Shattering the idols: Confronting the obstinate hold of dehumanising powers on post-apartheid South Africans with the living presence of the crucified and resurrected Lord by Ferdinand P. Kruger, Friedrich W. de Wet

“…Working with Eswine’s assumption, we reflect on the hold of idols on the hearts and minds of people. The spiritual powers at work in society develop into idols and place their own desires above God’s purpose for humanity and creation. …”
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�n Christosentriese koinonia-dinamiek agter Paulus se hantering van sekere problematiek in 1 Korinti�rs by B W de Wet

“….� As a test case the problem of the eating of food (especially meat), consecrated and/or sacrificed to the idols during social, as well as cultic occasions, as formulated in 8:1a was chosen. …”
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Missional tenet with incentive intent of and for witness study of 1 Corinthians 9:19–23 by Takalani A. Muswubi

“…Christ’s law of selfless and sacrificial love is the missional principle, an incentive intent not only of and for handling disputable matter, including a matter of eating the food that is offered to the idols (cf. 1 Cor 8:1–11:1) but also of and for gospel witness there and then, in the early Church and also here and now, in the recent church as it always is, given the missional history of the church. …”
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Western theology’s whiteness and some Liberation theologies, two sides of the same coin? by Sifiso Khuzwayo

“…Whiteness as an ideological construction found the ideal tool in Christianity and through supersessionism detached Jesus of Nazareth from his Jewish roots and clothed him in whiteness, thus making white maleness the idol that all creatures must aspire towards. In defiance, liberation theologians, in particular James Cone, coined the possibility that ‘Jesus is black’. …”
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God, vertroue en twyfel: Die vroue in die konsentrasiekampe tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog by Ignatius W.C. Van Wyk

“…In the second part of this article, Lutheran perspectives on the God of the Bible and man-made idols are provided as a Christian alternative to the faith of our forefathers. …”
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