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Mashabela, K., and M. Madise. "An ongoing search of constant and sustainable Lutheran Theological Education in South Africa in the 21st century." Acta Theologica 43, no. 1 (2023): 60–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.38140/at.v43i1.7039.

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This article explores the recent history of Lutheran theological education in South Africa, which is still confronted by the legacy of colonial and apartheid education systems. The latter need to be confronted with liberation and decolonisation systems that reclaim African indigenous identities. There is a need to cultivate a culture of quality and equal education, spirituality, politics, and socio-economic systems for the service of South Africans. Evangelical Lutheran churches inSouthern Africa are committed to improve and reform Lutheran theological education in the 21st century. Lutheran t

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Mashabela, James Kenokeno. "Lutheran Theological Education to Christian Education in (South) Africa: A Decolonial Conversion in the African Church." Religions 15, no. 4 (2024): 479. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15040479.

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It can be debated whether a Lutheran identity is still relevant in the midst of ecumenical development in (South) Africa, with special reference to theological education and Christian education. The Lutheran Church is a unique body within the ecumenical family as it contributes to work on the mission of God. Theological education and Christian education are educational centres which aim to promote social justice towards community development. These two educational centres are branches of the Lutheran Church. Taking into account the fact that theological education and Christian education were i

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Mbenga, Bernard K. "The Reverend Kenneth Mosley Spooner: African-American missionary to the BaFokeng of Rustenburg district, South Africa, 1915-1937." New Contree 81 (December 30, 2018): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/nc.v81i0.66.

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This article examines the missionary and educational work and impact of Kenneth Spooner, an African-American missionary among the BaFokeng African community in Rustenburg district, South Africa from 1915 to 1937. Originally from Barbados, Spooner immigrated to the USA from where he came to South Africa as an International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) missionary. Spooner’s church became very popular among the African communities of Rustenburg. His school, for example, for the first time in the region used English as a medium of teaching, unlike the much older German Lutheran Church school

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Lüdemann, Ernst-August. "THE MAKING OF A BISHOP: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS BY A COMPANION ALONG THE WAY." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 42, no. 1 (2016): 142–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/513.

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With this text a German missionary, originating from the Lutheran Hermannsburg Mission, describes his way of service in southern Africa through which he is getting ever closer to Dr Manas Buthelezi. From the outset of Lüdemann’s ministry in KwaZulu-Natal he got to know the young but already widely acclaimed theologian (Buthelezi) in the same diocese. The intensive involvement of Buthelezi in the Black Consciousness Movement gave Lüdemann a deeper insight into his own challenges in apartheid South Africa, and at the same time he understood the critical position in which he had to see himself as

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Nord, Catharina. "Healthcare and Warfare. Medical Space, Mission and Apartheid in Twentieth Century Northern Namibia." Medical History 58, no. 3 (2014): 422–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2014.31.

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AbstractIn the year 1966, the first government hospital, Oshakati hospital, was inaugurated in northern South-West Africa. It was constructed by the apartheid regime of South Africa which was occupying the territory. Prior to this inauguration, Finnish missionaries had, for 65 years, provided healthcare to the indigenous people in a number of healthcare facilities of which Onandjokwe hospital was the most important. This article discusses these two agents’ ideological standpoints. The same year, the war between the South-West African guerrillas and the South African state started, and continue

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Kgatla, Thias. "CLERGY’S RESISTANCE TO VENDA HOMELAND’S INDEPENDENCE IN THE 1970S AND 1980S." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 42, no. 3 (2017): 121–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/1167.

