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‘Do you hear what these are saying?’ (Mt 21:16): Children and their role within Matthew’s narrative
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 This article sketches the broad outlines of Matthew’s ironic portrayal of children, examining first the ‘lower level’ of the narrative (i.e. the way things appear to be in the everyday world) and then the ‘upper level’ of the narrative (i.e.
Dorothy J. Weaver
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Jesus healing the leper and the Purity Law in the Gospel of Matthew
In die Skriflig, 2014 Though, in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus explicitly states that he did not come to abolish the Law (Mt 5:17–19), in the narrative that follows directly after this Sermon, he apparently neglects purity laws by healing a leper (Mt 8:1–3). As an impure
Francois P. Viljoen
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The Agony of the Infinite: The Presence of God as Phenomenological Hell [PDF]
, 2018 Much recent academic literature on the afterlife has been focused on the justice of eternity and whether a good God could allow a person to experience eternal suffering in Hell.
Holdier, A. G.
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The Divine Liturgy as Mystical Experience [PDF]
, 2015 Most characterizations of mystical experience emphasize its private, esoteric, and non-sensory nature. Such an understanding is far removed from the original meaning of the term mystikos.
Bradshaw, David
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The poor in the Epistle of James and the Gospel of Thomas
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1997 This study explores similarities in the thought world of the Epistle of James and the Gospel of Thomas. Particular attention is devoted to the role that the 'poor' and 'poverty' play in both documents.
Patrick J. Hartin
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Worship: the source and summit of faith [PDF]
, 1983 In worship God comes to serve his people with his gifts. Worship, as God\u27s service of us, is the source of faith. Worship is also the summit of faith as God lifts his people to himself, to the service of others, to a reconciliation with the natural ...
Pfatteicher, Philip H.
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TheoRhēma, 2014 The current piece of research has evidenced that the concept of the Kingdom of God / Kingdom of Heaven is not new in the biblical theology of the human writers of the Scripture.
Gallusz László
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Artist between the Paradise on Earth and the Kingdom of Heaven [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2016 The article raises the question of why the subjects related to the pristine paradis and to the coming Kingdom of Heaven are usually not convincingly addressed in the world art, especially in the visual one.
Alexander Melik-Pashayev
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Are the least included in the kingdom of heaven? The meaning of Matthew 5:19
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 1998 According to the normative interpretation of Matthew 5:19, this logion specifies that a stict hierarchy will exist in the consummated kingdom of God based upon observance of the Jewish law.
David C. Sim
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Sabla Wangêl, the queen of the Kingdom of Heaven
, 2009 The powerful queen Säblä-Wängēl, also called Wänag Mogäsa, was the wife of King Lebna-Dengel (r.1508-1540) whose regnal name was Wänag-Sagad. Säblä-Wängēl was one of the most important women which Ethiopia has seen from time to time.
Herman, Margaux
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