OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
“This is what black girls do”: lamenting the bruised umntu and resisting dehumanisation	5
Covid-19, racism and the ‘state of exception’? A theological ethical engagement with identity and human rights in an age of ‘Corona’ and beyond	4
Jeremiah 29:5-7 reread through the lens of posttraumatic growth	4
One size does not fit all – changing congregational culture	3
Towards a contextual theology of conviviality: Tutu, Bonhoeffer and living musical metaphors	3
Investigating children’s ministry in the church of the province of Uganda in the Diocese of Kampala	2
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Decolonising Bibles? Image, imagination, and imagin(in)g in the postcolonial academy	2
Preaching: Truth sharing as a prophetic voice	2
Memory, Jesus, and Mary Magdalene: Whose memory matters?	2
Ecumenical ecclesiology as a tool for township congregations to facilitate transformation of the (South) African society	2
Redesigning church practices to reach and disciple non-church-affiliated emerging adults in Alberton, Johannesburg, South Africa, post-COVID19	1
Have we lost touch with the Prophet Amos's warning? Church leaders and blood money rituals among youths in Nigeria	1
Biblical discourses and the subjugation of Africa: A Decolonial-Foucauldian perspective	1
Reviewers of articles received for publication in 2022	1
Research on the Letter to the Galatians 2000-2020	1
Fightin’ words in Pauline texts:Their polemical appropriation in modern political discourse	1
Raising a thousand Tutu voices: Reflections on the Truth to Power exhibition	1
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Paul’s self-presentation and his opinion on the art of persuasion in 1 Corinthians	1
The mirage of a triune rainbow	1
Mission: The “labour room” of theology	1
Responsibility, refusal, and return: Thoughts on an ethics of inclination	1
Nurturing students’ spiritual development in secular contexts: a case study of Evangelical theological education in Australia	1
To kneel or not to kneel: Appropriating a religious and sport symbol for racial justice in South Africa	1

Translating the Psalms: Considering target language orality strategies	1
The Supreme Being in Ciyawo Bible translation and managing the choice of adequate terms for God	1
Pastoral care in Africa – what is it? An ontological approach	1
“For mine is the bitter, the ale and the lager”: Parodic prayer and the spirituality of humour	1
Reimagining the self in relation to God and all creation. Practices of silence in an urban context of societal acceleration	1
Co-creating kinship in the anthropocene: A planetary theological ethic from Hefner and Haraway	1
Unhiding women in the Parables: A study guide for groups and individuals.	1
Metaverse as challenge to homo religionis. Diachronic thinking in theory formation for pastoral caregiving to netizens	1
The enthronement of compassion and care and the unseating of customary obligation in the parable of the Good Samaritan	1
Resilient religion: What good is religion for?	1
Reviewers of articles processed in 2025	1
Lesbianism: Deconstructing the Christian church and social hierarchies in South Africa	1
Semiotics of alterity and the cultural dimensions of Bible translation	1
A travel journal by a preacher during the annual Pentecost prayer meetings in the Dutch Reformed Church:	1
Die missionêre uitdaging van die arbeidslewe	1
Nkunimdie Christology: An Akan contextual expression of the Christus Victor motif of atonement	1
Interview with Prof. Klippies Kritzinger	0
Congregational vitality – a perspective from Galatians	0
Religious persecution	0
The Ordination of women: Part of the Dutch Reformed Church's Mariological gift	0
Psalms 127:3-5 and the status of sons in ancient Israelite society: Salient issues in contemporary African society	0
The testing of Abraham in Genesis 22 and the testing of Job	0
Proud to be deaf	0
Embodied and hybrid pedagogies:	0
The future of empirical research in and through the Dutch Reformed Church	0
The spiritual practices of South African clergy: State of the clergy	0
Introduction to the Festschrift for Prof. D.F. (Francois) Tolmie	0
Revisiting democracy “after” Allan Boesak?	0
The art of narrative analogy	0
An Afro-Christian contextual analysis of presidential pardon in post-colonial African politics	0
How negotiated peace in underdeveloped countries results in structural violence: Healing memories in South Africa	0
Decolonizing theological education in Ghana	0
Confessing church today?	0
Astrotheology: The natural interface between hyperspace and the Trinity	0
Pastoral leadership for a relevant missional ecclesiology in a context of poverty	0
Origen and Augustine: Rooted in the Socratic tradition of philosophical rhetoric	0
