• The centrality of the Holy Spirit in God’s grand acts of creation, reconciliation, renewal and fulfilment : the kingdom of God and culture 

  Hoffman, Pavel (2024-01-30)

  The Spirit is the overall renewing and liberating presence-maker of God’s grand acts of creation, reconciliation, renewal and fulfilment. Not as doctrines, but these acts while we are involved therein are the ortho-experiential ...
• The investigation on the impact of societal structure on violation of the rights of women and children in Limpopo : church and African tradition perspective 

  Madiba, Daphne Maphuti Majapie (2024-03)

  African traditions have a significant impact on the societal structures, the Churches, and schools. The secular government also contributed to the increase of gender-based violence since the corrective measures were ...
• Towards a holistic narrative-hermenuetical premarital counselling model for couples in an African context: URCSA congregation as a case study 

  Matsepe, M.P. (2024-08)

  In 1994 South Africa elected its new democratic government and that brought about change politically, economically, and socially. The political change brought about new transformation that saw people in the society in ...
• African pentecostal leadership Crisis : a historical analysis of leadership crisis in the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe Church from 1983-2019 

  Nhumburudzi, Loshick (2024-03-07)

  The study was prompted by the gap in African Pentecostal leadership which led to serious damage to the church. The research examined the case of the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe church leadership crisis that culminated ...
• A Christian philosophy of sex, marriage, and the family as the pinnacle of creation and the Image of God 

  Murano, Paul J. (2023-10-25)

  The second half of the 20th century saw a sexual revolution against both human nature and God, which turned into widespread confusion and a culture of death. This thesis provides a vital response to the underlying philosophy ...
• H.B. Bousfield, first Bishop of Pretoria, to 1881: the foundation of the diocese of Pretoria (1870-1879) and the early episcopacy of H.B. Bousfield, first Bishop of Pretoria (1878-1881) 

  Suberg, O. M. (1983-11)

  In 1870 the Synod of the Anglican Church in South Africa decided to found a see in the Transvaal. The pioneer of Anglican work there was Bishop T.E. Wilkinson of Zululand who during visits of 1873 and 1874 organised the ...
• An investigation of the transgenic human embryo debate from the perspective of the African Philosophical tradition of humanness 

  Babatuyi, Oluwaseun Tosin (2023-11-24)

  A number of novel scientific and biotechnological exploits and interventions have been recorded in recent times. Of principal concern is the attempt by certain scientific researchers and practitioners to modify the genetic ...
• An ethical analysis of a Christian Theology of reconstruction in Africa and its contribution to epistemic masculine violence (in South Africa) 

  Mdokwana, Ayanda (2024-02-17)

  Physical violence from masculinist power in South Africa continues to be an obstacle to growth and progress. In the second quarter of the 2023 financial year, approximately 6945 people were murdered in South Africa. This ...
• Re-framing (South) African youth ministry: Cutting the colonial umbilical cord of Western Hegemony 

  Aziz, Garth (2023-04-11)

  Youth ministry, as understood in an African context, is predominantly informed, and guided by a West/Euro philosophy and hegemony. African youth ministry, it seems, is struggling to break away from the hegemony of the ...
• Becoming and being a person through others : African philosophy`s ubuntu and Aquinas` mutual indwelling in comparative discourse 

  Scott, Callum David (2023-03-01)

  African Philosophy and St Thomas Aquinas have both been taught in African universities, but the engagement between the continent’s indigenous philosophical tradition and the Catholic intellectual tradition’s preeminent ...
• The role of children's ministry on the moral formation of children in Mahikeng 

  Mogale, Olebogeng Victor (2022-08)

  Morality has been part of society for ages. Lack of morality in the younger generation shows a gap in terms of moral formation in children and this arguably has a long-lasting negative impact on society. Institutions such ...
• Peculiarities in the African Pentecostal tradition: disciplinal and decolonial perspectives 

  kgatle, mookgo solomon (2005-07-14)

  The African Pentecostal tradition as a distinct movement within the Protestant tradition is discussed here from a disciplinal and a decolonial perspectives. The characteristics that inform this distinction are explored in ...
• Pastoral inquiry of the clergy into dual relationships in the District 3 Full Gospel Church of God: a congregational paradox 

  Buman, Mabasa Robert (2022-02-24)

  The study will analyse a number of principles and ethical standards on the clergy of District No.3 Full Gospel Church of God in Southern Africa who offer help to congregants who are in need of therapeutic help other than ...
• Death in abundance versus life in abundance in the context of COVID-19 and poverty: A practical theological reflection on the much-needed pastoral accompaniment of the grieving families through the various stages of grief 

  Buffel, Olehile (2022-03-03)
• An investigation into the timelessness of God Theology, with special reference to African Traditional religion 

  Jaba, Mogomotsi (2023-03-31)

  The main aim of this thesis was to explore the timelessness of God theology while making special reference to African traditional religion. The ‘timelessness of God’ is a theological model taught in Western traditional ...
• Plurality in the Theological Struggle against Apartheid 

  Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (Brill, 2019)

  The church struggle against apartheid remains a key case study in ecumenical public theology, with particular relevance for the Reformed tradition. The importance of Christian theology in both the justification of and ...
• The (Non) acceptance of Belhar in the Dutch Reformed Church: Analysing Synodical Debates of 2011 and 2013 

  Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (Unisa Press, 2019)

  This article analyses the open session debates on the Belhar Confession at the 2011 and 2013 General Synod meetings of the Dutch Reformed Church. It identifies six key themes that repeatedly emerge from arguments made by ...
• A Next Generation? Young Dutch Reformed Church Ministers and Their Vision for the Church in South Africa 

  Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (University of Free State, 2020-12-23)

  For the foreseeable future, the Dutch Reformed Church will be remembered for its role in the theological justification of apartheid and spiritual support for the leaders driving this political process. Questions on the ...
• Beautiful Places and Recreating Humanity in South Africa 

  Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus (University of Free State, 2020-11-30)

  The article investigates the connection between beauty and justice, by exploring everyday aesthetics through ordinary life, specifically the very concrete reality of contemporary urban South Africa. On the one hand, it ...
• Beyers Naudé (1966–1977): Between Western ideals and black leadership 

  Van Wyngaard, George Jacobus; Van Wyngaard, Cobus (GJ) (Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2020)

  This article examines public lectures of Beyers Naudé from 1966 until his banning in 1977, tracing on the one hand his critique on apartheid shortly before his engagement with black consciousness, and then his reception ...

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