OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
“The Aesthetics of Covid-19 Within the Pandemic of the Corona Crisis. From Loss and Grief to Silence and Simplicity – A Philosophical and Pastoral Approach”	5
“I must speak to you plainly”: A history of English Bible translations, independent of the King James Version (1611) tradition	3
Sin is a Person: Some Ontological Metaphors in the Bible	2
Spirituality AND Contingency in Narrative Biographical Interviews with Primary School Leaders of Catholic Schools in the Netherlands	2
Building community in the church between “insiders” and “outsiders”	2
The church and LGBTQ: Towards the church as an inclusive communion of disciples	2
Calculated Risks: Exploring Plague Ethics with Luther and Barth	2
Integrating Theory and Praxis: An educational challenge	2
Sola Scriptura: Authority versus interpretation?	2
'The Emptied Authority': African Neo-Pentecostalism, Modernisation of Sacred Authority and Gendered and Sexualised Constructions of Violence	2
The role of religion and spirituality in transforming society	2
Being-in-the-Covid-19-world: Existence, technology and embodiment	2
Reflection on the leadership practice of Saul as a failure of leadership for church pastors	2
If God is everywhere, is God in a Black Hole? A theology-science discussion on omnipresence	1
A critical evaluation of religious syncretism among the Igbo Christians of Nigeria	1
Interview with Ruard Ganzefoort	1
Twenty-first Century Christianity: Some ideals, achievements, and failures	1
SPIRITUAL DETERMINANTS AND SITUATIONAL CONTINGENCIES OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP	1
The promise of attending to literary context for contextual biblical hermeneutics in Africa	1
On the high sea of spirituality. Antecedents and Determinants of discernment among school leaders in India	1
Health and Politics in the Covid-19 Crisis from a New Testament Hermeneutical Perspective	1
The Pandemic and Homiletics 101: A Reflection	1
A next generation? Young Dutch Reformed Church ministers and their vision for the church in South Africa	1
Unexpected possible. A building block approach of spiritual and religious experiences revisited.	1
A Christian spirituality of imperfection: Towards a pastoral theology of descent within the praxis of orthopathy	1

Religious faith traditions tussle with rampant corruption toward sustainable development: Search for the missing links in light of ubuntu	1
The Supreme Being in Ciyawo Bible translation and managing the choice of adequate terms for God	1
“What are we eating?” A theological-ethical analysis of the effects of food additives on human beings, especially in South Africa	1
God’s meaning is love: The mystical theology of Julian of Norwich	1
A plea for leadership Theories	1
To see, or not to see: Autobiographical perspectives of a Christian believer on the Covid-19 pandemic	1
Swinging between two poles. Henri Nouwen’s unique metaphor for spiritual transformation	1
Embodiment, Identity Formation and Missional Leadership: Roots of Theory and Practice in Theological Education	1
The transformative role of the media in the formation of virtuous citizens: A contribution to reconciliation in a post-apartheid South Africa	1
Biblical discourses and the subjugation of Africa: A Decolonial-Foucauldian perspective	1
Fragments of the sacred: sacramentally sustained in times of uncertainty	1
Hilary of Poitiers and theological language	0
PREFACE	0
Foreword	0
Introduction	0
Book review: African public theology	0
Christianity in Transformation: The rise of African Christianity among the AmaXhosa of the Eastern Cape	0
Astrotheology: The natural interface between hyperspace and the Trinity	0
Interview with Nadine Bowers Du Toit	0
INTERVIEW	0
UNDERTAKING SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY PLAYFULLY: TOWARD TRANSFORMING ACTION	0
Finding God as a millennial	0
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Justice and Beauty in South African Homiletics: A Postcolonial Contribution of Improvisation and Creativity	0
Being Reformed today?	0
Reading John 11:1-45 from a post-normal times perspective	0
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Book review: God and the pandemic. A Christian reflection on the coronavirus and its aftermath.	0
A Powerful Encounter. The Relation Between Diaconia and Spirituality	0
Book Review: Intergenerational missiology: An African Pentecostal-Charismatic perspective	0
Three influences on the spiritual experience of Titus Brandsma in the Lager	0
Transforming the study of religious situations: The view of post-secular society theories	0
God’s intervention revisited: An illumination of His continuous presence	0
Book review: Grace upon grace. Reflections on the meaning of life.	0
The bad habit of individualistic religion	0
Living wounds (anfechtungen) or blacksmithing of the human soul? The pastoral art of marvellous exchange (mirifica commutatio) in spiritual well-being	0
Book review: Timing Grace. Reflections on the temporality of preaching.	0
Tradition of reform as reform of tradition: Some considerations on the relation of religion and reform	0
