HTS Teologiese Studies-Theological Studies

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The Küng is dead, long live the Küng: The value of Hans Küng’s theology	67
Women’s statement at the 1990 Rustenburg Church Conference: Still an important voice from the past	65
Challenges of Church Planting in the Book of Acts, its implications for Contemporary Church	51
Thoughts on China’s contemporary religious relationship: Discussion in view of current theories	45
Political and socio-economic convergence of religions in Nigeria: Positive views and interests	36
Community land conflicts and pro-poor urban land access in Enugu, Nigeria: Church involvement for social inclusion	35
Quran interpretation methodology, new media, and ideological contestation of Salafi in Sambas	27
Church of Nigeria’s (Anglican Communion) response to domestic violence against women in Nsukka local government area	26
Sexuality in Folktales: Asset or Liability to Socialisation of Learners in Zimbabwean schools	19
Realist literature, gender and gullibility in African Pentecostalism: The case of Chiundura Moyo’s Kereke Inofa	18
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 5 (2023)	18
Violence and apocalyptic notions in Mark 13	14
The Revised Standard Version (1952) and its revisions as a linear emergence of the Tyndale–King James Version tradition	14
Realities and challenges for mission transformation in Sabu people	13
Taking stock of oral history archives in a village in KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa: Are preservation and publishing feasible?	12
Mission as ‘being with’ in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	12
The founding of Marxist study of religion and its theoretical sources of humanities	11
Biblical discourses and compulsory monogamy among the Vatsonga people in South Africa	11
Elderly women and COVID-19 vaccination in the indigenous religio-culture of the Ndau of south-eastern Zimbabwe	11
A Bonaventurian rousing of the metaphysics of primary causality to counter New Materialism	10
Catalysts or antidotes to downward social mobility? Critique of the ‘Big Three’ in Zimbabwe	10
The Nehanda mythology: Dialectics of gender, history and religion in Zimbabwean literature	10
Sacred contradictions: Religion, conflict and peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria	9
Imago Dei and artificial intelligence: A theological inquiry into personhood and human ontological boundaries	9
Evaluation of the role of Islamic lifestyle in communication skills of Muslim couples	9

Nurturing inclusivity among Durban University of Technology students through reflective writing	8
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 3 (2023)	8
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies is turning over a new page	8
Ulwaluko: A critical site for black theological reflection	8
Jesus: The apex of biblical canons	8
Theologies of women’s submission and the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Corrigendum: The pastor as spiritual mediator between God and the congregation: Corruptions of the relationships of the ‘under-shepherd’, the ‘flock’ and the ‘chief shepherd’ in a Zambian context and	7
1 Timothy 6:6–14 and materialism amongst Nigerian Christian youths	7
Adult religious morality development from the Quranic perspective: Strategies to overcome Islamophobia and Christianophobia	7
Herman Jean de Vleeschauwer (1899–1986) se interpretasie van Middeleeuse filosofie aan UNISA (1951–1964)	7
Islamic religiosity and job satisfaction among Muslim teachers in Malaysia	7
Erratum: ‘Living God, renew and transform us’ – 26th General Council of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, in Leipzig, Germany, 29 June to 07 July 2017	7
Fatherhood crisis: Drawing inspiration from hunhu/ubuntu and Saint Joseph	7
Is God evolving? Totems in contemporary art	7
The agency of the church during COVID-19 and beyond: Koinonia and ubuntu in the context of poverty and unemployment in South Africa	7
The role of the Korean Protestant church in the democratisation of technology	6
Njega wa Gioko and the European missionaries in the colonial Kenya: A theo-historical recollection and reflection	6
Diplomatic or eclectic critical editions of the Hebrew Bible? Considering a third alternative	6
Cultivating the worshipful self in an algorithmic age: Reflections on an Asadian conclusion	6
Qanun, religious education, religiosity and sexual activity among Muslim youth	6
Divine play: Religious interpretation of play philosophy	6
Mission schools as seedbed for social transformation: Lessons drawn from the Methodist Church	6
