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

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

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  • 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)
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  • 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 ...
  • Reconciliation as a missional paradigm for post-1994 South Africa 
    Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus); Pillay, Victor Vythalingum (University of the Free State, Faculty of Theology, 2019-12-06)
    The article aims to evaluate the church’s role in reconciliation as a missional paradigm and attempts to find answers from biblical and theological perspectives. It discusses the issues of church, congregations, reconciliation, ...
  • Reconciliation as the functional integration of complex systems 
    Van Niekerk, A.S. (Attie) (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2005)
    Reconciliation is usually seen in connection with the relationships between God and his people, and the mutual relationships between people, especially believers in Christ. In Col 1, however, Paul relates reconciliation ...
  • Reconstructing black identity : the Black Panther, Frantz Fanon and Achilles Mbembe in conversation 
    Beyers, Jaco (AOSIS Open Journals, 2019-10-30)
    It is dehumanising to identify people in terms of colour. Stereotyping and discrimination come with racial identification. Black identity has been expressed in different forms over the centuries. For a long period black ...
  • Rediscovering joy in costly and radical discipleship in mission 
    Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus) (AOSIS Open Journals, 2016-11-18)
    The research attended to the call by the World Council of Churches in the mission affirmation Together towards life to renew methods of evangelism and to communicate the good news with persuasion, inspiration and conviction, ...
  • The rediscovery of the role of the laity in the mission of the Church – with reference to the Baptist Union of Southern Africa (BUSA) 
    Christofides, Peter; Meiring, Piet (Pieter Gerhard Jacobus), 1941- (OpenJournals Publishing, 2012-05-29)
    The role of the laity is at the cutting edge of Christian missions today. The author conducted a number of interviews and questionnaires to determine the status of the laity across denominations of the Christian faith ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Reformed Church in Africa’s Laudium declaration. a gift to the ecumenical community 
    De Beer, P.J.P. (Petrus Johannes Perold) (Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, 2012)
    The author provides a brief overview of the history of the Reformed Church in Africa (RCA), a church that is rooted in the South African Indian community, from its birth in 1968 till the present day. He then proceeds to ...
  • Reformed spirituality and the spirit of reconciliation : a personal journey 
    Meiring, Piet (Pieter Gerhard Jacobus), 1941- (AOSIS, 2018-10)
    The article represents auto-ethnographical (narrative) reflections about the author's journey towards reconciling diversity with the advent of democracy in South Africa. The author recounts aspects of his participation in ...
  • Relational leadership and the missional church 
    Breedt, Jacob Johannes; Niemandt, Cornelius Johannes Petrus (Nelus) (OpenJournals Publishing, 2013-09-03)
    The global realities regarding cultural shifts and the transition between traditional, modern and postmodern world perspectives have particular implications for leadership in general. In several institutions, including ...