Editorial Conspectus 35
Book Review: In Jesus’ Name: Johannine Prayer in Ethical, Missional, and Eschatological Perspective
With his second book on prayer in the Johannine tradition, Scott Adams builds on the foundation he laid with his earlier study, Prayer in John’s Farewell Discourse: An Exegetical Investigation (Pickwick, 2020).
Book Review: Tell Her Story: How Women Led, Taught, and Ministered in the Early Church
Nijay K. Gupta is a full professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in the greater Chicago area; formerly he held the same position at Portland Seminary.
Book Review: Who Do You Say I Am? Christology in Africa
This volume complements previous editions of the annual conferences of the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology (ASET).
Reimagining the Role of the Pastor as a Teaching Elder in the Twenty-First-Century Church of Central Africa Presbyterian Nkhoma Synod Context: A Situational Audit of Lilongwe City Congregations
In the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian, Nkhoma Synod, a pastor has various responsibilities. Crucial to the pastoral calling is the ministry of teaching. They therefore define the pastor as a teaching elder. One important way a pastor fulfills the teaching responsibility is through preaching, but this study found that, because of various factors...
Euphemisms and Metaphors for Menstruation in the Old Testament and Two Ghanaian Bible Translations
This article discusses the metaphors for menstruation in the Old Testament. It aims to explore the metaphorical conceptualizations of menstruation in the Hebrew Bible and compare them with their translations in two Ghanaian Bibles (Twi and Gã). The Conceptual Metaphor Theory...
Salt and Light: Reading Matthew 5:13–16 within the Context of the Matthean Community
The pericope of Matthew 5–7, known traditionally as the Sermon on the Mount, has provided scholars with fertile ground for research over the last two millennia. However, one finds scant evidence of scholarly exegesis that reveals an understanding of the Sermon’s message...
The Destructive Power of the Tongue as a Verbum Inefficax: A Canonical-Literary Reading of James 3:1–12 through the Lens of Speech-Act Theory1
The major premise of this journal article is that human speech is either categorized as a verbum efficax or a verbum inefficax. On the one hand, as argued in section one, human speech as a verbum efficax is efficacious.
Theologizing in Africa: With Special Reference to Bible Translation in Chichewa
To “theologize,” that is, to engage in theological reasoning and exposition when composing oral, written, or multimodal discourse, has been applied continually
