The continuous changing of the zeitgeist, from modernism through postmodernism to metamodernism (post-secularism), contributes to the continuous changes in our societies, which undoubtedly lead to changes in the area of ...
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement accepts and practices the beliefs in the gifts of the Holy Spirit without leaving the fundamental teachings of a mainline tradition. Similarly, in the Catholic Church, this is a ...
Throughout its history, Christianity has stood in a dichotomous relation to the various philosophical movements or eras (pre-modernism, modernism, postmodernism and post-postmodernism) that took on different faces throughout ...
This article is an investigation into what the Letter of James communicates to the reader regarding socioeconomic stratifications in one of the early Christian communities. Rather than discussing economics in any single ...
River baptism has biblical and historical significance in the Christian tradition. Many
established mainline churches have baptismal pools where they safely conduct baptism.
However, some African-Initiated Churches have ...
The proliferation of New Prophetic Churches within the broader Pentecostal movement in
South Africa has come with the challenge of the abuse of religion and people’s beliefs. These abuses have attracted the attention of ...
In 2015 and 2016, South Africa experienced one of the unique student-led protests since the dawn of democracy that touched the world, the #FeesMustFall movement. Out of the many demands that the students made in the movement, ...
This article attempts to compile a soteriology in the Johannine Epistles. Circumstances and false teachings that might have influenced the theological doctrine and ethical behaviour of the community are constructed. The ...
This article builds on and contributes to work in the field of syncretism in some neo-
Pentecostal ministries. While some studies have investigated the increasing syncretistic practices
within certain neo-Pentecostal ...
The first 400 years of Christianity posed an intricate scenario of social dynamics. The interplay of these social dynamics or catalysts analogous to time perceivably conceived the political-religious establishment that ...
The aspects of the political leadership in South Africa discussed in this article include, among others, abuse of power, corruption and lack of public accountability. In response to these aspects, the article demonstrates ...
Singing has always been part of worship in a Pentecostal spiritual service. However, the role of singing in Pentecostal worship as a therapeutic agent has been under-researched. In order to bridge this research gap, this ...
Pentecostalism is a Christian tradition known for personal salvation, baptism in the Holy
Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, divine healing and personal encounter with God through the
work of the Holy Spirit. However, ...
This article discusses the term Sola Scriptura and the consequences of its application on the church, commencing with the Church Fathers, when the principle/idea of Sola Scriptura was already ...
Oliver, Erna(Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2008)
Although South Africa was never officially a Christian
country, Calvinistic Christianity has been the dominant
religion since the European settlement. The three hundred
and fifty years since Christianity was officially ...
Pentecostalism is known for the belief in Spirit baptism that is accompanied by the doctrine of initial evidence, that is, speaking in tongues. The practice of the doctrine of initial evidence has become a unique feature ...
Ecological theology has been explored from the perspectives of various Christian traditions. Although there have been attempts by a few scholars interested in Pentecostalism to investigate the subject, ecological theology ...
This paper investigates the nature of “discernment” as personally experienced
and communicated by Paul regarding his discernment of the “wisdom of God” as revealed to him by the Spirit of God. It is the first part of two ...
This article studied the metaphor of spiritual fathering within Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in southern and western Africa. In these churches, the pastor of a congregation is not only perceived as a shepherd ...