Protestante vier in 2017 met vreugde die kerkhervorming wat 500 jaar gelede op 31 Oktober 1517 begin het. Predikante van die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika wat navorsers aan die Universiteit ...van Pretoria is, lewer met hierdie publikasie ’n bydrae tot die feestelike herdenking van die Reformasie. Die Hervormde Kerk het nog altyd waardering vir die Lutherse Reformasie gehad. Om hierdie rede word daar deeglik aan die teologie van Martin Luther aandag geskenk. Luther se Wittenbergse kollega, Philipp Melanchthon, kry ook sydelings aandag. Die Reformasie van die 16de eeu het nie in Wittenberg geëindig nie en daarom word daar ook aan Johannes Calvyn aandag geskenk.
Sommer utilizes a lost ancient Near Eastern perception of divinity according to which a god has more than one body and fluid, unbounded selves. Though the dominant strains of biblical religion ...rejected it, a monotheistic version of this theological intuition is found in some biblical texts. Later Jewish and Christian thinkers inherited this ancient way of thinking; ideas such as the sefirot in Kabbalah and the trinity in Christianity represent a late version of this theology. This book forces us to rethink the distinction between monotheism and polytheism, as this notion of divine fluidity is found in both polytheistic cultures (Babylonia, Assyria, Canaan) and monotheistic ones (biblical religion, Jewish mysticism, Christianity), whereas it is absent in some polytheistic cultures (classical Greece). The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel has important repercussions not only for biblical scholarship and comparative religion but for Jewish-Christian dialogue.
Offers his theological explorations as represented by his personal description of God, influenced by his grandmother. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed ...by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
The Name Command (NC) is usually interpreted as a prohibition
against speaking Yhwh's name in a particular context: false oaths,
wrongful pronunciation, irreverent worship, magical practices,
...cursing, false teaching, and the like. However, the NC lacks the
contextual specification needed to support the command as speech
related. Taking seriously the narrative context at Sinai and the
closest lexical parallels, a different picture emerges-one animated
by concrete rituals and their associated metaphorical concepts. The
unique phrase ns' shm is one of several expressions
arising from the conceptual metaphor, election as
branding , that finds analogies in high-priest regalia as well
as in various ways of claiming ownership in the Ancient Near East,
such as inscribed monuments, the use of seals, and the branding of
slaves. The NC presupposes that Yhwh has claimed Israel by placing
Yhwh's own name on her. In this light, the first two commands of
the Decalogue reinforce the two sides of the covenant declaration:
"I will be your God; you will be my people." The first expresses
the demand for exclusive worship and the second calls for proper
representation. As a consequence, the NC invites a richer
exploration of what it means to be a people in covenant with Yhwh-a
people bearing his name among the nations. It also points to what
is at stake when Israel carries that name "in vain." The image of
bearing Yhwh's name offers a rich source for theological and
ethical reflection that cannot be conveyed nonmetaphorically
without distortion or loss of meaning.