PARTICIPATING SOCIETIES
African Network of Higher Education and Research in Religion, Theology, HIV and AIDS
Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa
Association of Theological Institutions in Southern and Central Africa
Catholic Theological Society of Southern Africa
Church History Society of South Africa
Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians
Ecumenical Theological Education (WCC)
International Society for the Study of African Jewry
New Testament Society of South Africa
Old Testament Society of South Africa
Practical Theology Society of South Africa
Southern African Missiological Society
South African Science and Religion Forum
Southern African Society for Near Eastern Studies
Theological Society of South Africa
United Bible Societies (Africa Area)
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Abbreviations used on the programme
African Network of Higher Education and
Research in Religion, Theology, HIV and
AIDS
Association for the Study of Religion in
Southern Africa
Association of Theological Institutions in
Southern and Central Africal
Catholic Theological Society of Southern
Africa
Church History Society of South Africa
Anhertha
New Testament Society of South Africa
NTSSA
ASRSA
Old Testament Society of South Africa
OTSSA
ATISCA
Practical Theology Society of South
Africa
Southern African Missiological Society
PTSSA
SASREF
Circle of Concerned African Women
Theologians
Ecumenical Theological Education
International. Society for Study of African
Jewry
The Circle
South African Science and Religion
Forum
Southern African Society for Near
Eastern Studies
Theological Society of South Africa
United Bible Societies (Africa Area)
CTSSA
CHSSA
ETE
ISSAJ
2
SAMS
SASNES
TSSA
UBS
Basic Programme Layout
Time
8h30-9h30
9h30-10h30
10h45-11h45
12h00-13h00
14h30-15h30
16h00-17h00
17h15-18h15
18h30-19h30
19h30
Monday
18 June 2012
Session B1
Session B2
Open Plenary 1
Open Plenary 2
Host’s Reception
Tuesday
19 June 2012
Session A1
Session A2
Session A3
Open Plenary 3
Session A4
Session A5
Session B3
Session B4
Session B5
3
Wednesday
20 June 2012
Session A6
Session A7
Session A8
Open Plenary 4
Session A9
Session A10
Session B6
Session B7
Session B8
Thursday
21 June 2012
Session A11
Session A12
Session A13
Open Plenary 5
Session A14
Session A15
Session B9
Friday
22 June 2012
Session A16
Session A17
Session A18
Open Plenary 6
Session B10
Venues
Venue
Dennis Schreiner Lecture Theatre (Main Campus)
Hexagon Theatre
Ronald McMillan Lecture Theatre
A1 New Arts Block
Room 211 New Arts Block
Lutheran Theological Institute Chapel
Room 107 New Arts Block
Room 215 New Arts Block
Room 217 New Arts Block
Lutheran Theological Institute Lecture Theatre
Room 117 New Arts Block
Room 210 New Arts Block
Room 214 New Arts Block
Room 216 New Arts Block
Room 219 New Arts Block
Room 224 New Arts Block
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Abbreviation
DSLT
HexTh
RMcMLT
A1 NAB
211 NAB
LTI Ch
107 NAB
215 NAB
217 NAB
LTI LT
117 NAB
210 NAB
214 NAB
216 NAB
219 NAB
224 NAB
Combined Programme of the Joint Conference of Academic
Societies in the Fields of Religion and Theology
18- 22 June 2012
Registration will be open from 12.00 on Monday 18 June in the foyer of the New Arts Block, in
Golf Road, on the Pietermaritzburg campus of UKZN
Session B1/2 (Monday 18 June 14h30-15h30; 16h00-17h00)
Room
211NAB
(B1)
211NAB
(B2)
107NAB
(B1)
117NAB
(B1)
117NAB
(B2)
Society
PTSSA
Chairperson
Malan Nel
PTSSA
Johan Cilliers
SASNES Johann Cook
Speaker
Institution
Title
Editorial Meeting
Executive Meeting
Herrie van Rooy
NWU
Van Selms Lecture
NTSSA
Pieter Botha
Editorial Board Meeting: Neotestamentica
NTSSA
Gert Steyn
Executive Meeting: New Testament Society of South Africa
5
Open Plenary 1 & 2 (Monday 18 June 17h15-19h30)
Room
HexTh
Society
JCRT
Chairperson
Isabel Phiri
Speaker
Abdulkader Tayob
Institution
UCT
HexTh
JCRT
Gerald West
Madipoane Masenya Unisa
Title
Islam in public life between social context and religious
meaning
African (South) African Women’s Encounter with the Book
of Ruth: An African Woman’s Reflection
Session A1 (Tuesday 19 June 8h30-9h30)
Room
HexTh
Society
Chairperson
The Circle Madipoane
Masenya
RMcMLT SASNES
A1 NAB
Sakkie
Cornelius
Louise Kretzschmar
211 NAB SAMS and Nico Botha
ETE
LTI Ch
TSSA
CHSSA
Mokhele
Theme:
Madise
Township
spirituality
Speaker
Sarojini Nadar and
Isabel Phiri
Institution
UKZN
Title
Charting the paradigm shifts in HIV Research: The
Contribution of Gender and Religion Studies
Hazel Ayanga
Paul Kruger
Moi Univ.,
Kenya
US
Dialogue between Religion and Health in the Context of HIV
and AIDS
On Disaster Scenarios in ancient Near Eastern Wisdom and
Prophetic Literature
PS (Fanie) Vermaak
Robert Vosloo
Unisa
US
The Forty Days Road: Possible Persian Coinage?
Transforming memory and the art of forgetting
Dietrich Werner
WCC
Christina Landman
Unisa
International ecumenical networking and exchange of
resources in theological education: Two innovative
models from the World Council of Churches
Believing and living in Soweto in the 60s and 70s – the
journeys of Malindy Myeza
Philippe Denis
UKZN
6
Faith and politics during the last days of apartheid – the case
of Mpophomeni in the Natal Midlands
107 NAB ASRSA
215 NAB SASREF
217 NAB CTSSA
LTI LT
216 NAB
NTSSA
UBS
Denzil Chetty
Cornel Du
Toit
Quinbert
Kinunda
Gosnell
Yorke
Johannes Smit
Detlev Tönsing
Itumeleng
Mothoagae and
Mokhele Madise
Gerhard van den
Heever
Lilly Nortjé- Rose Nyirimana
Meyer
Aloo Mojola Margaret Muthwii
UKZN
UKZN and
LTI
Unisa
ASRSA President’s Address: Research in Religion
Science and theology: Premises, presuppositions,
prejudgements.
Land is Money: A Developmental sustainability model for
trade integration for Africa’s advancement
Unisa
Christian Discourse and Culture: The Rhetoric of
‘Transcendence’ in the Field of Cultural Production (30 min:
Christian Discourse)
UKZN
The peace-making mother: Reading John 2:1-12 with postgenocide women (30 min – Short Paper)
Bible Translations and Language Policy
UBS
Session A2 (Tuesday 19 June 9h30-10h30)
Room
HexTh
Society
SASREF
RMcMLT SASNES
A1 NAB NTSSA
Chairperson
Klaus
Nürnberger
Johann Cook
Fika van
Rensburg
Speaker
Institution
Johann-Albrecht UP
Meylahn
John Fitzgerald
University of
Miami
Title
The hidden potential of pre-theoretical transversal reasoning
of South Africa’s Rainbow Nation
Business Meeting
The Ancient Mediterranean Wine Industry, Intoxication, and
Various Problems in Early Christian Communities (Keynote
Address)
211 NAB PTSSA
LTI Ch
UBS
107 NAB ASRSA
Johan Cilliers
Boniface Malle Ephraim Baloyi UBS
Johannes Smit Martin Prozesky UKZN
215 NAB The Circle Edwina Ward
Lilian Siwila
PTSSA Business Meeting (1)
Textus Receptus and Critical Editions as Base Texts
John Hick’s Interpretation of Religion Revisited
Seth Mokitimi “If it wasn’t for my grandmother”: An Eco-feminist
Methodist
theological approach to the role of women as preservers and
Seminary
transmitters of indigenous knowledge
7
217 NAB OTSSA
LTI LT
SAMS
216 NAB
TSSA
224 NAB
CHSSA
Theme:
Sunday
schools
Jurie le Roux
UP
Sarel Van der
Akinyemi
Unisa
Merwe
Alawode
Xolani Sakuba Anné Verhoef
NWU
and Mark
Rathbone
Radikobo
Akhona Gxamza UKZN
Ntsimane
Fortune Sibanda
and Richard
Maposa
OTSSA executive meeting
Constructing sustainable socio-economic development
through human migration.
Economic justice and Black Theology in the South Africa
context – toward a dialogical mode of discourse
The emergence and development of the Sunday school in
the Wesleyan tradition in 1920 in the ‘Ciskei’ and
‘Transkei’
University of
Zimbabwe
‘Give us wings to fly’: The Historical development of
Sunday schools in mainline churches in Zimbabwe
Session A3 (Tuesday 19 June 10h45-11h45)
Room
HexTh
Society
SASREF
RMcMLT ATISCA
Chairperson
JohannAlbrecht
Meylahn
Speaker
Klaus Nürnberger
Maake
Masango
James Nathaniel
Amanze
Devison Banda
Institution
UKZN and
UP
Title
Is God necessarily a person? God in Sotho/Tswana religion
(Setiloane), naturalism (Stuart Kauffman), classical Protestant
dogmatics and the biblical faith, seen against the background
of the scientific theory of emergence.
University How prosperous is the prosperity gospel in Africa? A critical
of Botswana analysis of the gospel of wealth from the Marxist perspective
of religion as the opium of the people
Justo
Mwale,
Zambia
8
Poverty and life with dignity
A1 NAB
SASNES
211 NAB SAMS
LTI Ch
SASNES
Paul Kruger
Rothney
Tshaka
Herrie van
Rooy
107 NAB SASNES
Annette
Evans
217 NAB NTSSA
Peter Nagel
LTI LT
The Circle Sarojini
Nadar
117 NAB NTSSA
210 NAB NTSSA
214 NAB NTSSA
Petra
Dijkhuizen
Johannes
Vorster
Pieter de
Villiers
Zacharias Kotzé
NWU
Another look at Jeremiah’s vision of the almond rod (Jer 1:1112)
Alex Andrason
Philemon Beghela
US
Unisa
Johann Cook
US
The dynamic short yiqtol
Migrancy, exile, mission: Missional readings of some
exilic texts in Francophone migrant churches in Pretoria
The dating of the Septuagint of Job
Bruk Ayele
UKZN
A Millennium Translation based on the LXX: A New Bible
Translation in Ethiopian Church and its Controversy
Ideology and Translation Strategy in Muslim-Sensitive Bible
Translations
Cynthia MillerUFS
Naudé and Jacobus
Naudé
Ashraf Dockrat
Japie Malan
UJ
NWU
Beatrice OkyereManu
UKZN
The lahn tradition: An evaluation of the sources
Greek Hereditary Law in Antiquity: A possible sociohistorical
context for diathêkê in Galatians 3:15 (Ancient Economy)
Support groups as a safe space for grandmothers caring for
children orphaned by HIV and AIDS in Pietermaritzburg.
Bongi Zengele and UKZN and
Deborah Mindry
Univ. of
California
Ernest van Eck
UP
Lilly NortjéMeyer
Fabien Nobilio
Support Groups as Critical Sites of Engagement with the Lived
Realities of Human Rights Struggles: A Case Study of
Siyaphila, South Africa
Invitations and Excuses that are not Invitations and Excuses:
Gossip in Luke 14:18-20 (Historical Jesus)
UJ
The production of religious knowledge and the gendered
coding of culture (Gender)
Free Univ. The Lawgiver as Judge? Moses in Heracleon’s and Origen’s
of Brussels Commentary of the Gospel of John (Mysticism)
9
216 NAB ASRSA
224 NAB CHSSA
Theme:
Christian
student
movements
Martin
Prozesky
Christina
Landman
The Orion Cold Storage Saga: Debating ‘Halaal’ in South
Africa
University Christian Movement 1967-1972
Auwais Rafudeen
Unisa
Bill Houston
UKZN
Allen Goddard
UKZN
The role of Hans Ferdinand Burki’s Faith and Theology
during the introduction of the Students Christian
Association’s Discipleship Course Programme
Institution
Unisa
Title
A scientific defence of religion and the religious
accommodation of science? Contextual challenges and
paradoxes
Open Plenary 3 (Tuesday 19 June, 12h00-13h00)
Room
DSLT
Society
JCRT
Chairperson
Detlev Tönsing
Speaker
Cornel du Toit
Session A4 (Tuesday 19 June, 14h30-15h30)
Room
Society
RMcMLT SASNES
A1 NAB
ATISCA
Chairperson
Jacobus Naudé
Eliot Tofa
Speaker
Gideon Kotzé
Institution
US
Title
Lam. 1:8a in the Wordings of the Masoretic Text and 4QLam
Philip Engmann
University
of Ghana
University
of Botswana
Towards a Standardized (OT TC) Old Testament TextCritical Method
The use of the gospel in nation building in Africa: The
Botswana case
Justo
Mwale,
Zambia
The 'Prosperity-Gospel': a Way to Reclaim Dignity?
Obed Kealotswe
Hendrik Tijmen
Kroesbergen,
10
211 NAB SASNES
LTI Ch
CHSSA
Theme:
Religion
and health
107 NAB ASRSA
215 NAB SASREF
217 NAB The Circle
LTI LT
UBS
117 NAB PTSSA
210 NAB
PTSSA
PS (Fanie)
Vermaak
Paul Gundani
Auwais
Rafudeen
Brenda De Wet
Philomena
Mwaura
Sakkie Cornelius
US
BINDING the enemy in Ancient Near Eastern Iconography
Susandra
Claassens
Radikobo
Ntsimane
Unisa
Maintenance provisions in old Babylonian Sippar family
deceased division agreements.
Between the divine and the profane: the struggle regarding
biomedicine in South Africa
Kudzai Biri
University
of
Zimbabwe
Unisa
Michel ClasquinJohnson
Marc Pretorius
Charlene van der
Walt
UKZN
SATS
US
Tsvakai Zhou and UKZN
Isabel Phiri
Ephraim Baloyi Aloo Mojola
UBS
Johann
Cornerstone
Calvin Plaatjes
Meylahn
Elsabé
Ian Nell
US
Kloppers
Ben de Klerk
NWU
11
Health and education in Zimbabwean African Indigenous
Churches: Unmasking the hypocrisy and inadequacies of
theology.
Religion in the Earth’s Children Series of Books by Jean M.
Auel
Science and Religion: Moving Forward into the 21st Century
Is “Being Right” More Important Than “Being Together”?
Exploring the Potential of the Intercultural Bible Reading
Space for Life Giving Dialogue on the Issue of
Homosexuality.
Safe spaces for female ex-prisoners in Harare, Zimbabwe: A
critical analysis from a Feminist Pastoral Care Perspective.
History of Swahili Bible Translations
Africa, a kaleidoscope of meaning: Towards its contribution
to Christianity.