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The article discusses the clergy’s role in the struggle against Venda’s “independence” in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as resistance to the apartheid policy of “separate development” for Venda. It also explores the policy of indirect white rule through the replacement of real community leaders with incompetent, easily manipulated traditional chiefs. The imposition of the system triggered resistance among the youth and the churches, which led to bloody reprisals by the authorities. Countless were detained under apartheid laws permitting detention without trial for 90 days. Many died in detentio

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Buffel, O. "A JOURNEY OF THE PEOPLE OF BETHANY MARKED BY DISPOSSESSION, STRUGGLE FOR RETURN OF LAND AND CONTINUED IMPOVERISHMENT: A CASE STUDY OF LAND REFORM THAT HAS NOT YET REDUCED POVERTY." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 41, no. 2 (2015): 131–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/102.

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This article investigates the history of the farm Bethany in the Free State (a province of South Africa), which was the first mission station of the Berlin Mission Society. It traces its history from the time when Adam Kok II allocated the farm to the Mission Society for the purpose of spreading the gospel to the indigenous people, and to its dispossession through the forced removals of 1939 and later in the 1960s. It argues that the history of the community is a journey from a community that was economically sustainable before the forced removal, to a journey of impoverishment caused by dispo

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Root, Michael. "Ecumenism in a Time of Transition." Horizons 44, no. 2 (2017): 409–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hor.2017.118.

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To assess the present state and future possibilities of personal and ecclesial ecumenism between Protestant and Catholic Christians is a difficult task. On the one hand, the diversity among Protestants is so great few generalities hold for all of them. The challenges involved in Catholic relations with the Church of England are quite different than those involved in relations with the Southern Baptist Convention, and different in yet other ways from those involved in relations with a Pentecostal church in South Africa. In a broad sense, one can think of a spectrum of Protestant churches, some

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Mashabela, James Kenokeno, and Mokhele Madise. "MANAS BUTHELEZI: THE CHURCHLEADER, LIBERATION ACTIVIST AND SCHOLAR IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 42, no. 1 (2016): 86–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/506.

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This article celebrates and honours Manas Buthelezi’s life by examining his active contribution in the spiritual, political, social and socio-economic spheres. An analysis of his contribution is offered by firstly examining his academic career, church work and his contribution to the recent history of Christianity. Secondly, I provide an overview of his involvement in political affairs and with the Lutheran community.Finally, I focus on Buthelezi’s service in the South African Council of Churches (SACC).

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Smit, D. J. "Confessional and ecumenical? Revisiting Edmund Schlink on the hermeneutics of doctrine." Verbum et Ecclesia 29, no. 2 (2008): 446–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v29i2.43.

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Confessional and ecumenical? Revisiting Edmund Schlink on the hermeneutics of doctrineConrad Wethmar has always been interested in questions concerning the hermeneutics of doctrine, often concentrating on methodological issues regarding the role of confessions and the challenges of ecumenical theology. For this purpose, he consistently engaged with German-speaking Lutheran theologians. In this essay, the important views and contributions of Edmund Schlink regarding confessional and ecumenical theology are called to mind, as one further potential dialogue partner for South African theologians l

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Garaba, Francis. "Lutheran Theological Education in an Ecumenical and Multicultural Setting: Public Use of Archives and Perceptions at the Lutheran Theological Institution (LTI) Library, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa." Atlanti 26, no. 2 (2016): 215–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.33700/2670-451x.26.2.215-224(2016).

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This paper reports on the findings of a study that was carried out in 2014 at the Lutheran Theological Institute (LTI) Library on public use of archives and user perceptions about archives in the library. Archival registration data in the form of user statics, library membership statistics, annual reports and a questionnaire were the primary sources of data. The study established that users were generally aware of what archives are, that the most consulted archival material were church and diocese minutes and that amongst the recommended strategies to promote visibility for the archives were e

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Van Wyk, Barry. "Kerkbegrip en kerkorde." STJ | Stellenbosch Theological Journal 6, no. 3 (2021): 141–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.17570/stj.2020.v6n3.a4.