Missio Dei’s complexity prefaced in synergism	6
Christian gathering and the digital ecclesia: A post-COVID-19 reading of Hebrews 10:25	6
Intertextuality and Moses imagery in Matthew’s infancy narrative	6
Biblical discourse as a technology of ‘othering’: A decolonial reading on the 1840 Moffat sermon at the Tabernacle, Moorfields, London	6
The task and future of New Testament Studies	6
The struggle and Islamic patriotism of Sunan Kalijaga in folktales of Central Java, Indonesia	6
Text, theory and methodology: Ruminations from the horizon of a reader from the south	6
Leadership failure and divine renewal: A theological study of Elijah in 1 Kings 19	6
Challenging building blocks: Art, music and agriculture	5
Rereading Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd’s method of interpreting religious texts	5
Protecting the rights of Muslim women in Indonesian diaspora marriages in Russia: An Islamic Law Perspective	5
Religious aberration in Nigerian contemporary society: A critique	5
‘We too are human’: Religious experiences of gay and lesbian Christians in Harare	5
Kutanda botso [self-shaming]: A suffering-related therapeutic ritual in Shona society	5
Exploring gender relations in Paul’s use of salutations to house churches and the ubuntu oral praxis of sereto or isiduko	5
Canon, sex and gender in Theodoret of Cyrus’s exposition of LXX Ruth	5
Spirituality and survivorship: Dealing with COVID-19	5
Religious fanaticism and thugocracy: Catalysts to the brain drain in Nigeria	5
A sociotheological interpretation of Genesis 50:25 in a Zimbabwean context	5
Embracing mapalus traditional management values for Christian religious education	5
Corrigendum: Challenges of Islamic Education in the New Era of Information and Communication Technologies	5
Anthropomorphism according to Al-Ghazali (d. 1111) and Maimonides (d. 1204): A comparative discourse	5
The role of the church in the public space in Zimbabwe (2017–2023): Lessons drawn from Johannine Jesus in John 21:15–18	5
‘Creatures in our bed’: Pandemics, posthumanism and predatory nature in World War Z (2013)	5
The mutual corruption of volition and nature? A closer reading of Ad Thalassium 42	5
Joining the Spirit: Missio Dei and artificial intelligence in digital missional praxis	5
Rediscovering the way of Islamic propagation by continuing the tradition of religion-based agriculture	5
Legacies and pitfalls amongst the African Evangelicals: A Kenyan experience from a historical perspective	4

Schreiner family narratives: Written and oral sources in biographical research	4
Nyawiras as communal liberators: Accounting for life preservation roles among African women	4
Against discontinuity: Augustine’s theory of happiness reconsidered	4
Theology for sustainable development in Zimbabwe: Unpacking Deuteronomy 20:19–20 in light of SDG 15	4
Representation of cultural values in Tempuutn Senarikng of Dayak Benuaq and Tunjung tribes	4
Expanding our horizons for new discourses about ʾIslām and Islamic living	4
COVID-19 and Sunday worship in the wake of the pandemic at Our Lady of Loreto, South Africa	4
Patriarchy, couple counselling and testing in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Zimbabwe	4
Retraction notice to: ‘The integration path of mental health education and college students’ ideological and political education’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 79(4), a8873	4
A post-Jungian reading of the Book of Baruch	4
The reception of the alternative voice by Afrikaans readers (1994–2002)	4
Retraction notice to: ‘The influence of Chinese ancient poetry and literature on college students’ mental anxiety’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 79(4), a8837	4
Application of E-textual research in Chinese Buddhist studies	4
Religious beliefs in public administration and behaviour surrounding abortion decriminalisation in COVID-19 era	4
The labourers in the vineyard, theory of value and agriculture	4
The humanisation of women in the Tafsir Faidh Ar-Rahmân by Kiai Saleh Darat	4
Theological belief towards Islamic spiritual belief: Evidence from South Sulawesi, Indonesia	4
Metaphysics of cosmological models	4
New lenses for a new future. Why science needs theology and why theology needs science	4
Ancient Israelite conceptual system for heaven in the Hebrew Bible	4
Islam Nusantara: An integration opportunity between Christianity and culture in Indonesia	4
Woven with meaning: Lawung and Sumping as expressions of faith in New Testament theology	4
Erratum: Exploring 19th-century medical mission in China: Forging modern roots of Chinese medicine	4
