scholarly journals The diakonia of Practical Theology to the alienated in South Africa in the light of 1 Peter

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert Breed
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Service Work ◽  
1 Peter ◽  
Word Group ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
Biblical Perspective

This article investigates the role that Practical Theology can play in addressing the problem of alienation amongst the people of South Africa. The investigation is conducted from the viewpoint of the biblical concept of diakonia (service work). This concept as well as the content of Practical Theology as it is found in the first letter of Peter is investigated with the purpose of elucidating the diakonia of Practical Theology with regard to alienation. Four questions are answered in the article:� What may some of the reasons why people in South Africa experience alienation be?� What significance do the results of the most recent research into the diakon word group have for the diakonia of Practical Theology?� What insight can be gained from 1 Peter into the diakonia of Practical Theology for people who may be experiencing alienation in South Africa?� What should the diakonia of Practical Theology in the light of 1 Peter be for people who experience alienation? Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article addresses the issue of alienation. This is an issue that also falls within the research field of sociology and psychology. This article wants to make a contribution from a biblical perspective using the exegesis of a New Testament letter (1 Pt) with the focus on 1 Peter 4:10 and the use of the diakon word group in the letter. The article thus also operates on the research field of New Testament Theology. The results of the exegesis are used to give guidelines for the diakonia of Practical Theology in South Africa. The article challenges the way some research in Practical Theology is done, not using the Bible as reference point, thus making the distinction between Practical Theology and sciences like sociology and psychology indistinct.

Was the Diatessaron Anti-Judaic?

1925 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rendel Harris
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Church

Vogels, in his new “Handbook to New Testament Criticism,” has started some interesting and important enquiries, by a consideration of the changes that can be marked in the copies and versions of the New Testament by an investigator who understands not only how to register various readings but also how to detect the causes of such differences. The evangelical stream is demonstrably discolored by the media through which it passes. The Bible of any given church becomes affected by the church in which it circulates. The people who handle the text leave their finger-prints on the pages, and the trained detective can identify the criminal who made the marks.

scholarly journals Theologization of Greek Terms and Concepts in the Septuagint and New Testament

Verbum Vitae ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 751-769
Author(s):  
Franciszek Mickiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The One ◽  
Koine Greek ◽  
Secular Terms

Hellenistic literature, having great achievements in the fields of philosophy, drama, and poetry, did not know the theological concepts and issues which underlie the texts contained in the Hebrew Bible. So when the creators of the Septuagint, and then also the authors of the New Testament, used the Greek language to convey God’s inspired truths to the world, they were forced to give secular terms a new theological meaning, frequently choosing neutral words for this purpose, not burdened with ne­gative associations. With their translation work, they built a kind of bridge between Hellenic and Jewish cultures. On the one hand, the Septuagint allowed Jews reading the Bible in Greek to remain connected not only with the religious heritage of their fathers, but also with the cultural values that were closely related to that language and its world. In turn, for the Greeks, who after some time began to appreciate this work and gained knowledge of its content, it opened vast horizons of new religious and spiritual values, which until then were completely alien to them. The work of the authors of the Septuagint was continued and developed by the authors of the New Testament, which added to their theological output many new religious and moral values arising from the teaching of Jesus Christ. That way they contributed considerably to the development of the Koinē Greek and significantly transformed the spiritual life of the people speaking the language.

scholarly journals Andries van Aarde se vaderlose Jesus

2002 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurie H. Le Roux
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Temple

Andries van Aarde’s fatherless JesusThis article focuses on Andries Van Aarde’s book, “Fatherless in Galilee”, is an important contribution to the historical Jesus study in South Africa. Van Aarde depicted Jesus as someone who grew up fatherless. For Jesus this meant a lifelong struggle against slander and the exclusion from the temple and the presence of God. Jesus nevertheless trusted God who filled Jesus’ emptiness. Jesus was baptized and then started a ministry, focusing on the outcasts of society. He preached that the kingdom of God has come and that the people of this kingdom can experience God, as well as forgiveness of sins. Jesus died but arose in the kerygma. The article also refers to the struggle of the authors of the New Testament writings to understand and express the Jesus event.

