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The phenomenon of human conscience

In die Skriflig, 2019
No abstract available.
Marius Nel
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Pentecostalism and heteronormative God-talk in modern South Africa: A decolonial approach

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2023
This article reflects on the use of heteronormative God-talk within African Pentecostalism in modern South Africa. God-talk has often been used as a tool to push specific socio-political ideologies within the global community and in discourses about ...
Themba Shingange
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The African background of the prosperity gospel

Theologia Viatorum, 2021
Prosperity gospel refers to the genre of preaching that emphasises positive confession, divine physical healing, divine material success as necessary gifts, and blessing from God.
David T. Adamo
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Towards Ecumenical Dialogue between African Pentecostalism and Roman Catholic [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022
There are undoubtedly differences between Roman Catholic and African Pentecostalism such as doctrinal issues and salvific conceptualisations. Besides non-Catholics, specifically Pentecostal churches have always been perceived as non-churches and lacking ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Mokone Bruno Lephoto   +1 more
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Chammah J. Kaunda (ed.), Genders, Sexualities, and Spiritualities in African Pentecostalism: “Your Body is a Temple of the Holy Spirit.”

African Journal of Gender and Religion (AJGR), 2021
Moral discourses pertaining to gender and sexuality in Africa are certainly shaped by various religious norms and cultural beliefs, and for more than a decade, Pentecostalism has emerged as a primary area of research focus on this subject.1 The ...
Johnathan Jodamus
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Eschato-praxis and accountability: A study of Neo-African Pentecostal movement in the light of prosperity gospel

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2019
The quest for accountability in Christian theology is both immediate and ultimate. This, thus, suggests that individuals and groups within spiritual and secular spaces subscribe to some form of immediate and ultimate probity and accountability assessment.
Babatunde A. Adedibu, Benson O. Igboin
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Towards a decolonial hermeneutic of experience in African Pentecostal Christianity: A South African perspective

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
The idea for this article was developed in ecumenical discussion regarding the worrisome developments in some neo-Pentecostal ministries where stories of snake-eating, petrol-drinking, false prophecies and so on were being alleged.
Mookgo S. Kgatle, Thabang R. Mofokeng
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Integration in the early black Pentecostal community: a basis for social action in a post-1994 South Africa [PDF]

Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022
Early Pentecostalism in South Africa followed the pattern of the 1906 Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, United States of America in uniting people in their diversity.
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Developing the Scholarship of Ecclesiastical and Ecumenical Engagements in African Pentecostal Studies [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Engaged scholarship (also known as scholarship of engagement) is an approach to developing knowledge that values the interactions between the academy and the relevant communities.
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
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Allan Anderson’s African Pentecostalism theology and the ‘othering’

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023
Allan Heaton Anderson is one of the few white South Africans who succeeded in getting out of the entrapment of racial prejudices when it came to the written history of African-initiated churches. He became aware of the fact that an authentic theology can
Selaelo T. Kgatla
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