Acta Theologica

Papers
(The TQCC of Acta Theologica is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Articles Memory, Jesus, and Mary Magdalene: Whose memory matters?7
Decolonising Bibles? Image, imagination, and imagin(in)g in the postcolonial academy3
Covid-19, racism and the ‘state of exception’? A theological ethical engagement with identity and human rights in an age of ‘Corona’ and beyond3
“This is what black girls do”: lamenting the bruised umntu and resisting dehumanisation3
Reimagining the self in relation to God and all creation. Practices of silence in an urban context of societal acceleration2
Jeremiah 29:5-7 reread through the lens of posttraumatic growth2
Paul’s self-presentation and his opinion on the art of persuasion in 1 Corinthians2
One size does not fit all – changing congregational culture2
pryslied vir ’n vreeslose gewete1
Luke for landlubbers: The translation and interpretation of ὑποπλέω in Acts 271
The bad habit of individualistic religion1
Preaching: Truth sharing as a prophetic voice1
The persuasive function of the blood of Jesus in Matthew 26:281
Resilient religion: What good is religion for?1
Instilling values through literature: Analysing Everyman, a medieval morality play1
Metaverse as challenge to homo religionis. Diachronic thinking in theory formation for pastoral caregiving to netizens1
Psalm 22 LXX in Origen’s commentary on the Song of Songs1
Fightin’ words in Pauline texts:Their polemical appropriation in modern political discourse1
Nkunimdie Christology: An Akan contextual expression of the Christus Victor motif of atonement1
A travel journal by a preacher during the annual Pentecost prayer meetings in the Dutch Reformed Church:1
Contemplation and liturgy: The experience of St. Mary Magdalene De’ Pazzi (Florence, 1566-1607)1
Mission: The “labour room” of theology1
Interview with Prof Sunggu A. Yang1
Have we lost touch with the Prophet Amos's warning? Church leaders and blood money rituals among youths in Nigeria1
Research on the Letter to the Galatians 2000-20201
To kneel or not to kneel: Appropriating a religious and sport symbol for racial justice in South Africa1
Lesbianism: Deconstructing the Christian church and social hierarchies in South Africa1
Semiotics of alterity and the cultural dimensions of Bible translation1
Religious faith traditions tussle with rampant corruption toward sustainable development: Search for the missing links in light of ubuntu1
Ecumenical ecclesiology as a tool for township congregations to facilitate transformation of the (South) African society1
Biblical discourses and the subjugation of Africa: A Decolonial-Foucauldian perspective1
Three influences on the spiritual experience of Titus Brandsma in the Lager1
The hermeneutical concepts of Minjung theology in historical perspective1
In love with the desert1
Reviewers of articles processed in 20251
Book Review: Making connections: Integrative theological education in Africa0
Swinging between two poles. Henri Nouwen’s unique metaphor for spiritual transformation0
Book review: The formative stratum of the Sayings Gospel Q: Reconsidering its extent, message, and unity0
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God’s meaning is love: The mystical theology of Julian of Norwich0
BOOK REVIEW Sinsoekers: Tussen twyfel en troos0
Recurrent and current trends in the study of the Book of Psalms0
Mystical handbooks of the late middle ages0
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BOOK REVIEW Bibles in Africa through European eyes0
Daar is méér. ’n Outobiografiese reisverhaal deur Amper-Stamperland en Metaversum0
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In daardie tyd was daar reuse0
Prayer and gender in John Chrysostom’s homilies On Hannah0
Unraveling "DHR": The study of ancient texts0
Embodied theology with children with disabilities in South Africa0
Responsibility, refusal, and return: Thoughts on an ethics of inclination0
Between the Pandemic, the War and the Value Conflict: Polish Ecumenism at Crossroads0
Pentecostal ecclesiology in the new adaptation era:0
Interview with Prof. Dr. Julius Gathogo0
Preface0
Interview with Prof. Julian Müller: Reflections on a career in Practical Theology0
Being Reformed today?0
BOOK REVIEW Digital homiletics: The theology and practice of online preaching0
Christianity and medical science: A historical quest for remedy in time of epidemics0
Reviewers of articles received for publication in 20220
The eternal bonds: Families as a divine stewardship beyond the world0
Common grace as theological encouragement for interreligious dialogue0
Paul, rhetorically gifted, or discursively manipulative?0
Book Review: Conflict transformation for sustainable Christian marriage0
