Dissertations / Theses: 'Indigenous church administration – Zimbabwe'

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Bowers, Dan P. "International churches as launching pads for mission to indigenous peoples." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Holden, James B. "Developing a self-supporting church implications of foreign funding of mission-church ministry in urban Angola /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Bang, Dong-Sub. "A historical study of the role of pioneer Korean Christians in beginning the indigenous Presbyterian Church and in Bible translation 1876-1912." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1996. http://www.tren.com.

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Romero, Natanael Frugoni. "National church, missions relationships a model for Spain /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1995. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p023-0077.

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Thesis (D. Min.)--Columbia International University, Columbia, S.C., 1995.
"The specific focus of this investigation is on the relationship between national churches and missionary organizations"--Leaf 1. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 247-255).

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Steiner, Richard L. "A program to help the Mennonite Church in Zaire become self-supporting." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.

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Rowell, John. "To give or not to give dollars, dependency, and doing the right thing in twenty-first century missions /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Adedokun, Joseph. "Criteria for developing innovative and contextual ministerial training with implications for indigenous churches in Nigeria." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.

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Endl, Michael. "Redefining the role of Bible translators in view of an increasing involvement of the indigenous church." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Jones, David M. "Foreign subsidy and the indigenous church a study of the subsidy of church building in Kenya /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.

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Schiller, Manfred. "Einheimische Teams als wirksames Modell für Evangelisation und Gemeindegründung eine Untersuchung, Darstellung und Förderung kulturell relevanter und biblisch bedeutsamer Faktoren für einen effektiven Einsatz einheimischer Evangelisations- und Gemeindegründungsteams innerhalb der Afrika Inland Kirche in Kisii (Kenia) = Indigenous teams as an effective model for evangelism and church planting /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Roach, Gene Ray. "Leading the Bwambwa Baptist Church, Kakamega, Kenya in its pursuit of self-support research in ministry project /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Ndukwe, Paul C. "The struggle for a dynamic leadership among the evangelicals in Nigeria." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Wolfe, Richard M. "Missionary motivation among Filipinos identifying critical factors /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.

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Sapp, Jon L. "The design and implementation of a leadership development workshop for mission administrators in the Eastern Africa context." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Brinks, Raymond G. "The formation of a non-formal education team." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Yoder, Ray. "Global resource sharing within World Team a study of World Team's relations to churches it plants and nurtures /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1999. http://www.tren.com.

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Conrad, Stanley M. "The relationship of the Japan Evangelical Free Church Mission and the Japan Evangelical Free Church Conference a survey and an analysis /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.

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Akogyeram, Humphrey Jehu-Appiah M. Moses. "A study of the Old Testament the authority of the African Independent Churches in Ghana, case study : Muzama Disco Christo Church /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Thesis (M.A. in Biblical Studies)--Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 2000.
Includes photocopy of The constitution of the Musama Disco Christo Church, compiled by M. Moses Jehu-Appiah [1959]. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-79).

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Byham, Richard A. "Cultural perspectives on working together a case study of American-Indonesian multicultural ministry teams /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.

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Allen, Larry J. "Internship in missionary experience a recommendation for Bangladesh /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1995. http://www.tren.com.

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Sik, Ming Chong. "Transition from missionary leadership to leadership by a team of nationals a reflective study of a Taiwan experience /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1997. http://www.tren.com.

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Aderholdt, K. David. "Missional partnership in the former Yugoslavia." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p068-0609.

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Robinson, George G. "The ministry of E3 Partners as a case study of strategic cross-cultural short-term missions." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2007. http://www.tren.com.

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Hill, Bradley N. "Kings and prophets sermons from Africa /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1986. http://www.tren.com.

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Thesis (D. Min.)--Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, 1987.
Typescript. Part II, The product, has text of sermons in Lingale and English on facing pages. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 115-117).

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Seibert, Egon Martim. "The three-self mission approach in the context of the Igreja Evangelica Luterana do Brasil." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.

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Allen, Wayne W. "The impact of financial subsidy on national pastors with mission funds a case study /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1998. http://www.tren.com.

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Musodza, Archford. "An investigation of the process of indigenisation in the Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland, (1891 - 1981), with special emphasis on the ministry of indigenous Christians." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1323.

