HTS Teologiese Studies-Theological Studies

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Women’s statement at the 1990 Rustenburg Church Conference: Still an important voice from the past	68
Challenges of Church Planting in the Book of Acts, its implications for Contemporary Church	65
Political and socio-economic convergence of religions in Nigeria: Positive views and interests	51
Sexuality in Folktales: Asset or Liability to Socialisation of Learners in Zimbabwean schools	45
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 5 (2023)	30
Realist literature, gender and gullibility in African Pentecostalism: The case of Chiundura Moyo’s Kereke Inofa	29
The Revised Standard Version (1952) and its revisions as a linear emergence of the Tyndale–King James Version tradition	27
Mission as ‘being with’ in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	26
The Nehanda mythology: Dialectics of gender, history and religion in Zimbabwean literature	24
Evaluation of the role of Islamic lifestyle in communication skills of Muslim couples	22
Quran interpretation methodology, new media, and ideological contestation of Salafi in Sambas	19
Imago Dei and artificial intelligence: A theological inquiry into personhood and human ontological boundaries	17
Thoughts on China’s contemporary religious relationship: Discussion in view of current theories	16
Elderly women and COVID-19 vaccination in the indigenous religio-culture of the Ndau of south-eastern Zimbabwe	15
The founding of Marxist study of religion and its theoretical sources of humanities	13
Violence and apocalyptic notions in Mark 13	13
Biblical discourses and compulsory monogamy among the Vatsonga people in South Africa	13
A Bonaventurian rousing of the metaphysics of primary causality to counter New Materialism	12
Sacred contradictions: Religion, conflict and peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria	12
Community land conflicts and pro-poor urban land access in Enugu, Nigeria: Church involvement for social inclusion	11
Church of Nigeria’s (Anglican Communion) response to domestic violence against women in Nsukka local government area	11
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 3 (2023)	11
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	10
Missio Dei’s complexity prefaced in synergism	9
Leadership failure and divine renewal: A theological study of Elijah in 1 Kings 19	9

Diplomatic or eclectic critical editions of the Hebrew Bible? Considering a third alternative	9
Christian gathering and the digital ecclesia: A post-COVID-19 reading of Hebrews 10:25	9
The struggle and Islamic patriotism of Sunan Kalijaga in folktales of Central Java, Indonesia	9
The role of the church in the public space in Zimbabwe (2017–2023): Lessons drawn from Johannine Jesus in John 21:15–18	9
Nurturing inclusivity among Durban University of Technology students through reflective writing	8
Protecting the rights of Muslim women in Indonesian diaspora marriages in Russia: An Islamic Law Perspective	8
Mission schools as seedbed for social transformation: Lessons drawn from the Methodist Church	8
Biblical discourse as a technology of ‘othering’: A decolonial reading on the 1840 Moffat sermon at the Tabernacle, Moorfields, London	8
Ulwaluko: A critical site for black theological reflection	8
Qanun, religious education, religiosity and sexual activity among Muslim youth	8
The agency of the church during COVID-19 and beyond: Koinonia and ubuntu in the context of poverty and unemployment in South Africa	8
The task and future of New Testament Studies	8
Corrigendum: Romanian Orthodox elementary denominational schools in Transylvania (1868–1921)	7
Divine play: Religious interpretation of play philosophy	7
Is God evolving? Totems in contemporary art	7
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies is turning over a new page	7
Theologies of women’s submission and the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Intertextuality and Moses imagery in Matthew’s infancy narrative	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
Spirituality and survivorship: Dealing with COVID-19	6
The mutual corruption of volition and nature? A closer reading of Ad Thalassium 42	6
Embracing mapalus traditional management values for Christian religious education	6
Schreiner family narratives: Written and oral sources in biographical research	6
Anthropomorphism according to Al-Ghazali (d. 1111) and Maimonides (d. 1204): A comparative discourse	6