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Book review: The formative stratum of the Sayings Gospel Q: Reconsidering its extent, message, and unity	0
CHRISTIAN SELF-FORMATION: An Augustinian Contribution	0
WE INTER-ARE: THE PANDEMIC CHALLENGE REDEFINING HUMANS AND COMMUNITIES	0
Justice as Beauty-in-Action? Insights from Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Aesthetics and Dramatics	0
Book announcement	0
Religious experience and sacred text	0
COVID-19 pandemic as a socio-psychological influence on transformations in religion	0
Re-imagining the congregation’s calling – moving from isolation to involvement	0
Schism – and Reformed theology?	0
Book review: The practices of Christian preaching. Essentials for effective proclamation.	0

Theology and identity	0
Finding oneself? Contemplating on paintings with a religious theme in clinical pastoral care	0
On being uniquely human in the world: a reflection on the contributions of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen	0
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The Bible, ODeL (Open and Distance Education and Learning) and Spirituality: Possibilities in a Post-secular Time	0
The mirage of a triune rainbow	0
Onderhoud: In gesprek met Prof. Cas Wepener	0
Inequalities within Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa on gender, with special reference to lGBTQIA+: Imago Dei	0
A transforming body: A post-exilic reading of Psalms 50 and 51 in the light of social norms communicated through the Leviticus sacrificial system and body imagery	0
CARING FOR WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES: ENHANCING WOMEN WORKERS’ CAPABILITIES AND BUILDING SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP	0
Common grace as theological encouragement for interreligious dialogue	0
Book Review: The end of Christian life. How embracing our mortality frees us to truly live	0
Book Review: Vergeving: Verkenningen rondom een delicaat thema	0
Towards a contextual theology of conviviality: Tutu, Bonhoeffer and living musical metaphors	0
Daar is méér. ’n Outobiografiese reisverhaal deur Amper-Stamperland en Metaversum	0
Interview with Prof. Piet Meiring	0
Book review: Mark. A theological exposition of sacred Scripture	0
A post-colonial political theology of care and praxis in Ethiopia’s era of identity politics	0
Toward a reinterpretation of sacramental theology in the context of pandemics: The case of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe	0
MILITARISM AND FEAR IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC IN THE PHILIPPINES: TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF TRANSGRESSION	0
The responsibility of architecture: beauty, justice and the call of care	0
Acting queerly: Jonah as the implicated subject and vulnerability	0
Shall we dance? Choreographing hospitality as key to interpersonal transformation	0
Nkunimdie Christology: An Akan contextual expression of the Christus Victor motif of atonement	0
From desperation to adoration: Reading Psalm 107 as a transforming spatial journey	0
Faith formation in the tension interplay of tools, processes and the course for social transformation	0
Holy communion in contagious times	0
Book review: In this world of wonders. Memoir of a life in learning.	0
The dialogical theology of Hans Küng: Clash between the Catholic Mission and Islamic Da’wah in Indonesia	0
Preaching When Viral Threats Converge: US “Double Pandemic” Sermons, 31 May and 7 June, 2020	0
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Embracing the Psalter’s imprecatory words in the 21st century	0
An ongoing search of constant and sustainable Lutheran Theological Education in South Africa in the 21st century.	0
Astrotheology as a prophetic wormhole that relates spacetime to eschatological transformation	0
Lesbianism: Deconstructing the Christian church and social hierarchies in South Africa	0
Integrating spirituality in decision making processes: The "Kairos Experiences" in the "Faith-Based Facilitation" process of The Salvation Army	0
JAPANESE WOMEN'S ACTIVISM SUSTAINS A LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITY IN THE PANDEMIC	0
Searching for God: Theology, Imagination, Beauty and the Arts	0
THE BALANCE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRAXIS IN SOUTH AFRICAN PENTECOSTALISM: PATMOS BIBLE SCHOOL AS A MODEL	0
Astrotheology: A proactive contextualization of novelty within space exploration	0
Forgiveness, reconciliation and justice á la Desmond Tutu	0
“This is what black girls do”: lamenting the bruised umntu and resisting dehumanisation	0
Four Criteria for Identifying the Socially Marginal in the Social Context of Early Christianity Reflected in the New Testament	0
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Contemplation and liturgy: The experience of St. Mary Magdalene De’ Pazzi (Florence, 1566-1607)	0
An ‘engaged’ systematic theology? Insights from the ressourcement movement and contemporary systematic theologian Graham Ward	0
DIE LEHRMETHODEN JESU IN DER MATTHÄISCHEN DARSTELLUNG UNTER DER BETRACHTUNG DER METHODEN DER ERLEBNISPÄDAGOGIK	0