Corrigendum: Jeremiah 29:5-7 reread through the lens of posttraumatic growth0
Pointing out persuasion in Philemon0
Equivalent terminology in the late Chagatai Turkish (Eastern Turki) translation of the Gospel of Luke0
Foreword0
Reflection on the leadership practice of Saul as a failure of leadership for church pastors0
A decolonial reading of the Third Chapter of the Gospel of John in Moffat’s Translation of the Catechism into Setswana (1826)0
Interview with Prof. Piet Meiring0
Confronting the cataracts of whiteness to see the invisible: reflections on the transmission and reception of the Bible in post-apartheid South Africa0
The dialogical theology of Hans Küng: Clash between the Catholic Mission and Islamic Da’wah in Indonesia0
Chiasm in Zephaniah 3:14-17 – A new proposal0
“If I forget you Jerusalem” (Ps. 137:4). The Transmission of Sacred Discourse in the Bible and in African Indigenous Sacred Texts0
The social imagination of the church in a racially divided society0
How negotiated peace in underdeveloped countries results in structural violence: Healing memories in South Africa0
The Significance of Calvin’s Theology of Mission and its realization in the sixteenth century for twenty-first century church mission in Indonesia0
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Towards struggle as lived experience: Contemplation on homiletic research for a (post-)pandemic world0
Living wounds (anfechtungen) or blacksmithing of the human soul? The pastoral art of marvellous exchange (mirifica commutatio) in spiritual well-being0
Proud to be deaf0
Biblical stewardship and electricity management in Ghana0
Finding oneself? Contemplating on paintings with a religious theme in clinical pastoral care0
Confessing church today?0
Unhiding in plain sight: Reimagining the parable of the persistent widow0
Moving methodologies. Doing practical and missional theology in an African context0
A post-colonial political theology of care and praxis in Ethiopia’s era of identity politics0
The pragmatic function of asides that stage an event in the Fourth Gospel0
Interview with Pof Klippies Kritzinger0
Book review: Christian mission in a diverse British urban context: Crossing the racial barrier to reach communities0
COMFORT WOMEN SURVIVING PANDEMICS: FROM ERASURE TO EMBODIED HOPE TOWARDS A FEMINIST-POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGY OF RADICAL HOSPITALITY0
Interview with Nadine Bowers Du Toit0
Reimagining mainline churches that are African0
Reading John 11:1-45 from a post-normal times perspective0
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Interview with Prof. Hennie Pieterse0
Book review: Kerk en recht in balans. Aandag voor de kwaliteit van de kerkelijke rechtsorde0
Resilient religion: Resilience and heartbreaking adversity0
The foundational influence of early spiritual experiences on adulthood0
Contemporary issues in Christian marriage: In commemoration of the retirement of Rev. Dr. Samuel Oluwafemi Oladimeji from active ministry of the Nigerian Baptist Convention0
Interview with Prof. Kobus Schoeman on the occasion of his retirement at the end of 20240
The School for Social Innovation at Huguenot College and congregational vitality through faithful innovation0
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Ecological hermeneutics as a current trend in Old Testament research in the Book of Psalms0
Inequalities within Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa on gender, with special reference to lGBTQIA+: Imago Dei0
BECOMING WHOLE AGAIN: THE GOAL OF WOMEN’S STRUGGLE AGAINST SEX ABUSE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN THE PHILIPPINES0
Naming and shaming? Exploring space(s) between women in Philippians 4:2-30
EMPIRE, TRINITY, AND IRONY: RHETORIC AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION0
“It all starts with urgency…” Engaging with the local ekklesia of Thessalonica as a window and mirror en route to sustained missionary impact0
Book Review: Intergenerational missiology: An African Pentecostal-Charismatic perspective0
Forgiveness, reconciliation and justice á la Desmond Tutu0
Jesus uttering his last words and drawing on his final breath: reflecting on Luke 23:460
“Like sand through an hourglass, so are the days of our lives”: Youth, religion, and social capital in South Africa0
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Perilous presencing: How the church’s sacraments re-symbolize trauma0
Wonders above, signs below0
Unsuspicious reception of Biblical discourse in Africa and its implications for polygamy0
The Nicene Creed in Martin Thornton’s Ascetical Theology0
Faith formation in the tension interplay of tools, processes and the course for social transformation0
