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"... they had all things in common": Calvin's exposition of the community of goods in some key texts in Acts

Van Alten, Erik (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

In an interesting text that has survived as the result of one of their regular Friday meetings (congrégations), the pastors of Geneva officially declared their position on the sensitive issue of the community of goods. ...
The search for a common understanding with regard to ecology and justice in the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa

Plaatjies-van Huffel, Mary-Anne (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

The Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) has a long-standing commitment to ecology and justice. Since 1994, the URCSA has increasingly engaged itself on the “Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation” ...
From a farm road to a public highway : the Dutch Reformed Church and its changing views regarding the city and urbanisation in the first half of the 20th century (1916-1947)

Vosloo, Robert (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

The big question which should be in every theologian’s mind is: How did the Dutch Reformed Church’s response to the rapid urbanisation of the Afrikaner people in the first half of the 20th century unfold and develop? ...
The problematic nature of divorcing life from life

Senokoane, BB Tumi (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

This article argues that the problem of divorcing religion and society is not African by nature. The argument is based on an African understanding that both religion and politics are part of our lives. Moreover, the ...
Struggle for justice and fullness of life: Catholic Social Teaching in Genesis and development of South African black theology (with specific reference to Buti Tlhagale and Mandlenkosi Zwane)

Mbanjwa, Zaba Gregory (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

Black theology arising in the South African apartheid context as a collective theological, vigorous and subversive reaction to the injustices of a system claiming Christian justification will be presented. Some of the ...
The impact of Christianity on Sub-Saharan Africa

Manala, Matsobane Jacob (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

The aim of this article is to describe the impact of Christianity on sub-Saharan Africa. I shall start by first examining the key words in the title of this article, and by briefly discussing the phenomenal growth of ...
Environment, world-view and healing among the Zulu Christians (19th and 20th centuries)

Henriques, Alan C. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

The basic question raised in this article is how Christians within the Zulu community seek relief from illnesses. Do they turn to plant (herbal) or animal remedies, or do they regard this as an imbalance in the mind of ...
African intermediaries: African evangelists, the Dutch Reformed Church and the evangelisation of the southern Shona in the late 19th century

Mujere, Joseph (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

Although some Christian denominations employed more African evangelists than others, African evangelists were quite indispensable in evangelisation of many African communities in the late 19th century. In the end, it was ...
AICs as a gendered space in Harare, Zimbabwe: revisiting the role and place of women

Mapuranga, Tapiwa Praise (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

This article examines the politics of space with particular reference to African Independent Churches (AICs) in the city of Harare. This stems from the notion that AICs in the city tend to occupy the margins and outer ...
How Vatican II renewed South African Catholicism - as perceived by "The Southern Cross" 1962-1968

Egan, Anthony (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

This article is a preliminary attempt to examine the reception of Vatican II, the great reform of the Catholic Church initiated by Pope John XXIII, that occurred between 1962 and 1965, on the Catholic Church in South ...
The role of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church and the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa in the struggle for justice in South Africa, 1986-1990

Kritzinger, Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

A great deal happened in the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) family of churches between the adoption of the Belhar Confession in 1986 and the Rustenburg Conference in November 1990. This paper uses the notion of “the church ...
The history of theologised politics of South Africa, the 1913 Land Act and its impact on the flight from the black self

Lephakga, Tshepo (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

This article is an attempt to examine the role and impact of the history of theologised politics in South Africa and the 1913 Land Act and its impact on the flight from the black self. This is done specifically to locate ...
Across the bridge: Polokwane Uniting Reformed Church of Southern Africa from dependency to autonomy

Kgatla, Selaelo Thias; Saayman, Willem (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

The authors analyse and discuss the history of an important “Dutch Reformed Mission Church” congregation since its inauguration under the first DRC “foreign” missionary, Stephanus Hofmeyr, in the late nineteenth century ...
Mistieke elemente in Dante se "Divina Commedia", met verwysing na die "Inferno"

Du Toit, C. W. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

Dante’s Commedia represents one of the great classical works of the Middle Ages, and renewed interest in this work has been stimulated by the recent publication of Dan Brown’s novel Inferno. This article explores some ...
A critical black analysis of the church's role in the post-apartheid struggle for socio-economic justice

Vellem, Vuyani (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

This article reflects on the role of the church in the economic justice discourse post 1994 within the context of a dominant calculative rationality. It is firstly argued that language becomes distorted as a functionary ...
Revival of a kairos consciousness: Prolegomena to a research focus on religious and social change in post-apartheid South Africa

Swart, Ignatius (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

My point of departure in this article is a new interest in the socio-religious reality of a reviving kairos theological tradition – or kairos consciousness – in post-apartheid South Africa, but indissolubly related to ...
The role played by church and state in the democratisation process in Mozambique, 1975-2004

Vilanculos, Julio Andre (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

The political action of citizens individually or collectively is always determined by a multiplicity of factors. These are first, political socialisation; second, the logic of the dominant political culture in the society; ...
The historical foundation of the mission churches and Afrian Independent Churches in South Africa: matters of the church and the environment

Madise, Mokhele (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

The missionaries established the Christian church in South Africa without access to any proper building structures. They discovered that the local people relied on the environment for their survival and sustainability, ...
Theological edutation of nineteenth-century French Missionaries: an appropriation of the Catholicity of Classical Christian Theology

Neele, Adriaan C. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

The limited research on the theological education of nineteenth-century Christian missionaries, including those of the Société des Missions Evangéliques chez les peuples non-chrétiens á Paris (hereafter PEMS), is of ...
Environmental management and African indigenous resources: echoes from Mutira Mission, Kenya (1912-2012)

Gathogo, Julius (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2013-12)

Unlike other elements of culture, European missionaries did not explicitly dismiss home-grown ways of environmental conservation as “fetish” as in the case of cultural practices such as female circumcision. Indeed, they ...

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