Book review: African Hermeneutics	0
Luke for landlubbers: The translation and interpretation of ὑποπλέω in Acts 27	0
Transforming Presence: Seeing God’s body in Books I and II of Psalms	0
Book review: The full extent: An inquiry into nature and destiny	0
Book Review: Jeremia, profeet van oordeel en hoop	0
Book review: Theology as a way of life. On teaching and learning the Christian faith	0
Mystical handbooks of the late middle ages	0
“I will open my mouth in a parable”: “History” and “metaphor” in the Psalms	0
In search of values. Reading The Hunger Games in an African context	0
MOSES’ MOTHER IN EXODUS 2:1-10 AND MOTHERS IN PERSONAL NAMES AMONG THE IGBO PEOPLE, SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA	0
INTEGRATIVE MINISTERIAL TRAINING: CURRICULUM, METHODOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL INTEGRATION	0
The Lutheran “convivial economy” as a Christian economic heterodoxy: significance, components, and proposals to the current socio-economic order	0
pryslied vir ’n vreeslose gewete	0
PANDEMIC OASIS: POPULAR RELIGIOSITIES AS WOMEN’S LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITAS	0
Exploring Christian leadership in parachurch organizations in Lesotho	0
Reviewers of articles received for publication in 2022	0
Book review: Theology in an age of contingency	0
INTERVIEW: KEES WAAIJMAN	0
Prayer and gender in John Chrysostom’s homilies On Hannah	0
Book review: Timing grace: Reflections on the temporality of preaching.	0
Feminist spiritualities, gender equality and sustainable development: The possibilities of a countermovement	0
Book review: On the conversion of Indians and Heathens	0
Faith in the modern Reformed church: Calvin and Barth	0
Titus Brandsma: Getuige van God	0
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Transformation in the Wisdom Books of the Hebrew Bible and its application to the context of Southern Africa	0
ACADEMIC MUSIC MINISTRY TRAINING APPROACHED FROM A THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE	0
Stand-up preaching	0
The hermeneutical concepts of Minjung theology in historical perspective	0
WOMEN’S NEEDS VS. ECONOMIC SURVIVAL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: NAVIGATING THIS TENSION USING CARE AND JUSTICE	0
The relevance of covenant theology to fatherlessness in Kenya: A youth and family ministry perspective	0
Integrating Theory and Praxis in Early Christianity,According to the Book of Acts	0
Introduction	0

Editorial	0
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The perceptions of clergy on domestic violence: a perspective from the Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands	0
WOMEN’S RECEPTION OF CYBER CHURCHES DURING THE PANDEMIC AND INDICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE	0
A decolonial reading of the Third Chapter of the Gospel of John in Moffat’s Translation of the Catechism into Setswana (1826)	0
THE EXPERIENCES OF CURRENTLY AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITIES	0
Introduction	0
Have we lost touch with the Prophet Amos's warning? Church leaders and blood money rituals among youths in Nigeria	0
Resilient religion: What good is religion for?	0
#CHOOSETOCHALLENGE: COVID-19, COMMUNITY RESEARCH, AND THE CANAANITE WOMAN	0
Responsibility, refusal, and return: Thoughts on an ethics of inclination	0
“If I forget you Jerusalem” (Ps. 137:4). The Transmission of Sacred Discourse in the Bible and in African Indigenous Sacred Texts	0
SAWUBONA. A theo-ethic for everyday decolonial gestures	0
Spirituality as passions of the heart. An empirical r study into the character, core values and effects of the passions of the heart of general practitioners	0
Jeremiah 29:5-7 reread through the lens of posttraumatic growth	0
To kneel or not to kneel: Appropriating a religious and sport symbol for racial justice in South Africa	0
DIDACTIC SCAFFOLDING LEADERSHIP PEDAGOGY: A CASE STUDY OF LEARNING THROUGH PARTICIPATION	0
Paratextual framings of Psalm 72 and the shaping of interpretive possibilities	0
In daardie tyd was daar reuse	0
The African social question: A challenge to the African church in light of the two synods on Africa	0
SEXY CHINKIES IN INDIAN CITIES: CAN WE EMBRACE A SLANT-EYED MARY?	0
"Adorn the cross with roses"? Justice and human dignity, beauty and human flourishing	0
Unsuspicious reception of Biblical discourse in Africa and its implications for polygamy	0
Beautiful places and recreating humanity in South Africa	0
On the Future of Teaching Preaching in the Midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic	0
Concerning miracles: An existential analysis of some critical insights from Hume and Lewis	0
Divine hiddenness, the melancholic self, and a pandemic spirituality	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
Covid-19, racism and the ‘state of exception’? A theological ethical engagement with identity and human rights in an age of ‘Corona’ and beyond	0
MALACHI'S CONTROVERSIAL CONCLUSION:PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS	0