Enough is not enough! Confronting church leadership’s mental health in Zimbabwe	4
The feminisation of poverty: A study of Ndau women of Muchadziya village in Chimanimani Zimbabwe	4
Interreligious dialogue	4
Women in Zimunya and the musha mukadzi or umuzi ngumama philosophy for sustainable livelihoods	3
Ukukhonza as an ethic-oriented ontology to ensure harmonious existence among AmaZulu	3
Ethics in medicine: Challenges in the 21st century	3
Building blocks of imagination	3
Research ethics to consider when collecting oral histories in wilderness areas such as the Kruger National Park	3
Power and accountability – Using Biblical lenses to explore contemporary challenges in Africa	3
Black Theology and the unheard cry for impilo of people living with disabilities	3
Redefining status through burqa: Religious transformation and body politics of Indonesia’s woman migrant workers	3
Constructing a Christ-centred identity: A social identity reading of the Epistle to Titus	3
Searching legal format: Reshaping the role of state and religion in Indonesia post-Suharto	3
Socio-rhetorical re-examination of Luke 9:51–56: Mission, migration, and nationalism	3
‘Radical discipleship’: The public theology of archbishop David Mukuva Gitari towards democratisation of Kenya	3
Worshippers smoking in mosques: Violation of fatwas of ulemas and governor regulation	3
Theology and botho/ubuntu in dialogue towards South African social cohesion	3
Revisiting the Kairos document after 40 years: A challenge to the churches in South Africa	3
Eziko: Feasts of power, gender roles and sacred spaces in Luke 22:14–20	3
The sleeping soul doctrine of metaphysical anthropology in the Javanese death tradition	3
Righteousness in Luke 1:6: Considering marital stability amid barrenness in Nigerian societies	3
Investigating the effect of humility of Muslim leaders on the moral behaviours of followers and spirituality at work in Islamic society	3
A re-reading of Judges 19 in juxtaposition to the Zimbabwean women’s vulnerability to ‘punitive rape’	3
Towards redeeming ‘loyalty’ in functionalist Bible translation using the Hebrew ḥesed concept	3
The ministry of presence in absence: Pastoring online in Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Six decades of Moltmann’s Theology of Hope and tangible hope in South Africa today	3
Pentecostal theology’s problem (Pt 1 2:2): Maši ke phepa ke le nosi, selabe se tla le motsaya kgamelo – a Setswana proverb	3
Jesus’ identity in Matthew 16:13–20 and identity crisis among gospel preachers in Nigeria	3
Teaching religion as change for social transformation in contemporary African and non-African universities: a South African manifesto	3
The lack of knowledge on HIV by pastors in the Thulamela Municipality: Pastoral power	3
From Kairos to Kairos: Prophetic witness in post-apartheid and Global South contexts	3
Hybrid Sufism for enhancing quality of life: Ethnographic perspective in Indonesia	3
Divine ambiguity: A philosophical inquiry into God’s uncertain decisions	3
Surrogacy in Indonesia: The comparative legality and Islamic perspective	3
The role of the Church in the quest for political restructuring in Nigeria	3
COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy in South Africa: Biblical discourse	3
Deconstructing gendered glorification of charitable work: A case of women in Nomiya Church	3
Wat is verlossing? ’n Teologies kritiese en kanonies-linguistiese ondersoek	3
The dynamics of empowering women in the post-missionary Church of Christ in Zimbabwe	3
Towards an eco-practical theology: An eschatological horizon of true hope	3
Beatific presence: The praxis of priestly mission in a wounded country	3
Investigating the effect of Islamic values on citizenship behaviours of Muslim citizens	3
Thorny the paths they tread, Zimbabwean women and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A womanist reflection	3
Nurturing agency in emerging adults of local churches: a case study from Soshanguve	3
The logos Christology in the fourth gospel (Jn 1:1–5, 14): A soteriological response to an Ewe cosmic prayer	3
A comparative approach to the theistic proofs of Anselm of Canterbury’s ‘Monologion’	3
Contextualising Church music with traditional Karungut music in Central Kalimantan	3
Religion and identity polarisation: A slight note from the frontier region	3
In which time and world do we live?	3
The performative function of turmoil, trauma and tenacity in Judith 9–16: A speech act analysis	3
Islamic ethics and commitment among Muslim nurses in Indonesia	3
