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First steps into the discipline: On the ‘spirit’ in the discipline of Christian spirituality

open access: goldHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
In this article on entering the academic discipline of Christian Spirituality, terminological sensitivities in interdisciplinary work are taken as a point of departure.
Christo Lombaard
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Rethinking the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement: an African ecclesiological approach [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology, 2023
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal Movement accepts and practices the beliefs in the gifts of the Holy Spirit without leaving the fundamental teachings of a mainline tradition.
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle   +1 more
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Pentecostalisation in the Devhula Lebowa Circuit of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa: towards church growth and ecumenism [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology, 2023
The growth of the Pentecostal movement is not only marked by the proliferation of the Pentecostal churches in Africa and the diaspora but also by the adaptation to the Pentecostalist practices particularly pneumatic experiences by mainline Christianity ...
Mookgo Solomon Kgatle   +1 more
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Towards Ecumenical Dialogue between African Pentecostalism and Roman Catholic [PDF]

open access: yesPharos 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   +1 more
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Can Christians really make a difference? A response to the call for change to make the world a better place

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017
Christianity changed the world for the better through the development of education, charity organisations, art, music, law and medical care among others. However, not all changes initiated by Christianity were positive.
Erna Oliver   +4 more
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When equal becomes the same. The spirituality of sex: Have we lost it?

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2017
In this contribution, spirituality and sexuality are brought together as part of a quest for authenticity. In conversation with Hegel and Nietzsche, the confusion between sameness and difference as it plays out in the confusion between the public and ...
Annelise Erasmus, Christo J.S. Lombaard
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Contemporary Christian spirituality: a worldly embodiment

open access: yesKoers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2008
Contemporary renascent spirituality secures for itself a motif of materiality and physical embodiment. This embodiment pertains to renascent spirituality both as lived-life experience and particularly as contemporary academic discipline.
C. Kourie, T.J. Ruthenberg
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Validation of a Novel Instrument to Measure Elements of Franciscan-Inspired Spirituality in a General Population and in Religious Persons

open access: yesReligions, 2017
Today there are several approaches for bringing mindfulness, which conceptually refers to the Buddhist Vipassana tradition, into organizations. Programs referring to value-based attitudes and behaviors derived from specific Christian contexts are rarely ...
Arndt Büssing   +3 more
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