Theological belief towards Islamic spiritual belief: Evidence from South Sulawesi, Indonesia	6
‘Creatures in our bed’: Pandemics, posthumanism and predatory nature in World War Z (2013)	6
Text, theory and methodology: Ruminations from the horizon of a reader from the south	6
Rereading Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd’s method of interpreting religious texts	6
Ancient Israelite conceptual system for heaven in the Hebrew Bible	6
Canon, sex and gender in Theodoret of Cyrus’s exposition of LXX Ruth	6
The role of the Korean Protestant church in the democratisation of technology	6
Religious fanaticism and thugocracy: Catalysts to the brain drain in Nigeria	6
Exploring gender relations in Paul’s use of salutations to house churches and the ubuntu oral praxis of sereto or isiduko	6
New lenses for a new future. Why science needs theology and why theology needs science	6
Challenging building blocks: Art, music and agriculture	6
Against discontinuity: Augustine’s theory of happiness reconsidered	6
Representation of cultural values in Tempuutn Senarikng of Dayak Benuaq and Tunjung tribes	5
Righteousness in Luke 1:6: Considering marital stability amid barrenness in Nigerian societies	5
Religious beliefs in public administration and behaviour surrounding abortion decriminalisation in COVID-19 era	5
The reception of the alternative voice by Afrikaans readers (1994–2002)	5
A sociotheological interpretation of Genesis 50:25 in a Zimbabwean context	5
A study on perceptions of immigrant acceptance in Korean society: Focusing on the concept of ὁμοιός in the New Testament	5
Woven with meaning: Lawung and Sumping as expressions of faith in New Testament theology	5
Metaphysics of cosmological models	5
Expanding our horizons for new discourses about ʾIslām and Islamic living	5
Interreligious dialogue	5
Enough is not enough! Confronting church leadership’s mental health in Zimbabwe	5
The humanisation of women in the Tafsir Faidh Ar-Rahmân by Kiai Saleh Darat	5
Joining the Spirit: Missio Dei and artificial intelligence in digital missional praxis	5
Kutanda botso [self-shaming]: A suffering-related therapeutic ritual in Shona society	5

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	5
Retraction notice to: The struggle for the construction of places of worship of minority religions in Indonesia	5
Theology for sustainable development in Zimbabwe: Unpacking Deuteronomy 20:19–20 in light of SDG 15	5
Nyawiras as communal liberators: Accounting for life preservation roles among African women	5
The labourers in the vineyard, theory of value and agriculture	5
The feminisation of poverty: A study of Ndau women of Muchadziya village in Chimanimani Zimbabwe	5
Grace in Second Clement: Priority, incongruity, superabundance, and reciprocity	5
Decolonising chaplaincy in the South African National Defence Force	5
Corrigendum: Challenges of Islamic Education in the New Era of Information and Communication Technologies	5
Patriarchy, couple counselling and testing in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Zimbabwe	5
Christian communities and intimate partner violence in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review	4
Table of Contents Vol 81, No 1 & 2 (2025)	4
Nurturing agency in emerging adults of local churches: a case study from Soshanguve	4
The dynamics of empowering women in the post-missionary Church of Christ in Zimbabwe	4
Women in Zimunya and the musha mukadzi or umuzi ngumama philosophy for sustainable livelihoods	4
Teaching religion as change for social transformation in contemporary African and non-African universities: a South African manifesto	4
Revisiting the Kairos document after 40 years: A challenge to the churches in South Africa	4
The performative function of turmoil, trauma and tenacity in Judith 9–16: A speech act analysis	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
COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy in South Africa: Biblical discourse	4
COVID-19 and Sunday worship in the wake of the pandemic at Our Lady of Loreto, South Africa	4
Eziko: Feasts of power, gender roles and sacred spaces in Luke 22:14–20	4
Surrogacy in Indonesia: The comparative legality and Islamic perspective	4
Do the arguments for God cohere? An analysis of inter-argument relations and the application of Thagard’s model of explanatory coherence	4
Ethics in medicine: Challenges in the 21st century	4
