Text in English / Since its inception in 1833 the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in South Africa has been a missionary church and has always had its own missionary work. It started to organise the Christianization, Evangelization and Westernization endeavours to take place inside the territories of South Africa. The Evangelical Presbyterian Church Missionaries founded, financed, maintained, controlled and administered their educational endeavours without any moral or financial support from the Government. The main purpose of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church Missionaries in founding and supporting schools has been to use education as an auxiliary to the evangelization of the indigenous people of South Africa. Elementary schools served as instruments of direct evangelization rather than secular education. Pupils were taught the 3 R's, namely, reading, writing and arithmetic. Education was a useful tool that enabled the converts to read the Bible and other religious material on their own and preferably in their own language. Converts who demonstrated the ability to read, write and do simple arithmetic were trained to become missionaries' helpers. As these earliest converts became proficient and competent, they were posted out into the interior with the instructions to start new church centres and schools. Although the teaching which took place inside these schools was not of high quality, it was definitely better than nothing. The Evangelical Presbyterian Church Missionaries together with missionaries of other denominations provided virtually all the education which was available for the Blacks in South Africa. Through missionary endeavours the South African Government have realized that Western education and civilization has been important forces which helped the indigenous people to advance individually and collectively in the social, political and economic fields. Western technology and culture successfully won the indigenous people of South Africa to Western civilization. The acceptance of Christianity and the introduction of the White man's rule in the interior of South Africa effectively stopped the inter-tribal wars. The missionaries have made a noteworthy contribution to the education of the indigenous people of South Africa. They empowered the Blacks to play a worthy part side by side with members of other races (Whites, Coloureds and Indians) in the development of the country they shared. / Educational Studies / D.Ed. (History of Education)

This thesis looks at the development of Protestant and Evangelical encounter with Muslims from the earliest days of the Modern missions movement. Special attention is given to the dynamic equivalence model (DEM), which resulted in a new method for interpreting the Qur’an called the Christian Qur’anic hermeneutic (CQH). I begin with the early Protestant ministers among Muslims, such as Martyn and Muir. Pfander’s (1910) book, The balance of truth, embodies the view that the Qur’an teaches an irrevocable status of inspiration for the Old and New Testaments. The early and mid-twentieth century saw a movement away from usage of the Qur’an during Evangelical encounter with Muslims. Direct model advocates bypass the Qur’an and other religious questions for an immediate presentation of the gospel. The 1970s saw the development of the DEM, which produced significant changes in how Evangelicals encountered Muslims. Pioneers like Nida, Tabor, and Kraft implemented dynamic equivalence as a model in Evangelical ministry. Concurrently, Accad and Cragg laid groundwork for the CQH. The DEM creates obscurity in anthropology by promoting an evaluation of cultural forms as essentially neutral. This is extended to religious forms, even the Qur’an. Such a simple, asocial value for symbols is not sufficient to account for all of human life. Cultural forms, especially those intrinsically religious, are parts of a complex system. Meaning cannot be transferred or equivocated with integrity from one context to another without a corresponding re-evaluation of the entire system. Theological difficulties are also produced by the DEM and the CQH, and include the assigning a quasi-inspirational status to the Qur’an and a denial of unique inspirational status to the Christian Scriptures. If the gospel is communicated through the Qur’an, then it is difficult to deny some level of God-given status to it. Further, the Christian Scriptures are not unique as inspired literature. My proposal for how to use the Qur’an responsibly looks to Bavinck’s elenctics and is presented as Qur’anic pre-evangelism. Rather than communicating Biblical meaning through the Qur’an, Evangelicals can focus on areas of the Qur’an that coincide with a lack of assurance felt by Muslims in anthropology. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / D. Th. (Missiology)

