Browsing Research Articles (Science of Religion and Missiology) by Title

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  • A partnership for prosperity agency : a case study of InnerCHANGE South Africa 
    Kabongo, Kasebwe Timothee Luc (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 ...
  • Pastoral lessons from Augustine’s theological correspondence with women 
    Smither, Edward L. (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 ...
  • Pastorale sorg aan homoseksuele persone en / of mense na aan hulle 
    Muller, Julian C.; Beyers, Jaco (Society for Practical Theology in South Africa, 2007)
    Pastoral care to homosexual persons and those close to them is discussed from the perspective of George Lindbeck's (1984) theological typologies. The cultural-linguistic model is emphasised, its links to narrative practice ...
  • Pentecostals' reading of the Old Testament 
    Nel, Malan (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    The question of a valid and viable Pentecostal hermeneutic is discussed leading to the preliminary conclusion that such a hermeneutic would consist of the following elements: the experience of the immanence of God, within ...
  • The place of woman ministers in the mission of the Methodist church of Southern Africa 
    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 ...
  • Planning and management in the missional agenda of the 21st century church: a study of Lighthouse Chapel International 
    White, Peter; Acheampong, Benjamin O. (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017-06-30)
    Planning and management is an important aspect of every successful organisation. In a similar way as the church participates in the missio Dei, it is essential that we consider planning and management as part of the ...
  • Polycentrism in the missio Dei 
    Franklin, Kirk James; Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2016-05-31)
    Structures for mission have been under review as a result of many factors. In particular have been the widening influences of globalisation, and to a lesser degree, glocalisation. Various models of leadership praxis and ...
  • Poverty relief or poverty eradication? 
    Kritzinger, J.J. (Johan Jakob) (Faculty of Theology of the University of the Orange Free State, 2012)
    The author challenges the reader to make two mindshifts: from a focus on poverty relief to an emphasis on poverty eradication; and from viewing the poor as the objects of poverty alleviation to accepting them as the subjects ...
  • 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 ...
  • Prayers for the departed : a white elephant in the hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania 
    Groop, Kim S.; Moshi, Nehemia (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-02-14)
    The aim of this article is to study the general and contextual issues related to prayers for the departed with a focus on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT). In 2012, the ELCT published a new hymnal, which ...
  • Predikante opleiding : roeping, keuring en legitimering 
    Nel, Malan (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2002)
    The profession of being a pastor is under pressure. The challenge for churches and seminaries is to rediscover what it means to be called, and more specifically to be called for full time ministry in a local church. Such ...
  • The preliminary urban missionary outreach of the apostle Paul as referred to in Acts 13–14 
    Mutavhatsindi, Muthuphei Albert (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2017-02-28)
    The objective of this article is to deal precisely and systematically with the preliminary urban missionary outreach of the apostle Paul as referred to the book of Acts, chapters 13–14. This article covers an ample ...
  • Prophetic theology in black theology, with special reference to the Kairos document 
    Vellem, Vuyani Shadrack (OpenJournals Publishing, 2010-10)
    The ‘Protest’ and ‘Confessing’ Models in the streams of Black Theology of liberation provide a creative link between the Prophetic Theology in the Kairos document (KD) and the Black Theology of liberation. Launched in a ...
  • Prosperity gospel : a missiological assessment 
    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 ...
  • The prosperity gospel the decolonisation of theology, and the abduction of missionary imagination 
    Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus) (University of South Africa, Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, 2017)
    This research focussed on one of the most important social movements and contextual challenges in the African context – the explosive growth of the ‘prosperity gospel’ in Africa. It investigated this phenomenon from a ...
  • Publieke pastorale leiers 1 : roeping, werwing, keuring, opleiding, ordening 
    Nel, Malan (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2004)
    In ecclecial circles it is a commonplace to say that the profession of the pastor is under pressure. Pastors know that and congregations know that. Knowing it in itself does not change much. However change starts with ...
  • Publieke pastorale leiers 2 : roeping, werwing, keuring, opleiding, ordening 
    Nel, Malan (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    In the first article it was attempted to provide insight into the corporate nature of being called to ministry. The article also tried to discern what the specifics of the ministry of the public pastoral leader were. Equally ...
  • The quest for the understanding of Religious Studies : seeing dragons 
    Beyers, Jaco (AOSIS OpenJournals, 2016-11-18)
    Religious Studies is concerned with studying religion or the absence thereof. The concept of religion has been discussed, disliked and dissected over centuries. Some have predicted the disappearance of religion, others ...
  • Radical change in Zambia’s Christian ecumenism 
    Kroesbergen, Hermen (Routledge, 2018-01)
    This account of religious change in Zambia discloses shifts in the ideas and practices of Christian unity since independence. It shows that state-backed appeals, at times repressive, under the slogan ‘one nation, one church’ ...
  • The radical embodiment of God for a Christology of a new era 
    Van Niekerk, Pieter Ignatius; Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-12-06)
    The research focussed on the embodiment of God and approached this theme through a discussion on the deep incarnation of God in Christ. This article provides an overview of the existing literature on incarnation. Jesus ...