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This study considered indigenisation to involve a process of making the local people `feel at home' in their Church. The ministry of early catechists such as Bernard Mizeki and Frank Ziqubu was crucial in showing the fact that the Anglican Church was not necessarily a church for Europeans only, but for the indigenous people as well. After this first generation of catechists there were numerous indigenous catechists who also ministered in the Diocese of Mashonaland by way of preparing people for the different sacraments found in the Anglican Church. On the other hand the training of the indigenous people for the ordained ministry was also another significant step in the process of indigenisation in the Diocese of Mashonaland. In this regard theological institutions such as St Augustine's Seminary in Penhalonga Manicaland, St Peter's Seminary Rossettenville in Johannesburg and St John's Seminary in Lusaka provided the much needed training. This study also revealed that although the Diocese of Mashonaland had an indigenous person at its helm in 1981, it remained European in several facets of its life. Although translations as a form of indigenisation started from the beginning of the Diocese of Mashonaland and continued right up to 1981, it seems it actually crippled the local indigenous peoples' innovativeness and ingenuity. In addition indigenous musical instruments also took sometime before they could be accepted in divine worship. On the other hand local art and décor as well as local architectural expressions took time to be incorporated into the Diocese of Mashonaland. However few early European missionaries such as Arthur Shirley Cripps and Edgar Lloyd tried to implement local architecture and décor in their churches in Daramombe and Rusape respectively. This study has also established that although the Anglican Diocese of Mashonaland got indigenous leadership by 1981, its liturgy, theology as well as its Acts and Canons remained European.
Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
D. Div. (Church History)

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Gondongwe, Kennedy. "African ministers and the emergence of resistance to colonial domination : the development of indigenous clergy in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Zimbabwe from 1891 to 1980." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/8022.

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This study is a critical assessment of the degree of political consciousness of the Zimbabwean Wesleyan Methodist indigenous ministers from 1891 to 1980. It documents the nature of the domination that the Wesleyan Methodist indigenous ministers experienced. It also documents and analyses how the indigenous ministers responded to the domination. The study relies upon primary documents from the National Archives of Zimbabwe, the Methodist Connexional Archives and other private archives. Information found in these archives includes minutes of synods, minutes of quarterly meetings, minutes of conferences, ministers' personal files and many other documents. The thesis also depends on interviews and other secondary material relevant to the study. Additionally, this thesis explores the training of the indigenous ministers. It emerges that the theological training of the indigenous ministers brought about some form of political radicalism. This was strengthened by the fact that the stipends and working conditions were not attractive. This thesis argues that the indigenous ministers had no clear position with regard to the significance of African culture. They oscillated between its rejection and acceptance. When they were politically inspired they rejected African culture to embrace it when it seemed expedient to do. It is further observed that the indigenous ministers contributed immensely to the liberation struggle. Using, Of Revelation and Revolution, Peasant Consciousness, Domination and the Arts of Resistance and Savage Systems as theoretical frameworks, this thesis concludes that the level of political consciousness of the indigenous ministers increased phenomenally in the second half of the 20th century. This was because of a number of reasons including the role played by mission churches in education, the impact of the Second World War, and adherence to certain constructions of John Wesley particularly those with liberation emphasis and many more. It also emerges that, although the political consciousness of the indigenous clergy was high, quite a number of them oscillated between two poles of patriotism and expediency. Put differently, the indigenous clergy were sometimes ambivalent in terms of what they adhered to. This was particularly so in cases to do with African culture.
Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2011.

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"The quests for salvation: a study on the religious discourse of Chinese Protestantism in the Republican era." Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5888959.

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by Wai-leung, Chan.
Publication date from spine.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 238-245).
Abstract
Acknowledgements
Chapter Chapter I --- Introduction --- p.1
Context --- p.1
Methodological Foundation --- p.8
The Significance of Culture --- p.15
Religion as Cultural Discourse --- p.29
Chinese Protestantism in a Cultural Perspective --- p.38
Sources and Organization of This Study --- p.41
Chapter Chapter II --- The Social Historical Contexts of Chinese Protestantism --- p.47
Nationalism in Republican China --- p.47
The Church-State Relationshipin Republican China --- p.61
The Institution of the Chinese Protestant Church --- p.73
Chapter Chapter III --- Discourse on the Ideal of indigenous Church --- p.81
Introduction --- p.81
Indigenous Church as Self- Supporting Church Organization --- p.84
Indigenization as Transformation of Organizational Practice --- p.94
Indigenization as an Adaption in the Chinese Culture --- p.100
Remarks on the Discourse on the Ideal of Indigenous Church --- p.115
Chapter Chapter IV --- Discourse on Church Institution --- p.121
Introduction --- p.121
Church as a Community Centre --- p.122
Church as a United Organization --- p.131
Church as an Apolitical Institution --- p.147
Remarks on the Discourse on Church Institution --- p.161
Chapter Chapter V --- Discourse on Social Morality --- p.163
Introduction --- p.163
The Historical Circumstances and the Problematics of Crisis --- p.168
Protestantism as the Moral Foundation of Republican Society --- p.172
Implication --- p.194
Chapter Chapter VI --- Conclusion: Religion as a Cultural Discourse --- p.198
The Understandings on the Failure of Chinese Protestantism --- p.198
Chinese Protestantism in a Cultural Perspective --- p.202
Epilogue --- p.216
Appendix --- p.223
Bibliography --- p.238

