Judeo-Christian religions believe in Christ the Saviour – and its churches and doctrine follow suit. Here’s what the numbers say about South African faith. Christianity is South Africa’s ...
du Plessis wrote in his History of Christian Missions in South Africa at the beginning of the century, “No responsible missionary today would venture to preach or to practice the doctrine of ...
Bishop Purity Malinga is the first woman to be appointed Presiding Bishop in the Methodist Church of Southern African in over 200 years. Jacob Zuma’s religious utterances present a conundrum for ...
The world often hears of South Africa’s color problems. It hears less of the rising tide of Christian missions in this vast land between the Limpopo river of the North and the majestic Table ...
Christianity in Africa entered a new phase ... Liberia and the Union of South Africa. They included Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Episcopalians, Dutch Reformed and “soldiers” of ...
Christianity may be dying in Europe, but it’s growing by leaps and bounds in Africa and elsewhere in the Global South. We traditionalist Western Christians take comfort in this, but Damian ...
He modeled an African theology not beholden to Western Christianity, inaugurating a way of doing theology after imperialism. He was one of the most significant theological voices of his lifetime, not ...
In the 15th century Christianity came to Sub-Saharan Africa with the arrival of the Portuguese. In the South of the continent the Dutch founded the beginnings of the Dutch Reform Church in 1652.
But few of us know much about the South Africa that he helped to radically change. Wanting to learn more about life in South Africa–and especially about missions and Orthodox Christianity- before and ...