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Church concept and church order: a comparative study between the four Afrikaans reformed churches in South AfricaThis article is about the church concept and church order as formulated by churches of Reformed offspring, especially since the Reformation. To be more specific: since the day when Martin Luther voiced his disgust in the church of his days in public on 10 December 1520. Church concept and church order is a Scriptural debate because both follows from a Christological ecclesiology.The second part of the article compares the church orders of the churches in South Africa with themes typ

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Froschauer, Ursula. "South African Women Ministers’ Experiences of Gender Discrimination in the Lutheran Church: A Discourse Analysis." Feminist Theology 22, no. 2 (2014): 133–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0966735013507851.

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Beyers, Jaco, and Lize Kriel. "John Muafangejo’s How God Loves His People All Over the World as Material Religion." Religion and the Arts 24, no. 4 (2020): 379–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02404002.

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Abstract The artworks produced at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre at Rorke’s Drift, KwaZulu-Natal, have been highly appraised and appreciated in South African art-historical circles, not in the least so as African expressions of postcolonial and anti-apartheid resistance. The work of Namibian artist John Muafangejo (1943–1987) is prominent amongst these. In this article, while borrowing generously from the methods of art historical research, our interest is primarily in works of art as objects of material religion. Erwin Panofsky introduced iconology as a way of determinin

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Bugge, K. E. "Menneske først - Grundtvig og hedningemissionen." Grundtvig-Studier 52, no. 1 (2001): 115–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/grs.v52i1.16400.

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First a Man - then a Christian. Grundtvig and Missonary ActivityBy K.E. BuggeThe aim of this paper is to clarify Grundtvig’s ideas on missionary activity in the socalled »heathen parts«. The point of departure is taken in a brief presentation of the poem »Man first - and then a Christian« (1838), an often quoted text, whenever this theme is discussed. The most extensive among earlier studies on the subject is the book published by Georg Thaning: »The Grundtvigian Movement and the Mission among Heathen« (1922). The author provides valuable insights also into Grundtvig’s ideas, but has, of cours

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Strickland, Jeffery. "“Our Domestic Trials with Freedmen and Others”: A White South Carolinian's Diary of African-American “Exhibitions of Freedom,” 1865–80." Prospects 30 (October 2005): 111–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300002003.

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In October 1865, Jacob Schirmer returned to Charleston, South Carolina, after more than three years refuge from the Civil War in the village of Edge-field, South Carolina. Schirmer had brought his slaves with him to Edgefield, but they did not return to Charleston with him, choosing instead to “realize their Freedom” (diary entry for October 28, 1865). Schirmer, a German American, kept a regular diary from 1826 until his death in 1880. Following the Civil War, though, he also commenced a separate journal — “Our Domestic Trials with Freedmen and Others” — in which he recorded his dealings with

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Zimmerman, Earl. "The Struggle of Hungarian Lutherans under Communism; God in Context: A Survey of Contextual Theology; The Church Struggle in South Africa. 25th anniversary ed." Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 28, no. 2 (2008): 266–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jsce200828219.

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Sholeye, Yusuf, and Amal Madibbo. "Religious Humanitarianism and the Evolution of Sudan People’s Liberation Army (1990-2005)." Political Crossroads 24, no. 1 (2020): 23–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.7459/pc/24.1.03.

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During the Cold War, military and economic tensions between the US and the Soviet Union shaped the process of war in conflict regions in different parts of the world. The end of the Cold War in the early 1990s reshaped the balance of power in global politics, as new actors appeared on the global scene and global foreign policy shifted to mediating and providing humanitarian assistance in conflict regions zones. Humanitarianism became the method of conflict resolution, which provided humanitarian organizations, especially the religious ones among them, with the opportunity to have more influenc

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GEWALD, JAN-BART. "MISSIONARIES AND THE STATE IN GERMAN SOUTH WEST AFRICA Mission Colonialism and Liberation: The Lutheran Church in Namibia, 1840–1966. By CARL-J. HELLBERG. Windhoek: New Namibia Books, 1997 (distributed by African Books Collective, Oxford). Pp. xi+321. No price given, paperback (ISBN 99916-31-59-3). Mission, Church and State Relations in South West Africa under German Rule (1884–1915). By NILS OLE OERMANN. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. Pp. 267. No price given (ISBN 3-515-067578-x)." Journal of African History 44, no. 3 (2003): 533–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853703378661.