The Ordination of women: Part of the Dutch Reformed Church's Mariological gift0
Breaking the silos: Decolonial theological education beyond the church-academy divide in Africa0
Realigning with the slave-like Jesus of Mark: The shorter ending of Mark 16:1-8 as a relecture0
Neo-pentecostal mission healthcare and poverty reduction in Ghana0
Origen and Augustine: Rooted in the Socratic tradition of philosophical rhetoric0
PANDEMIC OASIS: POPULAR RELIGIOSITIES AS WOMEN’S LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITAS0
Reimagining ecclesiological imagination within a Dutch Reformed Congregation in South Africa0
Jesus talks to the Samaritan woman0
WOMEN’S NEEDS VS. ECONOMIC SURVIVAL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: NAVIGATING THIS TENSION USING CARE AND JUSTICE0
The mirage of a triune rainbow0
The revelation of God: How and to whom does God reveals God self to?0
The use of empirical data in communal discernment and decision-making processes in the Dutch Reformed Church0
Editorial0
Ja, goed te deunen onze machtige (Psalm 147,1): De zoektocht naar een toonzetting van de Psalmen0
Revisiting democracy “after” Allan Boesak?0
CARING FOR WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES: ENHANCING WOMEN WORKERS’ CAPABILITIES AND BUILDING SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP0
Shall we dance? Choreographing hospitality as key to interpersonal transformation0
Engaging Rian Venter’s trinitarian theology: a Trinity of space and time0
Congregational vitality – a perspective from Galatians0
Editorial0
The constant reality beyond exception and rule in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology0
Astrotheology: The natural interface between hyperspace and the Trinity0
"Before the cock crows, you will deny me" (Matthew 26: 34): Betrayal and Redemption in The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna0
Reimagining forgiveness: A transformative engagement with a social imagination of forgiveness through intercultural Biblical reading in South Africa0
An ongoing search of constant and sustainable Lutheran Theological Education in South Africa in the 21st century.0
Towards an emergent theory of reimagining church in a racially divided society: Building theory from different cases0
Decolonizing theological education in Ghana0
Embodied and hybrid pedagogies:0
SAWUBONA. A theo-ethic for everyday decolonial gestures0
Reviewers of articles received for publication in 20230
Pastoral leadership for a relevant missional ecclesiology in a context of poverty0
The Supreme Being in Ciyawo Bible translation and managing the choice of adequate terms for God0
Towards an agency-oriented model of congregational vitality:0
An Afro-Christian contextual analysis of presidential pardon in post-colonial African politics0
The spiritual practices of South African clergy: State of the clergy0
Cur Deus Homo vs Homo Deus and the Evolution of Humanity: Quo Vadis?0
Book review: The full extent: An inquiry into nature and destiny0
Religious experience and sacred text0
A Text-centred rhetorical analysis of 1 Thessalonians 2:13-160
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ Doctrine of Christ’s Descent into Hades and its implications for African Ancestor Christological discourse0
Reviewers of articles received in 20240
A short overview of the modern eras of historiography in church history:0
JAPANESE WOMEN'S ACTIVISM SUSTAINS A LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITY IN THE PANDEMIC0
The Trinity and the economy: The God who cares about human welfare0
The church and LGBTQ: Towards the church as an inclusive communion of disciples0
Truth and reconciliation: Indigenous storytelling reflection on Inxeba Elingaphakathi0
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“For mine is the bitter, the ale and the lager”: Parodic prayer and the spirituality of humour0
The Lutheran “convivial economy” as a Christian economic heterodoxy: significance, components, and proposals to the current socio-economic order0
Dynamics of health and wellness at an African Pentecostal Churchrelated institution in Zimbabwe:0
The future of empirical research in and through the Dutch Reformed Church0
Faith in the modern Reformed church: Calvin and Barth0
Indigenous research methods and African women’s theology: A theo-analytical engagement0
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The relevance of covenant theology to fatherlessness in Kenya: A youth and family ministry perspective0
Adaptive translation of medieval morality plays for contemporary African audiences: A case study of the morality play Everyman in Sesotho0
Stand-up preaching0
