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The birth and growth of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians in Malawi 1989-2011

Fiedler, Rachel NyaGondwe; Hofmeyr, J. W. (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

Although two Continental Coordinators of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (hereafter the Circle) are Malawians, the Malawi Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians had a slow start and has had limited ...
Wealth and contra-culture in the "Passio sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis"

Landman, C.(Christina) (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

The prison diary ascribed to Vibia Perpetua, who presumably died a martyr’s death in Carthage in 203, contains the tenets of an early North African Christian identity. The article investigates this identity as the formation ...
"The upholding of the sap from the tree": the reminiscences of Sister Monica Fanny SSJD

Goedhals, Mandy (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

This article explores the life and work of Sister Monica Fanny of the Society of St John the Divine (SSJD), an Anglican religious community for women which was founded in Pietermaritzburg, Natal in 1887. The biographical ...
The Church as a peace broker: the case of the Natal Church Leaders' Group and political violence in KwaZulu-Natal (1990-1994)

Mbona, Michael (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

Moves by the state to reform the political landscape in South Africa at the beginning of 1990 led to increased tension between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress in the province of Natal and ...
Financial resources and economic agency in the early history of the African Independent Churches

Denis, Philippe,1952- (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

The article examines how money issues were handled in the Methodist, Anglican, Presbyterian and Congregational churches of South Africa when some of their most prominent indigenous ministers decided to secede in the ...
Missions are money and money is missions : Methodist ecclesiology in South Africa, 1872-2004

Kumalo, Simangaliso Raymond (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

This article examines the close relationship between the church and money, as manifested in the breakaway churches from the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA) from the 19th to the 20th century. The Methodist ...
The Dutch Reformed Church and the poor white problem in the wake of the first Carnegie Report (1932) : some church-historical and theological observations

Vosloo, Robert (Church History Socity of Southern Africa, 2011)

This article focuses on some of the events leading to the first Carnegie Report (1932) and the way the Dutch Reformed Church responded in its wake to the so-called poor white problem. Special attention is given to a ...
“Garden boys and new farm boys are better paid than us.” : The case of the Zimbabwean Wesleyan Methodist indigenous clergy and the development of resistance to domination, 1950–1977

Gondongwe, Kennedy (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

The second half of the 20th century was characterised by hardship for African people. This state of affairs also pervaded the Christian churches, and in the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe some white missionaries promulgated ...
The challenge of money and wealth in some East African Pentecostal Churches

Gathogo, Julius (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

One of the most disturbing questions of our times in Eastern Africa, and Kenya in particular, is: has Christianity that began as a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, shifted to being material-minded? Are the modern ...
On a bumpy road: historical survey of (unity) talks between the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa and the Dutch Reformed Church before 1994

Kgatla, Thias (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

The events prior to and after church unity between the former Dutch Reformed Church in Africa (DRCA) and the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) in 1994 are perplexing because the white Dutch Reformed Church (NG Kerk) ...
Finance, cooperation and autonomy in the early years of the Natal Vicariate 1851-1903

Henriques, Alan (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

The article will consider the issues of financial cooperation rather than autonomy as a means of growth in the early years of the Natal Vicariate 1851-1903. It covers the period of the first two bishops in Natal, Allard ...
Power struggles, poverty and breakaways in the African Independent Churches in South Africa

Molobi, Masilo Sonnyboy (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

This article will address the historical tensions that the impoverished state of many African Independent Churches (AICs) caused in South Africa. Such tensions have often led to divisions and breakaways within the AIC ...
Control, secede, vested rights and ecclesiological property

Plaatjies Van Huffel, Mary-Anne (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

In this article I argue that the Church has a strategic responsibility for property and finance. Three modes of ecclesiastical property exist, for example movables, offerings and funded property. Parallel to the possession ...
Money matters in Pentecostal circles

Theron, Jacques (Church history Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

This article focuses on a number of different but interrelated issues concerning Pentecostalism. Noteworthy, in terms of money matters, are references to the fact that Pentecostalism started among mostly poor people. ...

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