Sleutelmomente in die verhaal van praktiese teologie in
Suid-Afrika: Refleksie aan die hand van Sosiale
Identiteitsteorie
Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu as Living Icons of
Reconciliation in Africa
214 NAB
PTSSA
Joseph Pali
219 NAB
TSSA
Andrew
Warmback
224 NAB
TSSA
Tumelo
Letsoha
Elmo Pienaar and
Julian Müller
Gift Masengwe
Corneille
Nkurunziza
UP
Zimbabwe
Christian
College
UKZN
Reframing the practical theological agenda through the
rediscovering of the practical theologian.
Conservation and the religious space: A religious-ethical–
theological approach to the environment
Pentecostal Spirituality: A Disregarded Cornerstone for the
Contextualisation of African Theologies?
Session A5 (Tuesday 19 June, 16h00-17h00)
Room
HexTh
Society
PTSSA
RMcMLT SASNES
Chairperson
Cas Wepener
Speaker
Institution
Hannelie Yates and NWU and
Ignatius Swart
Unisa
Willem Boshoff Marlene
Mondriaan
Jaco Gericke
A1 NAB
TSSA
211 NAB SASNES
LTI Ch
CHSSA
Theme:
Cultural
heritage
UP
NWU
Beverly Haddad Ernst Conradie
UWC
Johann Cook
Lawrence Lincoln
US
Gudrun Lier
UJ
Pieter Coertzen
US
Michael Sokupa
US
Robert Vosloo
Title
Listening to Africa’s children in the process of practical
theological interpretation: perspectives from a South African
project.
Was Israel in Canaan earlier than Merenptah's inscription?
The supernatural imagery of the Hebrew Bible as a
philosophical mystery
A distinctly South African way of doing theology? In
conversation with Steve de Gruchy
An Analysis of the Use of Metaphorical Language in Targum
Lamentations 1 – 4
An Anonymous Mishna is according to Rabbi Meir: A
Critical Investigation
The heritage of the Huguenots
An analysis of the ritual of circumcision as practiced by
Xhosa-speaking Christians 1970-2011
12
107NAB
CTSSA
215 NAB SASREF
217 NAB NTSSA
Sue Rakoczy
Francisca
Chimhanda
Marc Pretorius Brenda De Wet
Yolanda Dreyer Johannes Wessels
Yolanda Dreyer Patrick Kuwana
and Eduard Lotz
LTI LT
ATISCA
Joseph
Omoregbe
Joachim
Kwaramba
Paul Leshota
117 NAB NTSSA
210 NAB
NTSSA
214 NAB
NTSSA
216 NAB
UBS
219 NAB
TSSA
Rose
Nyirimana
Pieter Craffert
Itumeleng
Mothoagae
Zoro Dube
Olugbenga
Olagunju
Devison Telen
Banda
Lilly NortjeMeyer
Margaret
Muthwii
Louise Kretz-
Johannes Vorster
Anastasia
Boniface Malle
Unisa
African Theology of land: A Shona perspective
UJ
NWU
Quo vadis “Science & Religion Debate”?
A new economic dispensation in the aftermath of Pentecost?
(30 min: Ancient Economy)
NWU
The Economy in Antiquity and present day African
Economies: A practical Perspective (30 min: Ancient
Economy)
University of Charles Charamba, a gospel musical evangelist: A critical
Zimbabwe
analysis of the reception and influence of his music in and
beyond Zimbabwe’s social situations
National
University of
Lesotho
Unisa
Unisa
Justo
Mwale,
Zambia
Unisa
UBS
Unisa
13
Theology from below and theology from above: In search of
the Fullness of Life of dignity in the Midst of Demonic
Possession and Witchcraft in Lesotho
Bogadi: The cultural, religious, political, and economic
implications of the practice (Pauline)
The Death and Resurrection of Jesus: A Cultural Trauma
Approach (30 min: Short Paper)
Jesus the Mediator (30 min: Short Paper)
Feminism, Foucault and his Toolbox in Doing Gender
Criticism (Gender)
Hebrew Bible and Swahili Translations
Teaching Applied Ethics in the South African context:
schmar
224 NAB
Anhertha
Edwina Ward
Adamu Addisie
EGST
Session 1 and 2: With inputs by Louise Kretzschmar,
Willem Fourie & Wessel Bentley
Theology and Public Health from an African Perspective
Session B3 (Tuesday 19 June, 17h15-18h15)
Room
Society
RMcMLT PTSSA
Chairperson
Malan Nel
Speaker
Johan Cilliers
Institution
US
211 NAB SAMS
Xolile Simon
Nico Botha
Unisa
215 NAB SASREF
Wessel Bentley David Spangenberg
117 NAB
210 NAB
214 NAB
216 NAB
SASNES Gideon Kotzé
SASNES
SASNES
TSSA
Jaco Gericke
Marlene
Mondriaan
Corneille
Nkurunziza
Willem Boshoff
Unisa
Annette Evans
UFS
David Tuesday
Adamo
Kogi State
University
Temba Rugwiji
Unisa
Ignatius Gous
Unisa
Jennifer Roberts
Unisa
Tumelo Letsoha
Unisa
14
Title
Between Fragments and Fullness: Worshipping in the InBetween Spaces of Africa
Towards a theology of migration: on the dialectic of margins
and marginality in mission
“Knowing, believing, living in Africa: perspectives from the
angles of religion, theology and science”
Biblical Archaeology Redivivus? Taking stock of new
directions in Biblical Archaeology
Child Evangelism in a Postmodern, Scientific,
Technological, and Multicultural Context
A Nameless African Woman (Potiphar’s Wife Gen. 39)
and her Contribution to Ancient Israel
Reading Numbers 31:17–18 as sanctioning rape of minors:
A pastoral hermeneutical perspective
Minds at loss – a cognitive linguistic assessment of
perceived threats in the book of Lamentations
Ministering Minds – into the minds of those we have taught
and might still be teaching
The consequences of apartheid theology for critical
theological reflection in present day South Africa
219 NAB
TSSA
Louise Kretzschmar
224 NAB
TSSA
Martin
Laubscher
Unisa
Jacob Meiring
Free
University
Amsterdam
Teaching Applied Ethics in the South African context:
Session 1 and 2: With inputs by Louise Kretzschmar,
Willem Fourie & Wessel Bentley
Theology in the flesh – perceptions of the body in
Christianity and in sub-Saharan Africa
Session B4 (Tuesday 19 June, 18h30-19h30)
Room
Society
A1 NAB PTSSA
215 NAB SASREF
Chairperson
Johan Cilliers
David
Spangenberg
Speaker
Institution
Wessel Bentley
Unisa
Title
PTSSA Business Meeting (2)
The problem of reality in the faith-science discourse: An
African-Christian contribution.
Session A6 (Wednesday 20 June, 8h30-9h30)
Room
HexTh
Society
The Circle
Chairperson
Isabel Phiri
Speaker
Elna Mouton
Institution
US
Title
Teaching a pastoral ‘text of terror’ in an African context?
Gender perspectives on God and humanity in 1 Timothy 2.
Rose Nyirimana,
UKZN
The Peacemaking Role of the Samaritan Woman in John 4:142: A Mirror and Challenge to Rwandan Women.
“From Babylon to Elephantine”: The Ancient Near East as
the “horizon of understanding” of the Old Testament.
Public Theology – and Social Transformation? A Critical
Receptional Analysis
A critical appraisal of family ministry as developed by
Charles M Sell and Ben Freudenburg
RMcMLT OTSSA
Hennie Viviers
Sakkie Cornelius
US
A1 NAB
Nico Koopman
Clint le Bruyns
UKZN
Anita Cloete
Malan Nel
UP
Jaco Dreyer
Unisa
TSSA
211 NAB PTSSA
15
Spirituality and school leadership in Catholic private schools
LTI Ch
CHSSA
Itumeleng
Theme:
Mothoagae
Christianity
in Kenya
in South Africa: an example of interdisciplinary practical
theological research
Interfaith dialogue and the promotion of good governance in
Kenya’s coastal region: a historical perspective
Stephen Joshua
Pwani
University
College
Julius Gathogo
Some challenges in founding an African faith: sampling
Mutira mission, Kenya, 1907-2012
New Apostolic Reformation in South Africa: A NeoPentecostal Movement or a Post-Pentecostal Phenomenon?
Michel
ClasquinJohnson
Petra
Dijkhuizen
Irvin Chetty
Kenyatta
University
Fort Hare
Pieter Botha
Unisa
Concepts of memory in recent historical Jesus studies (30
min: Short paper)
Ernest van Eck
Peter Nagel
Nelus
Niemandt
Andries Buffel
UP and
Unisa
Unisa
117 NAB NTSSA
Marius Nel
Olugbenga
Olagunju
Nigerian
Baptist
Theol. Sem.
Mk 4:12 – key in understanding the Markan gospel as a
‘parable’ (30 min: Short paper)
Mission as liberation in socio-economic and political
contexts: towards a contextual and liberating theology of
mission
Is there a center for New Testament Theology? (30 min:
Short paper)
Babatunde
Ogunbanwo
Markus
Cromhout
Nigeria
210 NAB
Devison Telen
Banda
Paul Decock
107 NAB ASRSA
217 NAB NTSSA
LTI LT
SAMS
NTSSA
Unisa
16
Jesus in our Place: a socio- scientific reading of Luke 17: 1119 in the Yoruba context (30 min: Short paper)
“For the healing of the nations”: Israelite Versus Roman
Ethnic Identity in the Book of Revelation (30 min: Short
paper)
214 NAB
ETE
Kobus Kok
Kenneth Mtata
Nico Botha
Dietrich Werner
Lutheran
World
Federation,
Geneva
WCC-ETE
Theological anthropology and Agency in the Gospel of
John (30 min: Short paper)
Institution
Great
Zimbabwe
University
Title
Beating swords into ploughshares?: A Theological Reconsideration on the Role of the Zimbabwe Council of
Churches (ZCC) in National Healing and Reconciliation in
Zimbabwe
Theological Education in the Changing Context of World
Christianity – an Unfinished Task
Session A7 (Wednesday 20 June, 9h30-10h30)
Room
HexTh
Society
ATISCA
Chairperson
James Amanze
Speaker
Richard Maposa
and Fortune
Sibanda
Dummie
Mmualefe
RMcMLT OTSSA
Hennie Viviers
University
of
Botswana
Makosi Nzimande UKZN
A1 NAB
Ernest van Eck
Johannes Vorster
Unisa
Sinenhlanhla
Ngwenya
Philippe Denis
Steven Hayes
Paul Gundani
Greek
Orthodox
Unisa
Fernando da Silva
Unisa
NTSSA
211 NAB SAMS
LTI Ch
CHSSA
Theme:
Christianity
in Southern
17
Crossing the imaginary lines: The Gospel and humanness
From “pedagogy of the oppressed” and the voiceless to
“pedagogy of freedom:” In Dialogue with the Old Testament
retributive world view.
Using the body as strategy of socio-economic exchange in the
Graeco-Roman world (Ancient Economy)
Migrants, Mission and Theological Education
Advocating for justice and peace in a period of crisis: Faithbased NGO in Zimbabwe (2000-2010)
The role of religious liberty commission on religious freedom
Africa
107 NAB ASRSA
215 NAB ISSAJ
in Angola
A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Hindu Philosophy: The
Role of Metaphor and Framing in Conceptualizing Divinity
within the Advaita Vedanta School of Thought in Light of
Swami Vivekananda’s Teachings
African and African Heritage Jewry in Global Context:
Modernist and Western Framing of Encounters and Academic
Research
Irvin Chetty
Suren Naicker
Unisa
Magdel Le
Roux
Marla
Brettschneider
Univ. New
Hampshire
USA
Eva Shaw-Taylor
Inst.
The Voicelessness of Black Judaism
Diasporan
and African
Culture
USA
St Joseph’s Strengths and Weaknesses of Internet Research in Cultural
and Contextual Studies Relating to Theology
UKZN
Handbook on Theological Education in Africa: A gift to
future generations
US
Jonathan Edwards and Justification: Living Traditions,
Ecumenical Dialogue, and Global Theology
UP
Broadening our vocabulary: Towards a South African
theology of sustainability
UKZN
Marriage a ‘Potential Death Trap’ for Women in subSaharan Africa: Towards A Bold Community Praxis in
Reducing HIV Infection Amongst Married Women
217 NAB CTSSA
Alan Henriques Stuart Bate
214 NAB
ETE
216 NAB
TSSA
Dietrich
Werner
Robert Vosloo
219 NAB
TSSA
Ernst Conradie
224 NAB
TSSA
Bev Haddad
Isabel Phiri
Jonathan
Huggings
Willem Fourie
Anniegrace
Hlatywayo
18
Session A8 (Wednesday 20 June, 10h45-11h45)
Room
HexTh
Society
The Circle
Chairperson
Lilian Siwila
Speaker
Molly Longwe
Institution
UKZN
Title
Pastor’s Wife Identity Construction: The ‘Dialogical Self’
Esther Lubunga
UKZN
UP
Not Women Anymore: The Cry of the Survivors of Sexual
Violence in the Eastern Congo
The nature of Old Testament scholarship and what it
comprises.
Doing Theological Education from the Context of
Migration in Southern Africa:
A Theology of
Reconstruction in Missiological Perspective “I was a
stranger, and you invited me in…” (Matthew 25:35).
A Blended Approach to Teaching and Learning in Religious
Studies: An African Perspective (Panel Discussion)
RMcMLT OTSSA
Hennie Viviers
Dirk Human
211 NAB SAMS and
ETE
Robert Lang’at
Chammah Kaunda UKZN
107 NAB ASRSA
Suren Naicker
215 NAB ISSAJ
John Jackson
Denzil Chetty,
Garth Mason and
Michel ClasquinJohnson
Ahmadiel Ben
Yehuda
LTI LT
Jo David
Detlev Tönsing Sam Tshehla
SASREF
117 NAB PTSSA
Ian Nell
André De La
Porte, Alida
Herbst and
Annemie Janssen
Unisa
African
Hebrew
Israelites
Israel
USA
Unisa
The Jewish Identity Crisis: “At the Crossroads of Lithuania
and Limpopo”
In Order to Form a More Perfect Union
From Africa with Dignity: Is Africa’s immense religiosity at
best justifiable and/or at worst unavoidable?
HospiVision Exploring African Interpretations of the Core Values of the
NWU
Choose Life Training Programme
NWU
19
210 NAB
PTSSA
Maake
Masango
214 NAB
PTSSA
Kobus
Schoeman
216 NAB
TSSA
Robert Vosloo
224 NAB
CHSSA
Theme:
DRC and
apartheid
Pieter
Coertzen
Gertrud Tönsing
UKZN
“Forming identity through Song.” How our songs in
worship shape our theological identity. A study of Lutheran
hymns and how they shaped German descendent Lutheran
congregations
Elsabé Kloppers
Unisa
Marilyn Naidoo
Unisa
The influence of singing hymns and songs on the formation
of identity
An empirical study on spiritual formation at Protestant
theological training institutions in South Africa
Anita Cloete
Martin
Laubscher
Linda Naicker
US
UFS
Mary-Anne
Plaatjies van
Huffel
US
Unisa
Spiritual formation as the focus of Youth Ministry
On Reading some of Karl Barth’s Sermons in South Africa
Today
DRC and inter-racial marriage
The Belhar confession: Born in the struggle against
apartheid in Southern Africa, guiding light today
Open Plenary 4 (Wednesday 20 June, 12h00-13h00)
Room
DSLT
Society
JCRT
Chairperson
Philippe
Denis
Speaker
Afe Adogame
Institution
University
of
Edinburgh
20
Title
Questing for the Good Things in Life: The Public Face of
new African Christianities.