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:21:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Jose Luiz Izidoro.pdf: 360009 bytes, checksum: 2775fbb4b1ad79ca6f3b134f212e38f8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2005-03-08 / In recent times, it has become very important to explicitate the Christian experiences that existed in and co-existed with, or even were immersed in the extrapalestinian cultures, and which were protagonists in the project of the proclamation of the Christian kerygma. Those experiences were lived and realized in the period of Early Christianity and, without a doubt, contributed significantly to its expansion process. We present the passage of Acts 8,26-40, the episode of Philip and the Ethiopia n. What happens here is a dislocation of the missionary-geographical axis from Samaria to the way that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza , and reaching back to Caesarea. The text opens up the horizon of Christian experiences to other peoples and nations represented in the figure of the Ethiopian eunuch. Taking Acts 8,26-40 in its Lucan redaction as a starting point, using exegetical methods and historical-literary resources, based on the theoretical reference to the concepts of ethnicity and ethnic boundaries, we intend to investigate the possibility of a Christian experience lived in Ethiopia, which constructed itself ethnically from the identities that interacted in the text, and which points out to the imaginary of Ethiopia s symbolic universe. Doing so, we reclaim, within Biblical Exegesis, hermeutical issues for our own theological, biblical, and pastoral practice, on the horizon of the identities and ethnic boundaries of the Africanamerican and Caribian universe. / Torna-se muito importante demonstrar as experiências cristãs que existiram e coexistiram juntas ou/e imersas nas culturas extrapalestinenses e que exerceram protagonismo no anúncio do querigma. São experiências cristãs vividas e realizadas no período do cristianismo primitivo, e que, sem dúvida, contribuíram significativamente para o seu processo de expansão. Apresentamos a perícope Atos 8,26-40. Trata-se do episódio de Filipe e o Etíope. Acontece um deslocamento do eixo geográfico-missionário de Samaria ao caminho que desce de Jerusalém a Gaza , retornando a Cesaréia. O texto abre o horizonte das experiências cristãs a outros povos e nações, representadas nesta perícope pela figura do Etíope eunuco. Partindo de Atos 8,26-40, na perspectiva da redação lucana como ponto de partida, por meio dos procedimentos exegéticos e dos recursos histórico- literários, apoiado no referencial teórico dos conceitos de etnicidade e fronteiras étnicas, nós pretendemos investigar a possibilidade de uma experiência cristã vivenciada na Etiópia, que se constrói etnicamente desde as identidades que interagem na perícope e que apontam ao imaginário do universo simbólico do Etíope. Assim, resgataremos na exegese bíblica pautas hermenêuticas para a nossa prática teológico-bíblica-pastoral no horizonte das identidades e fronteiras étnicas do universo afro americano e caribenho.

A presente dissertação aborda o papel que a Igreja Católica Apostólica Romana desempenhou na reconstrução de sentidos para migrantes nordestinos tendo em vista o estabelecimento de um novo nomos com a consequente recriação de uma estrutura de plausibilidade, considerando o projeto de evangelização eclesial frente aos desafios da migração posto em prática no bairro Asa Branca, cujas análises se fazem com base nas teorias consagradas no campo religioso, tendo como expoente Peter Berger. Nessa abordagem, consideramos como se deu o processo histórico do movimento migratório no Brasil e, concomitante a isso, o que motivou o fluxo migratório de populações do Estado do Maranhão em direção a Roraima entre os anos de 1980 a 1985. A priori registramos que tal esforço da comunidade católica naquele bairro gerou um movimento de acomodação social e ao mesmo tempo de contestação por parte do grupo migrante frente às adversidades como o desemprego, condições precárias de moradia, de transporte público, falta de creches e postos de saúde destacando-se aí o protagonismo das mulheres. No capítulo 1 fazemos uma abordagem sobre o processo de migração no Brasil e em Roraima, com ênfase no deslocamento de pessoas do estado do Maranhão para essa região para, no capítulo 2, apresentarmos as estratégias da Igreja Católica no acolhimento ao migrante no bairro do Asa Branca. No capítulo 3 caracterizamos essa ação da Igreja frente ao desafio do estabelecimento de uma estrutura de plausibilidade para o migrante, que assume aquela terra como sua nova pátria. / This dissertation addresses the role that the Roman Catholic Church has played in rebuilding senses to northeastern migrants in order to establish a new nomos with the consequent re-creation of a plausibility structure, considering the project ecclesial evangelization facing the challenges of migration put in place in Asa Branca neighborhood, whose analyzes are made based on the theories enshrined in the religious field, with the exponent Peter Berger. In this approach, consider how was the historical process of migration in Brazil and, concurrent with this, which led to the migration of the State of Maranhão populations toward Roraima between 1980 and 1985. A recorded priori that such effort of the Catholic community in that neighborhood generated a social movement of accommodation and at the same time challenged by the migrant group front to the adversities such as unemployment, poor housing conditions, public transportation, lack of childcare and health centers standing out there the role of women. In chapter 1 we make an approach to the migration process in Brazil and Roraima, with an emphasis on shifting Maranhão state people to this region to, in Chapter 2, we present the strategies of the Catholic Church in welcoming the migrant in Wing neighborhood white. In chapter 3 we characterize this church action against the challenge of establishing a plausibility structure for the migrant, who takes the land as their new "homeland".

