Masters Degrees (Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology)
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Creation and salvation? : a critical analysis of South African ecotheology
(2018-11)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The accelerated rate of global climate change has been investigated by many seeking to understand its origins. In 1967 Lynn White Jr. published a short article in Science journal entitled “The Historical ... -
A promised presence : a systematic theological inquiry into the theodicy question in the thought of Jürgen Moltmann and Paul S. Fiddes
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Many scholars claim that the discourse on theodicy is in a crisis. Against this backdrop this study argues that the idea of a “promised presence” holds promise for a more adequate engagement with the ... -
Planetary health in the anthropocene : sharing agency in the body of God
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The earth, more-than-human communities, and many marginalised human communities are currently suffering because of the immense strain industrialised societies place on the earth’s life-support systems. ... -
Is ovarian cancer the end of womanhood? : a feminist theological engagement
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a study of the contemporary notions of the body that may seem to challenge concepts of womanhood among women who are diagnosed with ovarian cancer who, as a result, may not be able to bear ... -
Holy or wholly? : a systematic theological study of Sabbath keeping in the works of Samuele Bacchiocchi and Marva J. Dawn
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a study of the doctrinal concept of Sabbath keeping in the works of Samuele Bacchiocchi and Marva J. Dawn, respectively. Bacchiocchi is from the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church which ... -
Salvation as healing? : an analysis of Jesse Mugambi and Mercy Oduyoye’s soteriologies in the context of African prosperity gospels
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a study of the doctrine of salvation with particular reference to therapeutic interpretations. Discourses about salvation often center on that which comes in the hereafter, with less ... -
Ripples of power : towards a Christian theology of power with a view to inter-religious converstation
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12-01)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Divine power is a religious belief which ascribes apparently inexplicable acts of wonder to God, affirming God’s authority, might, and abilities. It is a conviction which often relates to God’s sovereign ... -
The Holy spirit, the church and daily life : a theological search for an integrated pneumatology in the light of Chewa views of the spirit
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study reviews the need to re-articulate the doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP) Nkhoma Synod by incorporating certain traditional concepts. The research ... -
Telling her story : constructing a historiography of mrs Alice Brink – Afrikaner woman in mission
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study is an exploration of the life and history of Alice Mabel Brink, a woman who dedicated her life to the Dutch Reformed Church’s missionary endeavours in Nigeria in the early twentieth century, ... -
Molinism and divine aseity : a review of ontological commitment
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2017-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The doctrine of Molinism seeks to reconcile God's sovereign predestination with humanity's free will by postulating a middle knowledge between God's natural knowledge and God's free knowledge. God's natural ... -
A church historical judicial assessment of the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe engagement with demon possession and exorcism
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-11-21)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Reformed Church in Zimbabwe (RCZ) was constituted in a context where the converts to Christianity believed that the diviners are the only people who have the authority to control the powers that ... -
A church judicial analysis of the office of the deacon in the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-01)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research study analyses the office of the deacon in the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe (RCZ). This is done by taking the Scriptural and Reformed church polity understanding of the office of a deacon ... -
Patriarchal inscribed bodies : a feminist theological engagement with body and sexuality in the “Worthy Women Movement”
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-01)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Gretha Wiid is the female leader of the Worthy Women Movement in South Africa. Wiid‟s discourse promotes female subordination and male headship. Her teachings seem to suggest that when wives submit to ... -
“To know the real one” Christological promeity in the theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-01)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer will be examined for its potential to address the problem of God and world, i.e. to provide a conception of the transcendent God’s immanence in reality faithful to the ... -
What science? who’s theology? : a reformed theological response to Andrew Newberg’s neurotheological model
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-01)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Religious, mystical and spiritual experiences are some of the most important and complex experiential qualities of human life. It has always been our greatest endeavour to make sense of our reality, and ... -
Being in touch : embodying Christian hospitality in an urban context
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03-01)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study argues that an adequate Christian theology of hospitality understands hospitality as an embodied practice that seeks in proximity and vulnerability, and often from the margins, to welcome the ... -
The infinite demand & the demand of the infinite : a theological-ethical evaluation of Simon Critchley’s experiments in political theology
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03-01)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: What is a ‘faith of the faithless?’ This study investigates the question of a ‘faithless faith’ and explores its accentuations through the purview of Simon Critchley, author of Infinitely Demanding and ... -
The Presence of the Kingdom in the light of the Speech Act Theory (SAT) : an ethical inquiry
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis relates Christian ethics to the presence of the kingdom of God in Jesus’ sayings and to its real meaning and application by reconsidering the religious language of the kingdom of God from the ... -
Vulnerable embodiment : a critical analysis of Henri Nouwen’s spiritual formation theology and its possible value for the discourse on Gender and Health
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates whether the counter-cultural spiritual formation theology of Henri Nouwen could make a significant contribution to the discourse on an inclusive, gender-equitable, spirituality-based ... -
Toward a Chewa ecotheology with special reference to the thought of Ernst M. Conradie
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study concerns the possibility of the Nkhoma Synod C.C.A.P. formulating its own ecotheological views as a way toward motivating its members to participate in addressing the ecological crisis in the ...
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