• Defining Gnosticism after the publication of the Gospel of Judas 

  Jonker, Erastus (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015)

  With the recent publication of the Gospel of Judas in 2006, Gnostic Christianity was put back onto the agenda of Church History. Since the publication of the Gospel of Judas, the limi-ting of Gnostic studies by some kind ...
• The Minister of the Word in the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) and party politics: A theoretical and practical perspective 

  Modise, Leepo Johannes (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  This article will consist of five parts: First, definitions of faith and politics will be provided. Second, Regulation 4(3.2) regarding the status of a Minister of URCSA will be discussed in brief. Third, decisions of ...
• Doing theology at the margins: PACSA's accompaniment of communities in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, 1979-2012 

  Manda, Charles (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  The Pietermaritzburg Agency for Community Social Action (PACSA) is a faith-based organisation (FBO) situated in Pieter-maritzburg, in the uMgungundlovu region of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It works in 27 of the most ...
• The challenge of theological education in the Assemblies of God, Nogeria: A critical analysis 

  Mbamalu, Williams O. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  The establishment of Bible institutions by the Assemblies of God, Nigeria (AGN) is based on the immediately felt needs of its clerics. This Pentecostal denomination still struggles with the perception of theological education ...
• The nature and character of the African Independent Churches (AICS) in the twenty first century: The theological and social agenda 

  Kealotswe, Obed (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  The middle of the 1960s to the end of the 1990s saw great interest in the lives of the African Independent Churches (AICs) as a world phenomenon. However, the advent of HIV and AIDs shifted academic research and interest ...
• Interpreting the Bible in the context of apartheid and beyond: An African perspective 

  Farisani, Elelwani B. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  During the apartheid era in South Africa, the Bible was used both as a tool to legitimise the apartheid ideology and as a site of struggle against it. Today, in the post-apartheid context, the Bible still plays a significant ...
• The growth model for managing changes in African Christianity: The case of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in a Cape Town township 

  Masondo, Sibusiso (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  The article defines conversion as a process of change manage-ment. The Reformed Presbyterian Church exhibits a growth model which is about organic growth and development where-by new members are mostly recruited among the ...
• Songs of the harp from an African xylophone: Cries of deliverance 

  Kgatla, Thias (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  In this article I examine aspects of the Hebrew Psalms and relate them to African musical genres focusing on lamentation, protest, and resistance against evil and injustice suffered by the poor and weak at the hands of the ...
• The gendered God in the Setswana Bible and the captivity of Modimo: Moffat and the translating of the Bible into Setswana 

  Mothoagae, Itumeleng Daniel (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  The historiography of Christianity among the Batswana is incomplete without the missionary, Robert Moffat. This is because he is regarded as one of the pioneers of missionary activity in South Africa, particularly among ...
• "Tracing the ecological footprints of our foremothers": Towards an African feminist approach to women's connectedness with nature 

  Siwila, Lilian Cheelo (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  Throughout church history, the subject of ecology has assumed prominence in church circles with resolutions constantly being reached on how the church can and has responded to the ecological crisis. For example, the early ...
• The piety of German women in South Africa 

  Landman, Christina (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  The article analyses the piety prevalent in the four volumes of Unsere Frauen Erzählen which contain the stories of German women residing at Kroondal, a Hermannsburg mission near present day Rustenburg in the Northwest ...
• Singing from beyond the grave: Nokuthela Linderely Dube returned to memory 

  Gabaitse, Rosina; Kumalo, Simangaliso Raymond (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  Nokuthela Linderely Dube, one of the first black women to qualify as a teacher, author of the first Zulu songbook and wife to John Langalibalele, the first president of the African National Congress, is a significant figure ...
• Between war and peace: The Dutch Reformed Church as agent for peace 1990-1994 

  Van der Merwe, Johan (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  The years between 1990 and 1994 can be described as some of the most violent years in the history of South Africa. Political turmoil en route to the first democratic election in 1994 brought the country to the brink of ...
• War and "racial feeling" in the writings of an Afrikaner missionary 

  Muller, Retief (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  This article considers the themes of war, Christian missionary work, and nationalism and the ways in which they could be demonstrated to interact in the life of an Afrikaner Dutch Reformed missionary, the Rev. JA Retief. ...
• Dealing with division: Some responses to World War II within the Dutch Reformed Church on synodical and congregational level (1936-1944) 

  Vosloo, Robert (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  This article investigates the way in which the Dutch Reformed Church dealt with the challenge of divisions amongst its members after the outbreak of World War II, and how the responses on synodical and congregational level ...
• Pius XII: War, peace and the Jewish question 

  Henriques, Alan C (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  This article deals with the response of Catholics to the Nazi threat in Germany in the years 1939 to 1945. In it I argue that Catholics, and in particular Pope Pius XII (1876–1958), did in fact respond to the Nazi racial ...
• Mau-Mau War and the Church in Kirinyaga, Kenya: Accounting for the tension and conflict (1952-1960) 

  Gathogo, Julius (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  The Kenya Land and Freedom Army, otherwise called Mau-Mau, began their freedom war against British colonialism in the late 1940s by first administering a binding oath to its recruits. In turn, the guerrilla war, which was ...
• Violence in early Christian writings: Lessons for Christians in independent Zimbabwe 

  Matikiti, Robert (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2015-01)

  This work seeks to uncover the way in which the Church fathers have wrestled theologically with the ambivalent pers-pectives on violence. The early Christians, who took very seriously the injunction that they were not to ...
• The ethical demise of the politcal policy of affirmative action as a motive for enhancing women and education in South Africa : a double setback of a reverse strategy 

  Slater, Jennifer (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2014-08)

  In this article, the author questions whether the South African government is deceiving itself by parading an ultraliberal Con-stitution while failing to implement gender equality in educa-tion, society and the church. She ...
• The liberation potential of Shona culture and the gospel : a post-feminist perspective 

  Chimhanda, Francisca Hildegardis (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2014-08)

  The basic presupposition is that the original God-human-cos-mos mutual interconnectedness or interrelationship is tarnished and distorted by evil in all its manifestations; that culture and the Gospel have seeds for restoring ...

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