Browsing Doctoral Degrees (Biblical & Historical Studies, Theological Studies & Ethics) by Title
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For God or Caesar: an historical study of Christian resistance to apartheid by the Church of the Province of South Africa, 1946-1957.
(1983)Preface available in PDF. -
"For healing and transformation" : a feminist ecclesiological study on the gap between gender policy and practice in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA)
(2011)The main premise of this study is that while gender justice is enshrined in the Constitution of South Africa and in the declared statements of the Methodist Church of Southern Africa (MCSA), in practice gender justice ... -
The Free Methodist Church of Southern Africa and it's response to HIV and AIDS in Southern KwaZulu-Natal : postulating a reclamation of Wesleyan Healthcare Response from a gender perspective.
(2013)This study will explore and investigate the response of the Free Methodist Church of Southern Africa (FMCSA) to HIV and AIDS in the Southern KwaZulu-Natal region. It will also reflect on how the Wesleyan Healthcare Response ... -
Friendship and betrayal : a narrative reading of Matthew 26: 47-56 in the light of the concept of Oreodale of the Yoruba people in Nigeria.
(2015)The theme of friendship and betrayal cuts across many disciplines and cultures. This research focuses on the theme of friendship which is fundamentally related to the theme of the church (Matt.16, 18) and love as contained ... -
From anesthetic to advocacy through Mission as Accompaniment : towards a more effective response from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's Global Mission to Mechanistic Dehumanization.
Mechanistic dehumanization is “the objectifying denial of essentially human attributes to people toward whom the person feels psychologically distant and socially unrelated” (Haslam, 2006). This condition is a source and ... -
From Anglicanism to African socialism : the Anglican Church and Ujamaa in Tanzania 1955-2005.
(2012)My intention in this study was to assess the response of the ‗Anglican Church‘¹ of Tanzania to Ujamaa².Using archives and interviews as sources, I explored the reactions of Anglicans to the struggle for independence, the ... -
Gender-based violence: a pastoral quest for masculinity transformation and gender-balanced power relations among the Ovawambo of Namibia.
(2019)In Ovawambo culture, a man is perceived as the head of the family, family property owner, breadwinner and family protector. He is mandated by culture to have control over the woman and over all the valuable family assets. ... -
God's image or man's glory? : a Kenyan postcolonial feminist reading of 1 Corinthians 11:1-16.
(2011)This study uses a postcolonial feminist analysis to show how a biblical text (1 Cor 11:1-16), because of its patriarchal and imperial background, excludes women from the image of God. It demonstrates how this text has ... -
"Godly manhhood" : evangelical constructions of masculinities in a South African context - a case study of the Mighty Men's Conference (MMC).
(2014)Men and masculinity studies is a significantly developed field of research in Western scholarship and has gained increased interest in Africa, particularly in South(ern) Africa. This study: “Godly Manhood”: Evangelical ... -
Governance, leadership and the rise of African nationalism in sub-Saharan Africa: an ethical critical study.
(2018)The African continent is the global region to have experienced the worst oppression under the Europeans imperialists. Colonialism was a system based on the imposition and acceptance of superiority of the coloniser over the ... -
Guilt and the conscience in Nietzsche, Freud and Kafka.
(2013)This thesis attempts to examine and clarify the ideas of conscience and guilt through an examination of the texts of Nietzsche, Freud and Kafka, and to arrive at some conclusions about the truth of the views of Freud and ... -
A Haya interpretation of the Christian concept of God : how applicable is an invocation of the deity in a threefold form for indigenising and understanding the Christian trinitarian model?
(2003)The dissertation details and analyses an interpretation of the Christian concept of God that emerges through the interactions between the missionaries, post-missionary Christianity and the Raya people in Tanzania. It ... -
Healing ministry, conflict and Methodism: the case of Mabelreign, Epworth and Mbare societies of the Methodist church in Zimbabwe (MCZ).
(2018)This study focuses on a critique of healing ministry, conflict and Methodism: the case of Mabelreign, Epworth and Mbare (MEM) societies of the Methodist Church in Zimbabwe (MCZ). The project seeks to find out the nature ... -
A historical analysis of the emergence of newer Pentecostal churches in Adamawa State, Nigeria from 1975 to 2008.
(2015)Scholars and observers have described Pentecostalism as the fastest growing Christian movement in the world today. Since the beginning of the 20th century the movement has aimed to repeat the experience of the early church, ... -
A historical analysis of the emergence of newer Pentecostal churches in Adamawa State, Nigeria from 1975 to 2008.
(2015)Scholars and observers have described Pentecostalism as the fastest growing Christian movement in the world today. Since the beginning of the 20th century the movement has aimed to repeat the experience of the early church, ... -
An historical evaluation of the Lutheran medical mission services in Southern Africa with special emphasis on four hospitals : 1930s-1978.
(2012)The purpose of this thesis is to show through a chain of events how the Lutheran Mission societies in their quest to provide health care through biomedicine to indigenous people in Southern Africa ended up co-operating ... -
A historical study of the border dispute between the Livingstonia and Nkhoma Synods of the Church of Central African Presbyterian (1956-2015).
(2016)This thesis seeks to understand the political, socio-cultural and ecclesiastical circumstances which explain why ethnicity is a recurrent problem in the border dispute between the Livingstonia and Nkhoma Synods of the ... -
The history of the Rhenish mission society in Namibia with particular reference to the African Methodist episcopal church schism (1946-1990)
(2003)This dissertation takes up the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) schism in 1946 in Namibia from the Rhenish Mission Society RMS), due to a protest against the inhumane treatment that the Nama leaders were forced ...