play	1
Metaverse as challenge to homo religionis. Diachronic thinking in theory formation for pastoral caregiving to netizens	1
Psalm 22 LXX in Origen’s commentary on the Song of Songs	1
Fightin’ words in Pauline texts:Their polemical appropriation in modern political discourse	1
Nkunimdie Christology: An Akan contextual expression of the Christus Victor motif of atonement	1
A travel journal by a preacher during the annual Pentecost prayer meetings in the Dutch Reformed Church:	1
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“It all starts with urgency…” Engaging with the local ekklesia of Thessalonica as a window and mirror en route to sustained missionary impact	0
Origen and Augustine: Rooted in the Socratic tradition of philosophical rhetoric	0
God’s meaning is love: The mystical theology of Julian of Norwich	0
Forgiveness, reconciliation and justice á la Desmond Tutu	0
The Nicene Creed in Martin Thornton’s Ascetical Theology	0
The mirage of a triune rainbow	0
BOOK REVIEW Bibles in Africa through European eyes	0
Faith formation in the tension interplay of tools, processes and the course for social transformation	0
The use of empirical data in communal discernment and decision-making processes in the Dutch Reformed Church	0
Daar is méér. ’n Outobiografiese reisverhaal deur Amper-Stamperland en Metaversum	0
Realigning with the slave-like Jesus of Mark: The shorter ending of Mark 16:1-8 as a relecture	0
Shall we dance? Choreographing hospitality as key to interpersonal transformation	0
Unraveling "DHR": The study of ancient texts	0
Neo-pentecostal mission healthcare and poverty reduction in Ghana	0
Congregational vitality – a perspective from Galatians	0
Embodied theology with children with disabilities in South Africa	0
WOMEN’S NEEDS VS. ECONOMIC SURVIVAL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: NAVIGATING THIS TENSION USING CARE AND JUSTICE	0
Reimagining forgiveness: A transformative engagement with a social imagination of forgiveness through intercultural Biblical reading in South Africa	0
Pentecostal ecclesiology in the new adaptation era:	0
The revelation of God: How and to whom does God reveals God self to?	0
Towards an emergent theory of reimagining church in a racially divided society: Building theory from different cases	0
Interview with Prof. Dr. Julius Gathogo	0
Reimagining ecclesiological imagination within a Dutch Reformed Congregation in South Africa	0
Being Reformed today?	0
Engaging Rian Venter’s trinitarian theology: a Trinity of space and time	0
The Supreme Being in Ciyawo Bible translation and managing the choice of adequate terms for God	0
BOOK REVIEW Digital homiletics: The theology and practice of online preaching	0
Ja, goed te deunen onze machtige (Psalm 147,1): De zoektocht naar een toonzetting van de Psalmen	0
CARING FOR WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES: ENHANCING WOMEN WORKERS’ CAPABILITIES AND BUILDING SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP	0
Reviewers of articles received for publication in 2023	0
Paul, rhetorically gifted, or discursively manipulative?	0
An ongoing search of constant and sustainable Lutheran Theological Education in South Africa in the 21st century.	0
Religious experience and sacred text	0
Corrigendum: Jeremiah 29:5-7 reread through the lens of posttraumatic growth	0
The constant reality beyond exception and rule in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology	0
"Before the cock crows, you will deny me" (Matthew 26: 34): Betrayal and Redemption in The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna	0
Cur Deus Homo vs Homo Deus and the Evolution of Humanity: Quo Vadis?	0
A decolonial reading of the Third Chapter of the Gospel of John in Moffat’s Translation of the Catechism into Setswana (1826)	0

Pastoral leadership for a relevant missional ecclesiology in a context of poverty	0
JAPANESE WOMEN'S ACTIVISM SUSTAINS A LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITY IN THE PANDEMIC	0
Confronting the cataracts of whiteness to see the invisible: reflections on the transmission and reception of the Bible in post-apartheid South Africa	0
Embodied and hybrid pedagogies:	0
SAWUBONA. A theo-ethic for everyday decolonial gestures	0
Reviewers of articles received in 2024	0
Book review: The full extent: An inquiry into nature and destiny	0
Dynamics of health and wellness at an African Pentecostal Churchrelated institution in Zimbabwe:	0
An Afro-Christian contextual analysis of presidential pardon in post-colonial African politics	0
The spiritual practices of South African clergy: State of the clergy	0
“For mine is the bitter, the ale and the lager”: Parodic prayer and the spirituality of humour	0
How negotiated peace in underdeveloped countries results in structural violence: Healing memories in South Africa	0
Truth and reconciliation: Indigenous storytelling reflection on Inxeba Elingaphakathi	0
A post-colonial political theology of care and praxis in Ethiopia’s era of identity politics	0
St. Thomas Aquinas’ Doctrine of Christ’s Descent into Hades and its implications for African Ancestor Christological discourse	0
The relevance of covenant theology to fatherlessness in Kenya: A youth and family ministry perspective	0
The pragmatic function of asides that stage an event in the Fourth Gospel	0
A short overview of the modern eras of historiography in church history:	0
Indigenous research methods and African women’s theology: A theo-analytical engagement	0
Reimagining mainline churches that are African	0