Investigating the effect of humility of Muslim leaders on the moral behaviours of followers and spirituality at work in Islamic society	4
The role of religious and cultural education as a resolution of radicalism conflict in Sibolga community	4
Religion and identity polarisation: A slight note from the frontier region	4
Women’s images and gender equality in Arabic textbooks for non-Arabic speakers: A case study on Al-Asas in Sudan	4
Worshippers smoking in mosques: Violation of fatwas of ulemas and governor regulation	4
The influence of Internet economy on consumer psychology in the post-epidemic era	4
Wat is verlossing? ’n Teologies kritiese en kanonies-linguistiese ondersoek	4
Application of E-textual research in Chinese Buddhist studies	4
Exploring the resilience and epistemic access of first-year female students in higher education	4
The logos Christology in the fourth gospel (Jn 1:1–5, 14): A soteriological response to an Ewe cosmic prayer	4
A comparative approach to the theistic proofs of Anselm of Canterbury’s ‘Monologion’	4
Thorny the paths they tread, Zimbabwean women and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A womanist reflection	4
Socio-rhetorical re-examination of Luke 9:51–56: Mission, migration, and nationalism	4
The sleeping soul doctrine of metaphysical anthropology in the Javanese death tradition	4
A re-reading of Judges 19 in juxtaposition to the Zimbabwean women’s vulnerability to ‘punitive rape’	4
Towards redeeming ‘loyalty’ in functionalist Bible translation using the Hebrew ḥesed concept	4
Erratum: Exploring 19th-century medical mission in China: Forging modern roots of Chinese medicine	4
Towards an eco-practical theology: An eschatological horizon of true hope	4
Religious confusion and emptiness: Evaluating the impact of online Islamic learning among Indonesian Muslim adolescents	3
Construction of spiritual meaning in the transformation of gratitude for freshmen	3
Values of local wisdom in Rambu Solo’ from the perspective of Pentecostal spirituality and character education	3
Fir trees or chariots in Nahum 2:4? The study of ancient texts	3
Reappraising the Nsukka Ọmabe festival through the lens of ethno-aesthetics, therapy and healing	3
Nature and human being, a renaissance of the 20th century	3
Black women’s bodies as sacrificial lambs at the altar	3
Contextualising Church music with traditional Karungut music in Central Kalimantan	3
Power and accountability – Using Biblical lenses to explore contemporary challenges in Africa	3
The role of the Church in the quest for political restructuring in Nigeria	3
Women generating, reproducing and disseminating texts in a Deobandi madrasa in South Africa	3
A need for Reformed traditions to transform towards a womanist turning point	3
Deconstructing gendered glorification of charitable work: A case of women in Nomiya Church	3
Hesychasm as a locus theologicus: The epistemology of experience in Gregory Palamas	3
Hierarchies of basic goods and sins according to Aquinas’ natural law theory	3
Double negatives in New Testament Greek texts and their translations in the Dangme Bible	3
Students’ perspectives on drugs and alcohol abuse at a public university in Zambia	3
Russia–Ukraine war: Understanding and responding to wars and rumours of wars as ἀρχὴ ὠδίνων	3
Belhar at forty: Justice, unity and the cries of the poor in African Christian mission	3
Review of the method of Talmud instruction at Yeshivat Maʿalot	3
Six decades of Moltmann’s Theology of Hope and tangible hope in South Africa today	3
A Kairos for mental health: Intercultural pastoral theology and transformative action for elderly well-being in Botswana	3
Building blocks of imagination	3
Divine ambiguity: A philosophical inquiry into God’s uncertain decisions	3
Lived theology and narrative identity: A phenomenological-hermeneutical study of religious moderation in the local churches of South Sulawesi, Indonesia	3
African cities by 2063: Fostering theologies of urban citizenship	3
שָׁלוֹם proclamations in the Book of Jeremiah: The dilemma of Jeremiah 4:10 and 23:17	3
When wounds meet hope: African Christian thoughts of Augustine and Tutu	3
Beatific presence: The praxis of priestly mission in a wounded country	3
Searching legal format: Reshaping the role of state and religion in Indonesia post-Suharto	3
A biblical response to Arwah Be Am Nai as mediator between humans and God in Hauteas tradition	3
The colonisation of Setswana: A decolonial rereading of the 1840 Gospel of Luke	3
