Browsing by Subject "Inculturation"

The big things bowed : the community ministry of Catholic funeral leaders in a rural South African context

Wustenberg, Michael (2001-06)

Funeral leaders share the ministry of comfort with others. They make a specific religious contribution towards restoring life or decontaminating from death, which affects the faith and hope of the bereaved. Their ministry ...

Bishop Dr S. Dwane and the rise of Xhosa spirituality in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church (formerly the Order of Ethiopia)

Mtuze, Peter Tshobiso (2009-08-25)

The thesis consists of seven chapters with each chapter focusing on a particular aspect of the research topic. Chapter One deals with conventional preliminaries such as aim of study, method of approach, literature ...

Christianity under indigenous leadership in Zimbabwe : whither the church's inculturation of the Shona views on death and afterlife

Hwata, Benny (2021-01)

Early Christian missionaries alienated Shona people from their culture and traditional religion. Essential elements of Shona religion were rejected because they were thought to be entertaining paganism, fetishism and ...

The Church of Christ in Zimbabwe Identity- and Mission-Continuity (in Diversity)

Masengwe, Gift (2020-06)

The study of the Church of Christ’s ‘Identity- and Mission-Continuity’ in the Zimbabwean context explores how the Christian faith should be interpreted and contextualised in Africa. The Church of Christ in Zimbabe (COCZ) ...

Church planting in an a-religious, post-socialistic context : a practical theological study with the focus on the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district Of East Berlin, Germany

Keller, Stefan, M.Th. (2009-08-25)

The point of departure in this dissertation is the situation in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf region of East-Berlin, where, 17 years after the political turnaround, only three new Christian communities have established ...

The continuous dialectic between Theology and Culture: the critical function of hermeneutics and spirituality in this dynamic discourse

Van der Merwe, D.G. (Centre for Human Interaction, Learning and Development, 2016)

Throughout the history of Christianity, a dialectic existed in the relation between theology and culture. This resulted in continuous conflicts among Christian scholars and among churches. This research tends to participate ...

DIE ÜBERWINDUNG DER MILIEUFIXIERUNG IN FREIEN EVANGELISCHEN GEMEINDEN IN DEUTSCHLAND. EIN VERGLEICH AKTUELLER EKKLESIOLOGISCHER ENTWÜRFE

Endlich, Markus (2020)

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Milieufixierung der Gemeinden des Bundes Freier evangelischer Gemeinden in Deutschland, ihren möglichen inneren und äußeren Ursachen und deren Überwindung durch aktuelle ...

Discipleship praxis in light of colonial mission history in the Anglican Diocese of Kampala, Uganda

Hughes, Jessica Louise (2021-06-10)

This explanatory study used Branson and Martinez’s (2011) methodology to name and describe the current church praxis of how Anglican leaders in Uganda understand discipleship in light of colonial mission history. For the ...

Gottesdienst - die Mitte der missionarischen Gemeinde. Zweitgottesdienst - Entwicklung als Baustein für eine zukünftige Sozialgestalt der evangelischen Landeskirche in Württemberg = The church service as the centre of a missional congregation developing a second church service as a building block for a future social form of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg, Germany

Beck, Willi, M.Th. (2009-08-25)

Zusammenfassung Im schleichenden Rückgang gemeindlichen Lebens wird eine anhaltende Inkulturationskrise sichtbar. Der gegenwärtigen Kirche in ihrer milieuverengenden Präsenz gelingt es nicht, in die vielfältigen sozialen ...

The history of the Roman Catholic Church in Lesotho, 1862-1989

Sekoati, S. M. (2001-02)

This dissertation titled The History of the Catholic Church in Lesotho 1862-1989 has three chapters. The first chapter deals with the formation of the seventy-seven missions in Lesotho, and the establishment of the four ...

The impact of liberation theology on methodism in South Africa with regard to the doctrine of christian perfection

Bailie, John (2009-01)

There is potential for a schism, within the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) today, between Fundamentalist and Liberationist Methodists, who struggle to find common identity and vision. A question that needs ...

In search of the understanding of the Old Testament in Africa : the case of the Lemba

Le Roux, Magdel (1999-11)

This project seeks to determine, to what extent the culture of early Israel (1250-1000 BC) is similar to African cultures, more specifically, to that of the Lemba. However, a comparison between the cultures of ...

An incarnational Christology set in the context of narratives of Shona women in present day Zimbabwe

Chimhanda, Francisca Hildegardis (2009-08-25)

Implicit in the concepts Incarnation, narrative, Christology, Shona women of Zimbabwe today is the God who acts in human history and in the contemporaneity and particularity of our being. The Incarnation as the embodiment ...

Inculturation and consecrated life in the Catholic church: the Companions of St Angela as a case study

Modise, Mary (2009-08-25)

Consecrated life or religious life as it is sometimes called within the Catholic Church is almost as old as Christianity. All baptised persons are consecrated persons by virtue of their baptism, but the consecrated life ...

Inculturation in African churches with particular reference to Zimbabwe

Amadi, Anthony (2002-06)

This study tries to investigate the extent of inculturation in African Churches in general and in Zimbabwe in particular. Some mission churches, like the Catholic, the Anglican and the Methodist Churches were selected for ...

Mapping theological trajectories that emerge in response to a Bible translation

Naylor, Mark, 1959- (2013-12)

This study identifies a theological trajectory of first generation “believers” – those who allow the biblical text to speak authoritatively into their lives – within the Sindhi community of Pakistan. A passage from a ...

The missiological dimensions of African ecclesiology

Andriatsimialomananarivo, Solomon (2001-11)

The growth of the Church in Africa, namely at numerical level, is tremendous. However, we notice that her impact on society and public life is not so visible as the growth is, since Christian values are embodied by Christians. ...

Mission und Neuevangelisierung in Europa Grundlinien kontextueller Missionskonzepte, 1979-1992

Walldorf, Friedemann (1999-05)

This thesis analyses the contextual concepts for Mission in Europe as developed by European churches between 1979 and 1992 by examining their interpretation of European culture and history (,,Europabild") and the corresponding ...

Missionale Theologie: möglichkeiten die Gemeindearbeit der täuferisch-mennonitischen Kirche in Deutschland zu bereichern

Janzen, Erwin (2019-11)

In dieser Foschungsarbeit werden zwei theologische Ansätze auf Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zueinander untersucht. Hierfür wird zunächst die täuferisch-mennonitische Gemeindearbeit auf ihre zugrundeliegende Theologie ...

More than a Passover: inculturation in the supper narratives of the New Testament

King, Fergus John (2009-08-25)

This thesis examines whether the theological method currently known as inculturation was used in the Supper Narratives of the New Testament. A methodology is set up in which texts are examined against the backdrop of ...

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