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Womanism, land and the cross: In memory of Vuyani Vellem

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2021
Premised by Vuyani Vellem’s deep-seated understanding of spirituality and the cross expressed in ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me’, the paper explores the paradox of learning to die in order to live, which is a dominant message of the Gospel.
Fundiswa A. Kobo
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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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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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Of Theological Burglaries and Epistemic Violence

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 541-560, October 2022., 2022
Abstract The purpose of this article is to explore how the historical roots of Black and other liberation theologies are undermined through the usurping of the vocabulary of decolonial language. Through a critical discourse analysis of a selected publication, we demonstrate how the foregrounding of perspectives, the trivializing of positionality and ...
Sarojini Nadar, Tinyiko Maluleke
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Walking Together to the Promised Land

The Ecumenical Review, Volume 74, Issue 4, Page 645-657, October 2022., 2022
Abstract This article posits that Black theology of liberation (BTL) focused only on race and class, even when it included patriarchy in its theological vision, thus running the risk of truncating the liberation of Black humanity. The rigidity of patriarchy and the continued tendency of BTL to speak of the Black community as if Black women do not exist
Fundiswa A. Kobo
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Interlocution after liberation: Who do we interpret with and which biblical text do we read with?

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
This article aims to point out two seminal reflections on interlocution: Frostin’s insightful late-1980s (1988) analysis of ‘Third World’ liberation theologies and his contention that the decisive question for liberation theologies was the question of ...
Gerald O. West
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