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Tunheim, Katherine A., and Mary Kay DuChene. "The Professional Journeys and Experiences in Leadership of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Women Bishops." Advances in Developing Human Resources 18, no. 2 (2016): 204–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1523422316641896.

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The Problem There are 70.5 million Lutherans in the world, with numbers increasing in Asia and Africa. Currently, only 14% of the Lutheran bishops are women, an increase from 10% in 2011. The role of bishop is a complex leadership position, requiring one to lead up to 150 churches and pastors in a geographical area. With more than 50% of the Lutheran church population comprised of women, their gender and voices are not being represented or heard at the highest levels of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). With one billion women projected to enter the workforce globally in the ne

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Schuler, Mark. "Apostles Today." Global South Theological Journal 2, no. 1 (2023): 21–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.57003/gstj.v2i1.15.

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This paper begins by offering a sampling of apostolic claims in church communities in various parts of Africa. It next outlines several theological principles drawn from the Bible and from our shared Lutheran heritage that may be helpful while navigating this topic. Finally, the paper identifies what participants see as the most critical issues of apostleship facing the church today and which principles should be kept at the forefront as the church goes about its commission to make disciples of all nations.

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Hale, Frederick. "Norwegian Ecclesiastical Affiliation in Three Countries: a Challenge to Earlier Historiography." Religion and Theology 13, no. 3-4 (2006): 359–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157430106779024680.

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AbstractHistorians like Oscar Handlin and Timothy L. Smith asserted that international migration, especially that of Europeans to North America, was a process which reinforced traditional religious loyalties. In harmony with this supposed verity, a venerable postulate in the tradition of Scandinavian-American scholarship was that most Norwegian immigrants in the New World (the overwhelming majority of whom had been at least nominal members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway) clung to their birthright religious legacy and affiliated with Lutheran churches after crossing the Atlantic (

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Berwig Silva, Fernando. "The Brazilian Hymnological Melting Pot: Investigating Ethnoracial Discourses in the Compilation of the Lutheran Hymnal Livro de Canto (2017)." Religions 15, no. 5 (2024): 620. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15050620.

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In 1926, a New York Times article described the cultural and ethnic flows in south Brazil as a “Melting Pot”. The report predicted that German Brazilians, tied to their ethnoracial origin, would soon be Brazilianized. The study of congregational song practices offers insight into the relationship between migration, race, culture, and ethnicity. Moreover, investigating Brazilian Lutheran singing practices helps us understand how the New York Times’ prediction unfolded on the ground. This paper examines the Brazilian Lutheran hymnal Livro de Canto, published in 2017, and displays how Brazil’s et

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Hatoss, Anikó. "Language, faith and identity." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 35, no. 1 (2012): 94–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.35.1.05hat.

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While most language-planning and policy (LPP) studies have focussed on language decisions made by government bodies, in recent years there has been an increased interest in micro-level language planning in immigrant contexts. Few studies, however, have used this framework to retrospectively examine the planning decisions of religious institutions, such as “ethnic” churches. This paper explores the language decisions made by the Lutheran church in Australia between 1838 and 1921. The study is based on archival research carried out in the Lutheran Archives in Adelaide, South Australia. The paper

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Koepping, Elizabeth. "Spousal Violence among Christians: Taiwan, South Australia and Ghana." Studies in World Christianity 19, no. 3 (2013): 252–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2013.0060.

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Local, often unconscious, understanding of male and female informs people's views irrespective of the religious ideology of (for Christians) the imago dei. This affects church teaching about and dealings with spousal violence, usually against wives, and can be an indicator of the failure of contextualising, from Edinburgh to Tonga and Seoul to Accra, actually to challenge context and ‘speak the Word of God’ rather than of elite-defined culture. In examining five denominations (Assembly of God, Methodist, Lutheran, Roman Catholic, True Jesus Church) in Ghana, South Australia and Taiwan, ecclesi

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Williams-Hogan, Jane. "Field Notes: The Swedenborgian Church in South Africa." Nova Religio 7, no. 1 (2003): 90–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2003.7.1.90.

