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Reforum: A brief but not unimportant chapter in the Dutch Reformed Church’s apartheid saga
In 1985 when storm clouds were gathering over South Africa, and a state of emergency was declared, a group of members of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) Family, clergy as well as laity, founded an organisation, Reforum. The two-fold aim of Reforum was to
P.G.J. (Piet) Meiring
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The Earthly Essene Nucleus of 1QSA [PDF]
This article makes the case that the regulations for communal life in the central portions of 1QSa are much more closely related to the Damascus Document than to the Rule of the Community to which the text was physically attached.
Hempel, Charlotte
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�The Road to Damascus�: �n Kerklik-teologiese perspektief
"The Road to Damascus": A church theology perspective This article researches the historical and methodological background to the document The Road to Damascus.
C. J. Wethmar
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e nature of the Church was expressed in Dogmatic Constitution on the Church “Lumen gentium” by numerous pictures and new expressions. ey refer to the Bible and patristics. It is necessary to place special attention on two expressions.
Przemysław Jeliński
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Orphans in the Dead Sea Scrolls
This study investigates the literary references to orphans in writings amongst the Qumran texts that were written in Hebrew and can be associated with the sectarian Qumran movement.
Gideon R. Kotzé
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Through the different elements that constitute the Arabic proper name at the end of the Ayyubid empire and at the beginning of the Mamluk era, we find the story of the life of the literati: names given at birth or inherited, nicknames, geographical ...
Jacqueline Sublet
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Forgiveness in the intertestamental period
The article suggests answers to the following questions: what are the characteristics of God s forgiveness in the intertestamental literature and what connection do these characteristics have with the Old Testament?
Sang-Mong Lee +2 more
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Towards an ethics of interpretation: The use of scripture in three recent Christian documents
Three documents have recently appeared which all appeal to Scripture in their elaboration of a vision for the church’s involvement in society. This paper assesses the manner in which the Bible functions within the broader interpretative stance of each ...
M. J. Oosthuizen
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A call for the restoration of orthodoxy in South African Christian theology
Liberation theology can only be understood as a pseudo-theology inspired by the spirit of Marx. It is not a bona fide or leg itimate theology, but the polar opposite thereof.
B. Engelbrecht
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A triadic construct in Jubilees 30
Publications on Old Testament ethics often use triadic constructs to explain the moral impact of Biblical passages. In Genesis 11:27–50:26, Ezra 9:6–15, Nehemiah 7:72b–10:40, Damascus Document (CD) V:1, 2–6 and Jubilees 8–9 and 23, constructs of three ...
Pieter M. Venter
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