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Towards struggle as lived experience: Contemplation on homiletic research for a (post-)pandemic world	0
The foundational influence of early spiritual experiences on adulthood	0
Beauty lived towards shalom. The Christian Life as Aesthetic-Ethical Existence	0
The The Performative Function/Power of Literary Devices in Judith	0
The Spirit, Justice and Beauty?	0
THE SERVICE OF THE BELIEVERS: THE CHURCH ORDER OF THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH OF 2015 ARTICLE 55 IN PERSPECTIVE	0
Book review: Towards a theology of conflict solution: Understanding religious conflict in contemporary Nigerian society	0
Book Review: “Together in God’s theatre”. Practical theology in an African context	0
USING BUSINESS LEADERSHIP MODELS TO ANALYSE THE LEADERSHIP APPROACH IN A DEVELOPMENTAL ORGANIZATION WORKING IN THE CAPE FLATS	0
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Deification of believers in eternal life, according to father Dumitru Stăniloae	0
Book review: Childhood vulnerabilities in South Africa: Some ethical perspectives	0
Integrating Theory and Praxis in Empirical Missiology	0
Theological Perspectives on Development: Comparing Roman Catholic, ecumenical and evangelical positions	0
Ja, goed te deunen onze machtige (Psalm 147,1): De zoektocht naar een toonzetting van de Psalmen	0
Preface and Interviews	0
A framework of five transformative leadership competencies for church leaders in the DRC	0
“For mine is the bitter, the ale and the lager”: Parodic prayer and the spirituality of humour	0
Pursuing the ideal of integration in Pentecostal theological education: A case study of Pentecost Theological Seminary, Ghana.	0
Christianity and medical science: A historical quest for remedy in time of epidemics	0
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Transformation of war language in the worship of all the earth in Psalm 100	0
COMFORT WOMEN SURVIVING PANDEMICS: FROM ERASURE TO EMBODIED HOPE TOWARDS A FEMINIST-POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGY OF RADICAL HOSPITALITY	0
Classical Pentecostal Bible reading practices and Baconian common sense	0
Jeremiah 31:31-34: A prospect of true transformation	0
Preface	0
To die and let die: A just theology of ceding space	0
Book review: Kerk en recht in balans. Aandag voor de kwaliteit van de kerkelijke rechtsorde	0
Integrative Ministerial Training: A Case-Study in the Baptist Tradition of South Africa	0
Christianity, ‘supernatural’ beliefs and COVID-19	0
A lesson in love: Farid al-Din Attar’s story of Sheikh San’an and the Christian girl	0
Authority of the Father: Eternal functional subordination – Quo Vadis?	0
Book Review: Conflict transformation for sustainable Christian marriage	0
Der Beitrag von vernetzten Studieninhalten zu einer ganzheitlichen theologischen Ausbildung	0
Re-interpretation as transformation. Perspectives and challenges for Old Testament interpretation	0
Christianity, art and transformation	0
An Afro-Christian contextual analysis of presidential pardon in post-colonial African politics	0
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The constant reality beyond exception and rule in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology	0
Book review: Sunday’s sermon for Monday’s world. Preaching to shape daring witness.	0
The שרים in Daniel 10:13, 20-21: Princes or Battle Commanders?	0
Book Review: Making connections: Integrative theological education in Africa	0
Engaging Rian Venter’s trinitarian theology: a Trinity of space and time	0
Adaptive translation of medieval morality plays for contemporary African audiences: A case study of the morality play Everyman in Sesotho	0
Foreword	0
Reviewers of articles received for publication in 2023	0
Moving methodologies. Doing practical and missional theology in an African context	0
BECOMING WHOLE AGAIN: THE GOAL OF WOMEN’S STRUGGLE AGAINST SEX ABUSE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN THE PHILIPPINES	0
Equipping the youth by recourse to the TOTAL LIFE training tool for youth challenges in Christiana: A Community Engagement Programme	0
The coloniser or the missionary? Identity crisis as a conflict in Biblical reception among the Agikuyu of Central Kenya	0
The challenge of poverty in Malawi and Bonhoeffer's soteriology	0
Semiotics of alterity and the cultural dimensions of Bible translation	0
Interview with Pof Klippies Kritzinger	0
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"In The Spirit"	0
Justice is Beauty? Exploring Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Aesthetics and Philosophy	0
Decolonising Bibles? Image, imagination, and imagin(in)g in the postcolonial academy	0
Pointing out persuasion in Philemon	0
Emphasis, Advocacy, and Bias in Annotating and Translating the Bible	0
The recipient becoming a participant and the participant becoming a recipient: A strange encounter in 1 Kings 17 with a not so strange outcome	0
Confessing church today?	0
Nurturing students’ spiritual development in secular contexts: a case study of Evangelical theological education in Australia	0
The revelation of God: How and to whom does God reveals God self to?	0