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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)The quality of visionary leadership requires serious attention in current South Africa, both because of its importance but also sometimes because of the lack of leadership in church and theological contexts. In the first ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)Mission Christianity exercised a destructive effect on traditional African cultures. In the post-1994 era, all religious faiths are encouraged to engage in the process of moral transformation. The Christian church is ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)The Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa was formed on 26th September 1999 as the result of the union of the black Reformed Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa and the white-dominated Presbyterian Church of ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2003)This paper traces the development in terms of its heritage and legacy of a Reformed Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa, from its beginnings in the Scottish Mission, to the present. It notes the oppressive role of ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)Any society and its institutions are coercive. While acknowledging the invaluable contribution made by mission education towards the development of black South Africans, Lovedale Missionary Institution exemplifies the ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)This paper will argue that the union which brought the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa into being was based on an inadequate view of reconciliation in a Christian context. While lip service may have been ...
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(Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)Elizabeth Isichei follows in a grand tradition of single-author one-volume histories of Christianity in Africa. It is written in the current ecumenical tradition from “an African perspective” and follows the canons of the ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005-06)Writing history in the African context demands commitment; it must be contextual and integrally related to the mission of Christianity. This necessitates a reconsideration of historiography. The ‘old’ historiography was ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005-10)This paper will argue that the union which brought the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa into being was based on an inadequate vision of the role of the Church in Southern Africa. While it was a natural ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005-10)This study is an advancement of previous scholarship that has assessed the Post-Reformation reformed sources as ‘dead orthodoxy’, ‘dry’, ‘ridged’, and theologically diverted from the sixteenth-century Protestant ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)This reflection sets out to achieve three goals: the key is to show the legacy of James Cone from a global perspective, specifically his contributions to the development of African theology. The second is the irony that ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)The subject 'Augustine and Manichaeism' is a very extensive one. In this article the author confines himself to some main lines and argues that the subject is of central importance in the history of Christianity. He shows ...
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(Dutch Reformed Church at the Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)The Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa was established in a changing and fluid situation in 1960s South Africa both politically and ecclesiastically. Its foundation can be attributed to the influence of these ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006-05)Character formation was the most pervasive subject in the curriculum of mission schools despite the fact that it was nowhere to be found on the timetable. It was a major tool in the Christianising/civilising process ...
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(Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006-06)This article constitutes a preliminary attempt at reflecting upon Ghana's journey with a particular tradition within the Christian faith. The author discusses the relevance of Jesus in the contemporary Evangelical / ...
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(Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006-09)In view of Scripture, theology of worship, symbolism, history, tradition and current practice it is difficult, if not impossible, to come to any definite conclusions about ministerial dress in Presbyterian worship. The ...
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(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006-09)From the time of the arrival of the first missionaries in South Africa, there was a need to prepare local agents to pursue the work of mission. Each of the English speaking churches formed and pursued its own stream. ...
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(Reformed Theological College, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)This article introduces the reader to the newly discovered Gospel of Judas (Codex Tchacos, pp 33-58): It discusses its sensational (and evidently sensationalized) discovery, its place in the context of a number of other ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)Contemporary history is a fluid concept. Its writing implies commitment and self awareness. The former canons of objectivity, subjectivity and progress as they have traditionally been understood are anachro-nistic. Some ...
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(Unisa Press, 2007-04)This study investigates the concept of Partnership in Mission (PIM) from a historical perspective and evaluates its appropriateness as a current model for mission. The origin and definition of the term, the historical ...
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