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Dube, Elijah Elijah Ngoweni. "Getting married twice: the relationship between indigenous and Christian marriages among the Ndau of the Chimanimani area of Zimbabwe." Thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23809.

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The thesis focuses on the Ndau people of Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. Contact with Westerners brought significant changes to their marriage practices. South Africa General Mission (SAGM) missionaries required Ndau people to conduct church (“white”) weddings for their marriages to be recognised by the church. This has caused a problem whereby Ndau Christians marry traditionally/customarily and yet still have to conduct church weddings. The church has not rethought its position on the necessity for having this duplication of marriages. The thesis sought to develop an in-depth understanding of Ndau people’s perceptions and experiences on the connection between and the necessity for both marriages in Chimanimani, Zimbabwe. Data regarding Ndau people’s understanding of marriage practices was collected using in-depth semi-structured and focus group interviews. Following a qualitative research design, the study used the phenomenological approach to collect data and postcolonialism as the research paradigm. Using these, twenty individual and five focus group interviews were conducted. Seven themes emerged from the data. These covered marriage practices of the Ndau, the most preferred way of marriage, various reasons for having church weddings, perceived relationship between the two marriages, different views on the sufficiency of traditional marriages, thoughts on the expenses of church weddings, and how participants married and reasons thereof. The findings showed that Ndau Christians conduct church weddings for several reasons. These are because they:  want to celebrate their marriages  desire God’s blessings when they convert to Christianity. It is regarded as God’s biblical requirement  understand it as a church requirement/rule  get church teaching that encourage church weddings  need recognition and acceptance in the church as well as general social recognition  associate Christianity with Westernisation vi  regard it as a deterrent to unfaithfulness and polygyny  regard church weddings as having wider official recognition than traditional marriages and  want associated material advantages. The conclusion states that there is neither a theological nor a biblical basis for requiring Ndau Christians to have church weddings. Using a postcolonial hybrid approach, the thesis suggests a merging of the two marriages into one ceremony. More recommendations were given and the church was challenged to be more responsive to its people’s struggles.
Religious Studies and Arabic
D. Litt. et Phil. (Religious Studies)

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Mafuta, Lubeme. "Religion and development in South Africa : an investigation of the relationship between soteriology and capital development in an african initiated church (AIC)." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3398.

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The upsurge of religious movements and independent churches in the Global South is bringing a new twist to world economic development not anticipated by many theologians and social scientists. With a syncretic soteriology geared toward the liberation of the whole person, religious movements and independent churches of the south are preaching to their adherents, mostly the poor and the marginalized, a message of faith in an omnipotent and compassionate God who is concerned for their weal and woes and who offers them an assured and holistic salvation. By placing their faith in God, the poor and marginalized people are discovering their true selves and are saved/liberated. This assured salvation (certitudo salutis), which is a total liberation of the physical and spiritual world, becomes, in turn, the motivational energy for capital development. The Zion Christian Church (ZCC) soteriological predicament stands at this juncture. Through processes of syncretization and purification, ZCC has managed to deconstruct the European/North American and African Traditional Religions soteriologies to construct a pure soteriology that is relevant to the socio context of its adherents. ZCC deconstructs these soteriologies by broadening, for example, the classic Christian soteriogical theory of Christus Victor in her notion of sin, death and the devil and the African traditional soteriological notion of uBuntu and spirit-power. The purity, or holistic salvation, generated out of these processes serves as grounds for identity and economic empowerment of its adherents. With a holistic salvation that centers on healing, personal integrity and spiritual power, ZCC members have been able to achieve considerable success in the labour market by becoming an army of potential employees. They have also distinguished themselves in their work ethic, where they are seen as hardworking, disciplined, obedient and sober. Empowering its adherents economically through a religious soteriology, the ZCC has become an example of a trend that is shaping the Global South and is reviving the interest of social scientists and theologians to further investigate the impact of religious and theological formulations on the economic conduct of individuals.
Theology
D. Th. (Theological Ethics)

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Tongoi, Dennis O. "Business as mission and mission as business : case studies of financially sustainable Christian mission ventures with a focus on Anglican diocese in East Africa." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/22687.