Session A9 (Wednesday 20 June, 14h30-15h30)
Room
HexTh
Society
PTSSA
RMcMLT OTSSA
A1 NAB
OTSSA
211 NAB OTSSA
Chairperson
Speaker
Yolanda Dreyer Suzanne
Kleynhans,
Hennie Pieterse
and Cas Wepener
Hans van
Knut Holter
Deventer
Eben Scheffler
Institution
UP
Title
Multi-cultural worship in Pretoria. A ritual-liturgical case
study.
Stavanger,
Norway.
“The poor” in ancient Israel and in African Old Testament
studies.
Willem Boshoff
Unisa
Huli
Ramantswana
Unisa
Moderne apologete, populêre godsdiens en die
godsdiensgeskiedenis van ou Israel en sy bure.
Day Two of Creation: Why is the Rāqî‘a not Pronounced
Good?
Marlene
Mondriaan
Douglas Lawrie David Adamo
Caleb Ogunkunle
LTI Ch
CHSSA
Retief Müller
Theme:
DRC and
Belhar
confession
Robert Vosloo
Leslie Van Rooi
UP
Kogi State
University,
Nigeria
The influence of Ugarit on the understanding of the Hebrew
Bible.
The Poor in the Books of Psalmist and in the Yoruba
(Nigerian) Traditions.
University of Man’s wickedness and God’s goodness: A theological study
Ilorin, Nigeria of the oppressed in the Psalter in Nigerian context.
US
The reception of the Belhar Confession in the Dutch
Reformed Church
US
Confessing the faith: The impact of the Belhar Confession
on the Church Order of the Uniting Reformed Church in
Southern Africa.
21
107 NAB ASRSA
Maniraj
Sukdaven
Paul Faller
215 NAB ISSAJ
Tudor Parfitt
Shalva Weil
Edith Bruder
217 NAB NTSSA
LTI LT
SASREF
117 NAB NTSSA
210 NAB
NTSSA
Catholic
Institute of
Education
Hebrew
University,
Israel
Religion and Education: Holding the Tension – Revisiting
the Place of Religion in the South African Public School
Curriculum
Black but not so Beautiful: The case of Ethiopian Jews
The Igbo: The Jews of Africa. From Igbo Ethnogenesis to
Hebrew Ethnogenesis.
The changing face of poverty from Old to New Testament
times (30 min: Short paper)
Conflict and Religion - Secularity as a standard for authentic
religion
Partial universality in the book of Acts (30 min: Short paper)
Francois
Viljoen
Marius Nel
SOAS
CNRS
UK France
US
Jonathan
Draper
Gys Loubser
Bill Domeris
SATS
Michael Shutte
UCT
McGlory
Speckman
Abiola Mbamalu
NWU
Erastus Jonker
UP
Chris de Wet
Ronald van der
Bergh
Lydia Mwaniki
Jeremy Punt
Gosnell Yorke
UKZN and
Kenya
UKZN
The forgiveness of debt in the fifth petition of the Lord's
Prayer (30 min: Short paper)
Reflections on the βάρβαροι of Acts 28:1-6 (30 min: Short
paper)
Reading Paul Sympathetically: From a Hermeneutic of
Suspicion to a Hermeneutic of Reconstruction (1 Cor 11:116) (30 min: Short paper)
A Call for Greater Diligence and Vigilance in the
Translation of the New Testament: The Corinthian
Correspondence as a Case in Point (30 min: Short paper)
22
214 NAB
216 NAB
SAMS
TSSA
Reggie Nel
Clint le
Bruyns
Hannes Knoetze
Stephen Martin
219 NAB
224 NAB
TSSA
TSSA
Sue Rakoczy
Bev Haddad
Ernst Conradie
Rowanne Marie
NWU
King’s
University
College
UWC
UKZN
Missional Diaconate: Hope for migrated people
“Church for Others”: An Eschatologically-Attuned
Theology of Public Life and the Witness of the Anglican
Church in Southern Africa
Klaus Nürnberger’s Regaining sanity for the Earth
Towards a gendered theology of work: A case study of the
paid and unpaid work experiences of Indian Christian
Women in Pietermaritzburg
Session A10 (Wednesday 20 June, 16h00-17h00)
Room
Society
RMcMLT OTSSA
Chairperson
Hans van
Deventer
A1 NAB
Eben Scheffler
OTSSA
211 NAB OTSSA
Speaker
Gerald West
Institution
UKZN
Title
Exegesis seeking appropriation: reading 2 Samuel 13:1-22 in
search of redemptive masculinties.
Ig Gous
Unisa
Mathews Shabele LTI
Caught in the Act ... Exegesis as an act of reading.
Comparing Mourning Rites in (of) the Ancient Near East and
Israel with Bakgatla ba Mocha of Marapyane.
Eraste Nyirimana UKZN
No peace for the poor when the powerful wants war: a
dialogue between the social structures of monarchic Israel
and the African nation state.
Deutoronomy 18: 18-22 and the notion on the Black Messiah
in the Nazareth Baptist Church.
Douglas Lawrie Nkosinati Sithole UKZN
Olugbenga
Olagunju
Nigeria
A Study of 1 Samuel 19:18-24 in the African Context.
Baptist Theol
Sem
23
LTI Ch
CHSSA
Annual
meeting
107 NAB ASRSA
215 NAB ISSAJ
Johannes Smit
Tudor Parfitt
217 NAB SAMS
Karabo
Makofane
LTI LT
Michael Shutte
SASREF
117 NAB PTSSA
Calvin Plaatjes
210 NAB
PTSSA
Anita Cloete
214 NAB
PTSSA
Gerhard
Bothma
224 NAB Anhertha
Adamu
Addissie
Aurélien Mokoko CNRS/
Gampiot
EHESS
France
ASRSA Board Meeting
The Transnational Dynamics of Black Jews in France
Mesfin Assefa
Robert Lang’at
Ethiopia
Revitalization of Bet-Avraham Jews in Ethiopia
Africa Gospel Taking the City by Storm: How Rural Based Evangelical
Church, Kenya Churches Established their Presence in the City of
Nairobi, Kenya
Gys Loubser
US
Shared Resources of Rational Agents: Van Huyssteen’s
Postfoundationalist Facilitation of Interdisciplinarity
Eddie Orsmond
US
Church and community development: Towards a Practical
Theological Framework
Petria Theron
NWU
Chipapata, Fátima and Jacinto’s narratives on the impact of
Christian education on their lives in Mozambique
Madelein Fourie NWU
Middelloopbaan-ontwikkeling deur spirituele
lewenstylafrigting: ‘n interdissiplinêre gesprek
Stella Potgieter
NWU
Maryann
Mwangi Theuri
SPILL
24
Pedoseksualiteit as manifestasie van afwykende
seksualiteit: ʼn pastorale uitdaging
Discordance in Couples: A Socio-theological Discourse
Session B6 (Wednesday 20 June, 17h15-18h15)
Room
HexTh
Society
NTSSA
Chairperson
Subgroup
Chairs
RMcMLT OTSSA
A1 NAB TSSA
Jurie le Roux
Louise
Kretzschmar
Chammah
Kaunda
211 NAB SAMS
CHSSA
Annual
meeting
215 NAB ISSAJ
Speaker
Institution
UP
Andries Louw
UP
Title
Business Meetings: Subgroups
 Ancient Economy
 Historical Jesus
 Pauline Studies
 Mysticism in Johannine Literature
 Gender & Hermeneutics
 Christian Discourse & Culture
OTSSA Business meeting
TSSA Business meeting
Migrant labour and a theology of land: a theological
framework for Christian faith communities in Southern
Africa
LTI Ch
217 NAB ATISCA
Shalva Weil
Lovemore
Togarasei
Univ. of
Pennsylvania
USA
Hebron Ndlovu, University of
Swaziland
Why the Blackness of Jesus Does and Doesn’t Matter: AntiRacialism and Anti-Religiosity among the African Hebrew
Israelites of Jerusalem
The Gospel, charismatic churches and the bashing of African
Religion in Swaziland: an ecumenical concern
Joseph
Omoregbe
The role of the Gospel of Christ in Africa’s search for unity
John Jackson
National
University of
Lesotho
25
Session B7 (Wednesday 20 June, 18h30-19h30)
Room
A1 NAB
Society
TSSA
Chairperson
Louise
Kretzschmar
Speaker
Institution
Title
TSSA Business meeting
Session A11 (Thursday 21 June, 8h30-9h30)
Room
HexTh
Chairperson
Gerrie Snyman
Speaker
Hendrik Bosman
Institution
US
RMcMLT SASREF
Mogomme
Alpheus
Masoga
Errol Narain
A1 NAB TSSA
211 NAB SAMS
Ernst Conradie
Andries Louw
Rian Venter
Reggie Nel and
Karabo Makofane
Trinity
Episcopal
Church,
Chicago,
USA
UFS
Unisa
LTI Ch
Society
OTSSA
CHSSA
Stephen Joshua
Theme:
South
African
Catholicism
107 NAB ASRSA
Garth Mason
215 NAB ISSAJ
ISSAJ
Anthony Egan
Jesuit
Institute, Jhb
Alan Henriques
St Joseph’s
Title
The historical understanding of the Old Testament in South
Africa: From Colenso to Le Roux and beyond.
Fundamentalism, Creationism, Biblicism and the Intelligent
Design theory in South Africa
Thinking about God today: Are there new possibilities?
Towards an African Reformed Praxis in Mission and
Theological Education, as response to Migration,
Afrophobia and Xenophobia in Southern Africa. In
dialogue with Northern Theological Seminary.
How Vatican II renewed South African Catholicism – as
perceived by The Southern Cross 1962-1968.
The evolution of seminary teaching on indigenous
marriages and its application to the South African scene:
from 1948 until the present time.
Patricia Chetty and Eastern Cape Factors Influencing the Choice of Religion Studies as a
Irvin Chetty
and Fort Hare Subject in the FET Band
ISSAJ board meeting
26
217 NAB NTSSA
LTI LT
The Circle
Marcus
Cromhout
Margaret Mollett
Unisa
Apocalypticism and Popular Culture In South Africa: An
Overview and Update (30 min: Christian discourse)
Elijah
Mahlangu
Irvin Chetty
Fort Hare
Elna Mouton
Thokozile Phiri
and Isabel Phiri
UKZN
The ‘New Apostolic Reformation’ in South Africa: Some
Hermeneutical Reflections from a New Testament
perspective (30 min: Short paper)
An investigation of religious and cultural influences on
fertility behaviour among university students at Howard
College, UKZN-Durban.
Chammah Kaunda UKZN
117 NAB NTSSA
Erastus Jonker
214 NAB NTSSA
Ronald van der
Bergh
Hansie
Wolmarans
Chris de Wet
216 NAB TSSA
Wessel Bentley
Dion Forster
219 NAB TSSA
Gabriel Nduye
Thulani Ndlazi
210 NAB NTSSA
Paul Decock
Michael Sokupa
Towards an African Theological Education for Gender
Justice and Peace: An African Theological Reflection on
the Concept of Just-Peace
UP and Unisa P. Oxy 840 and the Gospel according to the Hebrews
(Historical Jesus)
UKZN
Between the Whore and the Bride: Apocalypse 17-22:
Listening to Feminist Readings (Mysticism)
Helderberg
Calendric elements in the letter to the Galatians: A Ritual
College
analysis in conversation with the exegetical community
(Pauline)
US
Social and political justice as mission in the theology and
practice of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
Church Land Transforming Theologies from the Margins
Programme
Session A12 (Thursday 21 June, 9h30-10h30)
Room
HexTh
Society
OTSSA
Chairperson
Gerrie Snyman
Speaker
Institution
Sakkie Spangenberg Unisa
27
Title
Reading the Old Testament in the 21st century.
RMcMLT PTSSA
Johan Cilliers
Workshop
UFS/US
The critical interaction between small congregations and
rural communities – six case studies within the South
African context.
Zack Pienaar
UFS
Die missionale bemagtiging van VGKSA gemeentes in die
Vrystaat
Joseph Pali
UFS
The role of transformational leadership in the Dutch
Reformed Church in Africa congregations
H Jurgens Hendriks US
Die interaksie tussen plattelandse gemeentes en die
gemeenskap in die Wes-Kaap
Kobus Schoeman
UFS
The interaction between small rural congregations and the
community in the Southern Free State.
Carin van
Schalkwyk
UFS
Rural congregations and communities in the southern Free
Sate.
Ernst Conradie
Danie Mouton
Eddy Van der
Borght
Rural congregations and communities in the eastern Cape.
South African Contextual theologies and the global debate
on social cohesion and identities
211 NAB SAMS
Hannes
Knoetze
Sinenhlanhla
Ngwenya
US
Free
University
Amsterdam
Unisa
LTI Ch
Oupa
Lebeloane
Mokhele Madise
A1 NAB
TSSA
CHSSA
Theme: SA
Methodism
Unisa
28
Lord where do I belong: Unaccompanied Refugee
Minors from Zimbabwe in South Africa in the face of
HIV and AIDS, a call for a Pastoral Response.
Obedience ’81 a turning point in the history of the
Methodist Church of Southern Africa or an illusion?
Thomas Ninan
UKZN
107 NAB ASRSA
Irvin Chetty
Cherry Muslim
UKZN
215 NAB ISSAJ
Shalva Weil
Magdel Le Roux
Unisa,
South
Africa
Positive people as change agents in bringing about
transformation to church responses to HIV and AIDS:
lessons from experience of Hillcrest Methodist Church
during the period 1991-2001.
Teaching and Learning in Religion and Development
(RELG102)
Lemba Traditions: An Indispensable Tool for Teaching
and Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa
Tudor Parfitt
LTI LT
ATISCA
University (De)-Constructing Jews
of Florida,
USA
Hendrik Tijmen Ruele, Moji. Africa University
How do the teachings of the Gospel relate to the SocioKroesbergen
of Botswana economic and political matters of our time?
Tabona Shoko
117 NAB The Circle
210 NAB
TSSA
219NAB
CHSSA
Theme:
Contempor
ary belief
systems
Madipoane
Masenya
Thulani
Ndlazi
Mary-Anne
Plaatjies van
Huffel
University
of
Zimbabwe
Gospel and culture: contextualising the Bible among the
Shona in Zimbabwe
The Circle Business Meeting.