Towards an agency-oriented model of congregational vitality:	0
The Nicene Creed in Martin Thornton’s Ascetical Theology	0
“Like sand through an hourglass, so are the days of our lives”: Youth, religion, and social capital in South Africa	0
"Bewaar U kerk en laat dit groei" - 'n Waarderende blik oor die sendingwetenskaplike bydrae van Prof J H Smit	0
Reviewers of articles received in 2024	0
Die verhouding van die godsdienste tot mekaar. Hoër konsensus, godsdiensekumene en dialoog van nader bekijk.	0
Multicultural Pentecostal Congregations:	0
Acting queerly: Jonah as the implicated subject and vulnerability	0
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Realigning with the slave-like Jesus of Mark: The shorter ending of Mark 16:1-8 as a relecture	0
WOMEN’S RECEPTION OF CYBER CHURCHES DURING THE PANDEMIC AND INDICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE	0
African theological education and its curriculum responsiveness towards African Union’s Agenda 2063.	0
Christianity, ‘supernatural’ beliefs and COVID-19	0
The constant reality beyond exception and rule in Dietrich Bonhoeffer's theology	0

From the Council of Nicaea to the Age of AI: What kind of human did Jesus become?	0
Karl Barth’s Christological anthropology as a basis for building an interreligious relationship	0
The Trinity and the economy: The God who cares about human welfare	0
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Ferguson, Ever in Afrika - verleentheid of geleentheid?	0
“It all starts with urgency…” Engaging with the local ekklesia of Thessalonica as a window and mirror en route to sustained missionary impact	0
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Adaptive translation of medieval morality plays for contemporary African audiences: A case study of the morality play Everyman in Sesotho	0
Between the Pandemic, the War and the Value Conflict: Polish Ecumenism at Crossroads	0
On being uniquely human in the world: a reflection on the contributions of J. Wentzel van Huyssteen	0
Paul, rhetorically gifted, or discursively manipulative?	0
The eternal bonds: Families as a divine stewardship beyond the world	0
Reading Galatians 3:28 from a congregational perspective	0
Foreword	0
Wonders above, signs below	0
SEXY CHINKIES IN INDIAN CITIES: CAN WE EMBRACE A SLANT-EYED MARY?	0
Leadership by the Spirit in Pentecostalism:	0
Christian faith and Namibian liberation theology	0
African and Christian spiritualities – Ancestry and worship	0
Reimagining outreach as inreach: A study of white DRC students at Stellenbosch University	0
pryslied vir ’n vreeslose gewete	0
Kobus Schoeman: A “bridge-builder” practical theologian, bridging divides in the publics of the church, the academy, and society	0
Interview with Prof. Julian Müller: Reflections on a career in Practical Theology	0
Reconfiguring a theological-spiritual vocabulary about death: Mysticism, “magic” and the case of Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore	0
Breaking the silos: Decolonial theological education beyond the church-academy divide in Africa	0
Pointing out persuasion in Philemon	0
Die sendingbeleid van die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk	0
Formation of good Christian conscience: A link between professed faith and praxis in Africa	0
Common grace as theological encouragement for interreligious dialogue	0
Theology of sexual purity: Reimagining child-marriages within the white garment churches in Zimbabwe	0
Swinging between two poles. Henri Nouwen’s unique metaphor for spiritual transformation	0
Mind-Food for Thoughtful Souls	0
Congregations and the kingdom of the Triune God: Mapping the road ahead for Southern African congregations.	0
EMPIRE, TRINITY, AND IRONY: RHETORIC AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION	0
CONSIDERING THE DOCTRINE OF GOD: FRAGMENTS ON TRINITY, DISCOURSES, AND TIME	0
Jesus talks to the Samaritan woman	0
Supplementa already published	0
The social imagination of the church in a racially divided society	0
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Indigenous research methods and African women’s theology: A theo-analytical engagement	0
A post-colonial political theology of care and praxis in Ethiopia’s era of identity politics	0
YouVersion verses-of-the-year in relation to Afrikaans prepositional met and van constructions expressing fear and loneliness	0
Towards the sustainable well-being of communities	0
Interview with Prof Sunggu A. Yang	0
Interview with Prof. Francois Tolmie	0
The Christian God: Collected Essays	0
Reimagining forgiveness: A transformative engagement with a social imagination of forgiveness through intercultural Biblical reading in South Africa	0
WE INTER-ARE: THE PANDEMIC CHALLENGE REDEFINING HUMANS AND COMMUNITIES	0
