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The “Native Experiment”: the formation of the Bantu Presbyterian Church and the defects of faith transplanted on African soil [PDF]

Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2013
The missionary institutionalization of the Church of Christ, ipso facto, the formation of the Bantu Presbyterian Church in South Africa (BPC), is a tale of ambivalence and original defects of faith in a visible form of a Church. A product of the Scottish
Vellem, Vuyani S.
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Unshackling the Church [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2015
In whose ‘order’, ‘newness’ and ‘foundation’ is ecclesiology based in South Africa? The colonial legacy of pigmentocracy, the cultural domination and annihilation of the indigenous dispensation of black Africans, is not devoid of institutional structures
Vuyani Vellem
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The task of urban black public theology [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2014
Twenty years after the demise of apartheid, a typical South African city remains bifurcated. The mushrooming of squatter camps, mekhukhu, in our big cities, symptomises a history that defined the majority of South Africans as sojourners and vagabonds in ...
Vuyani S. Vellem
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Unpacking the meanings of ‘virtual spirituality’ in Vuyani Vellem’s critique of Empire [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
The modest goal of this article is to creatively unpack and render more accessible (mainly by means of cultural illustrations) Vuyani Vellem’s account of the virtual spirituality of Empire.
Jakub Urbaniak
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The Reformed tradition as public theology [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2013
This article is a South African perspective of a Black African reflection on the publicity of Reformed faith. Whilst the notion of public theology is fairly new, the article argues, it is important to define the ‘public’ of the type of public theology ...
Vuyani S. Vellem
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Black Theology relevance post-1994: Examining themes of debate during the Vellem era, 2010–2019 [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
In South Africa, debates on Black Theology of Liberation took various shapes over the years. The debates were impacted by different political contexts since the inception of this theology in this country, dating to the early 1970s.
Mnyalaza T. Masuku
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Beyond nostalgia in the search for identity: Black liberation theology and the politics of reconciliation [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
Practitioners of Black liberation theology often reflect on the emergence of this theological expression by means of a nostalgic launch into the past, seeking ways to address some of today’s most pressing concerns.
Demaine J. Solomons
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The struggles of imanyano yamadodana as a movement for evangelism: A case study of the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa [PDF]

In die Skriflig
Imanyano yamadodana [fellowship of men {FOM}] was both an evangelistic movement and a sodality within the Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA), established to evangelise and reach out to black people within their cultural context.
Wonke Buqa
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A theological response to racism in post-apartheid South Africa: A Korean perspective [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article explores a theological response to racism from a Korean perspective as a way to celebrate the legacy of Vuyani Shadrack Vellem who introduced the first Korean author (S.K.) to Black Theology of Liberation (BTL) in South Africa.
Seungbum Kim, Buhle Mpofu
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Tracking the Decolonial in African Christian Theology

International Review of Mission, Volume 112, Issue 2, Page 202-217, November 2023., 2023
AbstractDrawing on the framework and pluriversalist vision of decoloniality, this article offers a conceptual mapping of theoretical debates and trends in recent discourse on the decolonization of theology in the Southern African context with a view to outlining key missiological implications of such debates.
Teddy Chalwe Sakupapa
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