Gabriel Nduye
UKZN
Victor Molobi
Unisa
Itumeleng
Mothoagae
Unisa
29
An African life sustaining eco-theological framework:
Tilling and keeping the earth in the context of climate
change
The influence of unity in the WCC and the OAIC in
terms of their belief systems
The challenges and contributions of Black Theology
today
224 NAB
CHSSA
Theme:
South
African
Methodism
Julius
Gathogo
Peter Grassow
Seth
Mokitimi
Methodist
Seminary
1820 settlers, open spaces, and theology
Emmanuel Gabriel
UKZN
150 years of Methodism amongst Indians in Natal: Role
of the laity
Session A13 (Thursday 21 June, 10h45-11h45)
Room
HexTh
Society
OTSSA
RMcMLT PTSSA
Johan Cilliers
Speaker
Fanie Snyman and
Danie Veldsman
Workshop
A1 NAB
LTI Ch
Willem Fourie
Aloo Mojola
Janet Trisk
Ephraim Baloyi
Michel
ClasquinJohnson
Shalva Weil
Beverley
Vencatsamy
TSSA
UBS
107 NAB ASRSA
215 NAB ISSAJ
Chairperson
Gerrie Snyman
Institution Title
UFS and UP The tense relationship between Old Testament
scholarship and systematic theology.
UFS/US
The critical interaction between small congregations and
rural communities – six case studies within the South
African context. (Continued from A12)
UKZN
Hope’s daughters – a beautiful alternative to violence
UBS
Bible Translations and Biblical Canons: towards a single
canon?
UKZN
Introducing Religion
Jaap van Slageren
Protestant
Jewish Influences in Africa
University
of Brussels,
Belgium
Jay Waronker
Univ.of
Adelaide
Australia
30
The Synagogues of the Black African Communities: The
Architecture, History, Context and Meanings
217 NAB PTSSA
LTI LT
SASREF
117 NAB The Circle
210 NAB
214 NAB
ATISCA
The Circle
Ben De Klerk
Errol Narain
Bongi Zengele
Obed
Kealotswe
Beatrice
Okyere-Manu
Lutricia Snell and
Wentzel Coetzer
NWU
A Practical-Theological perspective on corruption:
towards a solution-based approach in practice
Amanda du Plessis
and Gert Breed
Mogomme Alpheus
Masoga
NWU
Lindiwe Mkasi and
Isabel Phiri
UKZN
A Multidisciplinary Approach in Seeking a Possible
Solution for Corruption in South Africa
Engagement with Gabriel Molehe Setiloane’s Motho ke
Modimo theological discourse: What become key lessons
learnt?
“A threat to Zulu patriarchy and the continuation of
community”: Same sex relationships amongst Female
Traditional Healers at Inanda and KwaNgcolosi,
Kwa-Zulu Natal.
Kennedy Owino
UKZN
Joseph Thipa
Zomba
Theological
College,
Malawi
Eliot Tofa and
Moses Tofa
University
of
Swaziland
UKZN
Albert Bangirana
DBSA
The “Esau Man?” or a Return to “Godly Manhood?”:
Negotiating the Male position in Masculinity Crisis
among Evangelical Men
The gospel compels African believers to do others
justice
Some remarks on the teachings of Jesus as a symbol of
peace and security
Overcoming the odds to create a safe and sacred space
Women are human! Who has a problem with that? –
Outlining deepened hegemonic systems of patriarchy
and kuriarchy of our times
Mashudu Phaliso
31
216 NAB
TSSA
Sue Rakoczy
Selina Palm
US
219 NAB
TSSA
Xolani Sakuba
Gift Masengwe
224 NAB
Anhertha
and The
Circle
Maryann
Mwangi
Edwina Ward
Zimbabwe
Christian
College
Anhertha
and UKZN
Transforming hope? A theological-ethical exploration of
the role of hope in social transformation
Is there a distinctly African Theology? A critical look at
the contributions of African philosophy to theology and
theological reflection in Africa
Challenges Facing Christian Health : Forced and
Coerced Sterilization of Women Living with HIV
Open Plenary 5 (Thursday 21 June, 12h00-13h00)
Room
DSLT
Society
JCRT
Chairperson
Jannie Smit
Speaker
Simanga Kumalo
Institution
UKZN
Title
Facts and Fiction in the Development of Church and
State Relations in a Democratic South Africa.
Institution
UP
Title
A network society, social media, migration and
mission
The Pentecostal gospel of prosperity in Africa: to enrich
or to impoverish?
Session A14 (Thursday 21 June, 14h30-15h30)
Room
HexTh
Society
SAMS
Chairperson
Steven Hayes
Speaker
Nelus Niemandt
A1 NAB
ATISCA
Paul Leshota
Lovemore Togarasei University of
Botswana
Edwin Zulu
211 NAB PTSSA
Marilyn Naidoo
Jan-Albert van den
Berg
Justo Mwale
Zambia
UFS
32
Removing the “Cultural Masks”: Can the gospel be a
tool for emancipation in Africa?
Knowing, believing, living in Africa…. Decision
making in the locus theologicus of the annus virtualis.
A biographical theologia habitus of discernment
LTI
Chapel
CHSSA
Theme:
AIC
Victor Molobi
Retief Müller
US
Popular belief in South African Christianity,
historiography, and human dignity (AIC)
107 NAB ASRSA
Paul Faller
Oupa Lebeloane
Richard Maposa
Unisa
Great
Zimbabwe
217 NAB NTSSA
John Fitzgerald
Fika van Rensburg
NWU
The use of divination bones as enculturation
Religious Pluralism and Human Rights in Schools: A
Reconsideration of the Multi-Faith Approach in
Zimbabwe
Being ransomed by God into his household:
Interpreting the ransom image in 1 Peter 1:18-19 within
the economic context of its author and addressees (30
min: Ancient Economy)
Gert Steyn
Mzonzima Gwala
Helderberg
College
LTI LT
SASREF
117 NAB NTSSA
Cornel du Toit
Michael Sokupa
Jeremy Punt
US
210 NAB
NTSSA
Paul Decock
Hansie Wolmarans
UJ
214 NAB
NTSSA
Petra
Dijkhuizen
Nickolas Roubekas
216 NAB
TSSA
Robert Vosloo
Simon Jooste
Alexandria
Centre for
Hellenistic
Studies,
Egypt
US
219 NAB
TSSA
Ernst Conradie
Andrew Warmback
UKZN
33
Romans 1:17 as an intertextuality of Habakkuk 2:4 (30
min: Short paper)
SASREF Business Session
‘The Others’ in Galatians: Texts and the
negotiation of identity ( Pauline )
The Whore and the Holy One. Male and Female in
John’s Revelation, and “Thunder, Perfect Mind.”
(Gender)
Which Euhemerism will You Use? Celsus on the
Divine Nature of Jesus (Historical Jesus)
Improving upon Calvin’s legacy for church life in a
liberal democracy?
Constructing a theology of climate change: Twenty
key elements of a contextual theology of climate
224 NAB
TSSA
Clint le Bruyns
change in the light of Rio + 20
Sacrifice and Economic Justice
Johan Pieters
Session A15 (Thursday 21 June, 16h00-17h00)
Room
HexTh
Society
NTSSA
Chairperson
Elna Mouton
Speaker
Sebastian Fuhrmann
RMcMLT SAMS
Philemon
Beghela
Xolile Simon
Institution
University of
Münster
US
A1 NAB
Hazel Ayanga
Innocent Iyakaremye
UKZN
Bridget MasaitiMukuka
UKZN
Gordon Dames
Unisa
Johan Klaasen
UWC
Anton Binneman
UP
Roger Tucker
UFS
The Circle
216 NAB
PTSSA
219 NAB
PTSSA
224 NAB
PTSSA
Maake
Masango
Rantoa
Letsosa
Vhumani
Magezi
34
Title
Economic Implications in the Acta Martyrum (Ancient
Economy)
Institutionalising
Hospitality,
Encountering
Migrants in Religiously Diverse Contexts: Mapping
identity-bridging social and religious capital models
of denominations
A Critical Reflection from a Gendered Perspective on
the Relevance of Wesleyan Healthcare Ministry in
Wesleyan Churches’ Response to HIV and AIDS.
Transforming rituals and teachings of Mutima Church
of Zambia into a safe space for women
Knowing, Believing, Living in Africa: A Practical
theology perspective of the Past, Present and Future
African tradition as locus for moral formation in post
modernity
Death Where is Thy Sting, We Make of You a Coffin
Car!
Education & Evolution: The problems and
opportunities provided by the recent introduction of
the teaching of Evolution at High School Level in
South Africa.
Session A16 (Friday 22 June, 8h30-9h30)
Room
HexTh
Society
NTSSA
Chairperson
Speaker
Hermie van Zyl Chris de Wet
Institution
Unisa
Knut Holter
Jurie le Roux
UP
NWU
TSSA
Ernst Conradie
Lehlohonolo
Bookholane
Nico Koopman
211 NAB SAMS
Andries Buffel
Rothney Tshaka
Unisa
107 NAB OTSSA
Hendrik
Bosman
Douglas Lawrie
UWC
Ananda GeyserFouche
UP
Emmanuel Usue
Benue State
University,
Nigeria
The powers behind Chronicles in contrast to the powers
behind the Qumran community in comparison to a
David against Moses or the temple cult against the
Torah.
Moral, Religious and Social Recklessness of Israel
without a Covenant Keeping King: A Multidimensional
Exegesis of Judges 18:14-31.
Berekiah Olugbemiro
University of
Ibadan,
An indigenous African understanding of the covenant
concept in Genesis 9:16 and its bearing on the tradition
RMcMLT OTSSA
A1 NAB
217 NAB OTSSA
Dirk Human
US
35
Title
John Chrysostom on the Use of Violence Against
Slaves: Evidence from the Homilies on the Pauline
Epistles (Ancient Economy)
Does Old Testament theology require hermeneutics?
The Phenomenon of saraph the accused and her father’s
house for zanah: The case of Jephthah (Judges 12:1).
In search of a critical prophetic Public Theology: Some
directives from Christian sin discourses?
Halting the flight from the black self: Towards a
Christian theology that engages the challenges of
Afrophobia earnestly
The Third History of the Old Testament and Its
Academic Unconscious.
210 NAB
OTSSA
Madipoane
Masenya
Hans van Deventer
Nigeria.
NWU
Ntozakhe Simon
Cezula
Johann Meylahn
US
216 NAB
PTSSA
Jan-Albert van
den Berg
UP
219 NAB
PTSSA
Ignatius Swart
Vhumani Magezi
NWU
224 NAB
PTSSA
Roger Tucker
Fritz de Wet and
Ferdi Kruger
NWU
critical reading of the apocalyptic section of Isaiah.
Liminality in the book of Daniel: a “pre-liminary”
investigation.
The Poor in the Context of Identity Formation:
Nehemiah 5:1-19
Fragmented knowledge, wounded living, faith beyond
certainties – a vulnerable practical theological ethos in
global conversation
From the air to the ground: reflections on practical
contributions of churches in health care delivery in
Zimbabwe
Blessed are those that hunger and thirst for
righteousness - sharpening the ethical dimension of
prophetic preaching in a context of corruption
Session A17 (Friday 22 June, 9h30-10h30)
Room
Society
RMcMLT OTSSA
A1 NAB
Chairperson
Knut Holter
Speaker
Kitoko Nsiku
Institution
Mozambique
Title
The influence of Negro-African civilization in the
formation of the Old Testament: Theological and
ideological cases study of the Torah.
Ikyaan Lanshima
Univ of Mkar,
Nigeria.
Le Moyne
College,
Syracuse
NWU
A Scholarly Search for the Relevance of Old Testament
Ethics for Contemporary Nigeria.
Between metaphor and critique: slavery in the
Apocryphal Acts (Ancient Economy)
NTSSA
Gert J Steyn
Jennifer Glancy
211 NAB PTSSA
Jaco Dreyer
Gerhard Bothma
36
The church year in the forming of Christian identity and
uniting faith communities
107 NAB OTSSA
215 NAB TSSA
217 NAB OTSSA
LTI LT
SASREF
210 NAB OTSSA
214 NAB
SAMS
216 NAB TSSA
219 NAB TSSA and
The
Circle
Hendrik
Bosman
Augustine
Shutte
Dirk Human
Jaco Gericke
NWU
The fourth paradigm – The place of atheism in Old
Testament scholarship.
Johan Ras
UniZul
Patrick Giddy
UKZN
Hennie Viviers
UJ
“The words of Amos … He received these words in a
vision ...” (Amos 1:1–2). The belief-systems of Amos,
Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram. A logo
therapeutic approach: the search for meaning.
Religion, Ethics and a Secular Culture. Exploring the
problem in three novels
Of Wise Ants (Pr 6:6) and Repulsive Dogs (Pr 26:11) –
Animal and Human Kinship According to Proverbial
Wisdom and Natural Science.
Adekundle Dada
Uuniversity of
Ibadan,
Nigeria
University of
Zimbabwe
US
Sam Tshehla
Tabona Shoko
Madipoane
Masenya
Johann Cook
Sias Meyer
UP
Bill Houston
Thias Kgatla
UP
Detlev
Tönsing
Andrew
Warmback
Peter Barrett
UKZN
Sue Rakoczy
St Joseph’s
37
Predictive Prophecy as Medium for Promoting Social
Change and Control
Indigenous knowledge systems in Zimbabwe
A Theology of the Old Greek of Job.
Ritual and ethics in the book of Leviticus.
Good News in Ambiguity: Mission and Forced
Removals of Surplus People in South Africa.
The Holy Spirit as Inspirer of Human Imagination –
A View From Science-and-Theology
Wangari Maathai: Discerning a Call to Environmental
Justice
Session A18 (Friday 22 June, 10h45-11h45)
Room
HexTh
Society
TSSA
RMcMLT OTSSA
Chairperson
Rowanne Marie
Speaker
Beverley Haddad
Institution
UKZN
Knut Holter
Eben Scheffler
Unisa
Ndikho Mitshiselwa
Unisa
Sarel Van der Merwe
NWU
Louis Jonker
US
A1 NAB NTSSA Gert Steyn
211 NAB SAMS
Akinyemi
Alawode
107 NAB OTSSA Hendrik Bosman
Charlene Van der Walt US
217 NAB OTSSA
Dirk Human
Gunther Wittenberg
UKZN
Helen EfthimiadisKeith
UKZN
38
Title
The South African women’s theological project:
Practices of solidarity and degrees of separation in the
context of the HIV epidemic
Poverty prevention in the Pentateuch and the plight of
the present world.
Rereading of Leviticus 25: Economic freedom as
unfinished business in South Africa.
Business Meeting II
Missions and migration: A Biblical view and a case
study in the 19th century
Why history matters: The place of historical
consciousness in a multidimensional approach towards
biblical interpretation.
Bible engagement: Mapping the landscape of biblical
interpretation. The beginning of a journey to greater
understanding
Prophecy in the time of crisis: Hosea 5:8 – 6:6 Part I:
The Prophetic Diagnosis: Hos. 5:8-11 – The Prophet in
Dialogue with Milton Friedman and George Ritzer.