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Reading John 11:1-45 from a post-normal times perspective	0
The Lutheran “convivial economy” as a Christian economic heterodoxy: significance, components, and proposals to the current socio-economic order	0
Holy communion in contagious times	0
Contemporary issues in Christian marriage: In commemoration of the retirement of Rev. Dr. Samuel Oluwafemi Oladimeji from active ministry of the Nigerian Baptist Convention	0
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Christianity, ‘supernatural’ beliefs and COVID-19	0
Interview with Prof. Kobus Schoeman on the occasion of his retirement at the end of 2024	0
Adaptive translation of medieval morality plays for contemporary African audiences: A case study of the morality play Everyman in Sesotho	0
Song of Songs – Current trends in research	0
Formation of good Christian conscience: A link between professed faith and praxis in Africa	0
BECOMING WHOLE AGAIN: THE GOAL OF WOMEN’S STRUGGLE AGAINST SEX ABUSE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN THE PHILIPPINES	0
Finding God as a millennial	0
New frontiers in contemporary missiology: Southern African perspectives	0
Naming and shaming? Exploring space(s) between women in Philippians 4:2-3	0
The coloniser or the missionary? Identity crisis as a conflict in Biblical reception among the Agikuyu of Central Kenya	0
African theological education and its curriculum responsiveness towards African Union’s Agenda 2063.	0
Jesus uttering his last words and drawing on his final breath: reflecting on Luke 23:46	0
THE EXPERIENCES OF CURRENTLY AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITIES	0
Reading Galatians 3:28 from a congregational perspective	0
“Like sand through an hourglass, so are the days of our lives”: Youth, religion, and social capital in South Africa	0
The Trinity and an ecclesiology from below	0
Peace in the spirituality of Thomas á Kempis. An aesthetic perspective on the Imitatio Christi 4.25	0
Wonders above, signs below	0
Christians’ social perception of climate change and poverty: A study of the Nkroanza south district assembly	0
"In The Spirit"	0
Unsuspicious reception of Biblical discourse in Africa and its implications for polygamy	0
Book review: Towards a theology of conflict solution: Understanding religious conflict in contemporary Nigerian society	0
The Ordination of women: Part of the Dutch Reformed Church's Mariological gift	0
Towards a contextual theology of conviviality: Tutu, Bonhoeffer and living musical metaphors	0
A chiastic opus to the Creator of “heaven and earth- earth and heaven” A spatial reading of Psalm 148 and Colossians 1:15-20	0
Breaking the silos: Decolonial theological education beyond the church-academy divide in Africa	0
The testing of Abraham in Genesis 22 and the testing of Job	0
The challenge of poverty in Malawi and Bonhoeffer's soteriology	0
PANDEMIC OASIS: POPULAR RELIGIOSITIES AS WOMEN’S LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITAS	0
The art of narrative analogy	0
Divine hiddenness, the melancholic self, and a pandemic spirituality	0
Jesus talks to the Samaritan woman	0
#CHOOSETOCHALLENGE: COVID-19, COMMUNITY RESEARCH, AND THE CANAANITE WOMAN	0
Finding a rhythm within A polyphonic (auto)biographical pastoral reflection	0
Introduction to the Festschrift for Prof. D.F. (Francois) Tolmie “God, people, and persuasion in Scripture and theology”	0
Editorial	0
The beauty of sorrow:	0
Acting queerly: Jonah as the implicated subject and vulnerability	0
Revisiting democracy “after” Allan Boesak?	0
Religious persecution	0
John of the Cross and Emmanuel Lévinas: The QUEST for God beyond Being	0
YouVersion verses-of-the-year in relation to Afrikaans prepositional met and van constructions expressing fear and loneliness	0
Editorial	0
Let's do theology - as in the book of Job: Developing theology in dialogue	0
Karl Barth’s Christological anthropology as a basis for building an interreligious relationship	0
Astrotheology: The natural interface between hyperspace and the Trinity	0
Nurturing students’ spiritual development in secular contexts: a case study of Evangelical theological education in Australia	0
Seeking a path of its own: Old Testament ethics in current research	0
Feminist spiritualities, gender equality and sustainable development: The possibilities of a countermovement	0
Foreword	0
Tadek dance as a decolonial theo-cosmology	0
Towards an agency-oriented model of congregational vitality:	0
The Christian God: Collected Essays	0

Swinging between two poles. Henri Nouwen’s unique metaphor for spiritual transformation	0
Decolonizing theological education in Ghana	0
Toward a reinterpretation of sacramental theology in the context of pandemics: The case of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe	0
A Text-centred rhetorical analysis of 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16	0
Titus Brandsma: Getuige van God	0
Mystical handbooks of the late middle ages	0
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From the Council of Nicaea to the Age of AI: What kind of human did Jesus become?	0
BOOK REVIEW Sinsoekers: Tussen twyfel en troos	0
The Trinity and the economy: The God who cares about human welfare	0
Book Review: Making connections: Integrative theological education in Africa	0
Prayer and gender in John Chrysostom’s homilies On Hannah	0
The church and LGBTQ: Towards the church as an inclusive communion of disciples	0