Esta dissertação reflete sobre a evangelização, apelo à liberdade para a conversão ao Evangelho e um compromisso com o próximo, razão de ser e missão central do cristianismo, seus fundamentos e seu desenvolvimento no Brasil e os principais desafios que a Igreja tem enfrentado neste processo. Entre os desafios - e oportunidades - apresenta-se a internet, rede de computadores vastamente utilizada como meio de comunicação que chega a formar um novo ambiente intermediado pela tecnologia e de fronteira porosa que invade o espaço de convivência dos seres humanos, acarretando grandes transformações e determinando um novo estilo de pensar, agir, perceber, falar, criando e mantendo novos sujeitos, transformando o modo como as pessoas se relacionam. Descreve-se essa rede social, então, apresentando as suas principais características, a partir do recorte dos espaços virtuais de maior movimento no Brasil na atualidade, e se busca detectar a abertura para a transcendência que surge nesses ambientes, bem como as exigências de novas linguagens e atitudes da Igreja para se comunicar adequadamente nesse campo. Na agenda das questões acerca da evangelização, a temática da internet já ocupa um lugar de destaque, pelos desafios que suscita ao modo de se organizar e de falar das comunidades eclesiais, mas sobretudo pela oportunidade teológica de escutar o mistério da Palavra se comunicando entre e além dos internautas em suas redes virtuais. Para circunscrever essa nova mística, através da pesquisa bibliográfica, a dissertação percorre os principais documentos emitidos pelo Magistério da Igreja e também as obras de autores renomados como: João Batista Libanio, Mário de França Miranda e Antonio Spadaro, procurando saber como a Igreja tem se posicionado em relação a esse novo ambiente e verificando as principais tensões surgidas, como a Igreja as enfrenta e quais os resultados alcançados, que sugestões pastorais e teológicas podem ser levantadas para a evangelização contemporânea. / This dissertation reflects on evangelization, the call for freedom for conversion to the Gospel and a commitment to the neighbor, the reason and central mission of Christianity, its foundations and its development in Brazil and the main challenges that the Church has faced in this process. Among the challenges - and opportunities - is the Internet, a computer network widely used as a means of communication that comes to form of a new environment mediated by technology with a porous frontier that invades the space of human beings coexisting, leading to great transformations and determining a new style of thinking, acting, perceiving, speaking, creating and keeping new subjects, transforming the way people relate. This social network is described, then, presenting its main characteristics, from the cut of the virtual spaces of greater movement in Brazil at present, and seeks to detect the openness to the transcendence that arises in these environments, as well as the requirements of new Languages and attitudes of the Church to communicate adequately in this field. In the agenda of questions about evangelization, the internets thematic already occupies a prominent place, because of the challenges it poses in organizing and speaking about ecclesial communities, but above all in the theological opportunity to listen to the mystery of the Word by communicating between and besides the internet user in their virtual networks. In order to circumscribe this new mystique, through the bibliographical research, the dissertation covers the main documents issued by the Magisterium of the Church and also the works of renowned authors such as: João Batista Libanio, Mário de França Miranda and Antonio Spadaro, seeking to know how the Church has positioned itself in relation to this new environment and checking the main tensions that have arisen, how the Church confronts them and what results have been achieved, what pastoral and theological suggestions can be made for contemporary evangelization.

