Faculty of Theology
Recent Submissions
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Reflection on pastoral care in Africa: Towards discerning emerging pragmatic pastoral ministerial responses
(AOSIS, 2016)Pastoral care takes different forms in responding to people’s needs in their context. Accordingly, over the centuries it has evolved in response to emerging needs. Historical developments in pastoral care are well-documented. ... -
God-image of Servant King as powerful but vulnerable and serving: Towards transforming African church leadership at an intersection of African kingship and biblical kingship to servant leadership
(AOSIS, 2015)Christianity is mediated through culture and people’s cultural practices. One such cultural practice is African kingship. African kingship conveys on the ruler sovereignty, power, authority and supremacy over people under ... -
Gender-based violence and efforts to address the phenomenon: Towards a church public pastoral care intervention proposition for community development in Zimbabwe
(AOSIS, 2019)Gender-based Violence (GBV) is a huge concern in many African countries such as Zimbabwe despite the preventative and mitigatory interventions that have been proposed and implemented by various stakeholders. The interventions ... -
COVID-19 and intimate partner violence in Zimbabwe: Towards being church in situations of gender-based violence from a public pastoral care perspective
(2020)The COVID-19 global pandemic negatively transformed social, religious and economic life globally. Countries implemented national lockdowns among other measures to mitigate against the spread of the pandemic. Zimbabwe is ... -
Changing family patterns from rural to urban and living in the in-between: A public practical theological responsive ministerial approach in Africa
(AOSIS, 2018)African people and their families find themselves in a situation of tension because of their transition from rural to urban life. This tension has created a third family type, namely emerging families. The emerging families ... -
Relating To Foetal Persons: Why Women’S Voices Come First And Last, But Not Alone In Abortion Debates
(Springer, 2023)Abortion remains a controversial topic, with pro-life and pro-choice advocates clashing fiercely. However, public polling demonstrates that the vast majority of the Western public holds a middle position: being in favour ... -
Homiletical-liturgical perspectives on life in the Anthropocene: the preeminence of peoples cognition
(SAGE, 2023)The central theme of this article is the matter of church participants’ engagement in liturgy andhow this could enhance their capacity for making moral decisions when it comes to life in theAnthropocene. First, one should ... -
Current classical Pentecostal Bible reading methods: A critical perspective
(SAGE, 2023)The prevailing trend among members of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa(AFM of SA) is to interpret the Bible in a biblicist and literalist way, which conflictswith how early Pentecostals read the Bible. Empirical ... -
Clergies and self-care during the COVID-19 pandemic : a challenge to pastoral care
(AOSIS, 2022)On the 15th of March 2020, the current president of the Republic of South Africa, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, declared a National State of Disaster as a response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). A range of regulations ... -
A critical assessment of Church and political engagement in Zimbabwe under the new dispensation
(AOSIS, 2022)Since the reign of the late Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Zimbabwe has been seized by retrogressive puppetisation of partisan gospel ministers and churches, worsened by state victimisation of those who stand against political ... -
The Church as God’s agent in uniting immigrants and natives: A case from Ephesians 2:11–22
(AOSIS, 2022)As the number of people migrating from many different countries to South Africa constantly increases, there is bound to be immense tension between the immigrants and the citizens for many and different reasons. Within ... -
Development and the role of the church : exploring public pastoral care positioning within congregational ministry
(2022)Discussions on development have been ongoing for many decades. Within these discussions, approaches such as human and community-focused development have gained prominence in recent years. Churches are acknowledged as ... -
Evangelicalism’s identity crisis: The meaning and application of qōdhesh and hágios for Christian holiness and distinctiveness in a post-Christian South Africa
(2022)South African evangelicalism finds itself in the midst of an identity crisis. In many sections of evangelicalism, there seems to be a pervasive worldliness which has resulted in a lack of holiness and distinctiveness ... -
The ‘lived experiences’ of the love of God according to a prayer in the letter of Ephesians
(2022)The epistle to the Ephesians is regarded as a circular letter, yet it also contains two specific intercessory prayers (1:15–23; 3:14–21) in which the Trinity concept features persuasively. On the one side, this research ... -
The concept and activity of 'obedience' in the Gospel of John
(AOSIS, 2022)The concept and activity of obedience can be regarded as fundamental to human existence as well as to Christian religion. The focus of this study was to investigate the occurrence of this concept in the Gospel of John. ... -
Spiritual leaders’ experiences of a comprehensive HIV stigma reduction intervention
(AOSIS, 2018)HIV is a deadly reality in South African communities, where people living with HIV (PLWH) do not only face physical sickness but also severe stigmatisation. Literature shows that spiritual leaders (religious leaders/traditional ... -
Cultural coping as a risk for depression and hypertension: the SABPA prospective study
(Clinics Cardive, 2018)Objectives: In past studies, a lack of social support has been associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, particularly in black Africans. However, whether or not coping strategies have beneficial effects on blood ... -
Plotinus and Buddhism
(University of Hawaii Press, 2017)The relationship between Plotinus and Buddhism has not been overly studied, in part because of the paucity of evidence. This article retraces some familiar terrain, enumerating parallels between the philosophy of Plotinus ... -
An ethos of vulnerability: a kindom perspective on the princile of respect for vulnerability within the UNESCO declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights
(Asia Journal of Theology, 2017)The Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights (UDBHR) by UNESCO regards respect for vulnerability (article 8) as a new independent bioethical right and obligation of all communities. On the one hand, vulnerability ...
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