WOMEN’S RECEPTION OF CYBER CHURCHES DURING THE PANDEMIC AND INDICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE0
Holy communion in contagious times0
Finding God as a millennial0
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Ecclesiological implications for the church as intergenerational space focusing on families0
On being uniquely human in the world: a reflection on the contributions of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen0
Song of Songs – Current trends in research0
Christianity, ‘supernatural’ beliefs and COVID-190
Reimagining outreach as inreach: A study of white DRC students at Stellenbosch University0
Reconfiguring a theological-spiritual vocabulary about death: Mysticism, “magic” and the case of Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore0
The coloniser or the missionary? Identity crisis as a conflict in Biblical reception among the Agikuyu of Central Kenya0
THE EXPERIENCES OF CURRENTLY AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITIES0
Apologetics in Africa: An introduction0
MILITARISM AND FEAR IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC IN THE PHILIPPINES: TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF TRANSGRESSION0
The Trinity and an ecclesiology from below0
Formation of good Christian conscience: A link between professed faith and praxis in Africa0
Christians’ social perception of climate change and poverty: A study of the Nkroanza south district assembly0
New frontiers in contemporary missiology: Southern African perspectives0
Theology of sexual purity: Reimagining child-marriages within the white garment churches in Zimbabwe0
The testing of Abraham in Genesis 22 and the testing of Job0
Towards the sustainable well-being of communities0
The challenge of poverty in Malawi and Bonhoeffer's soteriology0
African theological education and its curriculum responsiveness towards African Union’s Agenda 2063.0
Towards a contextual theology of conviviality: Tutu, Bonhoeffer and living musical metaphors0
Reading Galatians 3:28 from a congregational perspective0
The gender-responsive church: Models of religious community in realising alignment for women0
#CHOOSETOCHALLENGE: COVID-19, COMMUNITY RESEARCH, AND THE CANAANITE WOMAN0
WE INTER-ARE: THE PANDEMIC CHALLENGE REDEFINING HUMANS AND COMMUNITIES0
Finding a rhythm within A polyphonic (auto)biographical pastoral reflection0
Peace in the spirituality of Thomas á Kempis. An aesthetic perspective on the Imitatio Christi 4.250
The art of narrative analogy0
"In The Spirit"0
Astrotheology as a prophetic wormhole that relates spacetime to eschatological transformation0
Religious persecution0
Theology and identity0
John of the Cross and Emmanuel Lévinas: The QUEST for God beyond Being0
Book review: Towards a theology of conflict solution: Understanding religious conflict in contemporary Nigerian society0
The beauty of sorrow:0
A chiastic opus to the Creator of “heaven and earth- earth and heaven” A spatial reading of Psalm 148 and Colossians 1:15-200
Nurturing students’ spiritual development in secular contexts: a case study of Evangelical theological education in Australia0
Seeking a path of its own: Old Testament ethics in current research0
Introduction to the Festschrift for Prof. D.F. (Francois) Tolmie “God, people, and persuasion in Scripture and theology”0
Let's do theology - as in the book of Job: Developing theology in dialogue0
Divine hiddenness, the melancholic self, and a pandemic spirituality0
SEXY CHINKIES IN INDIAN CITIES: CAN WE EMBRACE A SLANT-EYED MARY?0
Psalms 127:3-5 and the status of sons in ancient Israelite society: Salient issues in contemporary African society0
The Christian God: Collected Essays0
YouVersion verses-of-the-year in relation to Afrikaans prepositional met and van constructions expressing fear and loneliness0
Foreword0
Acting queerly: Jonah as the implicated subject and vulnerability0
Interview with Prof. Malan Nel0
A lesson in love: Farid al-Din Attar’s story of Sheikh San’an and the Christian girl0
Tadek dance as a decolonial theo-cosmology0
Titus Brandsma: Getuige van God0
Feminist spiritualities, gender equality and sustainable development: The possibilities of a countermovement0
From the Council of Nicaea to the Age of AI: What kind of human did Jesus become?0
Karl Barth’s Christological anthropology as a basis for building an interreligious relationship0
Kobus Schoeman: A “bridge-builder” practical theologian, bridging divides in the publics of the church, the academy, and society0
PREFACE0
Toward a reinterpretation of sacramental theology in the context of pandemics: The case of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe0
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