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# HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 2020: all accepted papers

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101. **[‘Suspected killer’: Tamar’s plight (Gn 38) as a lens for illuminating women’s vulnerability in the legal codes of Shona and Israelite societies ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.5893)**Canisius Mwandayi, Sophia Chirongoma*5 citations*
102. **[A theology of marriage: A biblical or a cultural construct? ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6027)**Ernest Van Eck*4 citations*
103. **[A womanist theological engagement of triple patriarchy and its implications on (Ejagham) women’s liberation ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5601)**Tabe J.O.E. Benoni-Wang, Vuyani S. Vellem*4 citations*
104. **[Africanisation of theological education: An exploration of a hybrid epistemology ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.5911)**Kasebwe T.L. Kabongo*4 citations*
105. **[Black Christ and Cross-Roads Jesus for white South African Christians ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.5836)**Wilhelm J. Verwoerd*4 citations*
106. **[Building blocks of ‘free will’: In conversation with Dick Swaab ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.6056)**Chris Jones, David Vandenheever*4 citations*
107. **[Building the future in the 21st century: In conversation with Yuval Noah Harari ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.6058)**Anton Albert Van Niekerk*4 citations*
108. **[Character education for public leadership: The continuing relevance of Martin Buber’s ‘Hebrew humanism’ ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.5936)**Bernhard Ott*4 citations*
109. **[Developing pastoral therapy as a professional qualification in South Africa: Rationale and motivation ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.5659)**Juanita Meyer*4 citations*
110. **[Divine designation in the use of the Bible: The quest for an ‘all-powerful God’ (the omnipotence of God) in a pastoral ministry of human empowerment ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.5961)**Daniël J. Louw*4 citations*
111. **[Doing theology with children: A childist reading of the childhood metaphor in 1 Corinthians and the Synoptic Gospels ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.5637)**Jan Grobbelaar*4 citations*
112. **[Early Ethiopian Christianity: Retrospective enquiry from the perspective of Indian Thomine tradition ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.5892)**Rugare Rukuni*4 citations*
113. **[Ethnic reasoning and early Christian identity: A Pauline theological perspective ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5800)**Philip La Grange Du Toit*4 citations*
114. **[Faith in God, philanthropy and foundations of criticism of religious violence in Mulla Sadra’s philosophy ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.6046)**Seyed Mahdi Emami Jomeh, Mahdi Ganjvar, Nafiseh Ahl Sarmadi*4 citations*
115. **[Global coherence, healing meditations using HeartMath applications during COVID-19 lockdown ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.6151)**Stephen David Edwards*4 citations*
116. **[Interlocution after liberation: Who do we interpret with and which biblical text do we read with? ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.6031)**Gerald West*4 citations*
117. **[Kerkordelike toleransie en die reg van usansie ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5634)**Barry J. van Wyk*4 citations*
118. **[Lifestyle and leadership according to Paul’s statement of account before the Ephesian elders in Acts 20:17–35 ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.5901)**Christoph Wilhelm Stenschke*4 citations*
119. **[Mission studies at South African higher education institutions: An ethical and decolonial perspective in the quest to ‘colour’ the discipline ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5819)**Eugene Baron*4 citations*
120. **[Preserving the values of cultural negotiation through social learning: ‘Two Religion Community Life’ case study in Phattalung, Southeast Thailand ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5947)**Sri Sumarni, Abdulaziz Kalupae*4 citations*
121. **[Religious diversity, ecology and grammar ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.6064)**Hermen Kroesbergen*4 citations*
122. **[Ritual, myth and transnational giving within the Zimbabwe Assemblies of God Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.5860)**John Ringson, Admire Chereni*4 citations*
123. **[Sensus communis: The relevance of Medieval philosophy in the 21st century ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.5937)**Johann C. Beukes*4 citations*
124. **[The Septuagint as a holy text – The first ‘bible’ of the early church ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6132)**Johann Cook*4 citations*
