https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/4224 Wed, 06 May 2026 18:53:10 GMT 2026-05-06T18:53:10Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/4369 The processes surrounding the birth of the Justice and Peace Commission in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) Gundani, Paul H. Although the term ‘globalisation’ is relatively new, globalising influences have long since been at work from the time of the journeys of discovery in the 15th century. In this paper, the author illustrates how theological views from the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and from the World Council of Churches (WCC) constituted a formidable globalising influence in the quest for social justice in Rhodesia during the latter part of the struggle for freedom in the seventies. The application of the religious values emanating from these two major streams of Christianity to the local socio-political and economic context in Rhodesia helped to generate, albeit within a small segment of the laity of the Catholic Church in Rhodesia, a new commitment toward establishing not only a peaceful but just society free of racial discrimination. Thus, in retrospect, the Justice and Peace Commission (JPC), as it was known in the 1970s, should be seen as a byproduct of both global and local theological responses to the threat of racism in the global political arena and in Rhodesia, in particular. Peer reviewed Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/4369 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/4368 A discussion of Adrio Konig's views on the evil one, evil and evil powers Theron, J. P. J. The article investigates demonic evil as a historic theme in König’s theology, a theme that has been important to him but which, for the most part, has come to the fore indirectly. His high regard for Scripture and of what is said in the Bible about God and Jesus has also led him to take references to demonic powers seriously. Implications of his approach to these issues and his theology on the subject, as it has grown over three decades, are discussed. Some biographical data are linked to his theological viewpoints on these issues. Peer reviewed Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/4368 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/4366 Doing Christian education at the edges in South Africa : a review of the work of Bongani Mazibuko as a Christian educator and missiologist Kumalo, Simangaliso R. Bongani Alison Mazibuko (1932-1997) left an infamous though very significant legacy to Christian education in South Africa.1 He was the first black person to be awarded a PhD in missiology and one of the earliest black theologians to be appointed at the University of South Africa (Unisa) as a lecturer in the Department of Missiology (Saayman 1997: 253). Mazibuko was also the founder of the Umlazi Theological Training Project (UTTP), through which he taught Christian education and missiology to township church leaders (both clergy and lay). He argued that Christian education must adapt to the African context. He also argued that the pastor’s role is to enable or facilitate ministry in the local church by empowering the laity through education. He made a significant contribution to the relationship between mission education and liberation. Although he appreciated the positive contribution of missionary education to African people, he was highly critical of its tendency to disregard African culture and experience. Although a call to do theology from an African perspective had been sounded by a number of theologians, no one had specifically tried to contextualise Christian education in the African context. He also warned against a Christian S R Kumalo education that, in fact, aims at domestication, and called for an approach that brings about liberation and transformation. In this respect, Mazibuko was a pioneer who sought to put the discipline of Christian education on the agenda of the Christian church as it sought ways of doing mission in a democratic country. This study seeks to examine his contribution to Christian education and missiology in an African context. Peer reviewed Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/4366 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/4364 Waging peace in the Spanish Civil Wars : the relief efforts of the British Quaker mission Hale, Frederick The Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 was contemporaneously perceived in much of Europe (and indeed as far afield as South Africa and Australia) as a crisis for Western civilisation generally. The Nationalist forces of General Francisco Franco sought successfully to restore the Roman Catholic Church to the privileged status it had enjoyed prior to being disestablished by the Second Republic in 1931. On the other hand, European – especially British – Protestants generally favoured the Republican side, not least because its continuation would guarantee the future of the evangelical presence which had been established in Spain. The Society of Friends, or Quakers, were attempting to establish a spiritual centre in the country when the war broke out, necessitating a fundamental change of emphasis to familiar forms of relief work. Though officially neutral, these pacifist Christians clearly sympathised with calls for maintaining denominational pluralism rather than the return of exclusive Catholic domination of Spanish religious life. Peer reviewed Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT https://ir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/4364 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z