A biotheology of God’s divine action in the present global ecological precipice	3
Black women’s bodies as sacrificial lambs at the altar	3
Reappraising the Nsukka Ọmabe festival through the lens of ethno-aesthetics, therapy and healing	3
Isupo: Assessing the relevance of Deuteronomy 25:5–10 in the Nigerian Christian context, with particular reference to the Yoruba	3
Erratum: Religious views on the origin and meaning of COVID-19	3
The influence of Internet economy on consumer psychology in the post-epidemic era	3

Understanding challenges and prospects of partnership in Christian missions in Nigerian Baptist convention	3
Do the arguments for God cohere? An analysis of inter-argument relations and the application of Thagard’s model of explanatory coherence	3
Women’s images and gender equality in Arabic textbooks for non-Arabic speakers: A case study on Al-Asas in Sudan	3
Exploring the resilience and epistemic access of first-year female students in higher education	3
The role of religious and cultural education as a resolution of radicalism conflict in Sibolga community	3
African cities by 2063: Fostering theologies of urban citizenship	3
Christian communities and intimate partner violence in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review	3
The naked truth or prophecy as folly? A performative interpretation of Isaiah 20	2
Review of the method of Talmud instruction at Yeshivat Maʿalot	2
Model of a pastoral sermon for handling the problem of sexual violence against women in Maluku	2
Black Consciousness and Black Theology: Di ya thoteng di bapile (relationship for liberation)	2
Giving an account of oneself: Tracing the Moravian Edwards family through six generations of Lebenslauf life writing	2
Analysis of the relationship between heaven and man in Neo-Confucianism from an ecological perspective	2
Dispassionate hospitality as a Christian value: A pastoral narrative	2
Isupo: Assessing the relevance of Deuteronomy 25:5–10 in the Nigerian Christian context, with particular reference to the Yoruba	2
Religious moderation of Islamic university students in Indonesia: Reception of religious texts	2
Table of Contents Vol 78, No 3 (2022)	2
Black African mainline churches and economic struggle: A black liberation perspective on Miriam Makeba’s ‘A luta continua’	2
שָׁלוֹם proclamations in the Book of Jeremiah: The dilemma of Jeremiah 4:10 and 23:17	2
Meaning of life and death during COVID-19 pandemic: A cultural and religious narratives	2
Rethinking of contemporary Islamic law methodology: Critical study of Muhammad Shahrūr’s thinking on Islamic law sources	2
Retraction notice to: ‘The influence of cultural identity education on students’ positive psychology’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 79(4), a8886	2
A Kairos for mental health: Intercultural pastoral theology and transformative action for elderly well-being in Botswana	2
Youth key persons’ digital discipleship process during the pandemic and post-pandemic era	2
A polyvalent hermeneutic of John 2:13-25: Theoretical and exegetical considerations	2
Understanding Islamic law in the context of vaccination: Reducing the doubt cast on COVID-19 vaccines	2
Reception of biblical discourse in Africa	2
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 2 (2023)	2
Online theological education within the South African context	2
Sanctuary schematics and temple ideology in the Hebrew Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls: The import of Numbers	2
The original justice in the context of natural sciences: Thomistic insights	2
Religion, gender-based violence and silence: A radical feminist reading of women’s agency in Chika Unigwe’s novel	2
Alcohol abuse in African traditional religion: Education and enlightenment as panacea for integration and development	2
Theology, philosophy and technology: Perspectives from the Hervormde Kerk	2
Interreligious dialogue as a myth	2
Categorial differences between religious and scientific language: The agency of God	2
Hierarchies of basic goods and sins according to Aquinas’ natural law theory	2
Opportunities for tackling sexual harassment in Zimbabwe: Lessons from the Global North	2
Perspectives on music and evolution	2
Religious confusion and emptiness: Evaluating the impact of online Islamic learning among Indonesian Muslim adolescents	2
Contextuality, interculturality and decolonisation as schemes of power relations	2
Behartiging van het onderwijs in coronatijd in Nederland en Zuid-Afrika: een vergelijkende studie	2
The transformation of theology in the present climate crisis	2
