(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2023-10-03) Van Aarde, Andries; De Villiers, Pieter G.R.
This article represents the genre of auto-ethnographic, autobiographical research. It consists of
questions which evoke narrative responses because the questions register a life story in itself.
Pieter G.R. de Villiers is the interpellator and Andries G. van Aarde the respondent. They are
long-standing friends and both professors of New Testament studies. De Villiers is presently
the editor at LitNet Academic (Religious Studies), and Van Aarde is the editor of HTS Theological
Studies. Since 1990, De Villiers has been Executive Director of the Centre for Christian
Spirituality and Ethics and has been a Research Fellow and Professor Extraordinarius in
Biblical Spirituality at the Department of Old and New Testament Studies at the Faculty of
Theology, University of the Free State (since 2001).