Women, Jung and the Old Testament: An evaluation of
Jungian interpretations of Old Testament texts by way
of the Book of Ruth.
LTI LT
SASREF Tabona Shoko
117 NAB ATISCA Maake Masango
210 NAB OTSSA Madipoane
Masenya
PA Venter
Unisa
Marta Lavik
Stavanger,
Norway
Joseph Mavinga
UKZN
The future of the science and religion debate.
ATISCA Business Meeting.
Cancer and God-talk: The significance of the Bible for
people living with incurable cancer.
The struggle for a scientific exegesis: A challenge to
biblical scholarship sustaining the church faith
Open Plenary 6 (Friday 22 June, 12h00-13h00)
Room
DSLT
Society
JCRT
Chairperson
Sue Rakoczy
Speaker
Alberto Melloni
Institution
Title
University of Vatican II and its history: nature, fruit, perception
Modena and
Reggio Emilia
39
Programme of each participating society
Joint Conference Open Plenary Sessions
Theme: Knowing, Believing, Living in Africa: Perspectives from Religion, Theology and Science
Open Plenary 1 & 2 (Monday 18 June 17h15-19h30)
Session Room
OP1
HexTh
Society
JCRT
Chairperson
Isabel Phiri
Speaker
Institution Title
Abdulkader Tayob UCT
Islam in public life between social context and religious
meaning.
OP2
HexTh
JCRT
Gerald West
Madipoane
Masenya
Unisa
African (South) African Women’s Encounter with the
Book of Ruth: An African Woman’s Reflection
Institution
Unisa
Title
A scientific defence of religion and the religious
accommodation of science? Contextual challenges and
paradoxes.
Open Plenary 3 (Tuesday 19 June, 12h00-13h00)
Session
Room
OP3
DSLT
Society Chairperson
JCRT
Detlev Tönsing
Speaker
Cornel du Toit
Open Plenary 4 (Wednesday 20 June, 12h00-13h00)
Session Room
OP4
DSLT
Society
JCRT
Chairperson
Philippe Denis
Speaker
Afe Adogame
Institution Title
University Questing for the Good Things in Life: The Public Face
of
of new African Christianities.
Edinburgh
40
Open Plenary 5 (Thursday 21 June, 12h00-13h00)
Session Room
OP5
DSLT
Society Chairperson
JCRT
Jannie Smit
Speaker
Simanga Kumalo
Institution Title
UKZN
Facts and Fiction in the Development of Church and
State Relations in a Democratic South Africa.
Open Plenary 6 (Friday 22 June, 12h00-13h00)
Session Room
OP6
DSLT
Society
JCRT
Chairperson
Sue Rakoczy
Speaker
Alberto Melloni
Institution Title
University Vatican II and its history: nature, fruit, perception
of Modena
and Reggio
Emilia
ANHERTHA
ANHERTHA Dinner at 18:30 on Thursday 21 June
Session Room
A5
224
NAB
A10
224
NAB
A13
224
NAB
Society Chairperson Speaker
Anhertha Edwina Ward Adamu Addisie
Institution
EGST
Anhertha Adamu
Addissie
Anhertha Maryann
Mwangi
SPILL
Maryann Mwangi
Theuri
Edwina Ward
Title
Theology and Public Health from an African
Perspective
Discordance in Couples: A Socio-theological Discourse
Anhertha and Challenges Facing Christian Health : Forced and
UKZN
Coerced Sterilization of Women Living with HIV
41
Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa
Session Room
Society Chairperson
A1
107NAB ASRSA Denzil Chetty
A2
107NAB ASRSA Johannes Smit
Speaker
Johannes Smit
Martin Prozesky
A3
Auwais Rafudeen Unisa
A7
216NAB ASRSA Martin
Prozesky
107NAB ASRSA Auwais
Rafudeen
107NAB ASRSA Michel
ClasquinJohnson
107NAB ASRSA Irvin Chetty
A8
107NAB ASRSA Suren Naicker
A9
107NAB ASRSA Maniraj
Sukdaven
Denzil Chetty,
Unisa
Garth Mason and
Michel ClasquinJohnson
Paul Faller
Catholic
Institute of
Education
A10
A11
107NAB ASRSA Johannes Smit
107NAB ASRSA Garth Mason
A4
A6
Institution
UKZN
UKZN
Michel Clasquin- Unisa
Johnson
Irvin Chetty
Fort Hare
Suren Naicker
Patricia Chetty
and Irvin Chetty
Unisa
Eastern Cape
and Fort Hare
42
Title
ASRSA President’s Address: Research in Religion
John Hick’s Interpretation of Religion Revisited
The Orion Cold Storage Saga: Debating ‘Halaal’ in
South Africa
Religion in the Earth’s Children Series of Books by
Jean M. Auel
New Apostolic Reformation in South Africa: A NeoPentecostal Movement or a Post-Pentecostal
Phenomenon?
A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Hindu Philosophy:
The Role of Metaphor and Framing in Conceptualizing
Divinity within the Advaita Vedanta School of Thought
in Light of Swami Vivekananda’s Teachings
A Blended Approach to Teaching and Learning in
Religious Studies: An African Perspective (Panel
Discussion)
Religion and Education: Holding the Tension –
Revisiting the Place of Religion in the South African
Public School Curriculum
ASRSA Board Meeting
Factors Influencing the Choice of Religion Studies as a
Subject in the FET Band
A12
107NAB ASRSA Irvin Chetty
Cherry Muslim
UKZN
A13
107NAB ASRSA Michel
ClasquinJohnson
107NAB ASRSA Paul Faller
Beverley
Vencatsamy
UKZN
Richard Maposa
Great
Zimbabwe
A14
Teaching and Learning in Religion and Development
(RELG102)
Introducing Religion
Religious Pluralism and Human Rights in Schools: A
Reconsideration of the Multi-Faith Approach in
Zimbabwe
Association of Theological Institutions in Southern and Central Africa
ATISCA Dinner on Tuesday 22 June
Session Room
A3
RMcM
LT
Society
ATISCA
Chairperson Speaker
Maake
James Nathaniel
Masango
Amanze
Devison Banda
A4
A1 NAB ATISCA
Eliot Tofa
Institution
Title
University of How prosperous is the prosperity gospel in Africa? A
Botswana
critical analysis of the gospel of wealth from the
Marxist perspective of religion as the opium of the
people
Justo Mwale,
Zambia
Poverty and life with dignity
Obed Kealotswe University of The use of the gospel in nation building in Africa: The
Botswana
Botswana case
Hendrik Tijmen
Kroesbergen
Justo Mwale,
Zambia
43
The 'Prosperity-Gospel': a Way to Reclaim Dignity?
A5
LTI LT
ATISCA
Joseph
Omoregbe
Joachim
Kwaramba
University of Charles Charamba, a gospel musical evangelist: A
Zimbabwe
critical analysis of the reception and influence of his
music in and beyond Zimbabwe’s social situations
Paul Leshota
A7
B6
Hex Th
ATISCA
217NAB ATISCA
James
Amanze
Lovemore
Togarasei
National
University of
Lesotho
Richard Maposa, Great
and Fortune
Zimbabwe
Sibanda
University
Theology from below and theology from above: In
search of the Fullness of Life of dignity in the Midst of
Demonic Possession and Witchcraft in Lesotho
Beating swords into ploughshares?: A Theological Reconsideration on the Role of the Zimbabwe Council of
Churches (ZCC) in National Healing and
Reconciliation in Zimbabwe
Dummie
Mmualefe
Hebron Ndlovu
Crossing the imaginary lines: The Gospel and
humanness
The Gospel, charismatic churches and the bashing of
African Religion in Swaziland: an ecumenical concern
University of
Botswana
University of
Swaziland
National
Joseph Omoregbe University of The role of the Gospel of Christ in Africa’s search for
Lesotho
unity
A12
A13
LTI LT
ATISCA
210NAB ATISCA
Hendrik
Ruele Moji.
Tijmen
Africa
Kroesbergen
Obed
Kealotswe
Tabona Shoko
Joseph Thipa
University of How do the teachings of the Gospel relate to the SocioBotswana
economic and political matters of our time?
University of
Zimbabwe
Zomba
Theol.College,
Malawi
44
Gospel and culture: contextualising the Bible among
the Shona in Zimbabwe
The gospel compels African believers to do others
justice
A14
A1 NAB ATISCA
Eliot Tofa and
Moses Tofa
Paul Leshota Lovemore
Togarasei
Edwin Zulu
A18
117NAB ATISCA
University of
Swaziland
University of
Botswana
Some remarks on the teachings of Jesus as a symbol of
peace and security
The Pentecostal gospel of prosperity in Africa: to
enrich or to impoverish?
Justo Mwale,
Zambia
Removing the “Cultural Masks”: Can the gospel be a
tool for emancipation in Africa?
Maake
Masango
ATISCA Business Meeting.
Catholic Theological Society of Southern Africa
Session Room
Society
A1
217NAB CTSSA
Chairperson
Quinbert
Kinunda
A5
107NAB CTSSA
Sue Rakoczy
A7
217NAB CTSSA
Alan
Henriques
Speaker
Itumeleng
Mothoagae and
Mokhele Madise
Francisca
Chimhanda
Stuart Bate
Institution
Unisa
Title
Land is Money: A Developmental sustainability model
for trade integration for Africa’s advancement
Unisa
African Theology of land: A Shona perspective
St Joseph’s
Strengths and Weaknesses of Internet Research in
Cultural and Contextual Studies Relating to Theology
45
Church History Society of Southern Africa
Excom meeting at 12:00 on Monday 18 June in the office of Prof. Denis (New Arts Building, Room 105C)
CHSSA Dinner at 18.30 on Tuesday 19 June
Book Launch at 17.30 on Thursday in the Hexagon Coffee Bar and Foyer
Session Room
Society
A1
CHSSA
Theme:
Township
spirituality
A2
A3
LTI
Chapel
224NAB CHSSA
Theme:
Sunday
schools
224NAB CHSSA
Theme:
Christian
student
movements
Chairpers Speaker
Institution
on
Mokhele
Christina Landman Unisa
Madise
Radikobo
Ntsimane
Christina
Landman
Title
Believing and living in Soweto in the 60s and 70s – the
journeys of Malindy Myeza
Faith and politics during the last days of apartheid – the
case of Mpophomeni in the Natal Midlands
The emergence and development of the Sunday school
in the Wesleyan tradition in 1920 in the ‘Ciskei’ and
‘Transkei’
Philippe Denis
UKZN
Akhona Gxamza
UKZN
Fotune Sibanda
and Richard
Maposa
Bill Houston
University
of
Zimbabwe
UKZN
‘Give us wings to fly’: The Historical development of
Sunday schools in mainline churches in Zimbabwe
Allen Goddard
UKZN
The role of Hans Ferdinand Burki’s Faith and
Theology during the introduction of the Students
Christian Association’s Discipleship Course
Programme
46
University Christian Movement 1967-1972
A4
A5
A6
A7
A8
A9
LTI
Chapel
LTI
Chapel
LTI
Chapel
LTI
Chapel
CHSSA
Theme:
Religion and
health
Paul
Gundani
CHSSA
Theme:
Cultural
heritage
CHSSA
Theme:
Christianity in
Kenya
Robert
Vosloo
CHSSA
Theme:
Christianity in
Southern
Africa
224NAB CHSSA
Theme: DRC
and apartheid
LTI
Chapel
Radikobo
Ntsimane
UKZN
Between the divine and the profane: the struggle
regarding biomedicine in South Africa
Kudzai Biri
Pieter Coertzen
University
of
Zimbabwe
US
Health and education in Zimbabwean African
Indigenous Churches: Unmasking the hypocrisy and
inadequacies of theology.
The heritage of the Huguenots
Michael Sokupa
US
An analysis of the ritual of circumcision as practiced by
Xhosa-speaking Christians 1970-2011
Interfaith dialogue and the promotion of good
governance in Kenya’s coastal region: a historical
perspective
Itumeleng Stephen Joshua
Mothoagae
Pwani
University
College
Julius Gathogo
Paul Gundani
Kenyatta
University
Unisa
Some challenges in founding an African faith:
sampling Mutira mission, Kenya, 1907-2012
Advocating for justice and peace in a period of crisis:
Faith-based NGO in Zimbabwe (2000-2010)
Fernando da Silva
Unisa
Linda Naicker
Unisa
The role of religious liberty commission on religious
freedom in Angola
DRC and inter-racial marriage
Mary-Anne
Plaatjies van
Huffel
Robert Vosloo
US
The Belhar confession: Born in the struggle against
apartheid in Southern Africa, guiding light today.
US
The reception of the Belhar Confession in the Dutch
Reformed Church
Philippe
Denis
Pieter
Coertzen
CHSSA
Retief
Theme: DRC Müller
47
and Belhar
confession
A10
B6
A11
A12
A12
A12
LTI
Chapel
LTI
Chapel
LTI
Chapel
LTI
Chapel
CHSSA
Confessing the faith: The impact of the Belhar
Confession on the Church Order of the Uniting
Reformed Church in Southern Africa.
CHSSA Annual meeting
CHSSA
CHSSA Annual meeting
CHSSA
Stephen
Theme: South Joshua
African
Catholicism
Leslie Van Rooi
US
Anthony Egan
Jesuit
Institute,
Jhb
How Vatican II renewed South African Catholicism –
as perceived by The Southern Cross 1962-1968.
Alan Henriques
St Joseph’s
The evolution of seminary teaching on indigenous
marriages and its application to the South African
scene: from 1948 until the present time
Obedience ’81 a turning point in the history of the
Methodist Church of Southern Africa or an illusion?
CHSSA
Oupa
Mokhele Madise
Theme: South Lebeloane
African
Methodism
Thomas Ninan
MaryVictor Molobi
Anne
Plaatjies
van Huffel Itumeleng
Mothoagae
CHSSA
Julius
Peter Grassow
Theme: South Gathogo
Unisa
UKZN
219NAB CHSSA
Theme:
Contemporary
belief systems
Unisa
224
NAB
Seth
Mokitimi
Unisa
48
Positive people as change agents in bringing about
transformation to church responses to HIV and AIDS:
lessons from experience of Hillcrest Methodist Church
during the period 1991-2001
The influence of unity in the WCC and the OAIC in
terms of their belief systems
The challenges and contributions of Black Theology
today
1820 settlers, open spaces, and theology
African
Methodism
Methodist
Seminary
Emmanuel Gabriel UKZN
A14
LTI
Chapel
CHSSA
Theme: AIC
Victor
Molobi
Retief Müller
US
Oupa Lebeloane
Unisa
150 years of Methodism amongst Indians in Natal:
Role of the laity
Popular belief in South African Christianity,
historiography, and human dignity (AIC)
The use of divination bones as enculturation
Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians
Circle Dinner on Tuesday 22 June
Session Room
A1
HexTh
A2
215
NAB
Society
The Circle
The Circle
Chairperson
Madipoane
Masenya
Edwina Ward
Speaker
Sarojini Nadar
and Isabel Phiri
Institution
UKZN
Title
Charting the paradigm shifts in HIV Research: The
Contribution of Gender and Religion Studies
Hazel Ayanga
Moi
University,
Kenya
Seth
Mokitimi
Methodist
Seminary
Dialogue between Religion and Health in the Context
of HIV and AIDS
Lilian Siwila
49
“If it wasn’t for my grandmother”: An Eco-feminist
theological approach to the role of women as
preservers and transmitters of indigenous knowledge
A3
A4
LTI LT
The Circle
217NAB The Circle
Sarojini Nadar
Philomena
Mwaura
Beatrice Okyere- UKZN
Manu
Support groups as a safe space for grandmothers
caring for children orphaned by HIV and AIDS in
Pietermaritzburg.
