Acta Theologica

Papers
(The TQCC of Acta Theologica is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Between the Pandemic, the War and the Value Conflict: Polish Ecumenism at Crossroads3
Karl Barth’s Christological anthropology as a basis for building an interreligious relationship2
Dynamics of health and wellness at an African Pentecostal Churchrelated institution in Zimbabwe:2
The hermeneutical concepts of Minjung theology in historical perspective1
Interview with Pof Klippies Kritzinger1
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ Doctrine of Christ’s Descent into Hades and its implications for African Ancestor Christological discourse1
Responsibility, refusal, and return: Thoughts on an ethics of inclination1
Reviewers of articles received in 20240
Ja, goed te deunen onze machtige (Psalm 147,1): De zoektocht naar een toonzetting van de Psalmen0
A lesson in love: Farid al-Din Attar’s story of Sheikh San’an and the Christian girl0
Paul, rhetorically gifted, or discursively manipulative?0
Swinging between two poles. Henri Nouwen’s unique metaphor for spiritual transformation0
The persuasive function of the blood of Jesus in Matthew 26:280
SAWUBONA. A theo-ethic for everyday decolonial gestures0
BOOK REVIEW Digital homiletics: The theology and practice of online preaching0
The mirage of a triune rainbow0
Nkunimdie Christology: An Akan contextual expression of the Christus Victor motif of atonement0
Holy communion in contagious times0
Shall we dance? Choreographing hospitality as key to interpersonal transformation0
BOOK REVIEW Bibles in Africa through European eyes0
Common grace as theological encouragement for interreligious dialogue0
Divine hiddenness, the melancholic self, and a pandemic spirituality0
African theological education and its curriculum responsiveness towards African Union’s Agenda 2063.0
Luke for landlubbers: The translation and interpretation of ὑποπλέω in Acts 270
Towards a contextual theology of conviviality: Tutu, Bonhoeffer and living musical metaphors0
The church and LGBTQ: Towards the church as an inclusive communion of disciples0
God’s meaning is love: The mystical theology of Julian of Norwich0
“If I forget you Jerusalem” (Ps. 137:4). The Transmission of Sacred Discourse in the Bible and in African Indigenous Sacred Texts0
#CHOOSETOCHALLENGE: COVID-19, COMMUNITY RESEARCH, AND THE CANAANITE WOMAN0
Realigning with the slave-like Jesus of Mark: The shorter ending of Mark 16:1-8 as a relecture0
In love with the desert0
Titus Brandsma: Getuige van God0
Jesus uttering his last words and drawing on his final breath: reflecting on Luke 23:460
"In The Spirit"0
Pentecostal ecclesiology in the new adaptation era:0
Engaging Rian Venter’s trinitarian theology: a Trinity of space and time0
The relevance of covenant theology to fatherlessness in Kenya: A youth and family ministry perspective0
SEXY CHINKIES IN INDIAN CITIES: CAN WE EMBRACE A SLANT-EYED MARY?0
On being uniquely human in the world: a reflection on the contributions of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen0
The challenge of poverty in Malawi and Bonhoeffer's soteriology0
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Contemplation and liturgy: The experience of St. Mary Magdalene De’ Pazzi (Florence, 1566-1607)0
Jeremiah 29:5-7 reread through the lens of posttraumatic growth0
CARING FOR WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES: ENHANCING WOMEN WORKERS’ CAPABILITIES AND BUILDING SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP0
Introduction to the Festschrift for Prof. D.F. (Francois) Tolmie “God, people, and persuasion in Scripture and theology”0
BOOK REVIEW Sinsoekers: Tussen twyfel en troos0
Three influences on the spiritual experience of Titus Brandsma in the Lager0
The dialogical theology of Hans Küng: Clash between the Catholic Mission and Islamic Da’wah in Indonesia0
Christianity and medical science: A historical quest for remedy in time of epidemics0
Reviewers of articles received for publication in 20230
Paul’s self-presentation and his opinion on the art of persuasion in 1 Corinthians0
Acting queerly: Jonah as the implicated subject and vulnerability0
