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Imvuselelo: Embers of liberation in South Africa post-1994 [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
The unprecedented cultural consciousness after decades of black cultural suppression in the South African public life since the 1990s summons us to the need to harness African ecclesiopolitical symbols in public life. This task is executed at a time when
Vuyani Vellem
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A dialogue with Sen’s Theory of capabilities and its implications for our National Democratic Revolution [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2016
In ‘traditional’ liberation theological discourse, especially the Latin American strand, the concept of development, desarrollismo, that is developmentalism, has been severely critiqued.
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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Positioning LGBTIQ as the human sexuality agenda for black theology of liberation – Reflection on Vuyani Vellem’s black theology of liberation

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
Vuyani Vellem was an outstanding Black Theologian of Liberation (BTL), who was approaching the zenith of his career when he died at the age of 50 years in 2019. This paper begins with a personal memoir to Prof.
Graham A. Duncan
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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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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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