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Prophetic Theology in Black Theology, with special reference to the Kairos document [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2010
The ‘Protest’ and ‘Confessing’ Models in the streams of Black Theology of liberation provide a creative link between the Prophetic Theology in the Kairos document (KD) and the Black Theology of liberation.
Vuyani S. Vellem
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Unpacking the meanings of ‘virtual spirituality’ in Vuyani Vellem’s critique of Empire

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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Ambivalence and the unsettling aftershocks: Postcolonial perspectives on Vellem’s spirituality [PDF]

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
Addressing a myriad of complex social, economic and political issues in the South African context requires that we draw from a variety of voices. This postcolonial reflection draws on the work of Vuyani Vellem’s African spirituality to highlight how it ...
Buhle Mpofu
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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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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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Modern slavery in the post-1994 South Africa? A critical ethical analysis of the National Development Plan promises for unemployment in South Africa [PDF]

Koers : Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, 2014
In African ethics, work is not work if it is not related to God or gods. Work, or umsebenzi, is for God or gods ultimately; work without God is the definition of slavery in my interpretation of the African ethical value system.
Vuyani S. Vellem
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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
wiley   +1 more source

The “Pinkster Kerk” as a Site of Indigenous Religious Expression within Black Pentecostal Theology

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 600-616, October 2022., 2022
Abstract Deploying a decolonial epistemological framework that brings critical race and identity theory into conversation with African and Black theologies, this article explores the phenomenon of Pinkster Kerk as a productive site for indigenous meaning‐making within studies on Black theology and African Pentecostalism.
Johnathan Jodamus
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Vulnerable by Design

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 527-540, October 2022., 2022
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic plunged vulnerable populations and the church in South Africa into a crisis. This article argues that the situation of poor and vulnerable people is not an accident but a deliberate design of the powerful and is therefore closely linked to South Africa’s political past.
Eugene Fortein
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Black Theology in Theological Education

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 631-644, October 2022., 2022
Abstract The development and key features of African women’s theologies, primarily through the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, has entered the mainstream of theological education, which could provide insights for Black theology. In the landscape of theological education, which has been dominated by western‐centric approaches, Black ...
Selena D. Headley
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