Research Outputs (Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology): Recent submissions

  • Theological education with the help of technology 
    Erna, Oliver (AOSIS, 2014)
    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 ...
  • Alternative assessment to enhance Theological education 
    Oliver, Erna (AOSIS, 2015)
    The knowledge driven, network society that is founded upon technology, demands from students to become independent, confident and motivated life-long, self-directed learners that can transfer their knowledge, skills and ...
  • Theology: still a queen of science in the post-modern era 
    Oliver, Erna (AOSIS, 2016)
    Theology is just as relevant today as it was in the time of Aquinas who called theology ‘the queen of science’ although the knowledge-driven network society does not seem to be in agreement. By using the tools provided ...
  • African Ethiopia and Byzantine imperial orthodoxy: politically influenced self-definition of Christianity 
    Oliver, Erna; Rukuni, Rugare (AOSIS, 2019)
    The ancient Ethiopian Christian empire was an emergent and notable power in Eastern Africa and influenced its surrounding regions. It was itself influenced both religiously and politically. The ancient Christian narrative ...
  • A move towards heutagogy to empower theology students 
    Oliver, Erna (AOSIS, 2016)
    Society is transforming from the industrial era to an information based, network society. There is widespread consensus that due to this revolution in society, education needs to make a paradigm shift in order to stay ...
  • Regina Mundi: Serving the liberation movement in South Africa 
    Oliver, Erna; Oliver, Willem Hendrik (AOSIS, 2016)
    The struggle for ‘non-white’ South Africans to eventually become liberated in this country was a very tough and bloody one. In the struggle the South African Native National Congress – later renamed to African National ...
  • An African Reformation 
    Oliver, Erna; Oliver, Willem Hendrik (AOSIS, 2017)
    The year 2017 is the year in which the Reformation, started by Martin Luther, is celebrating its 500th birthday. This depicts a milestone in the life of the Church of the Reformation and also in the life of Christians ...
  • The colonisation of South Africa: A unique case 
    Oliver, Erna; Oliver, Willem Hendrik (AOSIS, 2017)
    From the 15th century onwards, most of the countries in Africa have been colonised by the European world powers, Great Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Spain, Italy and Belgium. South Africa was officially colonised ...
  • Gamification as transformative assessment in Higher Education 
    Oliver, Erna (AOSIS, 2017)
    Gamification in education is still a very new concept in South Africa. Being a 21st-century invention, it has already established itself in the world within the environs of the corporate market, marketing, training and ...
  • Changing attitudes towards the crusades 
    Oliver, Erna; Theron, Jacques (AOSIS, 2018)
    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 ...
  • Blended learning for teaching Theology 
    Oliver, Erna (AOSIS, 2018)
    New tools are added to the educational toolbox in order to enhance and support learning. This descriptive study expands and explains the intricate nature of blended learning. Adding to the four basic components of time, ...
  • Change Agency and Higher Education in South Africa 
    Oliver, Erna (AOSIS, 2018)
    This article applies change agency to the institutions of higher education in South Africa – referring here to all the post-school institutions and educators in general and more specifically focused on the unique ...
  • Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) and Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) for theological education 
    Oliver, Erna (2018)
    Digital game-based learning (DGBL) – sometimes loosely referred to as gaming – for higher education has not really found its feet in South Africa as an innovative or alternative tool to enhance the impact of education. ...
  • Integrated Pentecostal Ministry of Richard Ngidi in the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa, 1921–1985 
    Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon (Unisa press, 2020-12-24)
    Previous studies on the life and ministry of Richard Ngidi only present historical data on his achievements and to some extent his failures. This paper is a socio- historical analysis that not only reveals historical data ...
  • Religious live-streaming in response to coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown in South Africa’ 
    Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon (AOSIS publishing, 2020-12-15)
    The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a virus that firstly struck in Wuhan, China, but its impact is felt by the whole world. The spread of the virus in South Africa caused President Cyril Ramaphosa to announce ...
  • Towards a balancing act between the emergence of prophetic churches and organisational culture in South African Pentecostalism 
    Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon (AOSIS publishing, 2020-11-04)
    Scholars with interest in South African Pentecostalism have highlighted the emergence of New Prophetic Churches (later NPCs) in South Africa in the last 5 years. These scholars have indeed characterised NPCs, their theology ...
  • God as one 
    Oliver, Erna; Oliver, Willem Hendrik (AOSIS, 2019)
    Two notions are discussed in this article, namely, the (unity of the) Trinity and God’s omnipresence. These two notions are deeply embedded in the Christian faith system and religion – they actually form both the basis ...
  • The triangle of effective education – implemented for Theology. 
    Oliver, Erna (AOSIS, 2019)
    Higher education in general, and more specifically in the South African environment, is under pressure to transform. Although learning is often seen as the main focal point, the education process consists of three equally ...
  • Religious Afrikaners, irreligious in conflicts 
    Oliver, Erna (AOSIS, 2019)
    From the first days of their settlement at the southern part of Africa – from 1652 onwards – the European settlers distinguished themselves from the indigenous people groups by referring to themselves as ‘Christians’. ...
  • A case for organic indigenous Christianity: African Ethiopia as derivate from Jewish Christianity 
    Oliver, Erna; Rukuni, Rugare (AOSIS, 2019)
    From its inception to the 4th century CE, Christianity experienced a formative process composite of three catalytic phases characterised by distinctive events (i.e. Jewish-Christian Schism, Hellenism and imperial ...

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