Acta TheologicaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.20
D. Davage
{"title":"Paratextual framings of Psalm 72 and the shaping of interpretive possibilities","authors":"D. Davage","doi":"10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.20","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on how paratextual reframings of Psalm 72 have transformed the royal ideology in the psalm. After an initial overview of the core psalm (vv. 1-17), its paratexts are addressed one by one. First, it is noted how the doxology in verses 18-19 is added as a theological correction, creating a tension between the psalm proper and the paratext. It is then argued that verses 1 and 20 cast the psalm as David’s prayer for Solomon. The effect of these paratextual activities is then traced over time, first in the Hebrew Bible, in Second Temple literature, in the New Testament, as well as in Christian and Jewish expositions. The article indicates various ways in which the tensions are resolved and how these interactions, in turn, generate new paratexts.","PeriodicalId":39489,"journal":{"name":"Acta Theologica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68184539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta TheologicaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.v41i1.11
M. Laubscher
{"title":"Book Review: The end of Christian life. How embracing our mortality frees us to truly live","authors":"M. Laubscher","doi":"10.18820/23099089/actat.v41i1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.v41i1.11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39489,"journal":{"name":"Acta Theologica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68187124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta TheologicaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.v41i1.8
{"title":"THE SERVICE OF THE BELIEVERS: THE CHURCH ORDER OF THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH OF 2015 ARTICLE 55 IN PERSPECTIVE","authors":"","doi":"10.18820/23099089/actat.v41i1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.v41i1.8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39489,"journal":{"name":"Acta Theologica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68187662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta TheologicaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup31.11
V. Kessler
{"title":"A plea for leadership Theories","authors":"V. Kessler","doi":"10.18820/23099089/actat.sup31.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.sup31.11","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the challenge of teaching theory to people who view theorising sceptically. This is often the case in the context of leadership trainings. In this article, I critically analyse the trivialisation of leadership, often based on success stories, and offer seven methods to include theory in leadership classes, namely electing students; reversing the order: practice-theory instead of theory-practice; creating aha experiences with theory; selecting “good” theory; pointing out the benefit of a special theory; viewing theories as eye-glasses, and suggesting eye-glasses from different disciplines. I then argue, first, that leadership theory is needed, because real leadership is non-trivial and, secondly, that we need to teach more than one leadership theory, in order to encourage critical thinking. The key experience here is the aha-experience, the moment at which there is an understanding, at which the theory is grasped in a way that illuminates practice.","PeriodicalId":39489,"journal":{"name":"Acta Theologica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68183264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta TheologicaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup31.3
{"title":"Twenty-first Century Christianity: Some ideals, achievements, and failures","authors":"","doi":"10.18820/23099089/actat.sup31.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.sup31.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39489,"journal":{"name":"Acta Theologica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68183536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta TheologicaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.13
J. Van Der Walt
{"title":"The recipient becoming a participant and the participant becoming a recipient: A strange encounter in 1 Kings 17 with a not so strange outcome","authors":"J. Van Der Walt","doi":"10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39489,"journal":{"name":"Acta Theologica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68184031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta TheologicaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.3
S. Astapov
{"title":"Transforming the study of religious situations: The view of post-secular society theories","authors":"S. Astapov","doi":"10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.3","url":null,"abstract":"This article considers the methodology of post-secular society theories for application to research on religion. Several issues of present sociological methodology are associated with the secular discourse that divides society into subsystems and represents religion as one of them. Such an approach does not consider the role of noninstitutional forms of religion, religious ideas, and moods of individuals in forming the religious situation. The discourse emerging from theories of the post-secular society, which recognise the transformation of the place of religion in the public sphere at the beginning of the 21st century, views the contradictory unity of religious and secular moments in any social phenomenon. This transforms the established scientific approach to the study of religion with concepts of post-secular society theories. This article defines the principal characteristics of the post-secular model of religious situations compared to the principles of the","PeriodicalId":39489,"journal":{"name":"Acta Theologica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68184760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta TheologicaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.4
E. Baron
{"title":"The transformative role of the media in the formation of virtuous citizens: A contribution to reconciliation in a post-apartheid South Africa","authors":"E. Baron","doi":"10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.4","url":null,"abstract":"The significant role that the media played during the apartheid years in South Africa is staggering. Abundant evidence suggests that, during those years, the print media served as instruments for propaganda, for the apartheid regime, while the Argus group, for instance, exposed the atrocities and human rights violations of the same regime. However, 24 years into democracy, what is the role of the media in a post-apartheid South Africa, where citizens still suffer from the ghosts of apartheid, the continued human rights violations, racial discrimination, and related issues that make it seem as if South Africa is “irreconcilable”? This question will be addressed by drawing from a recent study conducted by the author that has demonstrated the role of newspapers in moral formation as a positive perspective on the media in the process of reconciliation. The author argues that the print media play their role through their articulation of a good society, through regular reporting on issues related to reconciliation, which can be regarded as an exercise in vigilance to help their readers identify, and address immoral behaviour that may impede achieving reconciliation. Through such reporting, the audience could become virtuous people that will serve as assets in the process and journey for reconciliation in South Africa.","PeriodicalId":39489,"journal":{"name":"Acta Theologica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68184772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta TheologicaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup31.13
{"title":"ACADEMIC MUSIC MINISTRY TRAINING APPROACHED FROM A THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE","authors":"","doi":"10.18820/23099089/actat.sup31.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.sup31.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39489,"journal":{"name":"Acta Theologica","volume":"154 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68183507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Acta TheologicaPub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.15
M. Terblanche
{"title":"Jeremiah 31:31-34: A prospect of true transformation","authors":"M. Terblanche","doi":"10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18820/23099089/actat.sup32.15","url":null,"abstract":"The theme of the transformation of reality is one of the unifying themes in Jeremiah 30-31. A past-future tension is notably present in 31:31-34, with the promise of a new covenant. This article considers the contrast between the new covenant pericope and the poetic doom oracles and the prose discourses in the book of Jeremiah. Since the book of Deuteronomy seemingly had a profound influence on the book of Jeremiah, Jeremiah 31:31-34 is also read against the background of Deuteronomy. Allusions in Jeremiah 31:31-34 to these texts are especially significant. It is argued that these allusions demonstrate that the new covenant passage attained a distinct identity by the promise of a radical transformation. In addition, the application of utopian literary theory suggests that Jeremiah’s utopian vision enflamed possibility and awakened emotional yearning for a better world.","PeriodicalId":39489,"journal":{"name":"Acta Theologica","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68184153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}