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Browsing Practical Theology by Title
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Grozinger, E.
(Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, 2006)
Im vorliegenden Aufsatz wird die "homiletische Retrospektive" der Göttinger Predigtmeditationen auf ihre impliziten Schwerpunkte hin untersucht. Ziel der Untersuchung ist auch, nach den aktuellen homiletischen Konsequenzen ...
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Van Loggerenberg, Maria Petronella (Marietjie)
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2015-06-26)
At the 2007 General Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC), a compromise resolution
was accepted regarding homosexual members. The resolution, inter alia, requires of gay
ministers to remain celibate as a prerequisite ...
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Kimpinde, Mwansa Claude
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
This study presents a pastoral perspective on depression among young people in the urban African context of Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. Depression is one of the more prevalent mental disorders. In African contexts ...
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Van Rooyen, Lizette Mathilde
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
The topic of parents disciplining children is very relevant in our South African society since the removal of Corporal Punishment in our country. The question came to be: “Does their religion have an influence on how parents ...
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Kwaramba, Joachim
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
The role of women in the Zimbabwean Christian faith communities, particularly in a Pentecostal context, has been subject to a patriarchal and masculine environment, as well as to African cultural systems. In order for women ...
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Flynn, Dalene Shonnie
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
Grimes (2000:346) writes: “ordinary acts, when extraordinarily practised, break open,
transforming human conventions and revealing what is most deeply desirable, most
cosmically orienting, and most fully human.” One is ...
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Smit, Guillaume Hermanus
(OpenJournals Publishing, 2010)
In the context of changes in society, and the resulting paradigm shifts in theological thinking, this article explores the development of a missional ministry praxis for church services in the reformed theological tradition. ...
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Flynn, Dalene Shonnie; Wepener, Cas
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2015)
The main aim of this article is to look into the possible connection there is between
worship and sport. Through participatory observation an attempt was made to answer
the basic practical theological question, namely ...
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Mbhele, Moruti Herbert
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
This study focused on the search of the impact of absent father on the lives of young adults in the household. In the interview with the coparticipants,
the research revealed that the problems of absent father prevailed ...
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Thwala, Thokozani Crommuel
(University of Pretoria, 2018)
The aim of the study is to describe and determine the factors impactacting on
township learners due to absent father. We have determined, that no study has
yet been done in South Africa regarding this topic. “The impact ...
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Nyanjaya, A.K. (Ananias Kumbuyo)
(University of Pretoria, 2011-10-11)
Only men can initiate boys into men. Boys are prepared into men by men of integrity, for that reason, when a father is absent a male model has to be found. Lack of models is the number one enemy for our adolescent males ...
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Visser, Rosemare Ann
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
This multidisciplinary study, which includes Practical Theology and also insights from Psychology and Sociology, investigates experiences of abuse in social structures such as the church. My epistemological approach is ...
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Visser, Rosemare Ann; Dreyer, Yolanda
(AOSIS Open Journals, 2013-07-11)
The article focuses on abusive practices in the faith community. It indicates that abusive
behaviour is more often than not unintentional and is ostensibly driven by a zeal for God
and the church. The article explores ...
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Kgabe, Vicentia
(University of Pretoria, 2011-10-11)
The Anglican Church is experiencing a growing number of clergy who abuse alcohol, and this has made people to ask whether clergy still embody the image of God or if they are “alcoholics.” I therefore undertook to do a ...
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Mapogoshe, Modise Johannes
(University of Pretoria, 2015)
This study concerns itself with the task of creating a pastoral model in order to provide effective spiritual care to domestic violence victims by alcohol abusing brass band men. The African Independent Churches are ...
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Moje, Khumoetsile Dorcas
(University of Pretoria, 2013-01-10)
The purpose of this research is to help people who have been hurt by bad leadership, and also to find out why they move from one church to the other. This is an undercover issue since in most cases the Pentecostal church ...
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Lindani, Sibusiso Lordwell
(University of Pretoria, 2009-01-13)
[This dissertation is] helpful because it does not only talks about abuse, which is a problem and trauma, it also brings a solution which is a healing for abusive ministers, the choice is left with abusive ministers, to ...
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Rivas, Gary Lloyd
(University of Pretoria, 2012)
No abstract available.
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Thwala, Thokozani Crommuel
(University of Pretoria, 2020)
The study investigates the effect of mushrooming, unaccountability unsupervised leadership
tendency, which has affected the African religiosity and took it by storm. Hence, the study of
this nature will gaze its attention ...
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Richter, Amanda
(University of Pretoria, 2010)
ENGLISH: This study looks at the bereavement of adolescents left orphaned by and vulnerable to the HIV and Aids crisis that is crippling the continent of Africa. Their bereavement and the psycho-spiritual issues relating ...