The Pharos Journal of Theology, formerly know as the Ekklesiastikos Pharos was originally published in Alexandria (Egypt) directly by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate as a theological review at the beginning of the 20th Century. Consequently it is one of the oldest scholarly periodicals in Africa.
The periodical later on moved to Athens, but since 1990 the African edition, now known as Pharos Journal of Theology is edited again in Africa (Johannesburg). The editors who served the journal with excellence and extreme dedication over many years were Prof. Dr. B. Hendrickx and Prof. Dr. T. Sansaridou-Hendrickx, both NRF rated scholars and academics of the highest quality. Their pioneering work has made this journal internationally renowned and they remain on board as reviewers. They were followed by Rev. Prof. A Nicolaides who created the online platform for the journal which of course, has far greater reach than a hard copy version.
The Journal is now back to its initial strictly theological focus under our esteemed editor Rev. Dr. S. Hayes who is assisted by an extremely dedicated Editorial Board, composed of local and international scholars of standing. It is published by Africajournals who are the owners of the journal.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
Articles are carefully reviewed, constructive criticisms are made and recommendations for publication or otherwise are made. All submitted articles are promptly and rigorously peer reviewed and may only be accepted after the requisite double blind peer review process stated above as per ASSAf recommendations. All submissions must be original and free from plagiarism and should not have been published anywhere else. The journal secretary collates the two (sometimes three) reviewers' comments into one template which is then sent back to the author/s for revision and resubmission for publication after a check.
Our goal is to ensure a high standard of scholarship with in-depth substantive review prior to all publication. Our editorial staff are subject to the same rules and all reviews are anonymous with anonymous reviewers to limit bias. Overall quality and originality is assessed in terms of structure, narrative, themes, methods and contribution to the body of knowledge. Authors may thus be expected to effect changes and make adaptations and revisions where appropriate before publication of any manuscript. We provide open access so that articles are available to all to read. We do on occasion also make exceptions and publish articles in the Greek language depending on the topic and quality of work reviewed and on the availabilty of suitable reviewers.
SCOPE OF THE JOURNAL
The Pharos Journal of Theology following on the theological works in the Ekklesiaistikos Pharos, now publishes compelling original research that contributes to the development of scholarly understanding and interpretation in a wide range of theological fields. The scope embraces the history and philosophy of religious thought in all traditions and periods, including Systematic Theology, Biblical Studies, New Testament, Old Testament, Christianity, Church History, Jewish studies, theology, pastoral theology, Christian Ethics, Biblical Archaeology, Missiology, Pneumatology, Gospel and Culture, and Comparative Religious Studies, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism.
The Journal is blind peer-reviewed and accredited by the DHET of South Africa and now operates according to ASSAF Guidelines and recommendations. The Harvard style is now used by this journal and is the only acceptable style.
This is an open-access journal - free use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium is allowed, provided that the journal, and original author/s are credited. Work is archived with the National Library of South Africa.
Article Processing Charges
There is no charge to submit a paper, but publishing a paper in Pharos Journal of Theology requires paper processing charges. Publication charges includes publishing and administrative expense. The charge is currently R3950.00.
Open Access
PHAROS JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY is free from all access barriers, allowing for the best possible global dissemination of your article.
Retain Copyright
You retain copyright and are free to disseminate your article, make copies for any use, and/or deposit in any repository or archive you like, and thus retain publishing right without any restriction.
PLEASE SEE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED under the submission section.
PHAROSJOT is registered under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
The Pharos Journal of Theology is Indexed on DHET, ERIH PLUS - Norwegian Social Science Data Services LEVEL 1 we are also indexed in BIBP - Bibliographic Information Base in Patristics (Université Laval) and EZB Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB - electronic journals database) as well as in AcademicKeys. We are currently applying for Scopus indexing.
Periodicity: One Volume per annum
Articles: A maximum of 50 articles per annum are accepted in a volume.
Special editions: one is allowed per year comprising of 30 articles.
Accreditation: DHET South Africa
Submissions: mailto:africajournals@hotmail.com
Special editions may be considered on request from individuals, groups or institutions. To this end a proposal (see 16 and 17 below) must be submitted to AFRICAJOURNALS at africajournals @hotmail.com for final consideration and formal approval.
