Browsing Research Articles (Science of Religion and Missiology) by Type "Article"

Browsing Research Articles (Science of Religion and Missiology) by Type "Article"

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  • Abraham Kuyper's Christian science and empirical science - different yet similar : an investigation into epistemological structures 
    Grönum, Nicolaas J.; Van Rensburg, Fika J. (Johan Jacob Janse)., 1951- (AOSIS Open Journals, 2014-12)
    Abraham Kuyper wanted his fellow countrymen to accept biblically informed academic output as scientific and therefore authoritative. If Kuyper’s plans were to come to fruition, he would have to state the case for a ...
  • Access to land in sub-Saharan Africa : the church as an unnoticed accomplice 
    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 ...
  • Across the bridge : Polokwane Uniting Reformed Church of Southern Africa from dependency to autonomy 
    Kgatla, Selaelo Thias; Saayman, Willem (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013)
    The authors analyse and discuss the history of an important “Dutch Reformed Mission Church” congregation since its inauguration under the first DRC “foreign” missionary, Stephanus Hofmeyr, in the late nineteenth century ...
  • Acts for today's missional church 
    Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010)
    This article investigated the challenges associated with being a missional church in an everchanging world and possible patterns to live missionally in new contexts. The need for Christian missions to be radically contextual ...
  • African cultural issues and Christian worship - a pastoral perspective 
    Vilanculo, Anselmo (Baptist Union of Southern Africa, 2009)
    African understanding and conception of the Divine Being predate the Christian era. In many instances, African beliefs, culture, practices, and faith traditions are strikingly akin to the biblical images and notions of God ...
  • African-initiated churches and environmental care in Limpopo, South Africa : a missional enquiry 
    Kabongo, Kasebwe Timothee Luc; Stork, Juliane (AOSIS, 2022-12-14)
    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 ...
  • Africanisation of theological education : an exploration of a hybrid epistemology 
    Kabongo, Kasebwe Timothee Luc (AOSIS Open Journals, 2020-05-28)
    This article explores the concept of hybrid epistemology in relation with the author’s theological teaching of his neighbours from the northern townships of Pretoria and the students of the University of Pretoria. It is ...
  • An Africanised theological education : a reflection from a novice lecturer 
    Kabongo, Kasebwe Timothee Luc (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2020)
    The transformation of theological education in the context of Africa has motivated this research. It discusses ways an Africanised theological education could help integrate knowledge with understanding and wisdom. The ...
  • Ahmad Ghazali’s Satan 
    Elmi, Ghorban (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-11-12)
    This article studies Ghazali’s viewpoint regarding Satan or Iblis. Ghazali’s interpretation of Satan is very different from that of traditional ones. Despite the Koran’s negative portrayal of Satan, Ghazali elaborates a ...
  • AIDS and COVID-19 in southern Africa 
    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 ...
  • Akkommodering en bestuur van diversiteit in gemeenteverband 
    Dreyer, T.F.J. (Theunis Frederik Jacobus), 1946- (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006-11)
    Diversity is becomming a prominent phenomenon of our society within a postmodern context. Many clergy and church members believe it threatens the peace and stability of churches and local congregations. Seemingly, ...
  • Ancestor worship – is it Biblical? 
    Bae, Choon Sup; Van der Merwe, P.J. (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008-09)
    Ancestor worship is practiced in different forms around the world today, even in societies participating in the modern global economy. Ancestral beliefs are deeply dependent on the premise that the souls of the dead may ...
  • “And no one pours new wine into an old wineskin” : discourse in religion and sustainable development for Sub–Sahara Africa 
    Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (University of Stellenbosch, 2021)
    On 25 September 2015 a high–level forum of the United Nations met in New York to adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which provided a framework for member states to fulfil the goals set out. The agenda ...
  • An apocalyptic agenda for mission in our time 
    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 ...
  • The apparatus theory : 'religion in the city' 
    Geel, Leon; Beyers, Jaco (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-07-26)
    The apparatus theory is used to challenge the interpretation of religion and also to determine whether religion is a factor to contend with in modern society. Religion could be the element that keeps the city intact or ...
  • Application of themes from Al-Mawwaq’s work in reforming the Deoband curriculum in Islamic education in the South African Darul Ulooms 
    Ahmed, Shoayb; Sukdaven, Maniraj (OpenJournals Publishing, 2021-09-29)
    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 ...
  • Appropriating spiritual help for traditional healing : why ancestors are needed 
    Beyers, Jaco (Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)
    This study investigates the use of traditional medicine by traditional healers in a South African context in the fight against Covid-19. Appropriating spiritual help in fighting the symptoms of the virus would be part of ...
  • Artisanal cheeses or artisanal Jesus – loving your postal code enough to reflect it in the life and theology of the church 
    Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus) (University of South Africa, Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, 2014-04)
    In this reflection on a creative and critical dialogue on the future of missiology as a theological discipline, the theological imperative of contextualisation was emphasised. The point of departure was that the contextual ...
  • As below, so above : a perspective on African theology 
    Meiring, Arnold Maurits (Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    African theology can be understood as a theology from below – or rather, “as below, so above”. This phrase not only reflects the concept of ubuntu and the African partiality towards horizontal relationships, but may ...
  • An assessment of the theology of religions 
    Janse van Rensburg, Johannes (AOSIS Open Journals, 2017)
    It is attempted to analyse the relationship between Christianity, Judaism and Islam from the viewpoint of the intergroup threat theory. Although the departure point for this study is the intergroup threat theory, there ...