[pt] A fé cristã se pauta, desde sua origem, na experiência de Deus Trindade – Pai, Filho e Espírito Santo – que se revela em Jesus Cristo, sobretudo em seu mistério pascal. Diante da atual crise de fé, os cristãos são incitados a promover uma Nova Evangelização, anunciando, com coragem e alegria, o Deus de Jesus Cristo como possibilidade de realização e salvação para o ser humano. Destarte, este trabalho objetiva apresentar, de modo sistemático, a cristologia trinitária de Bruno Forte como caminho para elaboração de um discurso sobre Deus que, partindo da Revelação Trinitária em Jesus Cristo, sobretudo no seu mistério pascal, supere as inúmeras deturpações e manipulações da imagem de Deus presentes no mundo hodierno que favorecem o ateísmo e o indiferentismo à questão de Deus. Procurar-se-á mostrar que uma cristologia trinitária poderá contribuir eficazmente para o caminho de conversão e de Nova Evangelização a ser assumido pela Igreja – esta a relevância do presente trabalho. / [en] The Christian faith is based from its origin in the Trinity experience of God - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - which is revealed in Jesus Christ, especially in his paschal mystery. Before the current faith crisis, Christians are encouraged to promote a New Evangelization announcing, with courage and joy, the God of Jesus Christ as a possibility of fulfillment and salvation. This thesis work aims to present, in a systematic way, Bruno Forte s Trinitarian Christology as a way to prepare a discourse about God which, from the Trinitarian revelation in Jesus Christ perspective, especially within the scope of his paschal mystery, will overcome the numerous misinterpretations and manipulations of God s image which have been promoting atheism and indifference to the question of God. It will show that a Trinitarian Christology can contribute effectively to the path of conversion and new evangelization to be assumed by the Church. / [it] La fede cristiana si fonda nella sua origine nell esperienza di Dio Trinità- Padre, Figlio e Spirito Santo - che si rivela in Gesù Cristo, in particolare nel suo mistero pasquale. Data l attuale crisi della fede, i cristiani sono invitati a promuovere una nuova evangelizzazione, annunciando con coraggio e gioia, il Dio di Gesù Cristo come possibilità di salvezza per l essere umano. Questo lavoro, pertanto, presenta in modo sistematico, la cristologia trinitaria di Bruno Forte come un cammino per elaborare un discorso su Dio, che partendo dalla rivelazione trinitaria in Gesù Cristo, e in modo alquanto unico nel suo mistero pasquale, supera le numerose deturpazioni e manipolazioni dell immagine di Dio presenti nel mondo di oggi, che promuovono l ateismo e l indifferenza alla questione di Dio. Si proverà a dimostrare come una cristologia trinitaria possa contribuire efficacemente al cammino di conversione e nuova evangelizzazione ed essere assunta dalla Chiesa - questa la rilevanza del presente lavoro.

This study deals with the process of building up the local congregation and the manner in which missional objectives are achieved. The study is undertaken against the background of the disturbing decline in membership numbers particularly in the two traditional Reformational churches in South Africa, namely the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and the Netherdutch Reformed Church of Africa. This decline is in line with similar tendencies in mainstream churches the world over. Collins’s (2006) three questions to the local congregation constitute the point of departure. Firstly: To what degree does the congregation function effectively in line with her mission in the world? Secondly: To what extent does the congregation make a distinct impact on the community? If the congregation were to disappear all of a sudden – will it leave a serious void in the community? The third question deals with sustainability: Is the congregation’s long term impact of such nature that its success is not just attributable to a single leader. The three questions have been adapted according to Collins’s process model (2001) and the key aspects of the theory of building up the local church are discussed in Chapters 2 and 3. The bulk of Chapter 2 deals with the very important matter of the missio Dei and discusses how the congregation should discover and enact her missional calling in the local community. The study furthermore deals with mission in the current South African context, particularly in view of the fact that an entirely new mission field has opened itself up with the influx into the country of so many people from neighboring countries who have come to live in our midst. Chapter 4 deals with the empirical testing associated with the study to establish if the study’s hypothesis, namely whether local churches that have undergone a structured process of building up the local church are missionally more successful than those that have not undergone a structured process, can be verified. The findings in this regard are dealt with in Chapter 5, while certain aspects that characterize the missional congregation in current times are also discussed. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2010. / Practical Theology / unrestricted

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