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The Swedenborgian Church, also called the New Church, was established in South Africa among English-speaking settlers in 1850. It is based on the theological writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). Swedenborg's "new" Christianity emphasizes, among other things, the internal meaning of the Bible, life after death, and the special spiritual qualities of black Africans. These field notes are based on a trip to South Africa in August 2000, and examine how the two primary types of Swedenborgian churches are adjusting to post-apartheid South Africa today. The English-speaking New Church is assoc

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Augustine Odey, Professor Onah, and Dr Gregory Ajima Onah. "PASTOR EYO NKUNE OKPO ENE (1895 – 1973): THE FORGOTTEN HERO OF THE APOSTOLIC CHURCH, NIGERIA." International Journal of Contemporary Research and Review 10, no. 08 (2019): 20654–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.15520/ijcrr.v10i08.723.

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This brief article is a legacy of the authors twenty-five year teaching experience of Nigerian Church History in three Nigerian Universities between May 25, 1987 and May 31, 2012 and his ministerial duties and lecture on Church history in the Lutheran Seminary in Nigeria and the various interaction with other Christian brethren, especially in relationship with Christian students of The Apostolic Church, Nigeria. In this article, the researchers have tried to describe the early history of the Apostolic Church in Cross River State of Nigeria, West Africa, through a brief biographical stetch of P

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Williams, Beth Ann. "Mainline Churches: Networks of Belonging in Postindependence Kenya and Tanzania." Journal of Religion in Africa 48, no. 3 (2018): 255–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700666-12340140.

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AbstractChristian churches are not abstract or ethereal institutions; they impact people’s daily decisions, weekly rhythms, and major life choices. This paper explores the continued importance of Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Anglican church membership for East African women. While much recent scholarship on Christianity in Africa has emphasized the rising prominence of Pentecostalism, I argue that historic, mission-founded churches continue to represent important sources of community formation and support for congregations. Using oral interviews with rural and urban women in Nairobi and norther

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STRAUSS, Piet J. "Church and State Authority in South Africa." European Journal for Church and State Research - Revue européenne des relations Églises-État 10 (January 1, 2003): 239–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/ejcs.10.0.2005676.

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Gruchy, John W. De. "The Church and the Struggle for South Africa." Theology Today 43, no. 2 (1986): 229–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004057368604300208.

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“The church struggle in South Africa is being redefined as a struggle within the churches related to the political struggle for the future of South Africa. Christian participation in and reflection on the political struggle has re-written the agenda for the church struggle.”

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Frankl, P. J. L. "Mombasa Cathedral and the CMS Compound: the Years of the East Africa Protectorate." History in Africa 35 (January 2008): 209–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hia.0.0017.

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Exactly when Islam arrived on the Swahili coast is difficult to say, but Mombasa was a Muslim town long before the arrival of Vasco da Gama in 1498. During the two centuries or so that the Portuguese-Christians occupied this part of the sea route from Europe to India there were churches in Mombasa and elsewhere in Swahililand, but none has endured. Modern Christianity dates from 1844, when Ludwig Krapf arrived in Mombasa. Before then Mombasa was a “wholly Mohammedan” town. Krapf, a German Lutheran, was employed by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) based in London. Failing to make any convert

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Echtler, Magnus. "Moral Economy in the Nazareth Baptist Church, South Africa." Journal for the Study of Religion 35, no. 2 (2023): 1–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2413-3027/2022/v35n2a1.