Bongi Zengele
and Deborah
Mindry
Charlene van der
Walt
Support Groups as Critical Sites of Engagement with
the Lived Realities of Human Rights Struggles: A
Case Study of Siyaphila, South Africa
Is “Being Right” More Important Than “Being
Together”? Exploring the Potential of the Intercultural
Bible Reading Space for Life Giving Dialogue on the
Issue of Homosexuality.
UKZN and
Univ. of
California
US
Tsvakai Zhou and UKZN
Isabel Phiri
A6
A8
A11
HexTh
HexTh
LTI LT
The Circle
The Circle
The Circle
Isabel Phiri
Lilian Siwila
Elna Mouton
Elna Mouton
US
Rose Nyirimana
UKZN
Molly Longwe
UKZN
Esther Lubunga
UKZN
Thokozile Phiri
and Isabel Phiri
UKZN
50
Safe spaces for female ex-prisoners in Harare,
Zimbabwe: A critical analysis from a Feminist
Pastoral Care Perspective.
Teaching a pastoral ‘text of terror’ in an African
context? Gender perspectives on God and humanity in
1 Timothy 2.
The Peacemaking Role of the Samaritan Woman in
John 4:1-42: A Mirror and Challenge to Rwandan
Women.
Pastor’s Wife Identity Construction: The ‘Dialogical
Self’
Not Women Anymore: The Cry of the Survivors of
Sexual Violence in the Eastern Congo
An investigation of religious and cultural influences
on fertility behaviour among university students at
Howard College, UKZN-Durban.
A12
117NAB The Circle
A13
117NAB The Circle
A13
214NAB The Circle
Madipoane
Masenya
Bongi Zengele
Beatrice
Okyere-Manu
Chammah
Kaunda
UKZN
Towards an African Theological Education for Gender
Justice and Peace: An African Theological Reflection
on the Concept of Just-Peace
The Circle Business Meeting.
Lindiwe Mkasi
and Isabel Phiri
UKZN
“A threat to Zulu patriarchy and the continuation of
community”: Same sex relationships amongst Female
Traditional Healers at Inanda and KwaNgcolosi,
Kwa-Zulu Natal.
Kennedy Owino
UKZN
The “Esau Man?” or a Return to “Godly Manhood?”:
Negotiating the Male position in Masculinity Crisis
among Evangelical Men
Overcoming the odds to create a safe and sacred space
Albert Bangirana UKZN
Mashudu Phaliso
A15
A1 NAB The Circle
Hazel Ayanga
Innocent
Iyakaremye
UKZN
Bridget MasaitiMukuka
UKZN
51
Women are human! Who has a problem with that? –
Outlining deepened hegemonic systems of patriarchy
and kuriarchy of our times
A Critical Reflection from a Gendered Perspective on
the Relevance of Wesleyan Healthcare Ministry in
Wesleyan Churches’ Response to HIV and AIDS.
Transforming rituals and teachings of Mutima Church
of Zambia into a safe space for women
Ecumenical Theological Education (WCC)
Session Room
Society
A1
211NAB SAMS and
ETE
Chairperson
Nico Botha
Speaker
Dietrich Werner
Institution
WCC-ETE
A6
214NAB ETE
Nico Botha
Dietrich Werner
WCC-ETE
A7
214NAB ETE
Dietrich Werner Isabel Phiri
A8
211NAB SAMS/ETE Robert Lang’at
UKZN
Chammah Kaunda UKZN
Title
International Ecumenical Networking and Exchange
of Resources in Theological Education: Two
Innovative Models from the World Council of
Churches
Theological Education in the Changing Context of
World Christianity – an Unfinished Task
Handbook on Theological Education in Africa: A gift
to future generations
Doing Theological Education from the Context of
Migration in Southern Africa: A Theology of
Reconstruction in Missiological Perspective
International Society for the Study of African Jewry
ISSAJ Dinner: 18. 30 on Wednesday, 20 June (Staff Club)
Session Room
Society
A6
215NAB ISSAJ
A7
215NAB ISSAJ
Chairperson
Speaker
Institution
Magdel Le
Roux
Marla
Brettschneider
Univ. New
Hampshire
USA
52
Title
Registration and welcome
African and African Heritage Jewry in Global Context:
Modernist and Western Framing of Encounters and
Academic Research
A8
215NAB ISSAJ
John Jackson
A9
215NAB ISSAJ
Tudor Parfitt
Eva Shaw-Taylor Inst.
The Voicelessness of Black Judaism
Diasporan and
African
Culture USA
Ahmadiel Ben
African
The Jewish Identity Crisis: “At the Crossroads of
Yehuda
Hebrew
Lithuania and Limpopo”
Israelites
Israel
Jo David
Shalva Weil
USA
Hebrew
University,
Israel
In Order to Form a More Perfect Union
Black but not so Beautiful: The case of Ethiopian Jews
Edith Bruder
SOAS
The Igbo: The Jews of Africa. From Igbo Ethnogenesis
CNRS
to Hebrew Ethnogenesis.
UK France
Aurélien Mokoko CNRS/EHESS The Transnational Dynamics of Black Jews in France
Gampiot
France
A10
215NAB ISSAJ
Tudor Parfitt
B6
215NAB ISSAJ
Shalva Weil
Mesfin Assefa
John Jackson
Ethiopia
Univ. of
Pennsylvania
USA
Revitalization of Bet-Avraham Jews in Ethiopia
Why the Blackness of Jesus Does and Doesn’t Matter:
Anti-Racialism and Anti-Religiosity among the African
Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem
A11
215NAB ISSAJ
A12
215NAB ISSAJ
ISSAJ board
meeting
Shalva Weil
Magdel Le Roux
Unisa
South Africa
Lemba Traditions: An Indispensable Tool for Teaching
and Interpreting the Old Testament in Africa
53
Tudor Parfitt
A13
215NAB ISSAJ
Shalva Weil
Jaap van
Slageren
Jay Waronker
University of
Florida, USA
Protestant
University of
Brussels,
Belgium
(De)-Constructing Jews
Univ.of
Adelaide
Australia
The Synagogues of the Black African Communities:
The Architecture, History, Context and Meanings
Jewish Influences in Africa
New Testament Society of South Africa
Session Room
Society Chairperson
B1
117NAB NTSSA Pieter Botha
B2
117NAB NTSSA Gert Steyn
Speaker
A1
Gerhard van den Unisa
Heever
A2
LTI LT
NTSSA Gosnell Yorke
Lilly NortjéMeyer
A1 NAB NTSSA Fika van
Rensburg
Institution
Rose Nyirimana
UKZN
John Fitzgerald
University of
Miami
54
Title
Editorial Board Meeting: Neotestamentica
Executive Meeting: New Testament Society of South
Africa
Christian Discourse and Culture: The Rhetoric of
‘Transcendence’ in the Field of Cultural Production
(30 min: Christian Discourse)
The peace-making mother: Reading John 2:1-12 with
post-genocide women (30 min – Short Paper)
The Ancient Mediterranean Wine Industry,
Intoxication, and Various Problems in Early Christian
Communities (Keynote Address)
A3
217
NAB
NTSSA Peter Nagel
Japie Malan
NWU
A3
117
NAB
210
NAB
214
NAB
NTSSA Petra
Dijkhuizen
NTSSA Johannes
Vorster
NTSSA Pieter de
Villiers
Ernest van Eck
UP
Lilly NortjéMeyer
Fabien Nobilio
UJ
217
NAB
NTSSA Yolanda
Dreyer
Johannes
Wessels
NWU
Greek Hereditary Law in Antiquity: A possible
sociohistorical context for diathêkê in Galatians 3:15
(Ancient Economy)
A3
A3
Free University
of Brussels
Invitations and Excuses that are not Invitations and
Excuses: Gossip in Luke 14:18-20 (Historical Jesus)
The production of religious knowledge and the
gendered coding of culture (Gender)
The Lawgiver as Judge? Moses in Heracleon’s and
Origen’s Commentary of the Gospel of John
(Mysticism)
A5
Yolanda
Dreyer
A5
A5
A5
A6
117
NAB
210
NAB
214
NAB
217
NAB
Patrick Kuwana NWU
and Eduard Lotz
NTSSA Rose
Nyirimana
NTSSA Pieter Craffert
Itumeleng
Mothoagae
Zoro Dube
Unisa
Olugbenga
Olagunju
NTSSA Lilly NortjeMeyer
NTSSA Petra
Dijkhuizen
Devison Telen
Banda
Johannes
Vorster
Pieter Botha
Justo Mwale,
Zambia
Unisa
Ernest van Eck Peter Nagel
Unisa
Unisa
UP/Unisa
55
A new economic dispensation in the aftermath of
Pentecost? (30 min: Ancient Economy)
The Economy in Antiquity and present day African
Economies: A practical Perspective (30 min: Ancient
Economy)
Bogadi: The cultural, religious, political, and economic
implications of the practice (Pauline)
The Death and Resurrection of Jesus: A Cultural
Trauma Approach (30 min: Short Paper)
Jesus the Mediator (30 min: Short Paper)
Feminism, Foucault and his Toolbox in Doing Gender
Criticism (Gender)
Concepts of memory in recent historical Jesus studies
(30 min: Short paper)
Mk 4:12 – key in understanding the Markan gospel as
A6
A6
117
NAB
210
NAB
NTSSA Marius Nel
Olugbenga
Olagunju
Devison Telen
Banda
NTSSA Paul Decock
Babatunde
Ogunbanwo
Marcus
Cromhout
Kobus Kok
A7
A9
A9
Nigeria
Unisa
Jesus in our Place: a socio- scientific reading of Luke
17: 11-19 in the Yoruba context (30 min: Short paper)
“For the healing of the nations”: Israelite Versus
Roman Ethnic Identity in the Book of Revelation (30
min: Short paper)
Lutheran World Theological anthropology and Agency in the Gospel of
Federation,
John (30 min: Short paper)
Geneva
A1 NAB NTSSA Ernest van Eck Johannes Vorster Unisa
Using the body as strategy of socio-economic
exchange in the
Graeco-Roman world (Ancient Economy)
217
NTSSA Francois
Marius Nel
US
The forgiveness of debt in the fifth petition of the
NAB
Viljoen
Lord's Prayer (30 min: Short paper)
117
NAB
Jonathan
Draper
NTSSA McGlory
Speckman
Erastus Jonker
A9
a ‘parable’ (30 min: Short paper)
Nigerian Baptist Is there a center for New Testament Theology? (30
Theological
min: Short paper)
Seminary
210
NAB
NTSSA Chris de Wet
Kenneth Mtata
Bill Domeris
SATS
Abiola
Mbamalu
NWU
Ronald van der
Bergh
Lydia Mwaniki
UP
UKZN and
Kenya
56
The changing face of poverty from Old to New
Testament times (30 min: Short paper)
Partial universality in the book of Acts (30 min: Short
paper)
Reflections on the βάρβαροι of Acts 28:1-6 (30 min:
Short paper)
Reading Paul Sympathetically: From a Hermeneutic of
Suspicion to a Hermeneutic of Reconstruction (1 Cor
11:1-16) (30 min: Short paper)
Jeremy Punt
B6
HexTh
NTSSA Subgroup
Chairs
A11
217
NAB
NTSSA Marcus
Cromhout
Elijah
Mahlangu
A11
A11
A11
A14
Gosnell Yorke
UKZN
Margaret Mollett Unisa
Irvin Chetty
Fort Hare
117
NAB
210
NAB
214
NAB
NTSSA Ronald van der Erastus Jonker
Bergh
NTSSA Hansie
Paul Decock
Wolmarans
NTSSA Chris de Wet
Michael Sokupa
UP/Unisa
217
NAB
NTSSA John Fitzgerald Fika van
Rensburg
NWU
UKZN
Helderberg
College
57
A Call for Greater Diligence and Vigilance in the
Translation of the New Testament: The Corinthian
Correspondence as a Case in Point (30 min: Short
paper)
Business Meetings: Subgroups
 Ancient Economy
 Historical Jesus
 Pauline Studies
 Mysticism in Johannine Literature
 Gender & Hermeneutics
 Christian Discourse & Culture
Apocalypticism and Popular Culture In South Africa:
An Overview and Update (30 min: Christian discourse)
The ‘New Apostolic Reformation’ in South Africa:
Some Hermeneutical Reflections from a New
Testament perspective (30 min: Short paper)
P. Oxy 840 and the Gospel according to the Hebrews
(Historical Jesus)
Between the Whore and the Bride: Apocalypse 17-22:
Listening to Feminist Readings (Mysticism)
Calendric elements in the letter to the Galatians: A
Ritual analysis in conversation with the exegetical
community (Pauline)
Being ransomed by God into his household:
Interpreting the ransom image in 1 Peter 1:18-19
within the economic context of its author and
addressees (30 min: Ancient Economy)
Gert Steyn
A14
117
NAB
210
NAB
NTSSA Michael
Sokupa
NTSSA Paul Decock
A14
214
NAB
NTSSA Petra
Dijkhuizen
A15
HexTh
NTSSA Elna Mouton
A16
HexTh
A17
A1 NAB NTSSA Gert Steyn
A18
A1 NAB NTSSA Gert. Steyn
A14
Mzonzima
Gwala
Jeremy Punt
Helderberg
College
US
Hansie
Wolmarans
UJ
Nickolas
Roubekas
Alexandria
Centre for
Hellenistic
Studies, Egypt
University of
Münster
Unisa
Sebastian
Fuhrmann
NTSSA Hermie van Zyl Chris de Wet
Jennifer Glancy
Le Moyne
College,
Syracuse
Romans 1:17 as an intertextuality of Habakkuk 2:4 (30
min: Short paper)
‘The Others’ in Galatians: Texts and the
negotiation of identity ( Pauline )
The Whore and the Holy One. Male and Female in
John’s Revelation, and “Thunder, Perfect Mind.”
