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Browsing Theology by Author "Kgatla, Selaelo Thias"
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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 ...
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Kganyapa, Leonard Tsdiso; Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-24)The existence of the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa (LECSA) and Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS) in the western areas of Johannesburg, South Western Township (Soweto) and, more poignantly, ...
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Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2016)South Africa is one of the last African states to attain liberation from colonial rule. It was ushered into democratic order after one of the most prolonged and painful racial struggles. In 1994 it was heralded as an ...
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Shambare, Canon B.; Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-05-24)The church in Africa, like its counterparts elsewhere in the world, is called to fulfil the mission of God as expressed in the call ‘Missio Dei’ and influentially remains with the integrity of the mission of Christ (Missio ...
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Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (University of South Africa, Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, 2018)This article is a narrative account of examples of community projects of the Black Consciousness Movement as part of an attempt to decolonise the black mind as undertaken by the South African Council of Churches (SACC) in ...
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Kgatla, Selaelo Thias; Magwira, Anderson (University of South Africa, Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, 2015)This paper explores the Dutch Reformed Mission Policy formulated by the Federal Council of Churches in 1935. The political climate of the time and the social, economic, cultural and political interest of the white ...
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Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (Unisa Press, 2013-08)This paper investigates the intensification of the scope of migrant theology by forced removals in the 1960s and 1970s in South Africa. Forced removals in South Africa were carried out by the white government, especially ...
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Kgatla, Selaelo Thias; Park, Jinho (OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-09-14)The current phenomenon of Namibian African Independent Churches (NAICs) draws attention from various people in civil society in Namibia. Although the ministries of NAICs are engaged with activities which are unusual for ...
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Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2019)This article investigates the theoretical and practical effectiveness of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa’s (URCSA) ministerial formation of the Northern Synod. The URCSA is part of the Reformed Movement ...
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Kgatla, Selaelo Thias; Kamukwamba, Derek Gary (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-10)The traditional definition of ‘mission’ has always carried with it the salvation or redemption connotation, leading to the division of the world into two spheres: the world for the saved and the world for the unsaved. Thus, ...
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Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2015)This article surveys the Dutch Reformed Church Mission Policy and the close collaboration of mission and politics. The 1948 Nationalist Party election victory brought about a host of laws designed to bring total control ...
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Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)The events prior to and after church unity between the former Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA) and the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) in 1994 are perplexing because the white Dutch Reformed Church (NG Kerk) ...
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Mkhwanazi, Fanie Solomon; Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015)This paper proposes that the ministry of ordained women within the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) has not fully integrated women, despite the landmark decision of the MCSA Conference of 1972 to have women ...
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Gbote, Eric Zakpa Mccarig; Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (AOSIS Open Journals, 2014-08-29)The article attempts to establish that prosperity gospel is rooted in the faulty interpretation of several biblical passages. The prosperity gospel portrays wealth and riches as a covenant and the fulfilment of the divine ...
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Relationships are building blocks to social justice : cases of biblical justice and African Ubuntu Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-10-28)The entire Bible is full of themes calling humans to live justly with one another and fear God who is the author of justice. The first book of the Bible, Genesis, carries the story of God’s relationship with his people. ...
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Gbote, E.Z.M. (Eric Zakpa Mccarig); Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017-05-26)This article has benefited from the research entitled ‘The role of Christianity in post-war Liberia’. It is a study that attempts to examine and investigate how Christian faith and spirituality can play a role in a ...
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Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2014-12)In this article I examine aspects of the Hebrew Psalms and relate them to African musical genres focusing on lamentation, protest, and resistance against evil and injustice suffered by the poor and weak at the hands of the ...
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Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2012)Belief in witchcraft is found across the world and in some societies alleged witches are persecuted and killed. This article explores the rise of false accusations of witchcraft and the resultant killings in South Africa ...
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Kgatla, Selaelo Thias (Unisa Press, 2015)This article is the result of research findings undertaken in Limpopo Province on the subject of witchcraft beliefs. It is a narration of two villages whose residents were accused of witchcraft and had to be moved to ...
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