• A reflection on morality and religion 

  Beyers, Jaco (AOSIS, 2023-11-27)

  The aim of this contribution is to reflect on the relation between religion and morality. An overview of the different theories of the origin of morality is provided. According to Blanchard, there are four traditional ...
• Nurturing agency in emerging adults of local churches : a case study from Soshanguve 

  Kabongo, Kasebwe Timothee Luc (AOSIS, 2023-04)

  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 ...
• Nathan the wise : dialogue without words 

  Beyers, Jaco (AOSIS, 2023-07)

  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, ...
• Little seeds : a prototype of collaborative-integrated, missional-diaconal praxis 

  Venter, Nioma (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  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 ...
• 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 ...
• Christianity and Shona religion and ecology : an ethical-practical perspective 

  Beyers, Jaco; Muza, Kudakwashe (Brill Academic Publishers, 2022-03)

  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 ...
• Mission as 'being with' in the context of the COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa 

  Mkhize, Thabani E. (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  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 ...
• 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 ...
• Veelkantige besinning oor eutanasie 

  Beyers, Jaco (Litnet, 2021)

  Die debat oor eutanasie kan benader word vanuit ’n etiese, teologiese, sosiologiese en regsfilosofiese perspektief. Deel van die haakplekke in die debat is die bestaande verwarring ten opsigte van oorvleuelende terminologie. ...
• Making sense of the COVID-19 disruptions in incarnational ministry using Micah 6:8 as an interpretive framework 

  Kabongo, Kasebwe Timothee Luc (AOSIS, 2021-09)

  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 ...
• Practical ministry and finances : a case study from InnerCHANGE South Africa 

  Kabongo, Kasebwe Timothee Luc (AOSIS, 2021-02-25)

  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 ...
• On the border between religion and superstition : Schleiermacher on religion 

  Beyers, Jaco (AOSIS, 2021-07-13)

  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 ...
• 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 ...
• A reading of the leper’s healing in Matthew 8:1–4 through ethnomedical anthropology 

  M’bwangi, Fednand Manjewa (OpenJournals Publishing, 2021-08-26)

  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 ...
• 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 ...
• Migration to South Africa : a missional reflection of a refugee using Jeremiah 29:4–12 as an interpretive framework 

  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 ...
• The first choice in missions : philoxenia or xenophonia? 

  Pott, Henry John (University of Pretoria, 1985)

  Hospitality is the forgotten factor in world And yet it can be one 0£ the most accessible e££ective means 0£ communicating the Gospel to neighbor and to a needy world. mission. and aost a needy God's people in the ...
• John Muafangejo's How God loves his people all over the world as material religionJohn Muafangejo's How God loves his people all over the world as material religion 

  Beyers, Jaco; Kriel, Lize (Brill Academic Publishers, 2020-09)

  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 ...
• Migration from historic mission churches to pentecostal and charismatic churches in Ghana 

  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 ...
• 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 ...

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