125. **[The Septuagint translation as the key to the etymology and identification of precious stones in the Bible ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6142)**Jacobus A. Naudé, Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé*4 citations*
126. **[The concept of work in the theological teachings of Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5869)**Amir Mashiach*4 citations*
127. **[The ordination of Catholic women as deacons: The state of the question ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.5965)**Susan Rakoczy*4 citations*
128. **[The questions for post-apartheid South African missiology in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.6122)**Eugene Baron*4 citations*
129. **[The restitution of Roman Catholic Church land to indigenous people in post-apartheid South Africa: 1994–2014 ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5607)**Mokone Bruno Lephoto*4 citations*
130. **[The use of interactive storytelling, cartoon animation and educational gaming to communicate the biblical message to preschool children ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.6074)**Dirk G. Van der Merwe*4 citations*
131. **[Theology of Jiḥād based on the ḥadīth: Ṣaḥīh Bukhāri’s perspective ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6061)**Wajidi Sayadi, Elmansyah Elmansyah, Zaenuddin Hudi Prasojo et al.*4 citations*
132. **[Who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God: Kenosis of leadership ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.5844)**Hlulani M. Mdingi*4 citations*
133. **[Why our ancestors never invented telescopes ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6116)**Sekgothe Mokgoatšana, Goodenough Mashego*4 citations*
134. **[Women, priests and patriarchal ecclesial spaces in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa: On ‘interruption’ as a transformative rhetorical strategy ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5820)**Miranda N. Pillay*4 citations*
135. **[Aspects of political theology in the spiritual autobiography of Mother Teresa of Calcutta ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5932)**Iuliu‐Marius Morariu*3 citations*
136. **[Can religion (un)zombify? The trajectories of psychic capture theology in postcolonial South Africa ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.5902)**Bekithemba Dube*3 citations*
137. **[Challenges and prospects of partnership among local and foreign Christian missionaries in Nigeria ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.5983)**Akinyemi Oluwafemi Alawode*3 citations*
138. **[Considering mystagogy as method in Biblical Spirituality ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6094)**Christo J.S. Lombaard*3 citations*
139. **[Embracing an embodied theology in the time of corona: Mimetic synchronisation with the theological rhythms and first responder stance of the apostle Paul during the time of famine ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6101)**Stephan J. Joubert*3 citations*
140. **[Fides in parenthesis: A spirituality of leadership for a (post-)secular(ising) world ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.5876)**Yolande Steenkamp*3 citations*
141. **[Finitude, temporality and the criticism of religion in Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free (2019) ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.6072)**David Biernot, Christo J.S. Lombaard*3 citations*
142. **[Forgiveness as a spiritual construct experienced by men serving long-term sentences in Zonderwater, South Africa ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6276)**Christina Landman, Tanya Pieterse*3 citations*
143. **[Grandeur in this view of life ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.6351)**Johan Buitendag*3 citations*
144. **[Healing history, healing a nation: A prophetic practical pastoral ministry of care ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5597)**Mabutho Mkandla, Yolanda Dreyer*3 citations*
145. **[Leadership challenges in Christian non-governmental organisations ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.5944)**Ana Maria Cabodevila*3 citations*
146. **[Pastoral care with young people suffering from depression in the context of Soweto ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.6225)**Mwansa Claude Kimpinde, Yolanda Dreyer*3 citations*
147. **[Positioning LGBTIQ as the human sexuality agenda for black theology of liberation – Reflection on Vuyani Vellem’s black theology of liberation ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.6123)**Graham Alexander Duncan*3 citations*
148. **[Religio-cultural heritage of libation, memory and Obang cultural history, Northwest Cameroon ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5801)**Felix Kang Esoh, Chammah Judex Kaunda*3 citations*
149. **[Samuel Johnson’s view about Oduduwa in connection with the origins of the Yoruba ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6013)**Jock Matthew Agai*3 citations*
