Consider what happens to a theological journal after its subscribers die. The volumes sit in seminary basements. The articles (some of them the only serious treatment a passage has ever received) become effectively unfindable. Scholarship written to be read stops being read. BiblicalStudies.org.uk exists to reverse that. Its banner states the mission plainly: making biblical…
Between 1844 and 1866, a French priest named Jacques-Paul Migne did something no institution had managed: he printed, almost single-handedly and at ruinous speed, nearly the entire literary output of the Church Fathers. The Patrologia Latina ran to two hundred and seventeen volumes; the Patrologia Graeca to one hundred and sixty-one. Scholars have complained about…
In occupied France, in 1942, two Jesuits began a publishing project that would quietly reshape twentieth-century theology. Henri de Lubac and Jean Daniélou were convinced that the renewal of Christian thought would come not from new systems but from returning to the sources — and that the sources had to be made readable again. The…
Calvin University maintains a library that most of its own students never think about, and that thousands of pastors and researchers around the world depend on daily. The Christian Classics Ethereal Library (CCEL), has been digitizing the Christian written tradition since the mid-1990s, and it remains one of the most useful things on the open…
A student who wants to read Athanasius tonight has two options. He can order a critical edition and wait three weeks, or he can open a browser and have the text in four seconds. That second option exists because of a quiet act of scholarly generosity: the digitization of the Schaff corpus, and its careful…
Author(s): NgwokePublished in: African Journal of Pentecostal Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2024)DOI: 10.4102/ajops.v1i1.23 Abstract A critical account of the rapid multiplication of Pentecostal churches in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and of what drives it. Ngwoke examines the economics and the ecclesiology together — church planting as vocation and as enterprise — in a setting where…
Author(s): Abraham M.M. Mzondi; Chosana F.E. ModibaPublished in: African Journal of Pentecostal Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2024)DOI: 10.4102/ajops.v1i1.21 Abstract An ethnographic study of how a Pentecostal congregation in Limpopo handles death and mourning, and of what happens where Pentecostal practice meets inherited ritual. The article is a working example of the question that African…
Author(s): Mookgo S. Kgatle (University of South Africa)Published in: Verbum et Ecclesia, Vol. 45, No. 1 (2024)DOI: 10.4102/ve.v45i1.3139 Abstract Kgatle takes the “pneumatological imagination” — the category Amos Yong made central to contemporary Pentecostal theology — and asks what it yields when directed at sustainable development. The move from altar to action is the argument:…
Author(s): Marius Nel (North-West University, South Africa)Published in: African Journal of Pentecostal Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2024)DOI: 10.4102/ajops.v1i1.14 Abstract What does prophetic ministry become in a society of extreme inequality? Nel examines the practice of prophecy among South African Pentecostals against the country’s socio-economic conditions, and asks whether the prophetic word functions as consolation,…
Author(s): BondoPublished in: HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, Vol. 82, No. 1DOI: 10.4102/hts.v82i1.11036 Abstract A survey of Congolese Pentecostalism through three fundamental dimensions, written from within the context it describes. The article traces the movement’s trajectory in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and asks what its present configuration implies for the decades ahead…
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