Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Practical Theology and Missiology) by Title
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The interplay between God-images and healing in pastoral ministry : engaging an African spirituality
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study can as well be termed as "an attempt to interpref' pastoral care and counseling methods and modules in an African understanding. For this reason, the study engages concepts, metaphors and ... -
An interplay between God-images and the Korean traditional religions in a hermeneutics of pastoral care and counselling
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this research was to determine what the influence of the God-image of parishioners within the Korean Presbyterian Church is on their faith and ability to come to terms meaningfully with ... -
The interplay between shame and religious pathology in Korean culture : a pastoral and anthropological assessment within the Korean Presbyterian Church
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The difficulties attending our understanding of the experience of shame are widely recognized. This work is concerned with the interplay between the experience of shame and religious pathology in Korean ... -
Koinoniale en diakoniale gestaltes van die missionale gemeente binne 'n konteks van multi-kulturaliteit
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study examines the relationship between koinonia and diakonia. Where koinonia and diakonia are in proximity, an opportunity arises to draw individuals from different context together. This leads to ... -
'n Kritiese ontleding van die soteriologiese teologie van Andrew Murray
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1979-12)VOORWOORD: Miskien moet ons ons voorwoord met ‘n bekentenis begin. Dit is nou ruim 18jaar gelede dat ons ons navorsing oor Andrew Murray se teologie begin het. Gedurende hierdie tyd het ons die werk vir lang tye gestaak ... -
Laity empowerment with regard to the missional task of the CCAP in Malawi
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation presents the empowerment of the laity in the church as a strategic key activity to bring transformation within the Malawian Church and its context. It is an attempt to answer the question: ... -
Lament in liturgy : a critical reflection from an URCSA perspective
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa faces many challenges, as a country. Our communities are struggling with many issues such as poverty, inequality, rape, abuse, violence, corruption and many more. Yet, our faith community ... -
Leierskap in makrogemeentes : perspektiewe op kontemporêre ontwikkelings
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-12)This statement is not only the theoretical outcome of this study, but also the experience of the practical ministry of the researcher. Since the first senior pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church was appointed five years ... -
Life beyond infection : home-based pastoral care to people with HIV-positive status within a context of poverty.
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005-12)The basic premise of this study is that the congregation is the key to providing homebased pastoral care support to HIV-positive people in poor contexts. In so doing, the church does not only perform a social function ... -
The liturgy of conversion : evangelism praxis in the Methodist churches of Cape Town
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The problem addressed is why the Methodist Churches of Cape Town do not expand vigorously through evangelism and conversion. The hypothesis is that a careful listening to church leaders and observation ... -
Making disciples in current missionary practice in Malawi : an empirical-theological study of religious workers
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Central African country of Malawi has a population of over 15 million people and more than 500 Protestant missionaries. In spite of an overall sense of partnership and community among missionaries in ... -
"Male gender role strain" : a pastoral assessment
(Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was firstly to investigate Korean males’ gender role strain, its impact on their spirituality and identity, and the relationship between male gender role strain and the issue of ... -
Meningsvorming in die hoofartikels van die Kerkbode in die Suid-Afrikaanse oorgangsperiode (1994-2003) : 'n interdissiplinere ondersoek
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Through the ages, the gospel of Jesus Christ calls on believers to witness to their faith and hope and to be obedient in word and deed to the love commandment of the Holy Trinity. This implies, among ... -
Met woord en daad in diens van God : die diakonaat van die NG Kerk in postapartheid Suid-Afrika
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Over the past two decades the Dutch Reformed Church, a typical mainline church in South Africa, encountered radical challenges, as was the case with many similar churches worldwide. The DR Church had ... -
Ministry of reconciliation in the context of ethnic ideology and genocide : a theological evaluation of the Presbyterian Church in Rwanda
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-11-22)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation frames the1994 genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi in Rwanda, which took over a million people’s lives as a result of the contextual factors emerging from Rwandan history. Given the ... -
The ministry strategy of the church of pentecost in ACCRA with specific focus on children : a exploratory study
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Children represent more than half of the total African population and therefore form a significant and strategic part of the church in Africa. Visits to churches and children’s ministries in Africa raised ... -
Missio Dei en versoening : 'n fokus op die bydrae van missio Dei perspektiewe op die verheldering van die NG kerk se versoeningsrol in getuienis-lewering binne die konteks van rassisme in Suid-Afrika vandag
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research was done from the viewpoint that because of different reasons believers and congregations of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa are struggling to make a significant contribution to ... -
A missiological assessment of the evangelization of the Mano of Northern Liberia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation is a missiological assessment of the evangelization of the Mano of Northern Liberia. The study considers the historical record of Liberia, the transmission of Christianity through the ... -
Mission and church in Malawi : the history of the Nkhoma Synod of the Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian, 1889-1962
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1980)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The decision to undertake this study was taken in response to a long-felt and often expressed need for producing a systematic and comprehensive history of the Synod of Nkhoma and of the Mission of the ... -
Mission as prophetic dialogue in Christian-Muslim encounters in Northern Nigeria
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-14)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Since receiving its independence in 1960, Nigeria has struggled to unite its many people, ethnic and religious groups under one national identity. In recent decades, religiously motivated encounters between ...
