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Demonology, eschatology and vaccinology in African independent Pentecostalism

In die Skriflig, 2022
Public discourses on the reliability of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines in dealing with the upsurge of virus cases and deaths are developing and ongoing in many different contexts, as countries around the world are doing their best to build ...
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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‘When Faith Is Not Enough’: Encounters between African Indigenous Religious Practices and Prophetic Pentecostal Movements in Zimbabwe

Religions
African Pentecostalism remains the fastest growing form of Christianity on the African continent. Scholarship on Zimbabwean Pentecostalism has noted how the emergence of New Pentecostal Movements (NPMs), specifically Prophetic Pentecostalism (PP), has ...
Molly Manyonganise
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Many Tongues, Many Economic Practices: Socio-Economic Opportunities and Challenges for African Pentecostal Christianity

Religions
This article focuses on Pentecostalism and its real and possible contributions to socio-economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. First, we provide an overall historical and theological introduction to Pentecostalism in sub-Saharan Africa, especially ...
Amos Yong, Johannes Knoetze
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Spirit baptism and the doctrine of initial evidence in African Pentecostal Christianity: A critical analysis

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Pentecostalism is known for the belief in Spirit baptism that is accompanied by the doctrine of initial evidence, that is, speaking in tongues. The practice of the doctrine of initial evidence has become a unique feature of Pentecostalism for many years ...
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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Decolonising Western missionaries’ mission theology and practice in Ghanaian church history: A Pentecostal approach

In die Skriflig, 2017
The term missional is meant to refer fundamentally to the missio Dei, just as the term missionary does. Missiology is the systematic study of all aspects of mission.
Peter White
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Revitalizing and Reforming Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya

African Christian Theology
A book review essay of A Spirit of Revitalization:  Urban Pentecostalism in Kenya, by Kyama Mugambi (Waco, Texas, USA:  Baylor University Press, 2020).
Kevin Muriithi NDEREBA
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Male engagement in family planning: the role of faith leaders in urban West Africa. [PDF]

J Public Health (Oxf), 2023
Hylkema R, Ilozumba O.
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Rather Spirit-filled than learned! Pentecostalism's tradition of anti-intellectualism and Pentecostal theological scholarship

Verbum et Ecclesia, 2016
The beginnings and first half-century of South African Pentecostalism are characterised by a tradition of anti-intellectualism consisting of a rejection of theological training, a critical and negative attitude towards theologians, and criticism of the ...
Marius Nel
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The fivefold ministry in African neo-Pentecostalism: Constructing a Pentecostal theology of edification

In die Skriflig
The fivefold ministry is the belief in the functioning of the five offices in ecclesial leadership such as apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, and evangelists. Contrary to the practice in mainline Christianity and classical Pentecostalism, African neo-
Mookgo S. Kgatle
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Reflecting on Tendencies in Nigerian Pentecostalism

African Theological Journal for Church and Society, 2022
Today, Pentecostalism has become a prominent part of global Christianity and its existence has been solidified in major parts of the African Continent. Specifically in Nigeria, Pentecostal Churches have spread across the country.
Michael A Ogunewu
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