“If I forget you Jerusalem” (Ps. 137:4). The Transmission of Sacred Discourse in the Bible and in African Indigenous Sacred Texts	0
A chiastic opus to the Creator of “heaven and earth- earth and heaven”	0
Christian ethics and moral hypocrisy: Translating values into moral actions	0
Unsuspicious reception of Biblical discourse in Africa and its implications for polygamy	0
Reflection on the leadership practice of Saul as a failure of leadership for church pastors	0
Cur Deus Homo vs Homo Deus and the Evolution of Humanity: Quo Vadis?	0
The Lutheran “convivial economy” as a Christian economic heterodoxy: significance, components, and proposals to the current socio-economic order	0
Foreword	0
Challenges for women's leadership in organisations, from the perspective of judge and prophetess Deborah	0
BOOK REVIEW Bibles in Africa through European eyes	0
BOOK REVIEW Sinsoekers: Tussen twyfel en troos	0
Making connections: Integrative theological education in Africa	0
Rethinking contending themes in indigenous and Christian religions in contemporary Africa	0
Verstedeliking: Riglyne vir 'n kerklike bediening	0
#CHOOSETOCHALLENGE: COVID-19, COMMUNITY RESEARCH, AND THE CANAANITE WOMAN	0
COMFORT WOMEN SURVIVING PANDEMICS: FROM ERASURE TO EMBODIED HOPE TOWARDS A FEMINIST-POSTCOLONIAL THEOLOGY OF RADICAL HOSPITALITY	0
Interview with Nadine Bowers Du Toit	0
Forgiveness, reconciliation and justice á la Desmond Tutu	0
Conflict transformation for sustainable Christian marriage	0
Daar is méér. ’n Outobiografiese reisverhaal deur Amper-Stamperland en Metaversum	0
Seeking a path of its own: Old Testament ethics in current research	0
Taxis, taverns, tuck shops, and temples: An ethnographic account of performed gendered and religious dynamics in Lusaka's public spaces	0
Samenwerking met sendinggenootskappe: 'n Perspektief vanuit die Ned Geref Kerk	0
Dynamics of health and wellness at an African Pentecostal Churchrelated institution in Zimbabwe:	0
The coloniser or the missionary? Identity crisis as a conflict in Biblical reception among the Agikuyu of Central Kenya	0
Embodied theology with children with disabilities in South Africa	0
The Problem of Evil:	0
Mission to the Wounded Youth: Scripture Union’s Evangelistic Approaches in Senior High School in Kumasi Metropolis, Ghana	0
Resilient religion: Resilience and heartbreaking adversity	0
Intergenerational missiology: An African Pentecostal-Charismatic perspective	0
Finding a rhythm within	0
Editorial	0

In daardie tyd was daar reuse	0
The gender-responsive church: Models of religious community in realising alignment for women	0
Unhiding in plain sight: Reimagining the parable of the persistent widow	0
Ecclesiological implications for the church as intergenerational space focusing on families	0
Reimagining mainline churches that are African	0
Faith in the modern Reformed church: Calvin and Barth	0
Feminist spiritualities, gender equality and sustainable development: The possibilities of a countermovement	0
Equivalent terminology in the late Chagatai Turkish (Eastern Turki) translation of the Gospel of Luke	0
Apologetics in Africa: An introduction	0
WOMEN’S NEEDS VS. ECONOMIC SURVIVAL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: NAVIGATING THIS TENSION USING CARE AND JUSTICE	0
Contemporary issues in Christian marriage: In commemoration of the retirement of Rev. Dr. Samuel Oluwafemi Oladimeji from active ministry of the Nigerian Baptist Convention	0
Recurrent and current trends in the study of the Book of Psalms	0
Perilous presencing: How the church’s sacraments re-symbolize trauma	0
Interview with Prof. Dr. Julius Gathogo	0
CARING FOR WOMEN ON THE FRONTLINES: ENHANCING WOMEN WORKERS’ CAPABILITIES AND BUILDING SOCIAL FRIENDSHIP	0
Toward a reinterpretation of sacramental theology in the context of pandemics: The case of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe	0
Introducing analytic theology	0
The use of empirical data in communal discernment and decision-making processes in the Dutch Reformed Church	0
Front pages	0
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Being Reformed today?	0
"In The Spirit"	0
The Significance of Calvin’s Theology of Mission and its realization in the sixteenth century for twenty-first century church mission in Indonesia	0
Ecology and theology together within African Pentecostals worship liturgy	0
The Trinity and an ecclesiology from below	0
Theology and identity	0
Towards an emergent theory of reimagining church in a racially divided society: Building theory from different cases	0
Biblical stewardship and electricity management in Ghana	0
Stand-up preaching	0
The pragmatic function of asides that stage an event in the Fourth Gospel	0
Shall we dance? Choreographing hospitality as key to interpersonal transformation	0