Alcohol abuse in African traditional religion: Education and enlightenment as panacea for integration and development	3
The original justice in the context of natural sciences: Thomistic insights	3
Theological education and character formation: Perceptions of theological leaders and students	3
Alternative revisions of the American Standard Version (1901) and retranslations within the Tyndale–King James Version tradition	3
The lack of knowledge on HIV by pastors in the Thulamela Municipality: Pastoral power	3

Meaning of life and death during COVID-19 pandemic: A cultural and religious narratives	3
In which time and world do we live?	3
Understanding challenges and prospects of partnership in Christian missions in Nigerian Baptist convention	3
Jesus’ identity in Matthew 16:13–20 and identity crisis among gospel preachers in Nigeria	3
From Kairos to Kairos: Prophetic witness in post-apartheid and Global South contexts	3
Ukukhonza as an ethic-oriented ontology to ensure harmonious existence among AmaZulu	3
Constructing a Christ-centred identity: A social identity reading of the Epistle to Titus	3
‘Radical discipleship’: The public theology of archbishop David Mukuva Gitari towards democratisation of Kenya	3
The Kairos in the past, present and future in South Africa: Prophetic voice after 40 years of the Kairos Document	3
Spritual reasoning of Samaniyah Tariqa’s seven grades in the context of integration of science	2
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 4 (2023)	2
The mission theology of P.S. Dreyer and his contribution to the Maranatha Reformed Church	2
Black African mainline churches and economic struggle: A black liberation perspective on Miriam Makeba’s ‘A luta continua’	2
Healing together: Surviving substance use disorder with the church in Zimbabwe	2
Religion, politics and science education in Pakistan: Analysis of Islamisation of science textbooks in tribal districts	2
The transformation of theology in the present climate crisis	2
The purpose of the theological patterns in Jesus’ healing stories in the Gospel of Matthew	2
The ordinary and the mystical? Exploring the intersections of Spirituality and Public Theology	2
The significance of freedom in God’s plan	2
Dispassionate hospitality as a Christian value: A pastoral narrative	2
Black gods: The major assertions of the black Jewish movement in America	2
Towards developing an atmospheric space for inter-religious dialogue in Africa	2
Retraction notice to: ‘Innovation in ideological and political education in higher education institutions for student development’, HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 79(4), a8868	2
Analysis of the relationship between heaven and man in Neo-Confucianism from an ecological perspective	2
Typologies of congregational hospitality to strangers: A Q methodology study in Indonesian churches	2
The influence of Islam on Zulu Muslims in KwaZulu-Natal	2
Contextuality, interculturality and decolonisation as schemes of power relations	2
Reductionism or holism? The two faces of biology	2
Research on psychological satisfaction of education work and learning of literary works	2
Tacit dewesternisation in the ecumenical movement: The example of the World Council of Churches	2
‘Standing up’ Maḥallu al-Qiyām as cultural expression in Indonesia: A historical approach	2
COVID-19, gender and health: Recentring women in African indigenous health discourses in Zimbabwe for environmental conservation	2
Negotiating tradition and change in pastoral training in the Church of the Nazarene in Africa	2
Theology, philosophy and technology: Perspectives from the Hervormde Kerk	2
A polyvalent hermeneutic of John 2:13-25: Theoretical and exegetical considerations	2
A holistic–integrative approach of the Muhammadiyah education system in Indonesia	2
‘I bu Delaila ji aguba’: Revisiting the perception of sociopaths in an African community	2
Unearthing the Liturgy’s true meaning to counter church secularisation: Father Alexander Schmemann	2
Towards a Kairos theology	2
Earth, gender and food security: Maria Zaloumis’ journey of feminising Agric-business in Zambia	2
Table of Contents Vol 78, No 3 (2022)	2
The objectives of pastoral accompaniment for married couples in the first years of married life in the light of the documents Amoris Laetitia and Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life	2
Abdul Hadi’s translations of Ahmad Raza: An internal logics approach	2