Book review: The formative stratum of the Sayings Gospel Q: Reconsidering its extent, message, and unity	0
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The future of empirical research in and through the Dutch Reformed Church	0
Recurrent and current trends in the study of the Book of Psalms	0
Between the Pandemic, the War and the Value Conflict: Polish Ecumenism at Crossroads	0
Faith in the modern Reformed church: Calvin and Barth	0
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Responsibility, refusal, and return: Thoughts on an ethics of inclination	0
Reviewers of articles received for publication in 2022	0
Stand-up preaching	0
In daardie tyd was daar reuse	0
Common grace as theological encouragement for interreligious dialogue	0
WOMEN’S RECEPTION OF CYBER CHURCHES DURING THE PANDEMIC AND INDICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE	0
Preface	0
Equivalent terminology in the late Chagatai Turkish (Eastern Turki) translation of the Gospel of Luke	0
Ecclesiological implications for the church as intergenerational space focusing on families	0
Interview with Prof. Julian Müller: Reflections on a career in Practical Theology	0
Reflection on the leadership practice of Saul as a failure of leadership for church pastors	0
On being uniquely human in the world: a reflection on the contributions of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen	0
Christianity and medical science: A historical quest for remedy in time of epidemics	0
Chiasm in Zephaniah 3:14-17 – A new proposal	0
Reimagining outreach as inreach: A study of white DRC students at Stellenbosch University	0
The eternal bonds: Families as a divine stewardship beyond the world	0
The social imagination of the church in a racially divided society	0
Reconfiguring a theological-spiritual vocabulary about death: Mysticism, “magic” and the case of Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore	0
Towards struggle as lived experience: Contemplation on homiletic research for a (post-)pandemic world	0
Apologetics in Africa: An introduction	0
Foreword	0
Proud to be deaf	0
MILITARISM AND FEAR IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC IN THE PHILIPPINES: TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF TRANSGRESSION	0
Book Review: Conflict transformation for sustainable Christian marriage	0
Pointing out persuasion in Philemon	0
Theology of sexual purity: Reimagining child-marriages within the white garment churches in Zimbabwe	0
“If I forget you Jerusalem” (Ps. 137:4). The Transmission of Sacred Discourse in the Bible and in African Indigenous Sacred Texts	0
Moving methodologies. Doing practical and missional theology in an African context	0
Towards the sustainable well-being of communities	0
Interview with Prof. Piet Meiring	0
The dialogical theology of Hans Küng: Clash between the Catholic Mission and Islamic Da’wah in Indonesia	0
Confessing church today?	0
The gender-responsive church: Models of religious community in realising alignment for women	0
Living wounds (anfechtungen) or blacksmithing of the human soul? The pastoral art of marvellous exchange (mirifica commutatio) in spiritual well-being	0
Interview with Nadine Bowers Du Toit	0
WE INTER-ARE: THE PANDEMIC CHALLENGE REDEFINING HUMANS AND COMMUNITIES	0
The Significance of Calvin’s Theology of Mission and its realization in the sixteenth century for twenty-first century church mission in Indonesia	0
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Book review: Christian mission in a diverse British urban context: Crossing the racial barrier to reach communities	0
Unhiding in plain sight: Reimagining the parable of the persistent widow	0
The foundational influence of early spiritual experiences on adulthood	0
Theology and identity	0
Biblical stewardship and electricity management in Ghana	0
Finding oneself? Contemplating on paintings with a religious theme in clinical pastoral care	0
Book review: Kerk en recht in balans. Aandag voor de kwaliteit van de kerkelijke rechtsorde	0
Astrotheology as a prophetic wormhole that relates spacetime to eschatological transformation	0
COMFORT WOMEN SURVIVING PANDEMICS: FROM ERASURE TO EMBODIED HOPE TOWARDS A FEMINIST-POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGY OF RADICAL HOSPITALITY	0
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SEXY CHINKIES IN INDIAN CITIES: CAN WE EMBRACE A SLANT-EYED MARY?	0
Interview with Pof Klippies Kritzinger	0
Ecological hermeneutics as a current trend in Old Testament research in the Book of Psalms	0
Psalms 127:3-5 and the status of sons in ancient Israelite society: Salient issues in contemporary African society	0
The School for Social Innovation at Huguenot College and congregational vitality through faithful innovation	0
Interview with Prof. Malan Nel	0
Interview with Prof. Hennie Pieterse	0
Book Review: Intergenerational missiology: An African Pentecostal-Charismatic perspective	0
A lesson in love: Farid al-Din Attar’s story of Sheikh San’an and the Christian girl	0
Resilient religion: Resilience and heartbreaking adversity	0
EMPIRE, TRINITY, AND IRONY: RHETORIC AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION	0
Kobus Schoeman: A “bridge-builder” practical theologian, bridging divides in the publics of the church, the academy, and society	0
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Perilous presencing: How the church’s sacraments re-symbolize trauma	0
PREFACE	0
Inequalities within Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa on gender, with special reference to lGBTQIA+: Imago Dei	0