(Gender)
Which Euhemerism will You Use? Celsus on the
Divine Nature of Jesus (Historical Jesus)
Economic Implications in the Acta Martyrum (Ancient
Economy)
John Chrysostom on the Use of Violence Against
Slaves: Evidence from the Homilies on the Pauline
Epistles (Ancient Economy)
Between metaphor and critique: slavery in the
Apocryphal Acts (Ancient Economy)
Business Meeting II
58
Old Testament Society of South Africa
OTSSA Outing and dinner: Transport leaves UKZN at 13:30 on Thursday 21 June
Session Room
Society Chairperson
Speaker
Institution
A2
217 NAB OTSSA Jurie le Roux
UP
A6
RMcMLT OTSSA Hennie Viviers Sakkie Cornelius US
A7
RMcMLT OTSSA Hennie Viviers Makosi
Nzimande
UKZN
A8
RMcMLT OTSSA Hennie Viviers Dirk Human
UP
A9
RMcMLT OTSSA Hans van
Deventer
Knut Holter
Stavanger,
Norway.
Willem Boshoff
Unisa
Huli
Ramantswana
Unisa
Marlene
Mondriaan
UP
A9
A1 NAB
OTSSA Eben Scheffler
59
Title
OTSSA executive meeting
“From Babylon to Elephantine”: The Ancient Near East
as the “horizon of understanding” of the Old Testament.
From “pedagogy of the oppressed” and the voiceless to
“pedagogy of freedom:” In Dialogue with the Old
Testament retributive world view.
The nature of Old Testament scholarship and what it
comprises.
“The poor” in ancient Israel and in African Old
Testament studies.
Moderne apologete, populêre godsdiens en die
godsdiensgeskiedenis van ou Israel en sy bure.
Day Two of Creation: Why is the Rāqî‘a not Pronounced
Good?
The influence of Ugarit on the understanding of the
Hebrew Bible.
A9
211NAB
OTSSA Douglas Lawrie David Adamo
A10
RMcMLT OTSSA Hans van
Deventer
A10
A1 NAB
A10
211NAB
OTSSA Eben Scheffler
Kogi State The Poor in the Books of Psalmist and in the Yoruba
Univ Nigeria (Nigerian) Traditions.
Caleb Ogunkunle University
of Ilorin,
Nigeria
Gerald West
UKZN
Man’s wickedness and God’s goodness: A theological
study of the oppressed in the Psalter in Nigerian context.
Ig Gous
Unisa
Mathews Shabele LTI
Caught in the Act ... Exegesis as an act of reading.
Comparing Mourning Rites in (of) the Ancient Near East
and Israel with Bakgatla ba Mocha of Marapyane.
Eraste Nyirimana UKZN
No peace for the poor when the powerful wants war: a
dialogue between the social structures of monarchic
Israel and the African nation state.
Deutoronomy 18: 18-22 and the notion on the Black
Messiah in the Nazareth Baptist Church.
OTSSA Douglas Lawrie Nkosinati Sithole UKZN
Olugbenga
Olagunju
B6
A11
A12
A13
Exegesis seeking appropriation: reading 2 Samuel 13:122 in search of redemptive masculinties.
Nigeria
A Study of 1 Samuel 19:18-24 in the African Context.
Baptist Sem
RMcMLT OTSSA Jurie le Roux
UP
OTSSA Business meeting
HexTh
OTSSA Gerrie Snyman Hendrik Bosman US
The historical understanding of the Old Testament in
South Africa: From Colenso to Le Roux and beyond.
HexTh
OTSSA Gerrie Snyman Sakkie
Unisa
Reading the Old Testament in the 21st century.
Spangenberg
HexTh
OTSSA Gerrie Snyman Fanie Snyman
UFS and UP The tense relationship between Old Testament
and Danie
scholarship and systematic theology.
Veldsman
60
A16
A16
A16
RMcMLT OTSSA Knut Holter
107 NAB OTSSA Hendrik
Bosman
217 NAB OTSSA Dirk Human
Jurie le Roux
UP
Does Old Testament theology require hermeneutics?
Lehlohonolo
Bookholane
Douglas Lawrie
NWU
The Phenomenon of saraph the accused and her father’s
house for zanah: The case of Jephthah (Judges 12:1).
The Third History of the Old Testament and Its
Academic Unconscious.
Ananda GeyserFouche
UP
Emmanuel Usue
Berekiah
Olugbemiro
A16
A17
UWC
The powers behind Chronicles in contrast to the powers
behind the Qumran community in comparison to a David
against Moses or the temple cult against the Torah.
Benue State Moral, Religious and Social Recklessness of Israel
University, without a Covenant Keeping King: A Multidimensional
Nigeria
Exegesis of Judges 18:14-31.
University
of Ibadan,
Nigeria.
NWU
An indigenous African understanding of the covenant
concept in Genesis 9:16 and its bearing on the tradition
critical reading of the apocalyptic section of Isaiah.
Liminality in the book of Daniel: a “pre-liminary”
investigation.
210 NAB OTSSA Madipoane
Masenya
Hans van
Deventer
RMcMLT OTSSA Knut Holter
Ntozakhe Simon US
The Poor in the Context of Identity Formation:
Cezula
Nehemiah 5:1-19
Kitoko Nsiku
Mozambique The influence of Negro-African civilization in the
formation of the Old Testament: Theological and
ideological cases study of the Torah.
Ikyaan Lanshima University
of Mkar,
Nigeria.
61
A Scholarly Search for the Relevance of Old Testament
Ethics for Contemporary Nigeria.
A17
A17
A17
A18
A18
107 NAB OTSSA Hendrik
Bosman
217 NAB OTSSA Dirk Human
210 NAB OTSSA Madipoane
Masenya
RMcMLT OTSSA Knut Holter
107 NAB OTSSA Hendrik
Bosman
Jaco Gericke
NWU
The fourth paradigm – The place of atheism in Old
Testament scholarship.
Johan Ras
UniZul
Hennie Viviers
UJ
“The words of Amos … He received these words in a
vision ...” (Amos 1:1–2). The belief-systems of Amos,
Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab and Boko Haram. A logo
therapeutic approach: the search for meaning.
Of Wise Ants (Pr 6:6) and Repulsive Dogs (Pr 26:11) –
Animal and Human Kinship According to Proverbial
Wisdom and Natural Science.
Adekundle Dada Uuniversity Predictive Prophecy as Medium for Promoting Social
of Ibadan,
Change and Control
Nigeria
Johann Cook
US
A Theology of the Old Greek of Job.
Sias Meyer
UP
Eben Scheffler
Unisa
Ndikho
Mitshiselwa
Louis Jonker
Unisa
US
Charlene Van der US
Walt
62
Ritual and ethics in the book of Leviticus.
Poverty prevention in the Pentateuch and the plight of
the present world.
Rereading of Leviticus 25: Economic freedom as
unfinished business in South Africa.
Why history matters: The place of historical
consciousness in a multidimensional approach towards
biblical interpretation.
Bible engagement: Mapping the landscape of biblical
interpretation. The beginning of a journey to greater
understanding
A18
217 NAB OTSSA Dirk Human
Gunther
Wittenberg
UKZN
Helen
UKZN
Efthimiadis-Keith
A18
210 NAB OTSSA Madipoane
Masenya
Marta Lavik
Stavanger,
Norway
Joseph Mavinga
UKZN
Prophecy in the time of crisis: Hosea 5:8 – 6:6 Part I:
The Prophetic Diagnosis: Hos. 5:8-11 – The Prophet in
Dialogue with Milton Friedman and George Ritzer.
Women, Jung and the Old Testament: An evaluation of
Jungian interpretations of Old Testament texts by way of
the Book of Ruth.
Cancer and God-talk: The significance of the Bible for
people living with incurable cancer.
The struggle for a scientific exegesis: A challenge to
biblical scholarship sustaining the church faith
Practical Theology Society of South Africa
Session
B1
B2
A2
A4
Room
211NAB
211NAB
211NAB
117 NAB
Society
PTSSA
PTSSA
PTSSA
PTSSA
A4
210 NAB PTSSA
Chairperson
Malan Nel
Johan Cilliers
Johan Cilliers
Johann
Meylahn
Elsabé
Kloppers
Speaker
Calvin Plaatjes
Ian Nell
Institution
Title
Editorial Meeting
Executive Meeting
PTSSA Business Meeting (1)
Cornerstone Africa, a kaleidoscope of meaning: Towards its
contribution to Christianity.
US
Sleutelmomente in die verhaal van praktiese teologie in
Suid-Afrika: Refleksie aan die hand van Sosiale
63
Identiteitsteorie
Ben de Klerk
NWU
UP
A4
214 NAB PTSSA
Joseph Pali
A5
HexTh
Cas Wepener
B3
RMcMLT PTSSA
Malan Nel
Elmo Pienaar and
Julian Müller
Hannelie Yates
and Ignatius
Swart
Johan Cilliers
B4
A6
A1NAB
211NAB
Johan Cilliers
Anita Cloete
Malan Nel
UP
Jaco Dreyer
Unisa
Elsabé Kloppers
Unisa
PTSSA
PTSSA
PTSSA
A8
117 NAB PTSSA
Ian Nell
A8
210 NAB PTSSA
Maake
Masango
NWU and
Unisa
US
Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu as Living Icons of
Reconciliation in Africa
Reframing the practical theological agenda through the
rediscovering of the practical theologian.
Listening to Africa’s children in the process of practical
theological interpretation: perspectives from a South
African project.
Between Fragments and Fullness: Worshipping in the InBetween Spaces of Africa
PTSSA Business Meeting (2)
A critical appraisal of family ministry as developed by
Charles M Sell and Ben Freudenburg
Spirituality and school leadership in Catholic private
schools in South Africa: an example of interdisciplinary
practical theological research
André De La
HospiVision Exploring African Interpretations of the Core Values of
Porte,
the Choose Life Training Programme
Alida Herbst and NWU
Annemie Janssen NWU
Gertrud Tönsing UKZN
“Forming identity through Song.” How our songs in
worship shape our theological identity. A study of
Lutheran hymns and how they shaped German
descendent Lutheran congregations
64
The influence of singing hymns and songs on the
formation of identity
A8
214 NAB PTSSA
A9
HexTh
A10
117 NAB PTSSA
Anita Cloete
US
Yolanda Dreyer Suzanne
UP
Kleynhans,
Hennie Pieterse
and Cas Wepener
Calvin Plaatjes Eddie Orsmond US
A10
210 NAB PTSSA
Anita Cloete
Petria Theron
NWU
A10
214 NAB PTSSA
Gerhard
Bothma
Madelein Fourie
NWU
Stella Potgieter
NWU
Workshop
UFS/US
Zack Pienaar
UFS
Die missionale bemagtiging van VGKSA gemeentes in
die Vrystaat
Joseph Pali
UFS
The role of transformational leadership in the Dutch
Reformed Church in Africa congregations
A12
PTSSA
RMcMLT PTSSA
Kobus
Schoeman
Johan Cilliers
Marilyn Naidoo
Unisa
Jurgens Hendriks US
65
An empirical study on spiritual formation at Protestant
theological training institutions in South Africa
Spiritual formation as the focus of Youth Ministry
Multi-cultural worship in Pretoria. A ritual-liturgical case
study.
Church and community development: Towards a
Practical Theological Framework
Chipapata, Fátima and Jacinto’s narratives on the impact
of Christian education on their lives in Mozambique
Middelloopbaan-ontwikkeling deur spirituele
lewenstylafrigting: ‘n interdissiplinêre gesprek
Pedoseksualiteit as manifestasie van afwykende
seksualiteit: ʼn pastorale uitdaging
The critical interaction between small congregations and
rural communities – six case studies within the South
African context.
Die interaksie tussen plattelandse gemeentes en die
gemeenskap in die Wes-Kaap
Kobus Schoeman UFS
The interaction between small rural congregations and
the community in the Southern Free State.
Carin van
Schalkwyk
UFS
Rural congregations and communities in the southern
Free Sate.
Danie Mouton
US
UFS/US
Rural congregations and communities in the eastern
Cape.
The critical interaction between small congregations and
rural communities – six case studies within the South
African context (Continued from A12)
A Practical-Theological perspective on corruption:
towards a solution-based approach in practice
A13
RMcMLT PTSSA
Johan Cilliers
Workshop
A13
217 NAB PTSSA
Ben De Klerk
Lutricia Snell and NWU
Wentzel Coetzer
A14
211NAB
PTSSA
A15
216 NAB PTSSA
A15
219 NAB PTSSA
Amanda du
Plessis and Gert
Breed
Marilyn Naidoo Jan-Albert van
den Berg
NWU
A Multidisciplinary Approach in Seeking a Possible
Solution for Corruption in South Africa
UFS
Maake
Gordon Dames
Masango
Rantoa Letsosa Johan Klaasen
Unisa
Knowing, believing, living in Africa…. Decision making
in the locus theologicus of the annus virtualis. A
biographical theologia habitus of discernment
Knowing, Believing, Living in Africa: A Practical
theology perspective of the Past, Present and Future
African tradition as locus for moral formation in post
modernity
UWC
Anton Binneman UP
A15
224 NAB PTSSA
Vhumani
Roger Tucker
UFS
66
Death Where is Thy Sting, We Make of You a Coffin
Car!
Education & Evolution: The problems and opportunities
Magezi
A16
216 NAB PTSSA
Jan-Albert van
den Berg
Johann Meylahn
A16
219 NAB PTSSA
Ignatius Swart
Vhumani Magezi NWU
A16
224 NAB PTSSA
Roger Tucker
Fritz de Wet and
Ferdi Kruger
NWU
A17
211NAB
Jaco Dreyer
Gerhard Bothma
NWU
PTSSA
UP
provided by the recent introduction of the teaching of
Evolution at High School Level in South Africa.
Fragmented knowledge, wounded living, faith beyond
certainties – a vulnerable practical theological ethos in
global conversation
From the air to the ground: reflections on practical
contributions of churches in health care delivery in
Zimbabwe
Blessed are those that hunger and thirst for righteousness
- sharpening the ethical dimension of prophetic
preaching in a context of corruption
The church year in the forming of Christian identity and
uniting faith communities
Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS)
SAMS Dinner at 18:30 on Thursday 21 June (Staff Club)
Session Room
Society Chairperson
A1
211NAB SAMS Nico Botha
and ETE
Speaker
Dietrich Werner
A2
Akinyemi
Alawode
LTI LT
SAMS
Sarel Van der
Merwe
Institution Title
WCC
International ecumenical networking and exchange of
resources in theological education: Two innovative
models from the World Council of Churches
Unisa
Constructing sustainable socio-economic development
through human migration.
67
A3
211NAB SAMS
Rothney
Tshaka
Philemon
Beghela
Unisa
B3
211NAB SAMS
Xolile Simon
Nico Botha
Unisa
A6
LTI LT
Nelus
Niemandt
Andries Buffel
Unisa
A7
211NAB SAMS
A8
211NAB SAMS
A9
A10
214NAB SAMS
217NAB SAMS
Reggie Nel
Karabo
Makofane
Hannes Knoetze
Robert Lang’at
B6
211NAB SAMS
Chammah
Kaunda
Andries Louw
A11
211NAB SAMS
Andries Louw
Reggie Nel and
Karabo
Makofane
Unisa
A12
211NAB SAMS
Hannes
Knoetze
Sinenhlanhla
Ngwenya
Unisa
SAMS
Sinenhlanhla
Steven Hayes
Ngwenya
Robert Lang’at Chammah
Kaunda
Greek
Orthodox
UKZN
NWU
Africa
Gospel
Church,
Kenya
UP
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Migrancy, exile, mission: Missional readings of some
exilic texts in Francophone migrant churches in
Pretoria
Towards a theology of migration: on the dialectic of
margins and marginality in mission
Mission as liberation in socio-economic and political
contexts: towards a contextual and liberating theology
of mission
Migrants, Mission and Theological Education
Doing Theological Education from the Context of
Migration in Southern Africa:
A Theology of
Reconstruction in Missiological Perspective “I was a
stranger, and you invited me in…” (Matthew 25:35).
