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Christo Lombaard
Researcher at University of South Africa
Publications - 86
Citations - 436
Christo Lombaard is an academic researcher from University of South Africa. The author has contributed to research in topics: Old Testament & Spirituality. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 84 publications receiving 426 citations. Previous affiliations of Christo Lombaard include University of Pretoria.
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Sensing a 'second coming': An overview of new concepts in Sociology, Philosophy, Law and Theology on the re-emerging religious in private and public life
TL;DR: In a number of academic disciplines, expression has been given to the recently rising awareness that the category of the religious has not disappeared from public life as mentioned in this paper, by means of a series of newly developed concepts.
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Biblical spirituality and human rights
TL;DR: The contribution of Eckart Otto to the current understanding of ancient Jerusalemite origins of one central aspect of modern human rights culture is highlighted in this paper, where two Pentateuch texts are discussed in this light: Genesis 1:26-27 and Deuteronomy 13:2-10.
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The relevance of Old Testament science in / for Africa : two false pieties and focussed scholarship
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the call for African Old Testament scholarship to be more relevant to the African continent has fallen into a number of "false pieties" or "traps", or "pieties." Two of these are the preference for hermeneutics to exegesis, and the conviction that the discipline must, and can, be inherently African / contextual / relevant.
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The Old Testament in Christian spirituality: Perspectives on the undervaluation of the Old Testament in Christian spirituality
TL;DR: In this article, ten possible reasons why the Old Testament takes such a disproportionately diminutive role in the practice and study of spirituality are offered. But, it is the New Testament that almost without exception features most prominently.