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Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon; Malema, Mulalo(Pharos Journal of Theology, 2023-01)
The growth of the Pentecostal movement is not only marked by the proliferation of the Pentecostal churches in Africa and the diaspora but also by the adaptation to the Pentecostalist practices particularly pneumatic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon(Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022-09-14)
New prophetic churches are in continuity with the African Traditional Religions in tracing the challenges that many Africans face today to the spirit world. These churches make a connection between the challenges of ...
The focus of this article is on the current abuse of religion by some pastors of
some Pentecostal churches in South Africa. These pastors have been involved
in controversial, criminal and fake miracles practices that ...
Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon; Thinane, Jonas Sello(Common ground, 2022)
Missio Dei achieves its goal of total redemption by embracing other sub-missions such as Missio Christos, Missio Spiritus, and Missio Ecclesiae. The argument here is that some self-proclaimed spiritual leaders in South ...
This article seeks to illustrate that although there is a church historical significance of non-denominationalism in Pentecostalism demonstrated in numerical growth, non-denominational Pentecostal churches still require ...
The African Pentecostal tradition as a distinct movement within the Protestant tradition is
discussed here from disciplinal and decolonial perspectives. The characteristics that inform this distinction are explored to ...
Early Pentecostalism refers to the early development and establishment of the Pentecostal movement in South Africa. Early Pentecostalism in South Africa was a united movement learning from the Azusa Street Revival in the ...
There are undoubtedly differences between Roman Catholic and African Pentecostalism such as doctrinal issues and salvific conceptualisations. Besides non-Catholics, specifically Pentecostal churches have always been perceived ...
Public discourses on the reliability of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines in
dealing with the upsurge of virus cases and deaths are developing and ongoing in many
different contexts, as countries around the ...
Exposure of gender-based violence (GBV) has recently received attention from both scholars and the public. However, GBV within Christian discourse, and specifically as it occurs among pastors of the new Prophetic Pentecostal ...
Traditionally, the ministry of deliverance in African Pentecostalism involves the deliverance from generational curses, deliverance as spiritual warfare against witchcraft and other demonic forces and deliverance for ...
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 ...
Contrary to literature that recognises American missionaries John G Lake and Thomas Hezmalhalch as cofounders of the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) of South Africa, this article seeks to demonstrate the role played by the ...
UNISA’s policy documents state clearly that the Open Distance Learning (ODL) concept aims to bridge the time, geographical, economic, social, educational and communication distance between student and institution, student ...
Theology seemingly does not have a major impact on society anymore. However, Christianity did not only change and form the western world over the past 2000 thousand years, it still has a substantial role to play in society. ...
The notion and consequences of the Crusades are still influencing the modern Christian (and Muslim) pattern of thinking. These ‘holy wars’, fought by members of the Roman Catholic Church, mostly against infidels (‘unbelievers’), ...
Higher education in South Africa must work with the current realities of student protests and the challenges from the digital age to reshape and revolutionise its future, or it will become obsolete. Student-centredness ...