A Systematic Theological comparison of Religious Iconography: Referring to Groeber and Kinkade	2
Celebrating J.N. Findlay’s contribution to philosophy: A comparative textual analysis from a Mahāyāna Buddhist perspective	2
The role of women in managing the environmental crisis: A case study of Cyclone Idai in Chipinge, Zimbabwe	2
Early-church praxis: Selling land and possessions – A socio-historical study of Acts 2:45, 4:32–37	2
A white theologian learning how to fall upward	2
Implicit religion, Anglican cathedrals, and spiritual wellbeing: The impact of carol services	2
Table of Contents Vol. 79, No. 2 (2023)	2
Beyond dualism: The sacred value of biological totems in Christian Platonic thought	2
Subjugated knowledges, contested spaces and African Christianity: An appraisal	2
The making of the people in 2 Maccabees 3 in the Heliodorus scene	2
Identity formation at the dawn of liturgical inculturation in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church	2
Religion, gender-based violence and silence: A radical feminist reading of women’s agency in Chika Unigwe’s novel	2
Youth key persons’ digital discipleship process during the pandemic and post-pandemic era	2
The contribution of infaq funds to socio-economic resilience during COVID-19 pandemic: An Islamic economics insight from Indonesia	2
Gender-based violence in South Africa: A narrative reflection	2
Schopenhauer and religion: Translating myth into metaphysics	2
Model of a pastoral sermon for handling the problem of sexual violence against women in Maluku	2
The address of reality as the voice of God in theological interpretation	2
Reception of biblical discourse in Africa	2
Conceptualisation of ideal church leaders in the Society Revolution 5.0	2
Missio Dei refuting the pactum salutis	2
Πάτερ, ημων ο εν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς (Mt 6:9a): Reading the Lord’s Prayer with insight from Ewe cosmology	2
Isupo: Assessing the relevance of Deuteronomy 25:5–10 in the Nigerian Christian context, with particular reference to the Yoruba	2
The intersection of Christian education and philosopher-feminist thought: Addressing child marriage in Indonesia	2
The effects of displacement, food crisis and a crippled economic production on women: The case of Ukraine and the book of Ruth	2
Humanistic and inclusive Christian education: A framework for learning transformation	2
Religious moderation of Islamic university students in Indonesia: Reception of religious texts	2
Examining the autonomy of Zulu Ingoma from the 1930s to present: Image or authentic experience?	2
The process of spiritual transformation to attain Nafs al-muṭmaʾinnah in Islamic psychology	2
Giving an account of oneself: Tracing the Moravian Edwards family through six generations of Lebenslauf life writing	2
Romanian Orthodox elementary denominational schools in Transylvania (1868–1921)	2
Perspectives on music and evolution	2
The theology of restoration as seen through an intertextual reading of Matthew 4:14–16	2
A trio reclaiming blackness and black spirituality: A tribute to Vuyani Vellem	2
The Bible and distortion of culture: Normalised distortions of Vhavenḓa culture through the Bible	2
Acknowledgement to reviewers	2
Black Consciousness and Black Theology: Di ya thoteng di bapile (relationship for liberation)	2
Categorial differences between religious and scientific language: The agency of God	2
Divine aseity and the paradox of divine self-limitation	2
Opportunities for tackling sexual harassment in Zimbabwe: Lessons from the Global North	2
‘Sharon’s’ blood through Judges 11:31–40: The sacrificial lambs in African women’s lenses	2
‘Islamic Culture’ textbook content and religious needs of literacy students	2
Feminist trauma theology of miscarriage as an embodied experience	2
Do Bashal and Hepsō really mean ‘boil’? A preliminary study in the semantics of biblical Hebrew and Septuagint Greek	2
Athletes’ religiosity: How it plays a role in athletes’ anxiety and life satisfaction	2
The essential role of the entire community of peer-reviewers in championing the quality of scholarly publications	2
A case study of the Methodist Church in the light of Luke 18:1–8 to address the plight of women	2
Church and poverty in South Africa: Historical analysis and missional ecclesiology	2
COVID-19 vaccines, sexual reproductive health and rights: Negotiating sensitive terrain in Zimbabwe	2
Essence of religion, culture and indigenous language in a unified sexuality education system	2