Dr. Kivatsi Jonathan Kavusa

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsProtestant Theology,Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions
KeywordsEcological Hermeneutics,, Indigenous Knowlegde, Sustainability, Ecological crisis, Bio-cultural diversity
Honours and awards

2019: Georg Forster Postdoc Fellowship Award

2017: University of Pretoria Postdoc Fellowship Award

2016: Best Doctoral Thesis of the College of Human Sciences/UNISA

2014: Langham scholars Award for PhD studies

2012: David Bosch Theological Merit Award Best Master’s student/UNISA

2011: WCC/ETE Study grant for Master’s Degree

2007: Foundation RAWJI Best Honours student/ULPGL (DRC)

Current contact address

CountryDemocratic Republic of Congo
CityGoma
InstitutionUniversite Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs
InstituteAncient and Biblical Studies

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Clemens WustmansLehrstuhl für Systematische Theologie / Hermeneutik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2020

Programme(s)

2019Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2021Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {John Calvin and creation Retrieving Calvin ' s ecological insights on Genesis 1}. 7, 2021, 1--24
2020Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {Ecological Readings of Water Metaphors in the Book of Proverbs: Some Hermeneutical and Methodological Considerations}. In: Journal of Theology for Southern Africa, 167, 2020, 62--79
2019Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {Ecological hermeneutics and the interpretation of biblical texts yesterday, today and onwards: Critical reflection and assessment}. In: Old Testament Essays, 32, 2019, 229--255
2019Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {Water and Water-related Phenomena in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature: An Eco-theological Investigation}. London: Bloomsbury, 2019
2018Kavusa, Jonathan: {Creation made into ‫ָח‬ ‫ְכ‬ ‫ָמ‬ ‫:ה‬ Th e eco-theological appraisal of the intrinsic worth of nature in Proverbs 3:19-20}. In: Stellenbosch Theological Journal, 4, 2018, 579--594
2018Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {The Intrinsic Worth of Water in Job 38:22–38: Urging the Abandonment of an Anthropocentric Worldview}. In: Journal for Semitics, 27, 2018, 21
2018Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {The Torah likened with nurturing water of rivers in Sirach 24:23-34 eco-theological significance}. In: Pharos, 99, 2018, 23--34
2018Kavusa, Jonathan Kivatsi: {Water as a Blessing and a Transient Resource: A Call to Re-Define Modern Attitudes towards Water in Light of Job 14:7{\^{a}}€“12}. In: Journal for Semitics, 26, 2018, 805--819
2017Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {An eco-theological interpretation of proverbs 5:15-20 in the light of water crises experienced in present-day Africa}. In: Old Testament Essays, 30, 2017,
2017Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {Water and Justice: Reading the Irony of Qoheleth 2:4-6 against the Selfish Distribution of Resources on the African Continent}. In: Pharos Theological Journal, 98, 2017,
2016Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {Social Disorder and the Trauma of the Earth Community: Reading Hosea 4:1-3 in Light of Today's Crises}. In: Old Testament Essays, 29, 2016, 481--501
2013Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {Humans and Ecosystems in the Priestly Creation Account: An Ecological Interpretation of Genesis 1:1-2:4a}. Saarbr{\"{u}}cken: Lambert, 2013