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Profile
| Academic position | Post Doc |
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| Research fields | Protestant Theology,Ecology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions |
| Keywords | Ecological 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
| Country | Democratic Republic of Congo |
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| City | Goma |
| Institution | Universite Libre des Pays des Grands Lacs |
| Institute | Ancient and Biblical Studies |
Host during sponsorship
| Dr. Clemens Wustmans | Lehrstuhl für Systematische Theologie / Hermeneutik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/05/2020 |
Programme(s)
| 2019 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2021 | Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {John Calvin and creation Retrieving Calvin ' s ecological insights on Genesis 1}. 7, 2021, 1--24 |
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| 2020 | Kavusa, 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 |
| 2019 | Kavusa, 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 |
| 2019 | Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {Water and Water-related Phenomena in the Old Testament Wisdom Literature: An Eco-theological Investigation}. London: Bloomsbury, 2019 |
| 2018 | Kavusa, 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 |
| 2018 | Kavusa, 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 |
| 2018 | Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {The Torah likened with nurturing water of rivers in Sirach 24:23-34 eco-theological significance}. In: Pharos, 99, 2018, 23--34 |
| 2018 | Kavusa, 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 |
| 2017 | Kavusa, 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, |
| 2017 | Kavusa, 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, |
| 2016 | Kavusa, 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 |
| 2013 | Kavusa, Kivatsi Jonathan: {Humans and Ecosystems in the Priestly Creation Account: An Ecological Interpretation of Genesis 1:1-2:4a}. Saarbr{\"{u}}cken: Lambert, 2013 |