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

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  • 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 ...
  • ‘Raising Hope’ in Quran and psychology 
    Shirvani, S.M.H. (Seyed) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2018-08-22)
    This article, through a comparative study, aims at defining and analysing the concept of hope in the Quran versus psychology. The study defines common and differential grounds in the area, and suggests a proper approach ...
  • (Re) discovering a missional-incarnational ethos 
    Kok, Jacobus (Kobus); Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2009)
    In this article, a few of the elements and dynamics of social movements will be explored. It will be argued that the traditional institutional church is in a critical period in the cycle of movements, where the need for ...
  • 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 ...
  • Reading Philemon through the eye of an African : a call to a theology of presence 
    Vilanculo, Anselmo (Baptist Union of Southern Africa, 2008)
    No abstract available
  • Reckoning HIV/AIDS care : a longitudinal study of community home-based caregivers and clients in Swaziland 
    Root, Robin; Van Wyngaard, Arnau; Whiteside, Alan (Routledge, 2015-08)
    The article is a descriptive case study of a community home-based care (CHBC) organisation in Swaziland that depicts the convergence of CHBC expansion with substantially improved health outcomes. Comprised of 993 care ...