The history of the churches in South Africa has also been a history of the scholarly interpretation of the Bible. Critical Pentateuch theory has a peculiar nature in this regard in that its main proponents have felt a ...

In popular works, and even in handbooks of (church) history, it is often assumed that Augustine was converted from paganism to Christianity. This perception is incorrect. Augustine (354-430) was a North African by birth. ...

The origins of the Free Protestant Church, subsequently also called the Unitarian Church, in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope during the 1860s have almost completely escaped scholarly attention. The present article ...

The complex interrelated histories of the family of churches within the Dutch Reformed Church pose serious historiographical questions. At the heart lies the methodological question of the representation of the past. ...

Originally written to defend the church against charges of being responsible for the destruction of the city of Rome in 410 CE, Augustine’s City of God has come to stand as a monument to theological reflection on the ...

This article investigates the contrasting and often conflicting perspectives in the past and the present on the writings of Spinoza, specifically regarding his theological and biblical research. In the next section it ...

In this article I outline the development of the training of African clergy during the course of the history of the Anglican Church in the Nyasaland Diocese. The period under review is 1861 to the 1920s. From 1864 up ...

This paper reviews the works devoted to the four-century-long history of indigenous clergy in Southern Africa during the past twenty-five years. The author proposes a periodisation which refers to the political history ...

Riane Eisler’s cultural transformation theory challenges traditional approaches to historical interpretation. Her theory posits the view that history is the result of the interaction of two evolutionary trends. Firstly, ...