Ecclesiological implications for the church as intergenerational space focusing on families by P.R. Mans, P.A. Rosseau

“…The article revisits a biblical framework of what church should be, in order to refresh insight into how the church could and should respond to an intergenerational understanding of the form and function of the church. …”
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PRAYER IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AS SPIRITUAL WISDOM FOR TODAY by C Lombaard

“… The discipline of Biblical Spirituality, with its dual focus on ancient text and modern application, provides the methodological framework for this article. …”
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Communities facing disruption: the need to shift from individual to community paradigms in pastoral care by D. P. Mouton

“…It further provides Biblical and theological motivation for a (w)holistic understanding of health, well-being, healing and restoration that is only fully understood when such understanding is undergirded by an acute awareness of the relational and communal dimension of each of these. …”
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JEREMIAH 8:8: by H L Bosman

“…The article distinguishes between oral common law and written statutory law, in order to rectify anachronistic interpretations of all biblical laws as statutory laws (Berman 2014). The change from oral to written law, facilitated by the scribes, caused a legitimacy crisis and can be explained against the background of a new understanding of what “word of God” or “revelation” entailed (Van der Toorn 2013). …”
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Allured by Satan, the World and the Flesh: Representations of Temptation in Medieval English Drama by Pınar Taşdelen

“…Medieval dramatists represent the temptations in several mystery and morality plays so as to warn their audience against temptation, present temptation as something to be abstained from through biblical accounts, beginning with Satan’s temptation, followed with an individual’s falling into temptation oneself. …”
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The reception of Apphia in the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. by D. F. Tolmie

“…Firstly, it is shown that the difference in the Biblical texts that were used by these five scholars may have had an influence on the way in which they interpreted Apphia’s role. …”
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Problems in the theoretical foundation of the functional-equivalent approach by G. J. C. Jordaan

“…Consequently it is seen as the task of the translator to make the Bible communicate to modern man via a process of transformation of the Biblical message. This  transformation is conducted in a manner which corresponds with the idea that textual form and message can be separated. …”
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MOSES’ MOTHER IN EXODUS 2:1-10 AND MOTHERS IN PERSONAL NAMES AMONG THE IGBO PEOPLE, SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA by M.J. Obiorah, N.C. Okafor

“…Narrative analysis is employed in the study of the biblical text. The explanatory analysis of Igbo personal names uses data collected from families who give and bear such names. …”
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PREACHING WHEN VIRAL THREATS CONVERGE: USA SERMONS, 31 MAY AND 7 JUNE 2020 by S.A. Brown

“…Sermons preached in the USA in congregations of distinctive predominant racial identity on the two Sundays following Floyd’s death (31 May and 7 June 2020) are assessed hermeneutically, asking: “In what ways did US sermons, preached on 31 May and 7 June 2020, interpret divine presence and activity in relation to the preacher’s interpretation of listeners’ needs and responsibilities; biblical text(s) referenced, and/or the dual public crisis impinging on national life?” …”
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Miroslav Volf’s public theology in national healing and reconciliation in Zimbabwe by Joseph C. Useni, Wim A. Dreyer

“…Several individuals use Miroslav Volf’s theology to understand the unity of systematic theology and biblical interpretation, as well as the relationship between church theology and political theology. …”
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Die goedkeuring van kerkrade vir 'n nuwe verband in die NG Kerkfamilie? by PJ Strauss

“…On che one hand the undefined and general structural unity of rhe church, is a Biblical principle. On the ocher hand, the formulation and constitution of confessions and specific denominations is a matter for the believers within a certain historical concext. …”
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THE BIBLE, OPEN AND DISTANCE EDUCATION AND LEARNING, AND SPIRITUALITY: POSSIBILITIES IN A POST-SECULAR TIME by C. Lombaard

“…Combining the initially often intellectually a-critical religious sentiments of students with the demands of biblical/Old Testament/New Testament studies as science (language skills, exegetical methodologies, critical theories, hermeneutics of understanding and of relevance) is characterised by some difficulties, which lead to various and some extreme reactions among students. …”
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EQUIPPING THE YOUTH BY RECOURSE TO THE TOTAL LIFE TRAINING TOOL FOR YOUTH CHALLENGES IN CHRISTIANA: by F.E. Freeks

“…The purpose of the study is to give hope, build resilience, and improve or enhance the lives of young people through the TOTAL LIFE programme, despite the challenges they are facing daily. This missional and biblical tool is designed in a constructive, creative-critical way, from a missio Dei perspective. …”
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THE AVENGING GOD OF NAHUM AS COMFORTER OF THE TRAUMATIZED by K Spronk

“… In this article dedicated to my esteemed colleague Fanie Snyman, I want to contribute to the fascinating field of the study of biblical literature and the hermeneutics of trauma. …”
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Christian Iconography Adorning Corinthian Capitals in Syria by Ahmad Dawa

“…Additionally, the rare representation of grapevines, which held significant importance in Christian symbolism, connects them to biblical narratives and theological concepts. Overall, these elements could aid in dating unidentified Corinthian capitals in the area of study when analyzed alongside other components of the capital. …”
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An Afro-Christian contextual analysis of presidential pardon in post-colonial African politics by B.O. Igboin

“… Presidential or royal pardon is an age-long practice in precolonial Africa as well as in biblical times. This practice has never been without criticisms because of how, and on whom the pardon is granted. …”
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Migration discourses in Italy by Elena Benelli

“…In this article I explore how the rhetoric of the State, its laws and the media have portrayed the newcomers under the negative label of a “biblical exodus” or as a “mass invasion” (Portelli, Dal Lago) and have ineffectively managed the process of integration (Dal Lago, Parati). …”
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COMFORT WOMEN SURVIVING PANDEMICS: FROM ERASURE TO EMBODIED HOPE TOWARDS A FEMINIST-POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGY OF RADICAL HOSPITALITY by S.A. Bong

“…Through their lived experience as survivors of pandemics, a feminist-postcolonial theology of radical hospitality first critiques biblical narratives of men’s hospitality to men. The parallel stories of Lot’s offer of his virgin daughters (Gen. 19) and the Levite’s offer of his concubine (Judges 19) expose, first, the hierarchisation of male guests over women, as property of men, and secondly, the inviolable creed of hospitality conferred on men by men, that is sustained by the cultural code that marks women’s bodies as violable. …”
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Życie i dzieło Marcina Lutra a spór wokół tez i narodzin Reformacji by Wojciech Miedwid

“…The Reformer experienced a deep concern in the area of spiritual life and he solved his dilemmas based on biblical theology, which led him to formulation of the 95 theses. …”
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The linguistic, conceptual, and pragmatic challenges of communicating Galatians 3:1-14 in Chewa by Ernst Wendland

“…Further attention is devoted to some of the conceptual challenges that this text, as an example of the Galatian epistle as a whole, poses for mother-tongue speakers due to their lack of an adequate biblical and hermeneutical frame of reference. Suggestions are offered as to how this significant cognitive disparity might be overcome through the use of a judicious selection of paratextual features, in particular, the incorporation of contextually relevant explanatory footnotes. …”
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