Missional Diaconate: Hope for migrated people
Taking the City by Storm: How Rural Based
Evangelical Churches Established their Presence in
the City of Nairobi, Kenya
Migrant labour and a theology of land: a theological
framework for Christian faith communities in
Southern Africa
Towards an African Reformed Praxis in Mission and
Theological Education, as response to Migration,
Afrophobia and Xenophobia in Southern Africa. In
dialogue with Northern Theological Seminary.
Lord where do I belong: Unaccompanied Refugee
Minors from Zimbabwe in South Africa in the face of
HIV and AIDS, a call for a Pastoral Response.
A14
HexTh
SAMS
Steven Hayes
Nelus Niemandt
UP
A15
RMcM
LT
SAMS
Philemon
Beghela
Xolile Simon
US
A16
211NAB SAMS
Andries
Buffel
Rothney Tshaka
Unisa
A17
214NAB SAMS
Bill Houston
Thias Kgatla
UP
A18
211NAB SAMS
Akinyemi
Alawode
Sarel Van der
Merwe
NWU
A network society, social media, migration and
mission
Institutionalising Hospitality, Encountering Migrants
in Religiously Diverse Contexts: Mapping identitybridging social and religious capital models of
denominations
Halting the flight from the black self: Towards a
Christian theology that engages the challenges of
Afrophobia earnestly
Good News in Ambiguity: Mission and Forced Removals
of Surplus People in South Africa.
Missions and migration: A Biblical view and a case
study in the 19th century
South African Science and Religion Forum
Conference theme: “Knowing, believing, living in Africa: perspectives from the angles of religion, theology and
science”
Session Room
A1
215NAB
Society Chairperson
SASREF Cornel Du Toit
Speaker
Detlev Tönsing
A2
HexTh
A3
HexTh
SASREF Klaus
Nürnberger
SASREF Johann-Albrecht
Meylahn
Johann-Albrecht
Meylahn
Klaus
Nürnberger
Institution
UKZN and
LTI
UP
Title
Science and theology: Premises, presuppositions,
prejudgements.
The hidden potential of pre-theoretical transversal
reasoning of South Africa’s Rainbow Nation
UKZN and Is God necessarily a person? God in Sotho/Tswana
UP
religion (Setiloane), naturalism (Stuart Kauffman),
classical Protestant dogmatics and the biblical faith, seen
against the background of the scientific theory of
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A4
215NAB
SASREF Brenda De Wet Marc Pretorius
SATS
A5
B3
215NAB
215NAB
UJ
B4
215NAB
A8
LTI LT
SASREF Marc Pretorius Brenda De Wet
SASREF Wessel Bentley David
Spangenberg
SASREF David
Wessel Bentley
Spangenberg
SASREF Detlev Tönsing Sam Tshehla
A9
LTI LT
SASREF Gys Loubser
Michael Shutte
UCT
A10
LTI LT
SASREF Michael Shutte
Gys Loubser
US
A11
RMcMLT SASREF Mogomme
Alpheus
Masoga
Errol Narain
A13
LTI LT
SASREF Errol Narain
Mogomme
Alpheus Masoga
Trinity
Episcopal
Church,
Chicago,
USA
DBSA
A14
A17
LTI LT
LTI LT
SASREF Cornel du Toit
SASREF Sam Tshehela
Tabona Shoko
A18
LTI LT
SASREF Tabona Shoko
PA Venter
Unisa
Unisa
Univ of
Zimbabwe
Unisa
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emergence.
Science and Religion: Moving Forward into the 21st
Century
Quo vadis “Science & Religion Debate”?
“Knowing, believing, living in Africa: perspectives from
the angles of religion, theology and science”
The problem of reality in the faith-science discourse: An
African-Christian contribution.
From Africa with Dignity: Is Africa’s immense
religiosity at best justifiable and/or at worst unavoidable?
Conflict and Religion - Secularity as a standard for
authentic religion
Shared Resources of Rational Agents: Van Huyssteen’s
Postfoundationalist Facilitation of Interdisciplinarity
Fundamentalism, Creationism, Biblicism and the
Intelligent Design theory in South Africa
Engagement with Gabriel Molehe Setiloane’s Motho ke
Modimo theological discourse: What become key lessons
learnt?
SASREF Business Session
Indigenous knowledge systems in Zimbabwe
The future of the science and religion debate.
Southern African Society for Near Eastern Studies
SASNES Dinner: at 18:30 on Tuesday 19 June (Staff Club)
Session
B1
A1
Room
Society Chairperson
107NAB SASNES Johann Cook
RMcMLT SASNES Sakkie
Cornelius
A2
A3
RMcMLT SASNES Johann Cook
A1 NAB SASNES Paul Kruger
A3
LTI
Chapel
A3
SASNES Herrie van
Rooy
107 NAB SASNES Annette Evans
Speaker
Herrie van Rooy
Paul Kruger
Institution
NWU
US
Title
Van Selms Lecture
On Disaster Scenarios in ancient Near Eastern Wisdom
and Prophetic Literature
PS (Fanie)
Vermaak
Unisa
The Forty Days Road: Possible Persian Coinage?
Zacharias Kotzé
NWU
Business Meeting
Another look at Jeremiah’s vision of the almond rod
(Jer 1:11-12)
Alex Andrason
Johann Cook
US
US
The dynamic short yiqtol
The dating of the Septuagint of Job
Bruk Ayele
UKZN
Cynthia MillerNaudé and
Jacobus Naudé
UFS
A Millennium Translation based on the LXX: A New
Bible Translation in Ethiopian Church and its
Controversy
Ideology and Translation Strategy in Muslim-Sensitive
Bible Translations
Ashraf Dockrat
UJ
71
The lahn tradition: An evaluation of the sources
A4
RMcMLT SASNES Jacobus Naudé Gideon Kotzé
US
Philip Engmann
A4
A5
A5
B3
B3
211NAB
SASNES PS (Fanie)
Vermaak
RMcMLT SASNES Willem
Boshoff
211NAB
SASNES Johann Cook
117 NAB SASNES Gideon Kotzé
210 NAB SASNES Jaco Gericke
Lam. 1:8a in the Wordings of the Masoretic Text and
4QLam
University
of Ghana
Sakkie Cornelius US
Towards a Standardized (OT TC) Old Testament TextCritical Method
BINDING the enemy in Ancient Near Eastern
Iconography
Susandra
Claassens
Marlene
Mondriaan
Unisa
Maintenance provisions in old Babylonian Sippar
family deceased division agreements.
Was Israel in Canaan earlier than Merenptah's
inscription?
Jaco Gericke
NWU
Lawrence
Lincoln
US
Gudrun Lier
UJ
Willem Boshoff
Unisa
Annette Evans
UFS
David Adamo
Kogi State
University
Child Evangelism in a Postmodern, Scientific,
Technological, and Multicultural Context
A Nameless African Woman (Potiphar’s Wife Gen. 39)
and her Contribution to Ancient Israel
Unisa
Reading Numbers 31:17–18 as sanctioning rape of
T
emba Rugwiji
UP
72
The supernatural imagery of the Hebrew Bible as a
philosophical mystery
An Analysis of the Use of Metaphorical Language in
Targum Lamentations 1 – 4
An Anonymous Mishna is according to Rabbi Meir: A
Critical Investigation
Biblical Archaeology Redivivus? Taking stock of new
directions in Biblical Archaeology
B3
214 NAB SASNES Marlene
Mondriaan
Ignatius Gous
Unisa
minors: A pastoral hermeneutical perspective
Minds at loss – a cognitive linguistic assessment of
perceived threats in the book of Lamentations
Jennifer Roberts
Unisa
Ministering Minds – into the minds of those we have
taught and might still be teaching
Theological Society of South Africa
Conference theme: “A distinctly South African way of doing theology? Revisiting and gathering various
strands of contextual theology”
Session Room
Society Chairperson
A1
A1 NAB TSSA
Louise Kretzschmar
A2
216NAB TSSA
Xolani Sakuba
Speaker
Robert Vosloo
Institution Title
US
Transforming memory and the art of forgetting
Anné Verhoef
and Mark
Rathbone
Gift Masengwe
NWU
Economic justice and Black Theology in the South Africa
context – toward a dialogical mode of discourse
Zimbabwe
Christian
College
UKZN
Conservation and the religious space: A religious-ethical–
theological approach to the environment
A4
219NAB TSSA
Andrew
Warmback
A4
224NAB TSSA
A5
A1 NAB TSSA
Tumelo Letsoha Corneille
Nkurunziza
Beverly Haddad Ernst Conradie
UWC
73
Pentecostal Spirituality: A Disregarded Cornerstone for
the Contextualisation of African Theologies?
A distinctly South African way of doing theology? In
conversation with Steve de Gruchy
A5
219NAB TSSA
Louise Kretzschmar
Unisa
B3
216NAB TSSA
Tumelo Letsoha
B3
219NAB TSSA
Corneille
Nkurunziza
Louise Kretzschmar
B3
224NAB TSSA
Martin
Laubscher
Jacob Meiring
A6
A1 NAB TSSA
Nico Koopman
A7
216NAB TSSA
Robert Vosloo
A7
219NAB TSSA
Ernst Conradie
A7
224NAB TSSA
Bev Haddad
A8
216NAB TSSA
Robert Vosloo
A9
216NAB TSSA
Clint le Bruyns
A9
A9
219NAB TSSA
224NAB TSSA
Sue Rakoczy
Bev Haddad
Unisa
Unisa
Teaching Applied Ethics in the South African context:
Session 1 and 2: With inputs by Louise Kretzschmar,
Willem Fourie & Wessel Bentley
The consequences of apartheid theology for critical
theological reflection in present day South Africa
Teaching Applied Ethics in the South African context:
Session 1 and 2: With inputs by Louise Kretzschmar,
Willem Fourie & Wessel Bentley
Theology in the flesh – perceptions of the body in
Christianity and in sub-Saharan Africa
Free
University
Amsterdam
Clint le Bruyns
UKZN
Public Theology – and Social Transformation? A Critical
Receptional Analysis
Jonathan
US
Jonathan Edwards and Justification: Living Traditions,
Huggings
Ecumenical Dialogue, and Global Theology
Willem Fourie
UP
Broadening our vocabulary: Towards a South African
theology of sustainability
Anniegrace
UKZN
Marriage a ‘Potential Death Trap’ for Women in subHlatywayo
Saharan Africa: Towards A Bold Community Praxis in
Reducing HIV Infection Amongst Married Women
Martin Laubscher UFS
On Reading some of Karl Barth’s Sermons in South
Africa Today
Stephen Martin
King’s
“Church for Others”: An Eschatologically-Attuned
University Theology of Public Life and the Witness of the Anglican
College
Church in Southern Africa
Ernst Conradie
UWC
Klaus Nürnberger’s Regaining sanity for the Earth
Rowanne Marie UKZN
Towards a gendered theology of work: A case study of the
paid and unpaid work experiences of Indian Christian
Women in Pietermaritzburg
74
B6
A1 NAB TSSA
B7
A1 NAB TSSA
A11
A11
A1 NAB TSSA
216NAB TSSA
Louise
Kretzschmar
Louise
Kretzschmar
Ernst Conradie Rian Venter
Wessel Bentley Dion Forster
A11
219NAB TSSA
Gabriel Nduye
Thulani Ndlazi
A12
A1 NAB TSSA
Ernst Conradie
Eddy Van der
Borght
A12
210NAB TSSA
Thulani Ndlazi
Gabriel Nduye
A13
A13
A1 NAB TSSA
216NAB TSSA
Willem Fourie
Sue Rakoczy
Janet Trisk
Selina Palm
A13
219NAB TSSA
Xolani Sakuba
Gift Masengwe
A14
216NAB TSSA
Robert Vosloo
Simon Jooste
A14
219NAB TSSA
Ernst Conradie
Andrew
Warmback
A14
A16
224NAB TSSA
A1 NAB TSSA
Clint le Bruyns
Ernst Conradie
Johan Pieters
Nico Koopman
TSSA Business meeting
TSSA Business meeting
UFS
US
Thinking about God today: Are there new possibilities?
Social and political justice as mission in the theology and
practice of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa
Transforming Theologies from the Margins
Church
Land
Programme
Free
South African Contextual theologies and the global debate
University on social cohesion and identities
Amsterdam
UKZN
An African life sustaining eco-theological framework:
Tilling and keeping the earth in the context of climate
change
UKZN
Hope’s daughters – a beautiful alternative to violence
US
Transforming hope? A theological-ethical exploration of
the role of hope in social transformation
Zimbabwe Is there a distinctly African Theology? A critical look at
Christian
the contributions of African philosophy to theology and
College
theological reflection in Africa
US
Improving upon Calvin’s legacy for church life in a liberal
democracy?
UKZN
Constructing a theology of climate change: Twenty key
elements of a contextual theology of climate change in the
light of Rio + 20
Sacrifice and Economic Justice
US
In search of a critical prophetic Public Theology: Some
75
A17
215NAB TSSA
A17
216NAB TSSA
A17
219NAB TSSA
A18
HexTh
TSSA
Augustine
Shutte
Detlev Tönsing
Andrew
Warmback
Rowanne
Sarojini Marie
directives from Christian sin discourses?
Religion, Ethics and a Secular Culture. Exploring the
problem in three novels
Peter Barrett
UKZN
The Holy Spirit as Inspirer of Human Imagination – A
View From Science-and-Theology
Sue Rakoczy
St Joseph’s Wangari Maathai: Discerning a Call to Environmental
Justice
Beverley Haddad UKZN
The South African women’s theological project: Practices
of solidarity and degrees of separation in the context of the
HIV epidemic
Patrick Giddy
UKZN
United Bible Societies (Africa Area)
Theme: Bible Translations and Source Texts
Session
A1
A2
A4
A5
Room
216NAB
LTI Ch
LTI LT
216NAB
Society
UBS
UBS
UBS
UBS
A13
LTI Ch
UBS
Chairperson
Aloo Mojola
Boniface Malle
Ephraim Baloyi
Margaret
Muthwii
Aloo Mojola
Speaker
Margaret Muthwii
Ephraim Baloyi
Aloo Mojola
Anastasia Boniface
Malle
Ephraim Baloyi
Institution
UBS
UBS
UBS
UBS
Title
Bible Translations and Language Policy
Textus Receptus and Critical Editions as Base Texts
History of Swahili Bible Translations
Hebrew Bible and Swahili Translations
UBS
Bible Translations and Biblical Canons: towards a
single canon?
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