Mundhluri, Zephania(University of Pretoria, 2023-10)
The study assessed the Pentecostal leadership disputes in Zimbabwe in light of Pastoral Challenges. An African proverb states that "When two elephants fight, the grass suffers." This saying is particularly relevant to the ...
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, the Dutch Reformed congregation Toringkerk in
Paarl longed to reach out to people within the local community who were in extreme need.
The congregation felt powerless because of the ...
Van Vliet, Geke; Beukes, Jacques W.(AOSIS, 2023-11-14)
Climate change represents the most significant challenge facing the global community. The
issue in question has an impact on the younger generation, whose prospects may be
jeopardised. Both younger and older generations ...
Headley, Selena Diane(University of Pretoria, 2021-11)
This study begins by framing the challenges for theological education/formation
which remain disconnected from urban realities. The rationale for the study stems
from a personal experience as a participant in a praxis-based ...
Shirley, Timothy Wade(University of Pretoria, 2023)
This study explores the way that ancient Near Eastern hospitality, as revealed in the
Bible, can inform and impact contemporary ecclesial welcome and inclusiveness, with specific
attention to inviting LGBTQQIA+ (Lesbian, ...
Nthite, Sello Solomon(University of Pretoria, 2023)
Substance abuse by learners in South African schools has become a daunting task
that requires all the stakeholders to work together to normalise the situation which has
escalated to greater heights because of the illicit ...
This article discusses the difficulties experienced by evangelical missionary practitioners in the West from the perspective of soteriology. This is done ‘from below,’ that is, based on recent empirical studies. First, the ...
Jansen van Rensburg, Marthinus Jacob(AOSIS, 2023-06)
The aim of this article is to look at the
development of the deacon’s position in the Dutch Reformed Church of Africa by investigating
the founding, development, and management of the deacon’s position in the church. It ...
South Africa is characterised by various socio-economic and socio-political challenges
(fractures) not easily met (or healed). ‘Fractures’ refer to social, economic, religious, spatial,
ecological, environmental, and ...
Knoetze, Johannes Jacobus; Black, Timothy Jay(AOSIS, 2023-04)
The church has a key role to play in addressing the chronic levels of grief and trauma experienced by the youth in South Africa. It has a biblical mandate to bring hope and healing and has a unique station within South ...
Theology as a story of doubt and imagination is to be understood against the background of
interdisciplinary social science and in contrast to the traditional paradigm of theology as a
system of propositional certainty. ...
Churches hold different views
regarding the office of deacon and role of deacons in the church. Churches also use different
terms for their social ministries. This lack of a common language regarding the church’s ...
This article attends to the theological foundation of the diaconate from the missio trinitatis Dei and
its implications, especially for the Afrikaans-speaking Reformed churches. The missio Dei, of the
Father, Son, and ...
Coetzee, Frederik Rudolf Lodewikus; Nel, Malan; Knoetze, Johannes Jacobus(AOSIS, 2023-02)
Evangelism, for various reasons, is once again back on the agenda of the church and theology. As a result of negative experiences and practices of evangelism in the past, it is now necessary to rediscover evangelism in a ...
The musha mukadzi (Shona) or umuzi ngumama (Ndebele) is an African gendered philosophy that means women make up the home. This philosophy has been researched in African traditional religions (ATRs) and is interrogated from ...
Three Dreyers, two ecclesial issues – a brief chronicle. The three Dreyers to whom this article refers are firstly, Willem Akkerhuys (Wim) Dreyer, church history scholar, to whom this volume of the HTS Theological Studies ...
With burgeoning economic challenges that have been hard-pressing Zimbabwe for more than a decade, most Zimbabwean classical Pentecostal churches who do not strategically multiply their revenue in reciprocal correspondence ...
Many countries around the world, including Australia, have secularism expressed in their
identity. However, as these secular nations (as they understand themselves) shift into postsecular societies, it raises questions ...
Woman lead differently than men. In order for them to be
able to lead sustainably as leaders, it is necessary to reflect on typical female traits. In doing so, the
way of typical female leadership, which is biologically ...