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In Thomist metaphysics, beauty is defined as unity, harmony and clarity. In a word,
beauty is order. Philosophers have attempted to arrive at a definition of beauty on the
basis of physicists’ descriptions of physics; ...
Diese Masterarbeit lädt dazu ein, neu über die gesellschaftliche Rolle der Kirche nachzudenken. Sie
fragt: Wie lassen sich Spuren des Reiches Gottes inmitten unserer Welt sichtbar machen? Ausgangspunkt
ist die Einsicht, ...
The study examined why ancestor veneration remains active and persuasive among Iteso Adventists in Kenya, and how beliefs about the dead continue to shape responses to death, illness, and social insecurity. The research ...
The historical systems of white supremacy, colonialism and apartheid (in South Africa) have had far-reaching effects on the person on both sides of the divide. All have, albeit in different ways and to varying degrees, ...
This thesis investigates the foundations of religious beliefs and their persistence in contemporary society through a systematic literature review. It examines how cognitive predispositions (mentalising, anthropomorphism, ...
African Independent Churches express Christianity in the African context through divine healing.
Hence, divine healing is popular among these churches. This article uses the ritual healing process as a
theoretical framework ...
The historical role of the church in South Africa regarding the development of colonial racism and apartheid is well documented. South African Christianity and the concomitant ecclesiastical developments and counter-developments ...
The intersections of migration and mission have been studied in past, but little has
been developed regarding theoretical frameworks for approaching the subject from the
discipline of missiology. This calls for the ...
Pentecostal ecotheology presents a holistic approach to healing that recognises the inherent
worth of all creation and the interconnectedness of human and nonhuman creation. It draws on the
Pentecostal full gospel and ...
The Zion Christian Church is one of the largest, most powerful and influential African
Independent Churches (AICs). Its membership of about 6 million makes up about 50% of the
total membership of AICs. The church has ...
South Africa is in crisis, and theologians have been grappling with the theological significance of this state of affairs. In the realm of black theology, many have expressed concern around the discursive malaise this ...
The lives of some men are so transmogrified after death as to represent them rather as their mothers believed them to be instead of the mortals that they really were. The opposite seems to be the fate of John Dunn, whose ...
African Pentecostal Christianity is one of the fastest-growing movements among other Christian traditions in the world. This makes African Pentecostal Christianity a major contributor to the growth of global Pentecostalism ...
There is a rising phenomenon of mega Pentecostal churches in South Africa and elsewhere on
the continent of Africa, which is conceptualised here as mega-costalism. The phenomenon
refers to churches with mega-church ...
The question should be asked whether the glaring failures of countries in the African
continent to realise constitutions’ social contracts of those countries is related to
a lack of moral intelligence and competence in ...
Missiology as a theological discipline is dynamic and forever evolving. This dynamism can be observed through trends and trajectories in biblical, theological, and contextual hermeneutics. The authors of this article, by ...
In this study, I position the Door of Hope (DoH), an organisation which attempts to work with
abandoned and orphaned children, as a faith-based organisation and attempt to determine its
effectiveness in relation to missio ...
This article aims to trigger a process of critical reflexive analysis relative to how colonial
perspectives are played out in the contemporary mission orientation of the Baptist Union of
South Africa (BUSA). It highlights ...