IMPLICATION OF COMMUNALISM IN CHILD-TRAINING IN ANCIENT ISRAEL AND TRADITIONAL YORUBA SETTING FOR MORAL EDUCATION IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA by FABAREBO SAMUEL IDOWU, IYANDA ABEL OLATOYE

“…Historical-critical method was utilised in the interpretation of both Biblical texts and the selected Yoruba proverbs. …”
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Implikasies van 'n postmodernistiese lees van die Ou Testament vir die terreine van die teologie, die bybelwetenskap, die publiek en die kerk by JPH Wessels

“…Besides the implications for textual meaning, this approach also has implications for biblical science, the public and the church. …”
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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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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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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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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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Ecclesiological implications for the church as intergenerational space focusing on families by P.R. Mans, P.A. Rosseau

“…Given the fact that the family is the microcosm where discipling should take place according to Psalm 78:4-7 (also Deut. 6:7-9; Matt. 28:19-20; 1 Cor. 3:4-9), this focus naturally leads to the critical question: Where do families fit in this mandate? …”
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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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Romans 1:24–28 and Same-Sex Practice: Some Exegetical Remarks by Marius Nel

“…The article reconsiders the textual evidence, using an exegetical model based on the historical–critical method combined with biblical theology. The conclusion is that Romans 1:24–29 refers to same-sex behaviour within the context of the Gentile world of idolatry that engages in wilful transgression of God’s bounds, resulting in degeneration in the lives of offenders.…”
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Tours de Babel et lettres de feu : motifs bibliques dans le Berlin de Vladimir Nabokov by Monica Manolescu-Oancea

“…Starting from these motifs involving shop signs, letters and light, I attempt to connect the urban scene of exile with the issue of bilingualism, and to show in what ways Nabokov’s use of these two biblical topoi points to a vision of literary creation as transgression. …”
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READING THE LORD’S PRAYER THROUGH EWE-GHANAIAN DEMONOLOGICAL LENS by E. van Eck, D. Sakitey

“…It employs a combination of the historical-critical and indigenous mother tongue biblical hermeneutics methods to address the ambiguity associated with the phrase ??? …”
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1 Thessalonians 4:13 and grief management in Nigerian churches by Solomon O. Ademiluka

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Dickens and the American Millennium: The Uniformitarian Argument of Martin Chuzzlewit by Nancy Aycock Metz

“…This essay builds on recent critical discussion of Dickens’s novels in terms of the ‘uniformitarian’ and ‘catastrophist’ paradigms of time and change, then current in contemporary geological discourse. …”
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A Postcolonial Conversational Approach to Preaching in Multicultural Contexts by Scott Donahue-Martens

“…Drawing from the works of Jared Alcántara and Matthew Kim, I recognize the need for preachers and congregations to increase their intercultural competence and hermeneutical tools for recognizing, interpreting, and ethically navigating biblical and modern cultures. Because some preachers and congregations have taken their cultural formation for granted, intercultural development is a critical step toward preaching in multicultural contexts. …”
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Perspective on Agapeic Ethic and Creation Care by Loveday Chigozie Onyezonwu, Ucheawaji Godfrey Josiah

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A literary-historical analysis of Daniel 2: two powers in opposition by M. Nel

“… This article investigates some aspects of Daniel 2 and attempts to demonstrate the value of the literary-historical approach to biblical texts. The literary-historical approach consists of three   elements: a structural, a historical and a narrative analysis of the text. …”
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