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(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, ...
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(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2018-10)RESEARCH STRATEGY FOR MISSIONSL TRANSFORMATION. In this study, an innovative research process was developed to support a missional ecclesiology. The research strategy was designed as a practice-oriented research process ...
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(Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, 2014-03)This article reflects on ways in which the idea of an ethical quality of life of the people of God can be contextualized. This idea is largely similar to the concept of the wholeness of life that is found in documents ...
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(Unisa Press, 2013)Human mobility and migration are closely associated with and reciprocally influenced by globalisation. Add the relentless connectivity facilitated by the proliferation of mobile communication and the emergence of social ...
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(AOSIS, 2022-07-08)This work studied the Anioma Healing Ministry of the late prophet Eddy Okeke. The aim is to investigate the structure, demography, beliefs and practices of the ministry. The study adopts a qualitative phenomenological ...
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(Teologiese Fakulteit, Universiteit van Stellenbosch, 2008)The DRC, a founder member of the WCC (1948), decided in 1961 in the aftermath of the Cottesloe Consultation, to sever all ties with the WCC. For the next 46 years the relationship between die DRC and the WCC was strained ...
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(Southern African Missiological Society, 2019)This article made a case for the use of a cooperative mission approach for mission and Church planting. The nnoboa mission concept was developed from cooperative farming which thrives through trust, communality, and ...
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(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 ...
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(Faculty of Theology of the University of the Orange Free State, 2013-06)Religion is a social phenomenon. Society and, therefore, religion will continue to exist as long as human beings exist. This article explores this syllogism, by analysing two 19th-century social theories on the future of ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2012-10-22)Human nature has been depicted as being utilitarian. This means that man considers all social action in terms of an optimalisation of privilege for the self. Marcel Mauss challenged this theory by investigating the ...
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(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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On becoming the hands and feet of Christ in an AIDS-ridden community in Swaziland - a story of hope (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)In terms of the social involvement of the Christian church within the community, it would not be an overstatement to say that never before in history has there been a greater challenge facing the church than the present, ...
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(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 ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)The article describes Emerging Churches as a 21st century phenomenon. Emerging churches are not a new denomination, but are experimental forms of church life, found in all denominations; formulating and living Christian ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2008)This article describes and elaborates on the nine core practices of emerging missional churches, identified in the research of Gibbs and Bolger which presents these practices as innovative answers that can assist mainline ...
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(AOSIS Open Journals, 2017)Inter-godsdienstige verhoudinge was nog altyd problematies. Teologie van godsdiens en teologie van godsdienste is die wyse waarop die Christendom oor die teenwoordigheid en aard van ander godsdienste besin. Die kerkhervormers ...
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(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)Although the term syncretism does not appear in the Old Testament, syncretism is widely seen as the process resulting from the contact of religions. All forms of cultural and religious contact can however not be identified ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2022)In 2020, COVID-19 started spreading from Wuhan in China to the USA, the UK and Europe and then to the rest of the world. In Africa, the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Egypt on 14 February, while South Africa’s ...
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(AOSIS, 2020-03-31)Practical ways to serve African communities of poverty motivated this case study. It explores how the church could be missional as an agent of prosperity in communities of poverty. It reflects on partnership between a ...
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(OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-08-19)Augustine of Hippo (354–430) was a fourth- and fifth-century monk-bishop who left a great imprint on the spiritual leaders of his day by overseeing the monastery at Hippo Regius and also authoring a significant corpus ...
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