• Investigating potential differences in the approaches to studying of gifted and normative learners via PISA math tests results 

  Simut, Corneliu Cristian; Godor, Brian (Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb, 2023)

  For the past few decades, the way students learn, that is, their “approaches to studying” have been characterized by the students’ perception of their academic environment, conceptions about learning, and the perception ...
• A contextual political theology for the Ghanaian society and its implications for human flourishing 

  Boaheng, Isaac (University of Pretoria, 2023-12)

  Every human society is faced with one challenge or the other. Ghana (the context of the study) is a West African country facing such challenges as poverty, hunger, poor education system, poor road networks, environmental ...
• Divine omnipresence and human suffering 

  Antombikums, Aku Stephen (Brill Academic Publishers, 2024-02)

  Traditionally, it is believed that God is all-powerful and omnipresent. Given the notion of divine omnipresence, why does it seem like God is absent amidst suffering? This paper presents a philosophical and theological ...
• Editorial : special collection of Verbum et Ecclesia : ‘morality in history’ 

  De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS, 2023)

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• What is morality? A historical exploration 

  De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne) (AOSIS, 2023-12-18)

  The objective of the article was to get more clarity on what morality is by addressing the question: ‘Can, in spite of undeniable adaptation and change through the ages, core elements of morality be detected that might ...
• Religion, morality, science – and the (?) story of Homo sapiens 

  Veldsman, D.P. (Daniel Petrus), 1959- (AOSIS, 2023-12-18)

  From the most recent and directive dimensions of the (?) story of Homo sapiens (Hs), presented as a very limited overview and in broad outlines from an anthropological perspective, the focus will ultimately fall on three ...
• The revelation of God : Black liberation theology and African knowledge systems ask : how and to whom does God reveal God self 

  Mdingi, Hlulani M. (University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2023-11-30)

  The African world view is not monolithic or homogeneous. However, that being the case, there is a strong metaphysical and existential leaning in terms of Spirit and the world. The Spirit is the medium whereby revelation ...
• Feminist spiritualities, gender equality, and sustainable development : the possibilities of a countermovement 

  Swanepoel, N.; Van Wyk, Tanya (University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2023-06)

  Feminist historiography indicates that spirituality has historically been one of the instruments whereby women could “speak”. This “voice” implied recognition and authority, to a certain degree, in a patriarchal-orien ...
• Towards an Ubuntu/Botho ethics of technology 

  Mokoena, Katleho Karabo (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  Humanity and technology have been in co-evolution and co-development in human history and it has been an intricate part of our daily lives today. However, since the Industrial Revolution, technology has had a negative ...
• Narrating the political Christian self : Chief Albert Luthuli's political theology in his autobiography "Let my people go" 

  Mushambi, Dambudzo Darlington (University of Pretoria, 2023-09-30)

  The study utilises the articulations and understandings of ‘narrative’ and ‘narrative theology’ from George Stroup and Stanley Hauerwas. ‘Narrative’ is a fundamental theological category that shapes theological reflection ...
• The artifice of eternity : transhumanism and theosis 

  Delport, Khegan M. (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2023-11)

  The Christian doctrine of theosis teaches that the natural end of creatures is union with the Holy Trinity, the supernatural end of nature – both human and non-human. However, through certain developments in modernity, ...
• The unthought of modernity : magical thinking in science, philosophy, and theology 

  Delport, Khegan M. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2023-12)

  The modernity of the West has generally tended to construct the relation between magic and religion according to a developmentalist schema, chiefly as a movement from the primitive to the modern, from superstition to ...
• Joseph Ratzinger’s contribution to the interpretation of resurrection belief : the Nicholas Copernicus of Catholic theology 

  Onazi, Andrew O.; Van Wyk, Tanya (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2022-03-29)

  In this contribution, it is argued that Joseph Ratzinger had a profound influence on the Christology and specifically resurrection belief of the Catholic Church. This is evident in the way Ratzinger approached the challenge ...
• Unearthing the liturgy’s true meaning to counter church secularisation : Father Alexander Schmemann 

  Streza, Ciprian I. (AOSIS, 2023-01)

  Secularism is a very popular topic in social sciences and in theology. Father Alexander Dmitrievich Schmemann (1921–1983) addressed this topic and raised many questions, which are still very relevant in today’s Eastern ...
• The transformation of theology in the present climate crisis 

  Moltmann, Jurgen (AOSIS, 2023-04)

  Humanity is facing an ecological catastrophe. Culprits include a linear understanding of time which looks only to the future and the human belief in progress. This ideology has remained the same in the search for solutions; ...
• The significance of freedom in God’s plan 

  May, Andreas (AOSIS, 2023-01)

  By means of a synthesis of Christian faith, theology and natural sciences, the significance of freedom in God’s plan of creation and redemption was contemplated. The triune God is the foundation of all freedom. The freedom ...
• The original justice in the context of natural sciences : Thomistic insights 

  Roszak, Piotr (AOSIS, 2023-01)

  The picture of the beginnings of humankind presented by natural science is often contrasted with what is conveyed in Scripture. It has been pointed out that the Edenic state before sin – which we refer to as original justice ...
• The mutual corruption of volition and nature? A closer reading of Ad Thalassium 42 

  Moldovan, Sebastian (AOSIS, 2023-02)

  This article closely examines the content of an important passage in Maximos the Confessor’s Ad Thalassium 42, in which we can identify a ternary soteriological structure (Adam-Christ-us) recurring in the work of the ...
• The bride of Christ with a hellish existence on earth : insights from Eboni Turman, the black church and black liberation theology 

  Mdingi, Hlulani M. (AOSIS, 2023-02)

  This research is based on the reading of Eboni Turman’s work that focuses on body politics, especially through a theological paradigm. The study confirms that the body is a theological problem, and the extent of the problem ...
• The address of reality as the voice of God in theological interpretation 

  Benjamins, Rick (AOSIS, 2023-08)

  The relationship between theology and the sciences can be studied from a hermeneutical point of view. Essential to religion are experiences in which reality calls or addresses us. Ingolf Dalferth and John Caputo have ...

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