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Isaiah Shembe founded the Nazareth Baptist Church (NBC) in 1910, and this new institution distinguished itself from mission Christianity not least through the markedly different moral economy. With the church headquarters at the outskirts of Durban (South Africa), the church catered to black Africans, dispossessed of their land and forced into the capitalist labor system. To them, Shembe preached a Protestant work ethic, while at the same time condemning involvement in city life and striving to acquire land and attain economic autonomy for his congregations. With female adherents running away

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Burger, Coenie. "My Pilgrimage to the Missional in South Africa." Ecclesial Futures 2, no. 1 (2021): 124–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.54195/ef11889.

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The Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa at its 2013 General Synod made a bold resolution—to be a missional church. This resolution was not only an acknowledgement of past failures, but also a commitment to deep and lasting reform. In this article one of the pastors (and leaders) of the church tells this story from a personal, biographical perspective. It is a story of learning and growth and conversion. In this story we see how historical occurrences, personal experiences, reading the Bible and theology, meetings and conversations with friends and strangers and friendships, old and new, can

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Forster, Dion. "A state church? A consideration of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa in the light of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s ‘Theological position paper on state and church’." STJ | Stellenbosch Theological Journal 2, no. 1 (2016): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17570/stj.2016.v2n1.a04.

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This article considers whether South Africa’s largest mainline Christian denomination, the Methodist Church of Southern Africa, is in danger of embodying or propagating a contemporary form of ‘state theology’. The notion of state theology in the South African context gained prominence through the publication of the ‘Kairos Document’ (1985) – which celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2015. State theology is deemed inappropriate and harmful to the identity and work of both the Christian church and the nation state. This article presents its consideration of whether the Methodist Church of So

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Darko, N. Darko. "Pentecostalism and Africa-to-Africa missions-financing praxis." Pentecost Journal of Theology and Mission 3 (December 31, 2019): 87–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.62868/pjtm.v3i1.124.

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This article briefly introduces the missions-financing praxis of four Pentecostal churches that are prominent in the emerging African-to- Africa missions, and how this could form a basis for missional practice. The four major churches are, The Church of Pentecost of Ghana, The Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa, Light House Chapel International of Ghana, and The Redeemed Christian Church of God of Nigeria. Before we examine the missions-financing of these missional Pentecostal churches, it will be helpful to explain some of the terms that are used in this article, namely, Mission, Mission

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De Villiers, D. E., and D. J. Smit. "Hoe Christene in Suid-Afrika by mekaar verby praat. Oor vier morele spreekwyses in die Suid-Afrikaanse kerklike konteks." Verbum et Ecclesia 15, no. 2 (1994): 228–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ve.v15i2.1094.

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Are Christians in South Africa speaking at cross purposes? On four varieties of moral discourse in the context of South African churches The thesis of the article is that the use of different types of moral discourse contributes to the misunderstanding and conflict that typify the theological and church debate on socio-political issues in South-Africa. The distinction of the well-known American ethicist James M Gustafson of four varieties of moral discourse (prophetic, narrative, ethical and policy) can he used to categorise the different types of moral discourse used in South Africa. Acknowle

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Lebaka, Morakeng E. K. "The value of traditional African religious music into liturgy: Lobethal Congregation." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 71, no. 3 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v71i3.2761.

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The purpose of this study was to discover whether the integration of traditional African religious music into Evangelical Lutheran liturgical church services, could effect a change in member attendance and/or participation. To achieve this, the study employed direct observation, video recordings and informal interviews. In addition, church records of attendance during Holy Communion once a month between 2008 and 2013 were accessed. The study was done at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Lobethal Congregation (Arkona Parish, Northern Diocese, Sekhukhune District, Limpopo Province, South Af

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Van Wyk, I. W. C. "Het die kerk 'n politieke verantwoordelikheid? Oor die noodwendigheid en grense van die twee-ryke-Ieer." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 52, no. 4 (1996). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v52i4.1563.

