Emerging adults (age 35 and below) are the majority of the African population. In South Africa, for example, emerging adults make 63.9% of its population. This age group seems to be marginalised in Christian congregations ...
The ‘dramatic poem’, Nathan der Weise [Nathan the Wise], was written in 1779 by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in Germany. The scene is set in medieval Jerusalem, where Sultan Saladin rules and where the wealthy merchant Jew, ...
This thesis, titled "Little Seeds: A prototype of collaborative-integrated, missional-diaconal praxis," explores the potential of collaboration between the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and church-affiliated social welfare ...
Climate change in South Africa is increasingly threatening the most vulnerable populations in rural areas of the country, such as the Limpopo province. Religious communities could be important actors in South Africa, and ...
The biggest single threat to ecology and biodiversity is human-induced climate change. This study assesses ethics and attitudes in an African context for coping with climate change. This assessment takes place within an ...
This research investigates the impact measures (such as lockdowns) used to combat pandemics like the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) on the church’s mission. When people in communities face travel and assemble ...
Kabongo, Kasebwe Timothee Luc(University of Stellenbosch, 2021)
The access to land for Africans in sub-Saharan Africa has been problematic since
the advent of colonisation. The church came to Africa as an acolyte of colonisers
and acquired land as a benefit from its association. The ...
This is a case study reflecting on the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
disruptions on InnerCHANGE South Africa (ICSA hereafter), an incarnational ministry.
Incarnation ministry is understood as an ...
The church is called to be a tangible messenger of hope in society. Communities of poverty,
especially, need a church that carries its mandate both through proclamation and through
deed. This research is a case study of ...
The ideas of Friedrich Schleiermacher contributes hugely to the understanding of the
concept of religion. Many scholars have published on the significance of Schleiermacher
for theology, philosophy and hermeneutics. In ...
Historically, most Darul Ulooms in South Africa have been modelled along the curriculum of Darul Uloom Deoband in India, which was established in 1866, and there is a need for reforming the curriculum in a world that has ...
Scholars offer several options for Matthew’s value of the leper’s story in his narrative that
range from revealing Jesus’ attributes of compassion and sympathy, manifesting God’s
empire, to portraying Jesus’ function as ...
Van Wyngaard, Arnau; Whiteside, Alan(Routledge, 2021)
By the end of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, in February 2021, the numbers of cases and deaths in
southern Africa were low in absolute and relative numbers. The BBC ran a story (which was later retracted)
headlined ...
Kabongo, Kasebwe Timothee Luc(University of LIMPOPO, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, 2020-08-24)
This article is an auto-ethnographic reflection on the phenomenon of migration. The latter is
on the increase throughout the world. This article focusses on the context of South Africa
where there seems to be a negative ...
Hospitality is the forgotten factor in world
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neighbor and to a needy world.
mission.
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a needy
God's people in the ...
The artworks produced at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift, KwaZulu-Natal, have been highly appraised and appreciated in South African art-historical circles, not in the least so as ...
Sarbah, Emmanuel Kwabla; Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus); White, Peter(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2020-12-02)
The advent of Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches (PCCs) in Ghana since the early 20th
century has significantly impacted its religious landscape. Migration of members from the
Church has become a great source of worry ...
Meiring, Arnold M.(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2020-12-17)
Addressing the interest in missional theology and responding to the recent coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, this research developed an apocalyptic missional theology
for our time. Whilst the Second World War ...
Chaplaincy in South Africa (SA) recently became an attractive ministry and research fields for
both ministers and theologians, respectively, more especially since the dawn of democracy in
1994. The military chaplaincy ...
Tolmay, Barry John(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)
In 1994, South Africa experienced a radical paradigm shift which in some ways led
Afrikaans reformed churches into a state of semi-paralysis. Over the past twenty-six
years the church has had to deal with the resultant ...