Masters Degrees (Practical Theology and Missiology)

Faith formation of children : a practical theological study of child evangelism fellowship South African

Marais, Shaun H. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research investigates the ministry of CEF in South Africa. As a para-church organisation operating in South Africa for over seventy years, this study seeks to establish the impact the ministry is ...

The challenge of internal unity within the URCSA Cape regional synod : seeking to understand trust, fairness and loyalty

Tromp, Hendry Hesting (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Trust is the glue of relationships. This research study seeks to understand how fairness and loyalty through the Dialogical Intergenerational Pastoral Process can mobilize trust for the internal unity ...

A phenomenological meaning of testifying about suffering within an African Pentecostal church context : exploring narratives of black South African women's lived experience

Nyoka, Ayanda (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Discourse on collective trauma and healing in post-conflict contexts have largely focused on the role of victims’ testimonies within Truth Commissions. It has not extended far enough into the role of ...

HIV and AIDS and the stigmatisation of woman by men in Nigeria : a pastoral care intervention strategy

Bwosh, Samuel D. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Stigma is known as negative beliefs, feelings and attitudes towards people living with HIV (PLHIV), groups associated with PLHIV and other key populations at higher risk of HIV infection. Stigma and ...

A case for 'anticipatory leadership' : Christian eschatology and anticipation as a leadership competency for ministers in 'an age of perplexity'

Vrey, Daniel Divan (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Communities around the world are experiencing accelerating social change at a bewildering pace. Rapid globalisation is spurring vast advancements that require constant adaption. While society values the ...

“Ubuntu” justice and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission : a theological-missiological study

Ntlapo, Headman S. (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-02-27)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines some of the missiological problems of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), taking into consideration the theological and missiological concepts of forgiveness, ...

Economical responsibility towards the other : a pastoral study

Bester, Lourens Christoph (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-06-28)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The following research study investigated economic responsibility towards the other from a pastoral theological point of view. The study’s theoretical framework is shaped by the dialogical Intergenerational ...

Restoring trust within relations in a local faith community : a pastoral study towards sustainable reconciliation in a TRC era

Manuel, Ashwin Sherman (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03-31)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research study investigated how trust and dialogue between relations within a local faith community can lead toward sustainable dialogue. The study used and considered the applicability of the ...

Silence and song : a practical-theological exploration of the healing dimensions of music within an Anglican context

Groenewald, Ulric Anton (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03-31)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Sound needs silence and silence calls for sound. This interplay between silence and sound forms part of a hermeneutic of sound, and contributes to the dimensions of healing. The researcher made use of ...

Women clergy in the Anglican church : a missiological study in the Diocese of False bay, Cape Town

Hohlo, Phathiswa Dephny (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is a missional study that investigates the ministerial and leadership experience of women clergy in the Anglican Diocese of False Bay. The diocese originated from the mother of Cape Town in (2005), and ...

Rituals as cultural coffins? Towards reintegrating divorced women into society : a pastoral theological study

Thabede, Hellen Nomusa (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Zulu marriages are regarded as metaphoric funerals or even burials for many Zulu women. The symbolic kist that these women carry as a transitioning process from their father’s house to their husband’s ...

Nuturing ecological responsibility : ecological pastoral care approach within the South Korea context

Seo, Ban-Seok (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research proposes a pastoral caring approach to overcome the ecological apathy and to nurture the ecological responsibility of the conservative Presbyterian Church in South Korea, especially in the ...

Exploring trust and loyalty within grandparent-headed families on the Cape Flats and the impact of the church, as social support

Roberths, Tamlynn Jane (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This exploratory research study investigated trust and loyalty within grandparent-headed families on the Cape flats, and the impact of the church as social support. The study draws on the dialogical ...

Die verhouding en dialoog tussen die NG Kerk en VGKSA, op plaaslike vlak, vasgeval : 'n pastorale studie

Grobbelaar, Jan Gysbert (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-04)

AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsing fokus op vertroue in verhoudinge en hoe hierdie gebrek aan vertroue dikwels dialoog beïnvloed. Die fokus is die verhouding tussen die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NG Kerk) en ...

Interdisciplinary perspectives on narcissistic personality traits of preachers in the South Korean context

Lee, Dongjoo (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Preaching does not exclude the unique qualities of individual preachers, but rather actively reflects them. If a preacher suffers from problems that arise from his/her personality, the problems will ...

Cultural and gender dimensions in sustainable livelihoods for poor households in Gaborone : an interculteral theological study towards urban mission in the orginasation of African Instituted churches

Marima, Ernest Zvaviruka (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This intercultural theological study in missiology explores how Organisation of African Instituted Churches (OAIC) is responding to cultural and gender dimensions of poverty, inequality, the environment ...

Who's got the power? : a practical theological reflection on the power relations in the "Blesser" phenomenon amoung female adolescence in South Africa

Jonas, Ruth (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the “Blesser” phenomenon, a gender-sensitive social phenomenon characterised by the lavish lifestyles of certain female adolescents and affluent older/married men. It started spreading ...