150. **[Sounding the sacred in the age of fake news – Practical theology reflecting on the public sphere ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.6131)**Elsabé Kloppers*3 citations*
151. **[The Bible in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: ‘What’s in it for me?’ ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6020)**Willem H. Oliver*3 citations*
152. **[The building blocks and origins of life ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.6054)**Dirk Uwe Bellstedt*3 citations*
153. **[Wither black theology of liberation? Perspectives from the late Professor Vuyani Vellem ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.6232)**Jerry Pillay*3 citations*
154. **[A missiology of progress: Assessing advancement in the Bible translation movement ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5786)**Kirk J. Franklin*2 citations*
155. **[Adzan Pitu? Syncretism or religious tradition: Research in Sang Cipta Rasa Cirebon mosque ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.5283)**Wawan Hermawan, Linda Eka Pradita*2 citations*
156. **[An analysis of the performative nature and power of forensic dialogue in Susanna: A speech act contribution ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6139)**Risimati S. Hobyane*2 citations*
157. **[An appropriation of Psalm 82 against the background of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The Christian church as a change agent in the Fourth Industrial Revolution ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.6126)**Lodewyk Sutton*2 citations*
158. **[Characterisation of Thomas in the Fourth Gospel ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5632)**Johnson Thomaskutty*2 citations*
159. **[Controversial and paradoxical theological approaches to the issue of ‘Descent of the Qur’ān’ ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5387)**Hüseyin Halil*2 citations*
160. **[Critical dimensions of ethical competence in intercultural religious education: An analysis with special regard to three Scandinavian curricular arenas ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5829)**Olof Franck*2 citations*
161. **[Discourse analysis of religion and inter-communal conflicts and its causes in Nigeria ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.5617)**Christopher N. Ibenwa, Favour Chukwuemeka Uroko*2 citations*
162. **[Does the Christian church have any guidance to offer in solving the global problems we are faced with today? ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.5852)**D. Etienne De Villiers*2 citations*
163. **[Euphemism in Biblical Hebrew and the euphemistic ‘bless’ in the Septuagint of Job ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6140)**Douglas T. Mangum*2 citations*
164. **[Factors associated with male partner involvement in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus in the Gokwe North District, Zimbabwe: A qualitative study ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.6022)**Vimbai Chibango*2 citations*
165. **[God’s mercy revealed in the ministry of charity: The Church in Poland reaching out to ‘the periphery’ ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.5950)**Wiesław Przygoda*2 citations*
166. **[Hebrews 12:9 revisited: The background of the phrase ‘and live’ ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5863)**Albert J. Coetsee*2 citations*
167. **[I believe in God: Content analysis of the first article of the Christian faith based on a literature review ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5470)**Jonathan Andrés Rúa Penagos, Iván Darí­o Toro Jaramillo*2 citations*
168. **[In search of our human face: Black consciousness, black spirituality, inclusive humanity and the politics of vulgarity ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.6164)**Allan Aubrey Boesak*2 citations*
169. **[Martabat Tembung Wali of Sunan Gunung Jati: As the value of religious humanism for the people of Cirebon ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.6202)**Linda Eka Pradita, Sumarlam Sumarlam, Kundharu Saddhono et al.*2 citations*
170. **[Mission on the margins: A proposal for an alternative missional paradigm in the wake of COVID-19 ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.6149)**Buhle Mpofu*2 citations*
171. **[Moving beyond confessional theologies and secular philosophies about the world: Towards an ecodomic public attitude about nature ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5990)**Corneliu C. Simuţ*2 citations*
172. **[Oscar Romero (1917–1980): A model of pastoral leadership for church leaders in Africa ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.5849)**Valentine Ugochukwu Iheanacho*2 citations*
173. **[Patriarchy and marital disharmony amongst Nigerian Christians: Ephesians 5:22–33 as a response ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.5991)**Solomon Olusola Ademiluka*2 citations*
174. **[Reading LXXJudith 13:1–9 as performance ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6167)**Nicholas Peter Legh Allen, Pierre Johan Jordaan*2 citations*
