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Research Outputs (Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology): Recent submissions

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Jesus appoints his disciples as his agents to continue his divine mission according to John 17:17-19

Van der Merwe, D.G. (University of Pretoria, 2003)

This article attempts to point out that John 17:18 does not refer to the historical sending of the disciples by Jesus, but rather the official appointment of the disciples as his agents to continue his divine mission in ...
The exposition of John 17:6-8: An exegetical exercise

Van der Merwe, D.G. (BB Print, 2003)

This essay is an exegesis of Jn 17:6-8 aimed at gaining an understanding of what the Fourth Evangelist tries to emphasize and to communicate concerning the character and success of Jesus’ earthly ministry. Firstly, a ...
Experiencing fellowship with God’ according to 1 John 1:5-2:28: dealing with the change in social behaviour

Van der Merwe, D.G. (University of Pretoria, 2007)

From the First Epistle of John it is evident that the constitution of ‘fellowship’ between God and ‘the children of God’ is closely related with a lifestyle related to the three attributes of God recited in the Epistle ...
Status degradation in first John: social scientific and literary perspectives

Van der Merwe, D.G.; Snodderly, B (Unisa Press, 2007)

A socio-rhetorical approach to analyzing portions of the text of First John brings out new answers to questions about the text, related to genre, structure and interpretation that have puzzled biblical commentators over ...
Rich man, poor man in Jerusalem according to the letter of James

Van der Merwe, D.G. (Unisa Press, 2010)

This article is an investigation into what the Letter of James communicates to the reader regarding socioeconomic stratifications in one of the early Christian communities. Rather than discussing economics in any single ...
Domestic architecture: culture, fictive kinship and identity in the First Epistle of John

Van der Merwe, D.G. (Unisa Press, 2010)

The aim of this research is to investigate the domestic architecture of the First Epistle of John. It seems that the author has used family metaphorics to make the invisible (Father) visible in the community and also to ...
The power of the gospel victorious over the power of evil in Acts of the Apostles

Van der Merwe, D.G. (University of Stellenbosch, 2010)

This research focuses on how the author of Acts managed, rhetorically, to communicate his ideological standpoint regarding “the power of proclaiming the good news about the kingdom of God and the power that exist in the ...
The impact of the economic system on social and labour relations in the early church as revealed in the letter of James

Van der Merwe, D.G. (AOSIS, 2012)

The Letter of James addresses the dichotomy between the socioeconomic classes of the rich (πλούσιος) and the poor (πτωχὸς). This research reveals the social and labour relations resulting from this dichotomy and the wealth ...
Those who have been born of God do not sin, because God’s seed abides in them’ − Soteriology in 1 John

Van der Merwe, D.G. (AOSIS, 2012)

The author of 1 John states that ‘those who have been born of God do not sin, because God’s seed abides in them’. This is found explicitly four times (3:5; 3:6 bis; 3:9; 5:18), and implicitly once (2:29). The author links ...
The metaphor of light embedded in the Johannine prologue, Part 1: The Light before the incarnation

Van der Merwe, D.G.; Albalaa, P.Y. (AOSIS, 2013)

This is the first of two articles on how the Fourth Evangelist has ingeniously embedded the light metaphor in the Prologue of the Fourth Gospel. The Prologue is replete with this metaphor. A thorough discourse analysis ...
The metaphor of light embedded in the Johannine prologue, Part 2: The Light at and after the incarnation

Van der Merwe, D.G.; Albalaa, P.Y. (Aosis, 2013)

This is the second of two articles on how the Fourth Evangelist has embedded the light metaphor in the Prologue of the Fourth Gospel. The Prologue is replete with this metaphor. A thorough discourse analysis explores the ...
Pauline rhetoric and the discernment of the wisdom of God according to 1 Corinthians 2

Van der Merwe, D.G. (Unisa Press, 2013)

This article investigates the rhetoric Paul used in 1 Corinthians 2 to create a dichotomous spirituality among his readers in order to convince the readers of the necessity and importance of the correct discernment of the ...
Early Christian spirituality according to the First Epistle of John: The identification of different ‘lived experiences’

Van der Merwe, D.G. (AOSIS, 2013)

The interest in this article is early Christian spirituality. The word ‘spirituality’ is used here denoting ‘a lived experience’. Therefore, the article focuses on religious experience in an early Christian community as ...
Early Christian spiritualties of sin and forgiveness according to 1 John

Van der Merwe, D.G. (AOSIS, 2014)

The article attempts to investigate the possible lived experiences created by this text. The text revolves around the experience of fellowship with God (1:6, 7) who is characterised as ‘light’. For the author of 1 John, ...
Eenheid as matriks van die spiritualiteit van die Evangelie volgens Johannes

Van der Merwe, D.G. (Umuzi, 2014)

In hierdie artikel word die eenheidsbegrip, wat die matriks van die Johanneïese spiritualiteit vorm, ondersoek. Vir die skrywer van hierdie Evangelie is die eenheid tussen Jesus en sy dissipels gegrond op die eenheid tussen ...
Old Testament spirituality in the gospel of John

Van der Merwe, D.G. (Aosis, 2014)

The majority of early Christian documents are saturated with Jewish thought. Although Second-Temple Judaism did include a certain amount of diversity, when the Gospel of John was written in different phases during the ...
1 John : ‘effects’ in biblical texts that constitute ‘lived experiences’ in the contemplative reading of those texts

Van der Merwe, Dirk, 1952- (Aosis, 2015)

It is evident according to 1 John 2:28–3:10 that the eschatological events predicted in this text have implications for how people should live prior to these events. This essay explores this eschatological pericope by ...
Wim J.C. Weren, studies in Matthew’s Gospel: Literary design, intertextuality, and social setting

Van der Merwe, D.G. (AOSIS, 2015)

This article summarises and comments on the book Studies in Matthew’s Gospel: Literary design, intertextuality, and social setting, by Wim Weren published during 2014. The essence of this book is all about meaning: the ...
Rethinking Biblical hermeneutics for mobilizing Christian believers to proclaim the Good News in a post-secular age

Van der Merwe, D.G. (Unisa Press, 2015)

The continuous changing of the zeitgeist, from modernism through postmodernism to metamodernism (post-secularism), contributes to the continuous changes in our societies, which undoubtedly lead to changes in the area of ...
Reading the Bible in the 21st century: Some hermeneutical principles (Part 2)

Van der Merwe, D.G. (AOSIS, 2015)

This essay is to be an extension of the essay ‘Reading the Bible in the 21st century: Some hermeneutical principles (Part 1)’. Two more ‘hermeneutical aspects’ are proposed and discussed in this essay: the aspects of ...

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