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Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae Volume 31 Number 2, October 2005

Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae Volume 31 Number 2, October 2005

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The processes surrounding the birth of the Justice and Peace Commission in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)

Gundani, Paul H. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

Although the term ‘globalisation’ is relatively new, globalising influences have long since been at work from the time of the journeys of discovery in the 15th century. In this paper, the author illustrates how theological ...
A discussion of Adrio Konig's views on the evil one, evil and evil powers

Theron, J. P. J. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

The article investigates demonic evil as a historic theme in König’s theology, a theme that has been important to him but which, for the most part, has come to the fore indirectly. His high regard for Scripture and of ...
Doing Christian education at the edges in South Africa : a review of the work of Bongani Mazibuko as a Christian educator and missiologist

Kumalo, Simangaliso R. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

Bongani Alison Mazibuko (1932-1997) left an infamous though very significant legacy to Christian education in South Africa.1 He was the first black person to be awarded a PhD in missiology and one of the earliest black ...
Waging peace in the Spanish Civil Wars : the relief efforts of the British Quaker mission

Hale, Frederick (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 was contemporaneously perceived in much of Europe (and indeed as far afield as South Africa and Australia) as a crisis for Western civilisation generally. The Nationalist forces of ...
De-colonising history : on being a church on the borders of South Africa

Matsaung, Lesiba E. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

This article is a report on experiences of black ministers while managing congregations situated on the borders of South Africa. One such congregation is the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) found in ...
State of the Union : the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa, 1999-2004

Duncan, Graham A. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

This paper will argue that the union which brought the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa into being was based on an inadequate vision of the role of the Church in Southern Africa. While it was a natural ...
From Edinburgh to Achimota : the World Mission Conferences as a source of missiological knowledge in the thinking of DJ Bosch

Botha, Nico Adam (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

Bosch’s missiological thinking shows the extent to which he draws from the tradition of World mission conferences. The article traces how he connects with the conferences from Edinburgh 1910 to Achimota 1958. In a cursory ...
The experiences of the first indigenous Catholic priest in South Africa : Fr Edward Muller Kece Mnganga, 1872-1945

Mukuka, George S. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

The article presents a case study of the first indigenous Catholic priest in South Africa, Fr Edward Mnganga, who was ordained in 1872 and died in 1945. James Scott’s concept of ‘public’ and ‘hidden transcripts’ is ...
Wholesome and dynamic sense making approaches in the transfer of doctrines and theories of faith

Van Niekerk, Erasmus (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

Firstly, the idea of sense making views, approaches, orientations or patterns which operate and function in our present and past experiences, is discussed. Sense making approaches operate and function in everyday unaware ...
Archiving otherwise : some remarks on memory and historical responsibility

Vosloo, Robert (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

This essay seeks to contribute to the ongoing discussion on memory, historiography and archiving by engaging Jacques Derrida’s influential book Archive fever: A Freudian impression. The first part of the essay deals ...
A new phenomenon in Zionist churches of Botswana : the use of divination bones and sacred places

Matsepe, S.S.; Madise, M. J. S. (Mokhele Johannes Singleton) (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

The birth of the African Initiated/Independent Churches (AICs) on the African continent brought with it phenomena which in the African worldview are not new, but in the ecclesiastical view, as perceived by the missionaries, ...
The politics of heresy

Kuligin, Victor (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

There is a growing contingent of church historians and scholars who look to downplay or even condemn the basic tenets of the Christian faith. Orthodoxy is painted as the big, bad bully of the early church, and the church ...
Elizabeth Musodzi : the Catholic woman agent of the Gospel in Harare

Ruzivo, Munetsi (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

The role played by Catholic African Women agents of the gospel in the propagation of the faith in Zimbabwe has not been highlighted in Catholic historiography in Zimbabwe. This article focuses on Mai Musodzi of St Peters ...
Martin Luther on miracles, healing, prophecy and tongues

Foller, O. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

Although Martin Luther does not evolve a theology of charismata or church development along the lines of Corinthians 12-14 and in spite of the historical difference of the questions and the awareness of life, we ...
An African theology of healing and its impact on HIV and AIDS

Molobi, Victor S. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

HIV and AIDS, like all other illnesses in Africa, is a ‘wake up’ call for Africans to reconsider their traditional ways of healing and their ties with the natural environment as resources that can help HIV and AIDS ...
Black theology in South Africa : an autobiographical reflection

Motlhabi, M.G.B. (Church History of Southern Africa, 2005)

A few years ago black theologians in the United States celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of James Cone’s first book, Black theology and black power. Cone’s book represented the first systematic reflection on the ...
South African Baptists and the land discourse, 1806-1913

Mogashoa, Humphrey M. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

The possession and dispossession of land, access and denial of access to it, has been a critical factor in South African Baptist history. This critical aspect was expressed as follows: the whites had access to the land ...
Feminist responses to the historical and current influence of belief on sexual relationships

Pieterse, M.M. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

This study focuses on the important issue of young adult female sexuality in an age of HIV/AIDS and looks at the influence of the parental home, the church and young black women’s own belief about their sexual ...
Reviewing control and administration of Bethesda and Emmarentia Geldenhuys schools, 1935-1974

Matsaung, L. E.; Seloana, S. M. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

The transplantation of the church from the West into South Africa through the work of missionary societies brought with it the establishment of schools, which were regarded by their founders as valuable instruments of ...
Faces and phases of Protestantism in African contexts : the Jacobus Capitein heritage

Maluleke, Tinyiko (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2005)

This essay explores the shape, form, tone, and outlook of Protestantism on the African continent. I present the argument that, by and large, ‘African Protestantism’ is of a different order for its Euro-American counterparts. ...

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