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Divine presence and absence: A theodicy of narrative analytic theology 神的存在与缺席：叙事分析神学的神论

Verbum et Ecclesia Pub Date : 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.3058

Aku S. Antombikums

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Karl Barth’s theology of the Trinity in conversation with Christian theology of religions 卡尔-巴特的三位一体神学与基督教宗教神学的对话

Verbum et Ecclesia Pub Date : 2024-01-24 DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.2824

Yeremia Y. Putra, Yohanes K. Susanta

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Contextual Christology in the phrase ‘apo isa elmaseh’ and the word ‘opo’ apo isa elmaseh "短语和 "opo "一词中的语境基督论

Verbum et Ecclesia Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.2882

Jekson Berdame, Denni H.R. Pinontoan, Christar A. Rumbay

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Are Religious Experiences Immediate Revelations? A Study of Pentecostal Hermeneutics 宗教体验是直接启示吗？五旬节派诠释学研究

Verbum et Ecclesia Pub Date : 2024-01-20 DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.2915

Aku S. Antombikums

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Perold de Beer: Reflecting on the theology of a missionary pioneer 佩罗尔德-比尔一位传教士先驱的神学思考

Verbum et Ecclesia Pub Date : 2024-01-19 DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.2969

A. Meiring

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Unhiding the voices of women in the Parable of the Good Samaritan: A call for academic inclusion 消除《好撒玛利亚人的比喻》中女性的声音：呼吁学术包容

Verbum et Ecclesia Pub Date : 2024-01-16 DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.2937

Charel D. Du Toit

{"title":"Unhiding the voices of women in the Parable of the Good Samaritan: A call for academic inclusion","authors":"Charel D. Du Toit","doi":"10.4102/ve.v45i1.2937","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4102/ve.v45i1.2937","url":null,"abstract":"The parables of Jesus are often susceptible to patriarchal, androcentric interpretations. By using a realistic reading and social-scientific criticism, this article will investigate the voices, roles, and presence of women in the parable of the Good Samaritan, and how the 1st-century audience of the parable would most likely have understood women to be present, even if not mentioned in the parable. Women played critical roles in terms of hospitality, travel, innkeeping, and healing. These roles and voices of women are often ignored by modern interpreters and exegetes. This article not only emphasises the valuable roles that women fulfilled in the time of Jesus but also critiques the lack, or absence, of women as a point of discussion, acknowledgement, and study in most biblical commentaries and books concerning the parable of the Good Samaritan. The aim of this research is to contribute to the unhiding of women voices in patriarchal, androcentric texts thereby reconstructing and deconstructing gender paradigms within biblical scholarship.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The interdisciplinary nature of this article contributes to the debate on the roles and importance of women in the church by investigating the value that women had in the parables of Jesus. By reading women as present in the text, emphasis is given to the voices of women in the Bible and the importance of their representation today. This research is also in line with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5: Gender equality and women empowerment.","PeriodicalId":38411,"journal":{"name":"Verbum et Ecclesia","volume":" 19","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139618958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Serious games in service of Theology 为神学服务的严肃游戏

Verbum et Ecclesia Pub Date : 2024-01-16 DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.2883

Willem H. Oliver

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African contextual hermeneutics 非洲语境诠释学

Verbum et Ecclesia Pub Date : 2024-01-16 DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.3041

D. Human

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An interdisciplinary approach to theological studies in a public university 公立大学神学研究的跨学科方法

Verbum et Ecclesia Pub Date : 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.2891

M. S. Kgatle

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Are we there yet? Probing the notion of contextualising practical theology and pastoral care in a post COVID-19 glocal African context 我们到了吗？在后 COVID-19 时代的非洲地方环境中探究实用神学和牧灵关怀的语境化概念

Verbum et Ecclesia Pub Date : 2024-01-15 DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.2844

A. Brunsdon

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