A Special Edition is supplementary to any of our journals’ regular issues and should focus on topics that may be under-researched or deliberate on leading-edge developments in the field that require some attention. The theme of a special issue and its constituent papers must form a coherent narrative while remaining relevant to the scope of the publishing journal.
The Editors need to assume responsibility to guarantee that the selected papers meet with the desired standard.
The interested individual, group or institution needs to submit a detail proposal as to what they envisage (see 16 and 17 below) to the Editor in Chief of the journal in question who is required to adhere to the following guidelines:
The title of the Special Edition.
A brief CV/s of the proposed Guest Editor/s (usually no more than three).
A statement of the Special Edition significance for the journal concerned and a
draft introduction of individuals, groups or institutions likely to be involved.
Where available, titles and draft abstracts of each of the proposed articles and any
draft papers that are available. Preferably, there should be at least 40 proposed
articles to allow for possible rejections.
Brief details of contributors.
An outline timetable for the Special edition.
We need to add a call for special issue papers to the journal in question’s website or
simply advertise it – thus we will require the Special Edition name, (which may be
based on a conference etc), a logo (where applicable) that may legally be used and
the expected date of publication of the Special Edition.
The periodical later on moved to Athens, but since 1990 the African edition, now known as Pharos Journal of Theology is edited again in Africa (Johannesburg). The editors who served the journal with excellence and extreme dedication over many years were Prof. Dr. B. Hendrickx and Prof. Dr. T. Sansaridou-Hendrickx, both NRF rated scholars and academics of the highest quality. Their pioneering work has made this journal internationally renowned and they remain on board as reviewers. They were followed by Rev. Prof. A Nicolaides who created the online platform for the journal which of course, has far greater reach than a hard copy version.
The Journal is now back to its initial strictly theological focus under our esteemed editor Rev. Dr. S. Hayes who is assisted by an extremely dedicated Editorial Board, composed of local and international scholars of standing. It is published by Africajournals who are the owners of the journal.
PEER REVIEW PROCESS
Articles are carefully reviewed, constructive criticisms are made and recommendations for publication or otherwise are made. All submitted articles are promptly and rigorously peer reviewed and may only be accepted after the requisite double blind peer review process stated above as per ASSAf recommendations. All submissions must be original and free from plagiarism and should not have been published anywhere else. The journal secretary collates the two (sometimes three) reviewers' comments into one template which is then sent back to the author/s for revision and resubmission for publication after a check.
Our goal is to ensure a high standard of scholarship with in-depth substantive review prior to all publication. Our editorial staff are subject to the same rules and all reviews are anonymous with anonymous reviewers to limit bias. Overall quality and originality is assessed in terms of structure, narrative, themes, methods and contribution to the body of knowledge. Authors may thus be expected to effect changes and make adaptations and revisions where appropriate before publication of any manuscript. We provide open access so that articles are available to all to read. We do on occasion also make exceptions and publish articles in the Greek language depending on the topic and quality of work reviewed and on the availabilty of suitable reviewers.
SCOPE OF THE JOURNAL
The Pharos Journal of Theology following on the theological works in the Ekklesiaistikos Pharos, now publishes compelling original research that contributes to the development of scholarly understanding and interpretation in a wide range of theological fields. The scope embraces the history and philosophy of religious thought in all traditions and periods, including Systematic Theology, Biblical Studies, New Testament, Old Testament, Christianity, Church History, Jewish studies, theology, pastoral theology, Christian Ethics, Biblical Archaeology, Missiology, Pneumatology, Gospel and Culture, and Comparative Religious Studies, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism.
The Journal is blind peer-reviewed and accredited by the DHET of South Africa and now operates according to ASSAF Guidelines and recommendations. The Harvard style is now used by this journal and is the only acceptable style.
This is an open-access journal - free use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium is allowed, provided that the journal, and original author/s are credited. Work is archived with the National Library of South Africa.
Article Processing Charges
There is no charge to submit a paper, but publishing a paper in Pharos Journal of Theology requires paper processing charges. Publication charges includes publishing and administrative expense. The charge is currently R3950.00.
Open Access
PHAROS JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY is free from all access barriers, allowing for the best possible global dissemination of your article.
Retain Copyright
You retain copyright and are free to disseminate your article, make copies for any use, and/or deposit in any repository or archive you like, and thus retain publishing right without any restriction.
PLEASE SEE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED under the submission section.