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 4 (2023)	2
The influence of Islam on Zulu Muslims in KwaZulu-Natal	2
The ordinary and the mystical? Exploring the intersections of Spirituality and Public Theology	2
Reductionism or holism? The two faces of biology	2
Profession as a road to God – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s and Dag Hammarskjöld’s spiritual autobiographies: A case study	2
Church and poverty in South Africa: Historical analysis and missional ecclesiology	2
Fir trees or chariots in Nahum 2:4? The study of ancient texts	2
A biblical response to Arwah Be Am Nai as mediator between humans and God in Hauteas tradition	2
Religious inconsistency on corruption behaviour among Muslim politicians in Indonesia	2
‘Islamic Culture’ textbook content and religious needs of literacy students	2
The Kairos in the past, present and future in South Africa: Prophetic voice after 40 years of the Kairos Document	2
Divine aseity and the paradox of divine self-limitation	2
A trio reclaiming blackness and black spirituality: A tribute to Vuyani Vellem	2
Women generating, reproducing and disseminating texts in a Deobandi madrasa in South Africa	2
‘I bu Delaila ji aguba’: Revisiting the perception of sociopaths in an African community	2
An implicit good news in a Javanese indigenous religious poem	2
Russia–Ukraine war: Understanding and responding to wars and rumours of wars as ἀρχὴ ὠδίνων	2
Abdul Hadi’s translations of Ahmad Raza: An internal logics approach	2
Examining the autonomy of Zulu Ingoma from the 1930s to present: Image or authentic experience?	2
A white theologian learning how to fall upward	2
Alternative revisions of the American Standard Version (1901) and retranslations within the Tyndale–King James Version tradition	2
Analysing the relationship between ethical leadership and the voice of Malaysian Muslim employees	2
Beyond dualism: The sacred value of biological totems in Christian Platonic thought	2
The irony of ability and disability in John 9:1–41	2
The making of the people in 2 Maccabees 3 in the Heliodorus scene	2
The dynamic process of syncretism: Datuk Gong worship in Malaysia	2
The essential role of the entire community of peer-reviewers in championing the quality of scholarly publications	2
Politics as a vocation in the African context? An African theological engagement with Max Weber	2
Towards developing an atmospheric space for inter-religious dialogue in Africa	2
COVID-19 vaccines, public health goods and Catholic social teaching: Why justice must prevail over charity in the global vaccine distribution	2
Identity formation at the dawn of liturgical inculturation in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church	2
The complexity of the relationship of vocalisation signs of Semitic pointing systems	2
Gender-based violence in South Africa: A narrative reflection	2
Conceptualisation of ideal church leaders in the Society Revolution 5.0	2
Implicit religion, Anglican cathedrals, and spiritual wellbeing: The impact of carol services	2
Humanistic and inclusive Christian education: A framework for learning transformation	2
COVID-19, gender and health: Recentring women in African indigenous health discourses in Zimbabwe for environmental conservation	2
Double negatives in New Testament Greek texts and their translations in the Dangme Bible	2
Imago mundi: Justice of peace	2
The role of women in managing the environmental crisis: A case study of Cyclone Idai in Chipinge, Zimbabwe	2
Theological education and character formation: Perceptions of theological leaders and students	2
Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on church ministries in Africa: A literature analysis focusing on South Africa	2
Black gods: The major assertions of the black Jewish movement in America	2
Values of local wisdom in Rambu Solo’ from the perspective of Pentecostal spirituality and character education	2
New religious movements and the problem of syncretism: A study of Anioma Healing Ministry, Nawgu, Nigeria	2
Acknowledgement to reviewers	2
The need for social theology to strengthen the social functions of Islamic banking in Indonesia	2
The Bible and distortion of culture: Normalised distortions of Vhavenḓa culture through the Bible	2
The colonisation of Setswana: A decolonial rereading of the 1840 Gospel of Luke	2
Do Bashal and Hepsō really mean ‘boil’? A preliminary study in the semantics of biblical Hebrew and Septuagint Greek	2
Nature and human being, a renaissance of the 20th century	2
Subjugated knowledges, contested spaces and African Christianity: An appraisal	2