scholarly journals Septuaginta og bibelsk teologi

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mogens Müller
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Biblical Theology ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Rewritten Bible

In the lecture The Septuagint and Biblical Theology. Some Observations the author tries to evalue the meaning of the Septuagint in the context of Biblical theology. The Old Testament cannot be understood per se, isolated from the people or congregations for which it was Holy Scripture. It only survived in its reception, ie. in an interpretation. This process can be detected already in the OT, but also and distinctly in the literature which has been termed "rewritten Bible". It is in this connection that the relevance of the Septuagint for Biblical theology must be s een, because it consists not merely of a translation, but also of an interpretation. And in the context of biblical theology Scripture is not what may be reconstructed as an Ur-text,  but the text actually included in the  New Testament. It was precisely the New Testament reception of the Septuagint that made it a valid expression of the OT, namely as the Bible of hte Greek-speaking part of Judaism in a period where even Palestinian Judaism was heavily influenced by Hellenism.

scholarly journals Diakonia in the New Testament and a vision for a biblically based ministry plan

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gert Breed
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Local Congregation ◽  
Word Group ◽  
Source Document ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Insight Into

When a local congregation holds the Bible as its authoritative source document in a post-Christian milieu and embarks on developing a ministry plan, it should base its plan on the Bible as the revelation of God. One aspect of a ministry plan of a local congregation is the service ministries (διακονία). In this article, I attempt to answer the question what previous exegetical studies by the author and other researchers of the diakon-words in the New Testament could contribute towards the development of a biblically based ministry plan for a local church. The principles for service ministries identified from the results of the previous exegetical work, are presented in an overview and integrated into a plan for service ministries. The conclusion is that the exegetical studies of the διάκον-word group in the New Testament have provided valuable insight into the service ministries and therefore contribute to an overall ministry plan of a congregation.

scholarly journals Messiasverwagting en prediking uit die Ou Testament

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. F. Herrie Van Rooy
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Related Matter ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Reformed Churches ◽  
The Relationship

Messianic expectation and preaching from the Old Testament In the recent past the issue of the Messiah in the Old Testament received a considerable amount of attention in South Africa, especially in the circles of the Gereformeerde Kerke van Suid-Afrika (the Reformed Churches of South Africa). The debate focused on the question regarding the Messiah in the Psalms, due to the new version of the Psalter in Afrikaans, published in 2001. Similar questions were asked concerning the New Afrikaans translation of the Bible (1983). This matter is related to the whole issue regarding the relationship between the Old and the New Testament. This article deals with a related matter, viz. the matter of Christological preaching from the Old Testament. Once it has described the background of the problem, it formulates some important principles and illustrates the application of the principles through the discussion of four examples from the book of Haggai.

The New Testament Language of Quantity and Growth in Relation to the Church

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-399
Author(s):  
Charles R. Taber
Keyword(s):  
Church Growth ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Biblical Perspective ◽  
The Church

In this presidential address given at the 1986 ASM annual meeting, the author seeks in a preliminary way to develop a more responsible view of church growth from a biblical perspective. Contending that some current understandings of church growth are probably illegitimate from a biblical standpoint. Taber examines the scriptural evidence in three areas: God's desire that all be saved, what the New Testament anticipates in terms of concrete results, and various metaphors for growth employed in the Bible. Six hypotheses illustrate the main conclusion: that numerical increase of believers is not the primary understanding of growth in the New Testament.

scholarly journals Konsistensi Konsep Keselamatan adalah Anugerah dalam Masa Intertestamental

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Agustin Soewitomo Putri
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Old Testament ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
God's People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Power Of God

