The mystifying mosaic of Moses: On Pentateuch theory and Biblical spirituality

Lombaard, Christo

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“…In the face of frequent misrepresentation throughout the centuries of what these two expressions had meant, their intended and shared insistence that the Bible creates faith in its readership communities stands central (Lombaard 2011b): Such an existential transformation, in which readers encounter the Divine by engaging (in different ways) with the Bible, is something that has remained a constant within mainstream Christianity 2 (Lombaard 1999:34-35) although in different permutations according to the differing emphases found in the ecumenical world (see recently Kalaitzidis et al 2014;Werner & Phiri 2013;Werner et al 2010;.…”

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Biblical Spirituality and transformation

Lombaard

2015

In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi

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Strangely, though spirituality itself remains hardly possible to define (Lombaard 2008:94-107) despite many attempts (cf. Waaijman 2006:1-18; extensively, Waaijman 2000;, one of its interdisciplinary offshoots, Biblical Spirituality, has escaped at least some of this persistent and inherent vagueness. Placed as it is between the methodologically imprecise discipline of Christian Spirituality and the methodologically exacting, and contested, discipline of Bible exegesis (cf. Lombaard 2011a:211-225), this 'in-between' discipline of Biblical Spirituality (cf. Welzen 2011:37-60 for the most recent overview of approaches to Biblical Spirituality as a discipline) has managed, perhaps for precisely the reason of its 'in-between' placement, to escape two problems. Firstly, Biblical Spirituality tends to be methodologically more concrete than the broader discipline of Christian Spirituality within which it is housed. Secondly, Biblical Spirituality finds itself free from the often experienced estrangement from matters of faith of which the Bible sciences have repeatedly stood accused (in my view, unfairly, but also understandably so). In fact, there is a decided sense amongst scholars in the field of Biblical Spirituality that this discipline may lead Old and New Testament studies onto paths more sensitive to religious belief too.Biblical Spirituality studies two interrelated aspects (cf. Lombaard 2012a:111-137; Schneiders 2000:1-22): how aspects of faith have found expression in the texts that went on to become the Bible texts, and how people have subsequently related to these texts, in faith, or in non-faith, or even in anti-faith orientations. It is these two aspects of the discipline that will broadly guide the structure of the later part of this article, though in reverse order:• how people relate or have related to the Bible as book of faith; and • how faith has come to be expressed in the Bible texts.Natural to the discipline of Biblical Spirituality is also to seek perspectives on a third set of questions that logically result from the interaction between these two aspects: How do these two aspects relate to one another, if at all?Before such matters are taken into consideration, though, a more direct issue related to the theme of this article has to be addressed: How can it be that the discipline of Biblical Spirituality is at all interested in the topic of transformation? Biblical Spirituality and transformationTransformation is one of the key elements of the human spirituality phenomenon and is one of the foundational areas of study within the discipline of Christian Spirituality. Transformation entails the meaningful, deep changes within individuals as they are touched by the Holy and as they mature in their experience of and expression given to their faith. This article places that dynamism within the framework of the academic discipline of Biblical Spirituality, which is briefly described in the first part. After depicting the concept of transformation in some detail, its relationship with and its occurre...

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Biblical Spirituality and transformation

Lombaard

2015

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The Bible as source for leadership models: a considered No and a careful Yes

Lombaard

2024

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In this contribution, earlier research by the author on the topic of leadership and the Bible is expanded upon, here to evaluate the usage of the Bible in publications on leadership. By means of Weberian ideal-type analysis, some traits of such usage are indicated, and thereupon evaluated. This is done by theologically characterisation, from the perspective of theological realism (post-secularism). Not a less evangelical, but a more evangelical approach is argued for, in which the natures of Bible, faith and believers are taken more seriously than their wished-for alternatives. The latter includes the oft-found confession to taking the Bible seriously, which however too often plays out as an empty assertion. This, because the realities of the historical coming-into-being of the biblical texts and corpora, are in such cases not given their due attention. The Bible confessed to is, then, a document that never existed. This implies that leadership insights derived on such a basis, leave much room for criticism as to their implied relation to reality.

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The mystifying mosaic of Moses: On Pentateuch theory and Biblical spirituality

Cited by 2 publications

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Biblical Spirituality and transformation

Biblical Spirituality and transformation

The Bible as source for leadership models: a considered No and a careful Yes

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