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The shaping and formation of a missional ecclesiology of township congregations in the Mangaung Metro Municipality during COVID-19

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caught most organisations, institutions and leaders off-guard, including church leaders. This was not any different in the congregations in the townships of the Mangaung Metro Municipality.
Eugene Baron, Khamadi J. Pali
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Free for Mission

Ecclesial Futures, 2020
Working at the intersection of ethnographic and missional theology, this essay argues for the central role of fieldwork for discerning missional identity in congregations.
Scott J. Hagley
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The missional renaissance: Its impact on churches in South Africa, ecumenical organisations, and the development of local congregations

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015
This article focuses on three matters pertaining to the conversation of missional churches. Firstly, it looks at the impact of missional awareness in South Africa and Africa.
Jerry Pillay
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Missional metanoia: Missional spirituality in holistic theological education

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
Theological education is in crisis having lost an important dimension with its main focus on quality academics often abstracted from real life. This study aimed to propose that the formation of spirituality is fundamental to theological education and ...
Doret Niemandt, Nelus C. Niemandt
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Missional Churches in Secular Societies: Theology Consults Sociology [PDF]

, 2011
The church is missionary by nature. But what about public church mission in secular societies? Furious religion mobilizing against rebarbative secularity? Withdrawal to seek exemplary perfection?
Hughson, Thomas
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Trends in missional ecclesiology

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2012
Missional ecclesiology emerged as one of the significant trends in mission studies and ecumenical discussion in the last couple of years. What were these trends in missional ecclesiology?
Cornelius J.P. Niemandt
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A fruitful missional exegesis for a missional hermeneutic and missiology

In die Skriflig, 2017
Bosch (1991:497) advocated for a ‘third-way’ (Bekele 2011:155; Du Plessis 1990:83) in which a deductive and an inductive approach were unified in a creative tension.
Timothy A. van Aarde, Lygunda Li-M
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The use of ????????? for the missional plan and purpose of God in Ephesians 1:3-14

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2015
The term ????????? is used in the Pauline epistles with a specific nuance. It is Paul who uses it specifically as a missional term. He uses ????????? in Ephesians for the missions activity of God, the missio Dei (Eph 1:10), his own mission activity and ...
Van Aarde, Timothy Alexander
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Lederskab og spiritualitet i en missional kirke

Scandinavian Journal for Leadership & Theology, 2016
Leadership and spirituality in a missional church: Missional perspectives on the responsibility of the leadership to develop the spirituality of the congregation The thesis of this article is that leadership and spirituality in a biblical perspective ...
Knud Jørgensen
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Intercultural missional leadership: Theological foundation and biblical narratives

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019
This article explores the concept and practice of the missional leadership from three perspectives: the biblical worldview, cultural mandate and narratives of biblical examples.
Seung M. Hah
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