Jesus talks to the Samaritan woman0
Confronting the cataracts of whiteness to see the invisible: reflections on the transmission and reception of the Bible in post-apartheid South Africa0
Moving methodologies. Doing practical and missional theology in an African context0
Preface0
PANDEMIC OASIS: POPULAR RELIGIOSITIES AS WOMEN’S LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITAS0
Stand-up preaching0
Finding oneself? Contemplating on paintings with a religious theme in clinical pastoral care0
Reviewers of articles received for publication in 20220
Prayer and gender in John Chrysostom’s homilies On Hannah0
Inequalities within Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa on gender, with special reference to lGBTQIA+: Imago Dei0
Biblical discourses and the subjugation of Africa: A Decolonial-Foucauldian perspective0
Confessing church today?0
Book review: The full extent: An inquiry into nature and destiny0
The bad habit of individualistic religion0
Nurturing students’ spiritual development in secular contexts: a case study of Evangelical theological education in Australia0
YouVersion verses-of-the-year in relation to Afrikaans prepositional met and van constructions expressing fear and loneliness0
The revelation of God: How and to whom does God reveals God self to?0
The constant reality beyond exception and rule in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology0
Forgiveness, reconciliation and justice á la Desmond Tutu0
Chiasm in Zephaniah 3:14-17 – A new proposal0
Book Review: Intergenerational missiology: An African Pentecostal-Charismatic perspective0
The Supreme Being in Ciyawo Bible translation and managing the choice of adequate terms for God0
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Peace in the spirituality of Thomas á Kempis. An aesthetic perspective on the Imitatio Christi 4.250
“Like sand through an hourglass, so are the days of our lives”: Youth, religion, and social capital in South Africa0
Faith formation in the tension interplay of tools, processes and the course for social transformation0
Theology and identity0
Reflection on the leadership practice of Saul as a failure of leadership for church pastors0
Psalm 22 LXX in Origen’s commentary on the Song of Songs0
Book Review: Conflict transformation for sustainable Christian marriage0
BECOMING WHOLE AGAIN: THE GOAL OF WOMEN’S STRUGGLE AGAINST SEX ABUSE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN THE PHILIPPINES0
“For mine is the bitter, the ale and the lager”: Parodic prayer and the spirituality of humour0
Daar is méér. ’n Outobiografiese reisverhaal deur Amper-Stamperland en Metaversum0
Adaptive translation of medieval morality plays for contemporary African audiences: A case study of the morality play Everyman in Sesotho0
THE EXPERIENCES OF CURRENTLY AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITIES0
PREFACE0
WOMEN’S NEEDS VS. ECONOMIC SURVIVAL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: NAVIGATING THIS TENSION USING CARE AND JUSTICE0
John of the Cross and Emmanuel Lévinas: The QUEST for God beyond Being0
Interview with Prof. Piet Meiring0
Book review: Towards a theology of conflict solution: Understanding religious conflict in contemporary Nigerian society0
Have we lost touch with the Prophet Amos's warning? Church leaders and blood money rituals among youths in Nigeria0
WOMEN’S RECEPTION OF CYBER CHURCHES DURING THE PANDEMIC AND INDICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE0
A post-colonial political theology of care and praxis in Ethiopia’s era of identity politics0
A chiastic opus to the Creator of “heaven and earth- earth and heaven” A spatial reading of Psalm 148 and Colossians 1:15-200
Living wounds (anfechtungen) or blacksmithing of the human soul? The pastoral art of marvellous exchange (mirifica commutatio) in spiritual well-being0
Decolonising Bibles? Image, imagination, and imagin(in)g in the postcolonial academy0
Cur Deus Homo vs Homo Deus and the Evolution of Humanity: Quo Vadis?0
The testing of Abraham in Genesis 22 and the testing of Job0
A decolonial reading of the Third Chapter of the Gospel of John in Moffat’s Translation of the Catechism into Setswana (1826)0
