About the Journal

Acta Theologica is an internationally established peer-reviewed academic journal listed in various indices, including the Web of Science and SciELO South Africa. Hosted by the Faculty of Theology & Religion at the University of the Free State, the journal embraces both its rootedness in the African continent and the global public sphere of theological research. The publishing of innovative, interdisciplinary, and contextual theological knowledge with a significant edge is thus of the utmost importance. Only articles in English are published in the two regular editions in June and December. Occasional monographs or longer contributions are also published in a concurrent series of Supplementa.

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Current Issue

Vol. 45 No. 2 (2025)
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Published: 2025-12-12

Interviews

  • Interview with Prof. Dr. Julius Gathogo

    J. Mokhutso
    1-12
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.10231

Articles

  • Decolonizing theological education in Ghana Embracing peer teaching and Paulo Freire’s critical pedagogy

    D. Awuah-Gyawu
    13-33
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.8486

  • From the Council of Nicaea to the Age of AI: What kind of human did Jesus become?

    W. Bentley
    34-46
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.9738

  • Tadek dance as a decolonial theo-cosmology

    Ma. G.J. Bigornia
    47-66
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.9813

  • Unraveling "DHR": The study of ancient texts

    P.S. Chia
    67-78
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.9344

  • Psalms 127:3-5 and the status of sons in ancient Israelite society: Salient issues in contemporary African society

    O.G. Chukwuma
    79-98
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.9413

  • Unhiding in plain sight: Reimagining the parable of the persistent widow

    C.D. du Toit
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.9014

  • "Before the cock crows, you will deny me" (Matthew 26: 34): Betrayal and Redemption in The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna

    F.E. England
    114-131
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.8661

  • Equivalent terminology in the late Chagatai Turkish (Eastern Turki) translation of the Gospel of Luke

    F. Erbay, F.N. Küçükballı
    132-150
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.9387

  • The Nicene Creed in Martin Thornton’s Ascetical Theology Re-imagining Anglican Spirituality in Africa

    R. Falconer
    151-172
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.9470

  • The Trinity and the economy: The God who cares about human welfare

    M. Langga
    173-183
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.9371

  • Perilous presencing: How the church’s sacraments re-symbolize trauma

    A. Lau
    184-195
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.9234

  • The Significance of Calvin’s Theology of Mission and its realization in the sixteenth century for twenty-first century church mission in Indonesia

    S.P.I. Lumintang
    196-220
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.10232

  • Embodied theology with children with disabilities in South Africa

    C. Manuel
    221-247
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.9438

  • Theology of sexual purity: Reimagining child-marriages within the white garment churches in Zimbabwe

    P. Musoni
    248-262
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.10233

  • A short overview of the modern eras of historiography in church history: Modernity, Postmodernity, and Metamodernity

    E. Oliver
    263-294
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.9691

  • Truth and reconciliation: Indigenous storytelling reflection on Inxeba Elingaphakathi

    N. Penxa-Matholeni
    295-306
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.10235

  • Breaking the silos: Decolonial theological education beyond the church-academy divide in Africa

    T.C. Sakupapa
    307-327
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.9844

  • The eternal bonds: Families as a divine stewardship beyond the world

    V. Tendenan
    328-341
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.9514

Book Reviews

  • Towards the sustainable well-being of communities

    J. Hendriks
    342-345
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.10236

  • Proud to be deaf

    M. Matshobane
    346-349
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.10237

  • Wonders above, signs below

    D.N. Andrew
    350-355
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.10238

  • Religious persecution

    P. Verster
    356-359
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.10239

  • The art of narrative analogy

    E.E. Meyer
    360-362
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.10240

Reviewer list

  • Reviewers of articles processed in 2025

    363-367
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.38140/at.v45i2.10241
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This is a South African accredited Journal, also listed in Web of Science and SciELO SA.