https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/5526 2026-05-06T12:53:21Z 2026-05-06T12:53:21Z Aziz, Garth https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/31177 2025-02-12T09:25:42Z 2023-04-11T00:00:00Z

Re-framing (South) African youth ministry: Cutting the colonial umbilical cord of Western Hegemony Aziz, Garth Youth ministry, as understood in an African context, is predominantly informed, and guided by a West/Euro philosophy and hegemony. African youth ministry, it seems, is struggling to break away from the hegemony of the developed world, one that is not always compatible or even deals with the developing world like Africa. There has been a renewed energy from the youths on the African continent calling for a decolonial conversation, which ideally, should also include theology and youth ministry. The #feesmustfall and #rhodesmustfall campaigns in South Africa have proven that youth in the developing world remains a dominant voice for justice and transformation in spheres controlled by the adult community, those who are traditionally in power, and who hold a philosophy that is often vastly different from the youths and the world that they inhabit. In a sense, one can argue that the actions in the calling for justice and transformation of the youth are indeed prophetic. This article will argue that the youth from emerging nations, such as Africa, has the agency to make a profound difference in (public) areas where there is injustice, thus offering a message of hope. This means of agency amongst the youth in the public domain is an expression of how youth ministry should not restrict itself to only the clerical and ecclesial domains but also ought to act in the public domain as public practical theology. Furthermore, this article will argue, as a public practical theology, that there is a need to build a theological theory, which is local and distinct from the West/Euro context to further the prophetic actions of the youth. The twofold aim of this article will be achieved through a theoretical approach with reflections on contemporary actions of, particularly South African youth.

2023-04-11T00:00:00Z Scott, Callum David https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/31164 2026-04-23T19:38:07Z 2023-03-01T00:00:00Z

Becoming and being a person through others : African philosophy`s ubuntu and Aquinas` mutual indwelling in comparative discourse Scott, Callum David African Philosophy and St Thomas Aquinas have both been taught in African universities, but the engagement between the continent’s indigenous philosophical tradition and the Catholic intellectual tradition’s preeminent strand, has not been thorough. Presupposing that plural philosophical traditions contribute to the search to better understand, this research embarks upon a comparative analysis of the perspectives of the African ubuntu philosophy and Thomist philosophical conceptualisations of human becoming and being. Through analysis of dimensions of both traditions, it is contended that human fulness arises through relationality. It is argued that in centring on the interpersonal encounter and the consequent recognition of another’s being through mutual engagement, these philosophical traditions open to each other. Further, both traditions contribute toward the ontology of personhood in ubuntu and the good of mutual indwelling, respectively. (Words: 130)

2023-03-01T00:00:00Z Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/31114 2025-02-17T09:21:36Z 2005-07-14T00:00:00Z

Peculiarities in the African Pentecostal tradition : disciplinal and decolonial perspectives Kgatle, Mookgo Solomon The African Pentecostal tradition as a distinct movement within the Protestant tradition is discussed here from a disciplinal and a decolonial perspectives. The characteristics that inform this distinction are explored in order to show that Pentecostalism is part of the Protestant tradition but distinct from other streams within this tradition. In addition, the different types and streams that exist within the broader Pentecostal movement such as classical Pentecostalism, African Independent Pentecostalism, Newer Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches and prophetic Pentecostalism are highlighted to demonstrate peculiarities. These distinctions help not to generalise when addressing the challenges and weaknesses of a specific Pentecostal sub-tradition. However, it is these distinctions in Pentecostalism that enable both insiders and outsiders to engage in interdisciplinary study within theological disciplines and multidisciplinary study between theology and other disciplines. The distinctions in Pentecostalism assist African scholars to thoroughly engage in decolonial discourses within theological studies in order to highlight challenges and provide solutions. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: This article demonstrates that the peculiarities in the Pentecostal tradition and sub-traditions in Africa serve as an opportunity for an interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary study of theology. In addition, these peculiarities – despite their challenges – are a trigger for the decolonisation of theological education and knowledge systems in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa.

2005-07-14T00:00:00Z Buffel, Olehile https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/31090 2025-02-12T11:28:46Z 2022-03-03T00:00:00Z

Death in abundance versus life in abundance in the context of COVID-19 and poverty : a practical theological reflection on the much-needed pastoral accompaniment of the grieving families through the various stages of grief Buffel, Olehile

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