Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Biblical & Historical Studies, Theological Studies & Ethics) by Title

Ordination of women : partnership, praxis and experience of the United Church of Zambia.

Mulambya-Kabonde, Peggy. (2014)

There exists a gender distortion in the United Church of Zambia (UCZ) concerning the participation of women in the ministry, mainly because of the biased patriarchal images about women and their role in church and society. ...

The organisation and management of the Zion Christian Church.

Moripe, Simon. (1996)

The study of the African Initiated Churches has become vital for the understanding of the rich variety of forms in which Christianity manifest itself on this continent. In 1950 nearly 80% of black South African Christians ...

A paradox in a theology of freedom and equality : the experiences of pastors' wives (amayi busa) in the Baptist Convention of Malawi (Bacoma)

Longwe, Molly. (2012)

This study is a critical exploration and analysis of the experiences of 'being church‘ for women married to pastors in the Baptist Convention of Malawi (BACOMA). The study focused on the following research question: 'What ...

Partnership in Christian mission : a history of the Protestant Missionary Movement.

Barnes, Jonathan Spencer. (2010)

Despite the fact that partnership has be en a pronounced goal in ecumenical relationships for over eighty years, the realization of mutuality, solidarity, and koinonia has, even until present times, proven to be illusive. ...

Pastoral care for bereaved elderly women in the context of HIV and AIDS : a case study of Dzenza congregation women's guild members of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Lilongwe - Malawi.

Chibambo, Lucy Thokozile. (2015)

The HIV and AIDS epidemic in Africa, specifically in Malawi, has presented itself as a threat to the care of bereaved elderly women who have lost adult children to AIDS related illnesses. While battling grief, these elderly ...

A pastoral care model to refugees within the Metropolitan Methodist Church of Southern Africa of Pietermaritzburg.

Namukaso, Christopher Lembusa. (2015)

This research acknowledges the plight of refugees all over the world; it further affirms that there are many organizations which deal with the issues associated with refugees. Despite all the efforts invested by other ...

The pastoral care of the hysterectomy patient : the prospects of a multi-disciplinary approach.

Van Schoor, Willem Adriaan Johannes. (1999)

One purpose of teamwork is to pool the skills of individuals in order to produce a better result than that which could be achieved by each individual working on their own. The total effect should therefore be greater. Such ...

A pastoral critique of the Evangelical Reformed Church of Christ (ERCC) methods of bereavement counselling : retrieving the Eggon indigenous awhiku concept of bereavement management.

Affiku, Monday Engom. (2015)

This study focuses on the exploration of the nature of the Eggon indigenous Awhiku concept of bereavement management and the methods of the ERCC (Church) bereavement counselling. The purpose of the study is to engage the ...

A pastoral marriage and family wholeness programme: a contextual cross-cultural contribution to enrichment, growth and healing through pastoral care and counselling in the South African context, with particular focus on Methodist families in the community of KwaNdengezi in KwaZulu-Natal.

Sigaba, Avis Lumka. (2011)

Following decades of political struggle in South Africa, the 27 April elections in 1994 offered many people a long-awaited chapter in their lives as democracy was ushered in. The researcher has observed that the result of ...

Pastoral ministry to single women in the Church of Christ in Nigeria, Gigiring Regional Church Council, Jos, Nigeria.

Jakawa, Rahila Leng. (2014)

Beginning with the assumption that the church is a liberative space where everyone, single women in particular, can experience wholeness, this thesis investigates the extent to which the Church of Christ in Nigeria (COCIN) ...

Paul's "in Christ" - the mystical theory.

Williams, Denis Ivor. (2001)

In Paul's thirteen letters the 'in Christ' phrase, with its variants (in the Lord etc.), appears about 167 times. Since Deissmann's foundational study of the phrase over 100 years ago scholars have suggested many theories ...

Peace-building in Nigeria : a missio-political critique of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN)'s relationship with the Plateau State within the context of violent conflict in Jos, Nigeria (2001-2010).

Pokol, Benjamin Junnang.

This study focuses on a critique of the nature of church-state relations that exists between the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) and the Plateau State, Nigeria, with a view of assessing the extent to which the nature ...

The peculiar judgment on God's people with special reference to the Book of Judges.

Ingram, Everette Wayne. (2004)

The motif of judgment pervades the Hebrew bible and it is generally accepted that one of the functions of deity is judgment. Within the Book of Judges, this motif logically surfaces through the various pericopes describing ...

The Pentecostal movement as represented in breakthrough international : an expression of Missio Dei? : a contribution to an experiental pneumatology of mission.

Meyer, Lutz Eugen Robert. (2004)

This thesis critically evaluates the experiential missionary practice of Breakthrough International (BCI), an African charismatic Church, from a perspective of Missio Dei, a modem paradigm of mission conceptualized by ...

A phenomenological study on the causes of leadership succession disputes in the Zion Apostolic Faith Mission (ZAFM) in Zimbabwe.

Makamure, Clemence. (2017)

Succession is the greatest challenge facing most organizations in Africa in all circles of life. Most religious, social and political organizations and institutions seem to face many problems after the death of the founding ...

Policing African traditional religion and culture in the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe.

Chigova, Greenwell. (2017)

This study explores the attitude of the Methodist Church of Zimbabwe (MCZ) towards African traditional religion and culture. It is mostly concerned with how the colonial missionary Methodist Church informs the attitude of ...

Political economies of terror? Ancient monarchic Israelite and post-colonial Zimbabwean political economies in dialogue towards an inclusive economic ethics.

Taruona, Honoured. (2019)

This work is an attempt at Marxist biblical scholarship. It seeks to add to a growing list of works from African biblical scholars that employ insights from the social sciences, Marxist analytical categories in ...