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Does the church have a political responsibility? On the necessity and boundaries of the theory of the two kingdoms. The question is asked whether the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika has a political responsibility in the new South Africa? It is often heard that the church has no political responsibility - especially in the new circumstances. In defending this viewpoint, theologians in South Africa argue that they are in line with Luther's theory of the two kingdoms. This article shows that the theory of the two kingdoms is not a unique Lutheran, but also a Calvinist interest. It is furth

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Mashabela, James K. "The University of South Africa’s contributions to Lutheran theological training in higher education." Verbum et Ecclesia 46, no. 3 (2025). https://doi.org/10.4102/ve.v46i3.3352.

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (ELCSA) through its Oscarsberg Lutheran Theological College and Umphumulo Lutheran Theological College has been largely involved in the history of Lutheran theological training with the University of South Africa (Unisa). The ELCSA was very passionate to improve the quality of theological training and decided to further train their theological students at a university level. Oscarsberg Lutheran Theological College (OLTC) leadership started negotiations with Unisa for its theological students to be trained at Unisa.Intradisciplinary and/or inte

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Van Wyk, I. W. C. "The political responsibility of the church: On the necessity and boundaries of the theory of the two kingdoms." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 61, no. 3 (2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v61i3.457.

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The political responsibility of the church: On the necessity and boundaries of the theory of the two kingdomsThe voice of the church has fallen silent in the new political dispensation in South Africa. Many people in the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (Nederduitsch Hervormde Church) argue that the church should keep its distance from politics. They are of the opinion that they could defend this position with the “Lutheran twokingdoms theory”. This article shows that the theory of the two kingdoms is not a uniquely Lutheran, but also a Calvinistic interest. It furthermore shows that this theor

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Mashabela, Kenokeno. "The Agenda of Simon Sekone Maimela as Student Political Activist in the Black Consciousness Context at Umphumulo Lutheran Theological College." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, September 15, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/10571.

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In this article, the early days of Simon Sekone Maimela as a theological student at Umphumulo Lutheran Theological College are unpacked. He was one of the Lutheran theological students who actively established the Black Consciousness Movement at this college. He was also involved in the South African Student Organisation and other civil organisations. During his theological college days, it was not an easy task to establish this type of movement or to be involved in any civil organisation that was resisted by most White teaching staff and under apartheid in South Africa. Maimela connected his

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Dreyer, Willem A. "The Leuenberg Agreement and church unity: A possible matrix to cross ten seas with?" HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 65, no. 1 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v65i1.195.

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This article gives a short historical background to the debate between Lutherans and Calvinists on unity. It is important that this debate should also start in southern Africa. The focus is placed on the Leuenberg Agreement of 1973 as a possible model of unity not only between the Lutheran and Reformed churches in South Africa, but also between all Protestant churches which have historically been divided on the basis of tradition, language and race.

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Mashabela, Kenokeno, and Mokhele Madise. "A Threefold of Lutheran Theological Institutions in the Midst of Theological Education in South Africa: 1960–1993." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 48, no. 3 (2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/10063.

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This article explores the undocumented history of theological institutions belonging to the Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (LCSA) which contributed to South African theological education. The establishment of these institutions was initially managed by the mission societies of the LCSA and later the regional leadership. This development created the necessity for centralised theological training since 1910. Due to the political landscape of South Africa, theological education was adversely affected. The LCSA looked at ways to sustain theological education and as a result of the church’s pas

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Mashabela, James K. "Revisiting African Spirituality: A reference to Missiological Institute consultations of 1965 and 1967." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 80, no. 2 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v80i2.9022.

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This article revisits the hope of the First and Fourth Missiological Institute (MI) consultations in 1965 and 1967 regarding the survival of African Spirituality as relevant to the daily life of South African churches. African Spirituality has played a significant role in the cultural context of Africans. In the African context, African Spirituality is intertwined with life, death, and health, which co-exist with material aspects and the economy as gracious gifts from God. The churches in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa have been challenged by the African worldview of healing and culture.

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Van Wyk, Amie. "An essay on what the reformation could not prevent the identification of church and 'volk'. Three examples reconsidered." Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship 83, no. 1 (2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.19108/koers.83.1.2403.

