{"title":"SCOTTISH MISSIONARY PERCEPTIONS AND IMAGES OF THE AMAXHOSA IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES","authors":"Jongikhaya Mvenene","doi":"10.7832/47-3-286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7832/47-3-286","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article gives an analysis of the origins and early beginnings of mission stations among the amaXhosa from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries, which gradually became a centre of missionary activities among amaNgqika and amaGcaleka. This article analyses the history of the arrival and activities of the missionaries east and west of the Nciba (Kei) River in the eighteenth century and beyond. It also examines the role of the missionaries in shaping the relations among the traditional leaders and the colonial governors. The activities of the Scottish missionaries among the amaXhosa are closely tied up with the decline of traditional authority, power, control and influence, disintegration of amaXhosa chiefdoms and kingdom attended to by a loss of land and lives. The colonial government’s forceful removal amaNgqika from Ciskei and resettlement in Gcalekaland is also brought to surface. Key words: Christianity, amaGcaleka, amaNgqika, conversion, resettlement, traditional authority.","PeriodicalId":31107,"journal":{"name":"Missionalia Southern African Journal of Missiology","volume":"47 1","pages":"337-355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42618172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paternalism, dependency or partnership? A case study from the Reformed Churches in South Africa","authors":"Y. M. Kim","doi":"10.7832/47-3-247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7832/47-3-247","url":null,"abstract":"In cross-cultural missions, there is always a danger of paternalism. Paternalism produces a culture of dependency in the indigenous church. This study wants to consider whether paternalism and resulting dependency also featured in the mission work of the Reformed churches in Southern Africa (RCSA/GKSA). How were the principle and implementation of mission policy of Synod? And how was the reality of mission work between the white and the black churches in RCSA/GKSA. GKSA’s mission work in KOSH area as a case study will be investigated. As a result, the GKSA remains paternalism and dependency and needs a new strategy for missions to overcome them. Therefore, the relationship of biblical partnerships as new strategy in GKSA to overcome tendencies of paternalism and dependency in the missionary situation may be suggested","PeriodicalId":31107,"journal":{"name":"Missionalia Southern African Journal of Missiology","volume":"47 1","pages":"303-318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42780817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WE WANT TO SPEAK FOR OURSELVES…!”, THE AGENDA OF AFRICAN INITIATED CHURCHES ON DECOLONISED AND TRANSFORMATIVE THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA","authors":"Tobias Masuku","doi":"10.7832/47-2-344","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7832/47-2-344","url":null,"abstract":"The noise is very loud around what could be a relevant decolonized education in Africa, South Africa in particular. We saw protested matches at tertiary institutions crying out loud against what is called a colonized education and curriculum. There was a need for a decolonized education based on a relevant curriculum as a solution to the problem at hand. Theological education is not immune to this problem because it is also a product of the apartheid and colonial project. The answer to the question as to what is a relevant theological education today, that is decolonized based on a ‘peoples’ curriculum still stands unanswered. This article seeks to present a contribution of the ignored or rather despised voice on this debate, the African Initiated Churches (AICs). It proposes a solution from the AICs perspective where they speak by themselves, hence the title of this articles; “We want to speak for ourselves…!” I will approach this project by investigating who the AICs are, their ecclesiology and ecumenical mission praxis, their position on social justice as a means of understanding the strength behind their anti-colonial drive. At the end, a relevant theological education curriculum will be proposed.","PeriodicalId":31107,"journal":{"name":"Missionalia Southern African Journal of Missiology","volume":"47 1","pages":"193-211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44892370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘NNOBOA’ MISSION CONCEPT: A PROPOSAL FOR STRATEGIC COST EFFECTIVE MISSION AND CHURCH PLANTING FOR INDEPENDENT PENTECOSTAL CHURCHES IN GHANA","authors":"P. White, Edwin Kweku Dzor","doi":"10.7832/47-2-268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7832/47-2-268","url":null,"abstract":"This paper made a case for the use of co-operative mission approach to plant churches. The paper was curved through observations and concerns of Independent Pentecostal Churches in Ghana of their inability to plant daughter churches due to lack of fund for mission and church planting. The paper made a proposal for the use of nnoboa mission concept. A concept developed from cooperative farming which thrives through trust, communality and reciprocity. Nnoboa in Akan communities in Ghana is similar to Ubuntu concept in Southern African communities. The paper argues that the church (body of Christ) is endowed with spiritual, physical, material and social capital that when brought together cooperatively can help Independent Pentecostal Churches to achieve their missional agenda. Even though the paper is a proposal for Independent Pentecostal Churches in Ghana, its implementation can be used by churches in other parts of the world that are struggling with funding for mission and church planting.","PeriodicalId":31107,"journal":{"name":"Missionalia Southern African Journal of Missiology","volume":"47 1","pages":"228-238"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43820291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a missional hermeneutic informing missional ecclesiology and transformative theological education in Africa.","authors":"Pieter