Niqmat Yhwh: vraag- of uitroepteken achter het bijbelse Godsbeeld? by HGL Peels

“… Graag voldoe ek aan het vriendelijke verzoek van de redactie om in een artikel een samevatting te geven van die belangrijkste resultaten van die studie, waarop ik in Mei 1992 aan de Theologische Universiteit van de Christelijke Gereformeerde Kerken in Nederland te Apeldoorn promovverde: De wraak van God. De beteknis van de wortel NQM en die functie van de NQM-teksten in het kader van die oudtestamentische Godsopenbaring (Zoetermeer, 1992). …”
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The "first Deborah" - Genesis 35:8 in the literary and theological context by F. Olojede

“…However, the analysis of the verse in its literary and theological context in this article shows that it has been strategically placed in the narrative to underscore, among other things, the important role of Deborah in the Bethel tradition and the Jacob Cycle, as well as the subtle pointer to the fact that little people also have a place in the overall narrative of God’s people. …”
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Ipotesi per una contestualizzazione dell’Hypnos del Prado by Graziella Becatti

“…Until the nineteenth century, the statue of Hypnos held by the Prado Museum was thought to represent the Roman god Mercury. Its provenance is unknown, although occasional sixteenthcentury documents make reference to the existence of the masterpiece within Renaissance collections of Roman antiquities. …”
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THE SPIRIT, JUSTICE AND BEAUTY?

“…Firstly, I argue for the theologically important relation between justice and beauty; secondly, that the Spirit of God is the Spirit both of “justice” and of “beauty”; thirdly, that a theology of the Spirit further defines “justice” and “beauty” and allows for a deepened understanding of both; and fourthly, that a theology of the Spirit allows us to understand the ambiguities with regards to these differentiated themes – and therefore highlights not only the importance of the interrelation between “beauty” and “justice” – but, I argue, is this interrelation. …”
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The spiritual mentality profile of female pietists on the South African frontier, 1750-1860 by A. W. G. Raath

“…Such a  reconstruction of the religious mentality profile of pietistic women on the frontier reveals a number of important aspects for understanding their spiritual life: self-awakenings and conversions; self-purification; self-illumination and mystically tainted experiences; recollection and the experience of quiet; meditation, contemplation, ecstasy and rapture; spiritual desertion, and abandonment of the soul and the unitive life with God in Christ. …”
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Psalm 22 LXX in Origen’s commentary on the Song of Songs by P.B. Decock

“…The Targum focuses on God’s protective presence in Israel’s history and looks forward to the salvation to come. …”
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Congregational vitality – a perspective from Galatians by F. Tolmie

“…The following aspects that might be relevant are identified and discussed: 1. God’s calling as the point of departure; 2. The centrality of the gospel; 3. …”
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Forgiveness in post-apartheid South Africa by George A Lotter

“…The author concludes that there is a real need for thoroughgoing study of and application to this crucial matter in post-apartheid South Africa but in the end forgiveness can only be attained as a "transcendent gift" from God. …”
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Towards an Abrahamic ecumenism? The search for the universality of the divine mystery by C. van der Kooi

“…It is argued, however, that to pursue a viable political pluralism, it is more promising for Christian theology to take into account the historical development of the image of God instead of an orientation on a common historical origin in Abraham. …”
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The Popes and the Idea of European Unity by Emília Hrabovec

“…John Paul II relaunched a new evangelisation instead of compromises with secularism and Marxism, but maintained a fundamental European optimism, whereas Benedict XVI did not hesitate to admit that the European culture, transformed into a laicist utopia which substitutes God by the obstinate self-will of man, could disappear, too. …”
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An architectonics of desire: the person on the path to Nada in John of the Cross by F. England

“…It employs the notion of ‘desireless desire’, in order to describe John’s final position of waiting as one that neither dispenses with an authentically human and desiring subject, nor compromises the final aim of union with God. …”
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Genealogies and spiritualities in Genesis 4:17-22, 4:25-26, 5:1-32 by C. Lombaard

“…Each of these approaches to genealogy has a different intent; each wants to indicate a different aspect of God’s care. Each thus evidences an own (though not unrelated) configuration of faith experienced, that is, a different spirituality. …”
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INTRODUCTION by G Van der Watt

“…Since 1981, he has been a minister of the Word of God in the Dutch Reformed Church; since 1992, he has been lecturer and, from 1997, Professor in Missiology. …”
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PREFACE by A.M. Brazal, R. Pieris

“…It is a community that goes beyond the boundaries of gender, class, or race/ethnicity, fostering the right relations with God, other peoples, and creation. This Special Issue is a collection of selected articles from that Conference. …”
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La penna di Dhuoda e di Ildegarde: un dono di fede* by Francesca Sivo

“…The former focused on a domestic perspective, the latter projected to an ecumenical horizon, but both believed in the educational value of the word as a warning that becomes an authentic profession of faith through ars and scientia, the God-given and olny true key to access the faith itself.…”
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Die ouderling in twee kerkordes in die Dordtse tradisie by P. J. Strauss

“…In essence the elder is seen as an office that governs the church through the Word of God. This is why the elder in the Calvinistic-Dordt tradition is a worthy and winning opponent of the Roman Catholic pope. …”
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Prediking in die wêreld van die hoorders by HJC Pieterse

“… The problem which this article addresses is the need of the congregation to hear the living Word of God and the implications of this word in their concrete world of a society in transition. …”
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VREDE TE MIDDE VAN GEWELD: by E Scheffler

“…The article also reflects on the psychological issue (referring to Freud’s concepts of eros and thanatos) of how human prophets advocate both peace and violence, involving the concept of God in the process. …”
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The Metempiricism of Margins: Professor Anthony Aṣiwaju and the Circumference of Knowledge by Toyin Falola

“…Contrary to the man-confining adage of “cut your coat according to your cloth/size,” the autobiography of Professor Aṣiwaju has exemplified that the Supreme God cuts and designs coat without the delimitations or regard of one’s size or cloth. …”
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