175. **[Recognition and justification: Towards a rationalisation approach to inculturation ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.6186)**Josephine Ngozi Akah, Aloysius C. Obiwulu, Anthony Chinaemerem Ajah*2 citations*
176. **[Reflecting on the nature of work in contemporary South Africa: A public theological engagement with calling and vocation ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.5847)**Dion Angus Forster*2 citations*
177. **[Reflections on the characters of Dr Rieux and Fr Paneloux in Camus’ The Plague in a consideration of human suffering during the COVID-19 pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6087)**Wessel Bentley*2 citations*
178. **[Religious statecraft: Constantinianism in the figure of Nagashi Kaleb ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.5885)**Rugare Rukuni*2 citations*
179. **[The Book of Tobit in early Christianity: Greek and Latin interpretations from the 2nd to the 5th century CE ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6138)**Chris L. de Wet*2 citations*
180. **[The New Testament κύριος problem and how the Old Testament speeches can help solve it ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6134)**Peter Nagel*2 citations*
181. **[The beauty of spiritual leadership: A theological-aesthetical approach to leadership ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i2.5898)**Volker Kessler*2 citations*
182. **[The church in Nigeria and political economy of youth unemployment: A pragmatic approach ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.5616)**Olihe Adaeze Ononogbu, Nathan Hussaini Chiroma, George C. Nche et al.*2 citations*
183. **[The cognitive biases of human mind in accepting and transmitting religious and theological beliefs: An analysis based on the cognitive science of religion ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5799)**Sayyed Mahdi Biabanaki*2 citations*
184. **[The importance and challenges of money in Christian missions ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5984)**Akinyemi Oluwafemi Alawode*2 citations*
185. **[Theological dialogue towards ethical restoration in a homophobia-riddled society ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6030)**Kelebogile T. Resane*2 citations*
186. **[Transition, reflection, rethinking and reimagining: The relevance of Black liberation theology in South Africa post-1994 – a tribute to Vuyani Vellem ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.6078)**Sithembiso Zwane*2 citations*
187. **[‘Adam’s Istifā’ in Qur’an and human evolution ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5795)**Farzaneh Rohanimashhadi*2 citations*
188. **[A biblical approach to the reduction of child poverty in Anambra state, Nigeria ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.5565)**Uzonna F. Echeta*1 citation*
189. **[A critical look at Didache 1:4b and its reflection on the non-retaliation of the Nigerian church ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6177)**Prince Emma Peters*1 citation*
190. **[A socio-historical analysis of Lukan and Johannine pneumatological conceptions ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6099)**Rev Chamburuka*1 citation*
191. **[At the potter’s workshop. Jeremiah 18:1–12: A narrative that reveals more than meets the eye ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6108)**Wilhelm J. Wessels*1 citation*
192. **[Biblical vistas of brokenness and wholeness in a time such as the coronavirus pandemic ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.6160)**Gordon E Dames*1 citation*
193. **[Building blocks of morality ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.6057)**Michael Ruse*1 citation*
194. **[Can God create humans with free will who never commit evil? ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.6102)**Lee Pham Thai, Jerry Pillay*1 citation*
195. **[Church history is dead, long live historical theology! ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i4.5835)**Peter Carleton Houston*1 citation*
196. **[Contextualising religious education – Different understandings of teaching in Sami confirmation courses ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5827)**Johan Runemark Brydsten*1 citation*
197. **[Editorial Comment ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.6357)**Jerry Pillay*1 citation*
198. **[Emotional preparation for the unification of Korea: Through the embracement, forgiveness and love shown in the Gospel of Matthew ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.6217)**In-Cheol Shin*1 citation*
199. **[Ethical competence expressed in students’ written texts ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i1.5817)**Annika Lilja*1 citation*
200. **[Exploring the meanings of male partner involvement in the prevention of MTCT of HIV in Zimbabwe ↗](https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v76i3.6023)**Vimbai Chibango*1 citation*

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