PHAROSJOT is registered under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
The Pharos Journal of Theology is Indexed on DHET, ERIH PLUS - Norwegian Social Science Data Services LEVEL 1 we are also indexed in BIBP - Bibliographic Information Base in Patristics (Université Laval) and EZB Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek (EZB - electronic journals database) as well as in AcademicKeys. We are currently applying for Scopus indexing.
Periodicity: One Volume per annum
Articles: A maximum of 50 articles per annum are accepted in a volume.
Special editions: one is allowed per year comprising of 30 articles.
Accreditation: DHET South Africa
Submissions: mailto:africajournals@hotmail.com
Special editions may be considered on request from individuals, groups or institutions. To this end a proposal (see 16 and 17 below) must be submitted to AFRICAJOURNALS at africajournals @hotmail.com for final consideration and formal approval.
A Special Edition is supplementary to any of our journals’ regular issues and should focus on topics that may be under-researched or deliberate on leading-edge developments in the field that require some attention. The theme of a special issue and its constituent papers must form a coherent narrative while remaining relevant to the scope of the publishing journal.
The Editors need to assume responsibility to guarantee that the selected papers meet with the desired standard.
The interested individual, group or institution needs to submit a detail proposal as to what they envisage (see 16 and 17 below) to the Editor in Chief of the journal in question who is required to adhere to the following guidelines:
- Those calling for a special edition must make submit a detailed proposal to Africajournals (see 16 and 17 below) who will make a final decision on the matter after deliberation with the Editor in Chief of the journal in question. No reason needs to be furnished for non-acceptance of a special edition request.
- Special edition themes must be well-defined and within the scope of the journal concerned, and be of interest to a wide audience.
- Special Editions can be organized and edited by a maximum of 3 editors, the senior editor will be referred to as the Editor in Chief of that particular journal or as the Guest Editor (as may be decided) and the others as Associate Editors.
- The Editor in Chief is responsible for describing the aims and scope of the special issue and choosing associate editors if required. However this is generally the Guest Editor’s role.
- Special Edition articles should satisfy all the standard requirements of any individual Africajournals article as per that journals website.
- The Editor in Chief OR Guest Editor as the case may be, is responsible for the selection of papers and reviewers and will screen accepted manuscripts for quality and select papers must be accepted based on scientific merit.
- The Editor in Chief or Guest Editor as may be decided, will oversee the peer review process. This means that that person appoints reviewers for each paper, communicates with the authors about the review comments, and makes decisions on revisions, rejections, and approvals. It should however be noted that a Guest Editor’s decision to approve of a paper for publication is in essence a recommendation to the Editor-in-Chief who makes the final decision.
- The Editor-in-Chief will have access to the referee reports, the authors’ responses, etc. Where there is/are Guest editor/s they are required to uphold the high quality. requirements of Africajournals and deliberate with the Editor-in-Chief on all doubtful cases.
- A special edition should have 25-30 articles maximum and a minimum of 25.
- Editorials are required for each special edition and must be written by the Editor in Chief or the Guest Editor as the case may be.
- The journals code of ethics must be adhered to as stated on the respective journal websites.
- Editors (Editor in chief or Guest Editor/s) must disclose and declare any conflicts of interests to the Africajournals.
- The Editor in Chief is accountable for setting up a timeline and sticking to publishing deadlines.
- Any special edition that is not finalized within the stipulated timeline will be discarded.
- Where there are guest editors they are requested to adopt the publishing journal’s editorial and review policies to make the special issue a success
- Initial proposal and agreement in principle
- The format of the proposals:
- Proposals should be detailed and formal and include where available, the titles and abstracts of the proposed articles. This proposal format must contain:
The title of the Special Edition.
A brief CV/s of the proposed Guest Editor/s (usually no more than three).
A statement of the Special Edition significance for the journal concerned and a
draft introduction of individuals, groups or institutions likely to be involved.
Where available, titles and draft abstracts of each of the proposed articles and any
draft papers that are available. Preferably, there should be at least 40 proposed
articles to allow for possible rejections.
Brief details of contributors.
An outline timetable for the Special edition.
We need to add a call for special issue papers to the journal in question’s website or
simply advertise it – thus we will require the Special Edition name, (which may be
based on a conference etc), a logo (where applicable) that may legally be used and
the expected date of publication of the Special Edition.