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Anglican dioceses established by The Church Mission Society and other Western founded Christian denominations in East Africa were envisaged to grow and become self-governing, self-propagating and self-supporting. The first two goals(to be self governing and self-propagating) have more or less been achieved. The third goal (the pursuit of self-support) is at a critical stage, especially considering that resources, in terms of funding and personnel, are in decline. This research sought to document the factors that contribute to, or hinder, the role that lay people (business people in particular) can play in sustaining the ministry and mission of Anglican dioceses. The research methods chosen for data collection consisted of interactive fieldwork. In this, formal and informal interviews were conducted. The interviewees were selected mainly from Anglican dioceses, with their input being corroborated by Methodists, Evangelical Lutheran and Presbyterian Church leaders from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Interviews were conducted, first, with church leaders who were in office at the time when John Gatu declared a moratorium on Western missionaries in 1974. Next came interviews with leaders of the 1990s and 2000s. For each leader, a corroborative project was documented. A limited quantitative questionnaire was administered for triangulation purposes.The data were analysed to identify the themes and patterns that emerged. This phase was followed by an extensive literature review. The research methodology utilised the Praxis Cycle, developed by Cochrane, De Gruchy and Peterson (1990) in their book, In Word and Deed,which has its roots in the “see, judge, act” method of the Belgian Cardinal, Joseph Cardijn,founder of the Young Christian Workers movement. The analysis allowed me to examine the interplay between business and mission, using the seven-point Praxis Cycle, modified by JNJ Kritzinger (2008:771) to assess the spirituality of BAM and its contribution to Christian mission. Other movements of the Praxis Cycle are practical projects, theological reflection, contextual analysis, ecclesial analysis, agency and reflexivity. The literature review was analysed in terms of four primary dimensions: Business as Business (profit maximisation), Mission as Business(profit from philanthropy),Mission as Mission(philanthropy from profits), and Business as Mission (profit for the common good). The fourth dimension was explored as an overarching vision for churches seeking to grow towards financial sustainability. Also considered was how such sustainability could be implemented in the East African context.
Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology
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Greeff, Jacobus Willem. "Kwa Sizabantoe sending: 'n prakties-teologiese beoordeling van sommige aspekte van die bestuurstruktuur." Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1120.

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Vanuit sekere kwalitatiewe navorsingsmetodes, word literatuurstudie van Kwa Sizabantoe Sending gedoen (KSB). Die rede is om 'n gefundeerde antwoord te vind vir die verskille in opinies oor KSB. In Hoofstuk 1 word die probleem geskets en na die verslag van die Evangeiiese Atiiansie gekyk. Dan volg iniigting oor die navorser sowel as die werkswyses wat gevolg word. Hoofstuk 3 gee 'n samevatting van die geskiedenis van KSB en die Stegen-famiiie. Hoofstuk 4 behandel die unieke literatuurbronne waaroor die navorser beskik. Die Evangeiiese Alliansie beweer dat daar 'n misbruik van bonatuurlike geestelike ervarings op KSB is, Die gevolg is elitistiese en paternalistiese optredes. Dit gee aanleiding tot interne spanninge en probleme. Hierdie bewering word in bespreek in Hoofstukke 5 - 7 . Hoofstuk 8 gee opsomming en bespreking van die bevindinge. In Hoofstuk 9 word gepoog om 'n basisteorie te formuleer en om 'n oplossing voor te stel.
Using certain qualitative methods, a literature study is done on Kwa Siza Bantu Mission (KSB). The reason is to come to a conclusive answer to the difference in opinions with regards to KSB. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the problem as well as the result of the inquiry of the Evangelical Alliance into KSB. Information on the researcher as well as his research methods follow. Chapter 3 is a summery of the history of KSB and the Stegen family. In Chapter 4 a review is made of the unique literature. From Chapter 5 - 7 a statement of the Evangelical Alliance is discussed. The statement implies that the misuse of supernatural experiences, iead to paternalistic or elitistic methods resulting in tensions and divisions. Chapter 8 discusses the findings and Chapter 9 tries to formulate a base-theory and suggests some solutions to the problems of KSB,
Practical Theology
M.Th. (Practical Theology)

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