Corrigendum: Jeremiah 29:5-7 reread through the lens of posttraumatic growth	0
The beauty of sorrow:	0
Instilling values through literature: Analysing Everyman, a medieval morality play	0
Wayang civilizes religion: From spectacle to guidance	0
St. Thomas Aquinas’ Doctrine of Christ’s Descent into Hades and its implications for African Ancestor Christological discourse	0
Reviewers of articles received for publication in 2023	0
Confronting the cataracts of whiteness to see the invisible: reflections on the transmission and reception of the Bible in post-apartheid South Africa	0
An ongoing search of constant and sustainable Lutheran Theological Education in South Africa in the 21st century.	0
Finding oneself? Contemplating on paintings with a religious theme in clinical pastoral care	0
MILITARISM AND FEAR IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC IN THE PHILIPPINES: TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF TRANSGRESSION	0
PREFACE	0
Siesta en geneeskundige dienste teen die achtergrond van die traditionele Afrika levens- en wêreldbeskouing	0
Book review: Christian mission in a diverse British urban context: Crossing the racial barrier to reach communities	0
BOOK REVIEW Digital homiletics: The theology and practice of online preaching	0
Let's do theology - as in the book of Job: Developing theology in dialogue	0
Engaging Rian Venter’s trinitarian theology: a Trinity of space and time	0
Jesus uttering his last words and drawing on his final breath: reflecting on Luke 23:46	0
Holy communion in contagious times	0
Naming and shaming? Exploring space(s) between women in Philippians 4:2-3	0
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Who is Christ? Thesoteriological necessity in the Christology of Francis Turretin	0
Interview with Prof. Piet Meiring	0
A short overview of the modern eras of historiography in church history:	0
JAPANESE WOMEN'S ACTIVISM SUSTAINS A LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITY IN THE PANDEMIC	0
Luke for landlubbers: The translation and interpretation	0
Song of Songs – Current trends in research	0
Interview with Prof. Malan Nel	0
Faith formation in the tension interplay of tools, processes and the course for social transformation	0
Ecological hermeneutics as a current trend in Old Testament research in the Book of Psalms	0
Inequalities within Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa on gender, with special reference to lGBTQIA+: Imago Dei	0
Moving methodologies. Doing practical and missional theology in an African context	0
The dialogical theology of Hans Küng: Clash between the Catholic Mission and Islamic Da’wah in Indonesia	0
A Text-centred rhetorical analysis of 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16	0
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"Before the cock crows, you will deny me" (Matthew 26: 34): Betrayal and Redemption in The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna	0
SAWUBONA. A theo-ethic for everyday decolonial gestures	0
Unraveling "DHR": The study of ancient texts	0
Truth and reconciliation: Indigenous storytelling reflection on Inxeba Elingaphakathi	0
BECOMING WHOLE AGAIN: THE GOAL OF WOMEN’S STRUGGLE AGAINST SEX ABUSE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN THE PHILIPPINES	0
THE EXPERIENCES OF CURRENTLY AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN IN A TIME OF PANDEMIC: IMPLICATIONS FOR LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITIES	0
A decolonial reading of the Third Chapter of the Gospel of John in Moffat’s Translation of the Catechism into Setswana (1826)	0
The revelation of God: How and to whom does God reveals God self to?	0
PANDEMIC OASIS: POPULAR RELIGIOSITIES AS WOMEN’S LIFE-GIVING COMMUNITAS	0
The church and LGBTQ: Towards the church as an inclusive communion of disciples	0
Christians’ social perception of climate change and poverty: A study of the Nkroanza south district assembly	0
Chiasm in Zephaniah 3:14-17 – A new proposal	0
Pentecostal ecclesiology in the new adaptation era:	0
The challenge of poverty in Malawi and Bonhoeffer's soteriology	0
Interview with Prof. Kobus Schoeman on the occasion of his retirement at the end of 2024	0
Neo-pentecostal mission healthcare and poverty reduction in Ghana	0
Editorial	0
Tadek dance as a decolonial theo-cosmology	0
Cannabis Sativa, religion and society: Historical, medicinal, legal, and sacramental perspectives	0
The School for Social Innovation at Huguenot College and congregational vitality through faithful innovation	0
The bad habit of individualistic religion	0
New frontiers in contemporary missiology: Southern African perspectives	0
Prayer and gender in John Chrysostom’s homilies On Hannah	0
Reimagining ecclesiological imagination within a Dutch Reformed Congregation in South Africa	0