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Shema as Paradigm (Dt. 6:4–9). The Bible, Education, and the Quest for Development in Contemporary Ghana 作为范式的示玛(申6:4-9)。当代加纳的圣经、教育与发展之路

Scriptura-International Journal of Bible Religion and Theology in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7833/122-1-2117

Michael Kodzo Mensah

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Your Body is not your own: A Political Theological Engagement with Gretha Wiid’s Patriarchal Interpretation of Ephesians 5:22-23 你的身体不是你自己的:格里塔·维德对以弗所书5:22-23的宗法解释的政治神学参与

Scriptura-International Journal of Bible Religion and Theology in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7833/122-1-2125

Dion Angus Forster

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Some Aspects of Seminal Historical Factors that led to the Redress Process in Old Testament Scholarship in South Africa 导致南非旧约学术纠正过程的一些重要历史因素

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Scriptura-International Journal of Bible Religion and Theology in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7833/122-1-2052

A. Evans

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God dwells in Flesh: Decolonial Ecojustice and Planetary Ethics in the “Anthropocene” 上帝寓于肉身:“人类世”的非殖民化生态正义与行星伦理

Scriptura-International Journal of Bible Religion and Theology in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7833/122-1-2135

Claudia Jahnel

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Postmodernity: By The Pastoral Perspective Contemporary 后现代性:田园视角下的当代

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Scriptura-International Journal of Bible Religion and Theology in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.22259/2637-5907.0501001

Kemuel Lourenço Figueira Andrade, Stanley J. Grenaz

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How can Religious Education deal with the Tension between Normativity and Moralization in Times of the Environmental Crisis? A Proposal 在环境危机时期，宗教教育如何处理规范与道德化的紧张关系?一个提议

Scriptura-International Journal of Bible Religion and Theology in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7833/122-1-2134

Bernhard Gruemme

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From Process Philosophy to Process Theology: The Ecological Theological Perspective of John Cobb 从过程哲学到过程神学:约翰·科布的生态神学视角

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Scriptura-International Journal of Bible Religion and Theology in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7833/122-1-2130

Renzhong Cui

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Images of God, the Song of Moses, and Metaphors 神的形象，摩西之歌，隐喻

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Scriptura-International Journal of Bible Religion and Theology in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7833/122-1-2087

Annette Potgieter

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A Literary and Ritual Analysis of Leviticus 16 利未记第16章的文学和仪式分析

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Scriptura-International Journal of Bible Religion and Theology in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7833/122-1-2075

Y. Adu-Gyamfi

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Noah’s Ark and the Flood in Judaism and Islam: A Bi-optic Perspective of Salvation and Sacred Space 犹太教与伊斯兰教中的诺亚方舟与洪水:救赎与神圣空间的双光视角

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Scriptura-International Journal of Bible Religion and Theology in Southern Africa Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7833/122-1-2067

J. Spoelstra

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