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Pneumatological Imagination in Pentecostal Scholarship and Its Contribution to Theological Studies in South Africa

kgatle, mookgo solomon (Brill, 2026)

Pentecostal scholarship in the South African context has come a long way if contributions by early historians and biographers are anything to go by. The field is growing in the 21st century, considering the interdisciplinary ...
Contrasting an Individual Authority in South African Neo-Prophetic Churches: A Communal Sovereignty Approach

kgatle, mookgo solomon (Baptist Church, 2026)

Sovereignty has been studied in political science as a concept denoting the supreme authority of the state and non-reliance on any external forces. Within the study of religion, particularly Pentecostalism, a distinction ...
The role of Brueggemann’s ‘prophetic imagination’ in neo-prophetism and South African politics

kgatle, mookgo solomon (Africa Journal, 2026)

The relationship between Pentecostalism and politics in South Africa has been studied before, including the role of Pentecostal churches and clergy in the fight against apartheid and the advancement of democracy in the ...
A Pentecostal response to the five doctrines of grace in Calvinism’

kgatle, mookgo solomon (Aosis, 2026)

Background: Calvinism is known for its five doctrines of grace, embraced within Reformed Christianity, and has previously been conceptualised and theorised within the theology of grace. This doctrine requires a Pentecostal ...
Triple Immersion Baptism As a Unifying Sacrament in Early South African Pentecostalism: A Historical-Contextual Study

kgatle, mookgo solomon (Unisa press, 2026)

Triple immersion as an approach to baptism is dipping the baptised person three times in water in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. This approach is distinguished from single immersion, which involves ...
Theology, Church-State Relations, and Organisational Structure in the Transformational Leadership of Edward Lekganyane (1926–1967)”.

kgatle, mookgo solomon (Unisa press, 2026)

Edward Lekganyane (1926–1967), named after Edward Motaung, was the second-generation leader in the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) in South Africa and the son of its founder, Engenas Lekganyane. Edward led the church for ...
Siphefumula ngenxeba Rethinking a transformative missional ecclesiology as standing in the gap in the context of pandemics like COVID-19 and GBV

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (Southern African Missiological Society, 2022)

Pandemics are not only a reality in human history; similar cases are also recorded in biblical texts like Numbers 16:41-50 and are still happening today, as in the case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and ...
Standing where God stands JNJ Kritzinger as an encountering missionary and missiologist

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (Southern African Missiological Society (SAMS), 2018)

This article is written in order to pay tribute to one of the unsung heroes in the field of Mission and Missiology in South Africa, Johannes Nicolaas Jacobus Kritzinger. As a student of David Bosch, Prof. Kritzinger has ...
The cloth of Elijah: Reimagining sustainable leadership in the context of uncertainty

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (African Online Scientific Information Systems (Pty) Ltd t/a AOSIS, 2023)

Difficult times in the history of humanity, such as global pandemics, global wars, ecological degradation, drought, poverty and unemployment, require not just leadership, but sustainable leadership. Inspired by the ...
Unshackling the chains of coloniality: Reimagining decoloniality, Africanisation and Reformation for a non-racial South Africa

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2018)

Racial divisions, polarisation and tensions are on the rise in South Africa today. A democratic dream of a rainbow nation remains just a dream with racism continuing to raise its ugly head in the democratic South Africa, ...
Unshackling the chains of homelessness in the City of Tshwane: A critical appraisal of the current policy in the light of national and local policies and strategies

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (Routledge, 2017)

This article provides a critical appraisal of the current Homelessness Policy for the City of Tshwane in the light of national and local policies and strategies. Both a literature review and policy analysis were conducted ...
Where and When It Hurts Most: Th e Th eology of Hope and Accompaniment in the Context of HIV and Aids in Marriage and Family Life

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (BRILL, 2008)

The reality and effects of HIV and Aids are enormous and devastating, i.e. marriages are broken, the married are widowed and children become orphans. This has direct impact in the church’s life in that some of the people ...
Seek the shalom of the city: Homelessness and faith communities in diaspora

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust in association with Christelike Lektuurfonds (CLF), 2019)

This article is a missiological response to the migration and homelessness challenges, especially issues of socio-economic and political marginalisation, as experienced by foreign nationals in the City of Tshwane. The ...
Rethinking the use of disruptive pop-up encounters for transformation: A missional reading of Acts 8:26–40

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (SAGE Publications, 2022)

Socio-economic, political and religious pop-ups are a normal feature in the global context. While some are disruptive and annoying, others can be very useful. This article, through a missional reading of Acts 8:26–40, ...
Reorientation of mission and its action plans for a reformed missional ecclesiology in Africa

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (In die Skriflig, 2024)

The quest to understand and practise the church’s missionary calling will remain a significant exercise in the church’s life of every age. This article aims to provide a reorientation of the mission and its action plans ...
Reimagining mission in the public square: Engaging hills and valleys in the African City of Tshwane

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014)

This article seeks to map out the future of Christian mission in the city context. African cities like Tshwane are not only expanding, but also present the church with a new frontier that needs to be crossed without crossing ...
Reimagining Gender-Based Violence in the Eye of the COVID-19 Storm and Beyond: A Practical-Missiological Reflection on an African Family through the Lenses of the Biblical Narrative of Tamar

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022)

Humanity is not battling only against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but also against gender-based violence (GBV), which has risen to epidemic proportions globally during the COVID-19 storm. There has been a rapid ...
Pushing the Naked Envelop Further A Missiological Deconstruction of the Empire and Christianity in Africa

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (Missionalia, 2020)

In re-visiting issues of empire and African Christianity, this article sought to provide a missiological deconstruction of empire and Christianity in Africa, and to draw some missiological lessons that can help shape the ...
Occultism in an African context: a case for the Vhavenda-speaking people of the Limpopo Province

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (In Die Skriflig, 2007)

Occultism in Africa is as old as the primal religion itself, or what came to be known as African Traditional Religion (ATR) in mo- dern times. It dates back to time immemorial. Occultism in Africa has taken various forms ...
Moving to different streams of healing praxis: A reformed missionary approach of healing in the African context

Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick (Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016)

There are different streams of healing praxis in Africa today, namely African traditional healing, biomedical healing and spiritual healing (which includes the more recent ‘touch your TV screen’ healing method) among ...

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