Interview with Nadine Bowers Du Toit0
Astrotheology: The natural interface between hyperspace and the Trinity0
The Lutheran “convivial economy” as a Christian economic heterodoxy: significance, components, and proposals to the current socio-economic order0
Religious experience and sacred text0
Pastoral leadership for a relevant missional ecclesiology in a context of poverty0
WE INTER-ARE: THE PANDEMIC CHALLENGE REDEFINING HUMANS AND COMMUNITIES0
Reading Galatians 3:28 from a congregational perspective0
Covid-19, racism and the ‘state of exception’? A theological ethical engagement with identity and human rights in an age of ‘Corona’ and beyond0
A Text-centred rhetorical analysis of 1 Thessalonians 2:13-160
Book review: Kerk en recht in balans. Aandag voor de kwaliteit van de kerkelijke rechtsorde0
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Origen and Augustine: Rooted in the Socratic tradition of philosophical rhetoric0
Pointing out persuasion in Philemon0
COMFORT WOMEN SURVIVING PANDEMICS: FROM ERASURE TO EMBODIED HOPE TOWARDS A FEMINIST-POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGY OF RADICAL HOSPITALITY0
Religious faith traditions tussle with rampant corruption toward sustainable development: Search for the missing links in light of ubuntu0
Astrotheology as a prophetic wormhole that relates spacetime to eschatological transformation0
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pryslied vir ’n vreeslose gewete0
Being Reformed today?0
Book Review: Making connections: Integrative theological education in Africa0
The foundational influence of early spiritual experiences on adulthood0
Finding a rhythm within A polyphonic (auto)biographical pastoral reflection0
Mystical handbooks of the late middle ages0
Articles Memory, Jesus, and Mary Magdalene: Whose memory matters?0
Editorial0
To kneel or not to kneel: Appropriating a religious and sport symbol for racial justice in South Africa0
Book review: The formative stratum of the Sayings Gospel Q: Reconsidering its extent, message, and unity0
In daardie tyd was daar reuse0
Toward a reinterpretation of sacramental theology in the context of pandemics: The case of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe0
Feminist spiritualities, gender equality and sustainable development: The possibilities of a countermovement0
Interview with Prof. Hennie Pieterse0
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MILITARISM AND FEAR IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC IN THE PHILIPPINES: TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF TRANSGRESSION0
Faith in the modern Reformed church: Calvin and Barth0
Resilient religion: What good is religion for?0
An Afro-Christian contextual analysis of presidential pardon in post-colonial African politics0
Finding God as a millennial0
Unsuspicious reception of Biblical discourse in Africa and its implications for polygamy0
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An ongoing search of constant and sustainable Lutheran Theological Education in South Africa in the 21st century.0
Interview with Prof Sunggu A. Yang0
Reading John 11:1-45 from a post-normal times perspective0
The coloniser or the missionary? Identity crisis as a conflict in Biblical reception among the Agikuyu of Central Kenya0
Let's do theology - as in the book of Job: Developing theology in dialogue0
Christianity, ‘supernatural’ beliefs and COVID-190
EMPIRE, TRINITY, AND IRONY: RHETORIC AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION0
Towards struggle as lived experience: Contemplation on homiletic research for a (post-)pandemic world0
JAPANESE WOMEN'S ACTIVISM SUSTAINS A LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITY IN THE PANDEMIC0
Book review: Christian mission in a diverse British urban context: Crossing the racial barrier to reach communities0
Lesbianism: Deconstructing the Christian church and social hierarchies in South Africa0
Semiotics of alterity and the cultural dimensions of Bible translation0
“This is what black girls do”: lamenting the bruised umntu and resisting dehumanisation0
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