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In this year of REFO 500 the author investigates the question why the Reformation with its ‘theology of sola Scriptura and solus Christus’ could not prevent the successive identification of church and ‘volk’ in history and why it could not prevent the fatal consequences this identification had for the gospel message of reconciliation, the exemplary existence of the church of Christ and the coming of the kingdom of God. Three examples serve as proof for this statement: the attitude of the Anglican Church in England during the second Anglo-Boer War (now called the South African War)(1899-1902);

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Van Wyk, Ignatius W. C. "Aspects of Reformed missiology in Africa: A contribution to a German Lutheran debate." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 65, no. 1 (2009). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/hts.v65i1.298.

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This article is based on a paper delivered at a Lutheran Missionary Conference in Bleckmar, Germany. The request was to give an overview of the development and the state of Reformed missiology with special reference to South Africa in order to stimulate the missiological debate in the German-Lutheran church. Within the space of an hour, one could only concentrate on the struggles and concerns of one’s own church and its missionary institute. The border lines of the article are laid down by the major themes of Reformed theology and missiology, such as ‘the Word alone’, ‘conversion’, ‘the format

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Lange, Hans-Christoph T. "Catechesis for a paradox: Investigating the formative potential of Luther’s catechisms in Southern Africa." HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 81, no. 1 (2025). https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v81i1.10593.

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The large majority of South Africans identify as Christians; however, the country is plagued by numerous indecencies such as violent crime, poverty, femicide and so on. This paradox presents a challenge for South African theologians, especially regarding Christian formation. Consequently, this article offers an analysis of Martin Luther’s catechisms within their context as a contribution to this challenge. Luther’s catechisms are examined in relation to the historical context of the early church catechumenate tradition, the theological contrast to Dietrich Kolde’s catechism and considerations

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Marais, Jan Frederick. "Ontstaan en groei van ’n seminarium aan die Fakulteit Teologie Stellenbosch en ander ontwikkelinge in die teologiese opleiding van die Ned Geref Kerk in die Sinode van Wes-Kaapland." Stellenbosch Theological Journal 10, no. 4 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.17570/stj.2024.v10n4.a10.

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The article focuses on the developments of theological training in die Western Cape Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in the last decade. In this era a Seminary was founded to facilitate ministerial formation for the DRC; Uniting Reformed Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Africa (ELCSA). The article unpacks the historical, demographic, and especially pedagogical complexities of theological education that aims to build missional leadership capacities. The theology and missional ecclesiology, rhetorical pedagogy and capacity theories are some of the building blocks that

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Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon, and Mulalo Thilivhali Fiona Malema. "Pentecostalisation in the Devhula Lebowa Circuit of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa: towards church growth and ecumenism." Pharos Journal of Theology 104, no. 1 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.46222/pharosjot.10429.

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The growth of the Pentecostal movement is not only marked by the proliferation of the Pentecostal churches in Africa and the diaspora but also by the adaptation to the Pentecostalist practices particularly pneumatic experiences by mainline Christianity known as Pentecostalisation. Instead of completely joining the Pentecostal movement, some mainline churches adjust their practices to suit their congregants who are more pentecostalist and charismatically inclined. This article uses the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, the Devhula Lebowa Circuit, Limpopo province in South Africa a

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Molobi, Victor MS. "The Scramble for Land between the Barokologadi Community and Hermannsburg Missionaries." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 46, no. 2 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/7807.

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This article investigates the land claim of the Barokologadi of Melorane, with their long history of disadvantages in the land of their forefathers. The sources of such disadvantages are traceable way back to tribal wars (known as “difaqane”) in South Africa. At first, people were forced to retreat temporarily to a safer site when the wars were in progress. On their return, the Hermannsburg missionaries came to serve in Melorane, benefiting from the land provided by the Kgosi. Later the government of the time expropriated that land. What was the significance of this land? The experience of Mel

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