The period between the Old Testament and the New Testament is often referred to as the intertestamental period which is approximately 400 years apart, during which time no prophet appears to be the successor of God's voice. Ended by the prophet Malachi and the book of Chronicles the Bible does not give any record. This certainly raises so many questions as to what happened in that dark age, whether God really did not do anything among God's people, especially the Israelites, while at that time the Israelites had repeatedly experienced good colonization from Persian, Greek or Roman. By using descriptive methods and historical analysis, this discussion will provide an insight into God's faithfulness to His covenant to the people, and how the concept of salvation has not changed even though in the 400 years that God did not speak to His people. Understanding the consistency of the concept of salvation is a gift in intertestamental times will open a new understanding of the power of God in keeping the covenants and His Word.AbstractMasa antara Perjanjian Lama dengan Perjanjian Baru seringkali disebut dengan masa intertesta-men yang berjarak lebih kurang 400 tahun, di mana sepanjang masa tersebut tidak ada nabi yang muncul menjadi penerus suara dari Tuhan. Diakhiri oleh Nabi Maleakhi dan kitab Tawarikh maka Alkitab tidak memberikan catatan apa pun. Hal tersebut tentu memunculkan begitu banyak pertanyaan dengan apa yang terjadi dalam masa kegelapan tersebut, apakah memang Allah betul-betul tidak berbuat sesuatu apapun di tengah-tengah umat Tuhan, khususnya bangsa Israel, sementara pada masa tersebut bangsa Israel berkali-kali mengalami penjajahan baik dari Persia, Yunani ataupun Romawi. Dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif dan analisis historis, pemba-hasan ini akan memberikan pandangan tentang kesetiaan Allah dengan perjanjianNya kepada umat, serta bagaimana konsep keselamatan itu tidak mengalami pergeseran sekalipun dalam keadaan 400 tahun Tuhan tidak berbicara kepada umatNya. Memahami konsistensi konsep keselamatan adalah anugerah dalam masa intertestamental akan membukakan pemahaman baru tentang kekuatan Allah dalam memelihara perjanjian dan FirmanNya.

scholarly journals Do Mark 7:1–23 and Matthew 15:1–20 condone the unusual practices of New Prophetic Pentecostal Churches?

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vuyisile Qiki ◽  
Llewellyn Howes
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Systematic Theology ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Traditional Church ◽  
New Testament Studies ◽  
Pentecostal Churches ◽  
Parallel Texts

The leaders of certain New Prophetic Pentecostal Churches (NPPCs) perform rituals that are very unusual when compared with traditional church rituals and practices. These practices include eating grass, rats or snakes, drinking petrol and spraying Doom on people so that they would be healed and be closer to God. The trend to perform these unusual rituals has spread throughout South Africa. Leaders from NPPCs often quote Mark 7:14–19 and Matthew 15:10–11, 16–18 to justify their actions. In this study, these parallel texts will be considered in their literary and socio-cultural contexts to determine whether or not they can be taken to condone the activities of these church leaders.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: The study will find that Mark 7:14–19 and Matthew 15:10–11, 16–18 either condone or do not condone the unusual activities of NPPCs and their leaders. Either way, the findings will be relevant for New Testament studies, practical theology, religion studies and systematic theology.

scholarly journals Andries van Aarde as historical Jesus scholar

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurie Le Roux
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Kingdom Of God ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
Gospel Of Thomas ◽  
Presence Of God ◽  
The People ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
Infancy Gospel Of Thomas ◽  
The Temple

This article focuses on Andries van Aarde’s work on the historical Jesus and especially his book, Fatherless in Galilee, which made an important contribution to historical Jesus study in South Africa. In the first part of the article Van Aarde’s historical and social approaches are highlighted, his ongoing reflection on the resurrection described and his work on the Infancy Gospel of Thomas accentuated. In the second part we discuss Van Aarde’s depiction of Jesus as someone who grew up fatherless. For Jesus this meant a lifelong struggle against slander and exclusion from the temple and the presence of God. Jesus nevertheless trusted God who filled Jesus’ emptiness. Jesus was baptised and then started a ministry, focusing on the outcasts of society. He preached that the kingdom of God had come and that the people of this kingdom could experience God, as well as forgiveness of sins. Jesus died but arose in the kerygma. The article also refers to the struggle of the authors of the New Testament writings to understand and express the Jesus event.

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