Labuschagne","doi":"10.7832/47-2-326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7832/47-2-326","url":null,"abstract":"Decolonisation and Africanisation are two sides of the same coin and cannot be engaged as separate, either-or options. Africanisation implies transformation by cultural incorporation and assimilation. In a positive way, one focusses on and seeks African attributes that can strengthen and contextualise the curriculum. The endproduct displays a rich African-ness. Decolonisation, implies separation, destruction and forceful removal. This targets the colonial curriculum and its eradication. The focus is on what we must dispose of, do away with, discard, and root out. The end-product is a curriculum that is purged from colonialism – without necessarily suggesting an African alternative. A transformative missional hermeneutic is proposed that promotes mutualism between the theological curriculum, missiology, Scripture, and the African context. Gerhard von Rad’s Traditionsgeschichte, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Wirkungsgeschichte and JNJ (Klippies) Kritzinger’s Encounterology form the backbone of this missional hermeneutic, supported by contributions by African scholars.","PeriodicalId":31107,"journal":{"name":"Missionalia Southern African Journal of Missiology","volume":"47 1","pages":"212-227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43442557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Magic, divine revelation and translation in theological education in the majority world today; with a focus on Africa","authors":"Jim Harries","doi":"10.7832/47-2-265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7832/47-2-265","url":null,"abstract":"The impact or sense of text translated into a different worldview must be transformed to engage its new cultural context. An understanding of why and how this happens is vital for the globalising church to get away from a uni-central model of theological truth rooted in economic dependency on the hegemony of Western English. This article portrays inter-cultural translation in vivid ways using Scriptural example to show how some current models of translation depend for their success on either direct divine revelation or magic. This article advocates Christian discipleship at depth through inter-cultural missionary engagement rooted in local languages and resources.","PeriodicalId":31107,"journal":{"name":"Missionalia Southern African Journal of Missiology","volume":"47 1","pages":"165-176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42335626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pentecost as Facet of the Church-in-Mission or Culmination of the Missio Dei? A Pentecostal Renewing of Bosch’s (Reformed) Mission Theology","authors":"Amos Yong","doi":"10.7832/47-2-343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7832/47-2-343","url":null,"abstract":"David Bosch’s Transforming Mission remains a landmark work now over a quarter of a century after its initial publication. With only one formal missiological response from the Pentecostal scholarly community to date, this essay seeks further reconsideration perhaps less from a strictly classical Pentecostal perspective than from one that takes the Day of Pentecost as a starting point for mission theology in the present ecclesial dispensation. Hermeneutical, historiographical, and theological contributions are offered, each intended to enrich and perhaps even fulfill the practically inexhaustible potential of our Reformed South African New Testament scholar’s legacy.","PeriodicalId":31107,"journal":{"name":"Missionalia Southern African Journal of Missiology","volume":"47 1","pages":"151-164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48236319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tutu in Memory, Tutu on Memory: Strategies of Remembering","authors":"T. Maluleke","doi":"10.7832/47-2-342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7832/47-2-342","url":null,"abstract":"This essay profiles the strategies and (theological) tactics used by Desmond Tutu in the management of painful memory in his own personal life, in his various leadership roles in church and society as well as in his role as chairperson of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. To contextualise Tutu’s work, we refer, amongst others, to the work of Elie Wiesel, Don Mattera and Leonard Cohen. The essay provides a profile of the ways in which Tutu is remembered as well as the approaches Tutu himself uses in his own acts of remembering. The latter include the importance of childhood memories, the anchoring of memory in familial and parental relationships, a keen awareness of the socio-economic conditions, the valorization of childhood church experiences, the privileging of the Bible, the leveraging of Ubuntu, making forgiveness the main lens through which to look into the past as well as the maintenance of a hermeneutic that suggests that God is historically on the side of the weak","PeriodicalId":31107,"journal":{"name":"Missionalia Southern African Journal of Missiology","volume":"47 1","pages":"177-192"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71256262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To Cover the Many Sins of Galamsey Mining","authors":"E. Conradie","doi":"10.7832/46-1-274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7832/46-1-274","url":null,"abstract":"This contribution calls attention to the environmental impact of mining in general and of galamsey mining in Ghana in particular as a theme for theological (and not merely ethical or pastoral) reflection. This topic is approached by placing it in juxtaposition with Christian discourse on sin, understood as a form of social diagnostics. By recovering the category of sin, this contribution seeks uncover the many sins of galamsey mining in the hope that such a prophetic critique will expose any ideological or idolatrous “cover-ups” but will nevertheless be “covered” by the gospel of the forgiveness of sin (see James 5:19-20.","PeriodicalId":31107,"journal":{"name":"Missionalia Southern African Journal of Missiology","volume":"46 1","pages":"109-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47347079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}