The work being reported hereunder focused on spousal conflict as a threat to family cohesion,
while exploring a pastoral approach in the Masvingo Diocese in Zimbabwe. Experience as a
pastor has shown that domestic ...
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 ...
Orthodox Christianity represents the oldest Christian tradition. However, the tragic schism between the Christian East and West has resulted in a lost cognizance of the East by the West (Chrysostomos, 2007). Ultimately, ...
Culture and religion have both healthy and unhealthy effect on the leadership development of women in Africa. In this regard, the impact of especially African Pentecostal Christian discourses, as well as Vhavenda cultural ...
While for Mbiti" death takes life while marriage creates life, another African proverb says “A
man without a wife is like a vase without flowers”. This articulation puts marriage not only at
the centre of human life, but ...
In this study, we employ the theory of deconstruction to challenge and reject the
contention that a knowledge paradigm was non-existent among the indigenous people of
Zimbabwe before the arrival of the colonisers. This ...
The problem of free will has a long and intricate history. The millennia of development
of the problem have seen the evolution of numerous free will viewpoints. A cursory
look at the evolution of the concepts of free ...
This study examines why post-colonial African states are not able to institutionalise the ideal ethical and democratic societies, given their access to international best practices and the abundance of human and natural ...
Pentecostalism has always been regarded as a movement that does not have all the
ecclesiastical qualities that qualify it to be called a fully-fledged tradition alongside other
major streams of Protestantism. Contrary ...
The mission over the last few decades, especially of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has
focused on “confessionalism”. In this specific sense of mission growth—numeric growth—
has been a priority, and, unfortunately, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This dissertation aims to critically evaluate the Incwala Sacred Ceremony
and its relevancy to Ancestral Veneration in the life of the Swazi Nation.
Swazis to a greater extent are believed to be quite obsessed about ...
Die indikatiewe (inisiele) aspek van die heiliging word genadiglik deur God aan die gelowiges
geskenk tydens hul regverdiging en wedergeboorte sodat die imperatiewe (voortgaande) aspek
daaruit kan voortspruit. God ken ...
Discontent with preaching as mode of communication is the
problem statement of this study.
The authoritative nature of deductive preaching is mirrored by
the exploratory, "discovery nature" of inductive models, emphasizing ...
This study is on the influence of Biblical teaching and church participation on marital commitment and adjustment of Evangelical intercultural couples of Filipinas with North American Caucasian husbands. The project is ...
As a cultural process, secularization defines the contexts of Westernized countries in which
theological colleges exist and thrive. It is a phenomenon by which religion or godliness
declines. It undermines the institutions’ ...
When reading the Bible in an independent way, i.e., not through the
lenses of any official Church dogma, one is amazed by the many
voices that come through to us. Add to this variety the literary finds
from Nag Hammadi, ...
When reading the Bible in an independent way, i.e., not through the
lenses of any official Church dogma, one is amazed by the many
voices that come through to us. Add to this variety the literaiy finds
from Nag Hammadi, ...