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Purple Hibiscus: A Postcolonial Feminist Reading	3283	430	12	3725
Youth unemployment in South Africa. A theological reflection through the lens of human dignity	2421	500	7	2928
Abode in heaven: Paul and life after death in 2 Corinthians 5:1-10	2883	20	4	2907
The influence of Azusa Street Revival in the early developments of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa	2456	70	19	2545
Critical reflections on polygamy in the African Christian context	2428	79	14	2521
The relation of God's mission and the mission of the church in Ephesians	1078	259	2	1339
The decolonisation of the mind. Black consciousness community projects by the Limpopo Council of Churches	211	851	2	1064
The ecumenical movement and development: The role of personhood	201	619	2	822
The church and poverty alleviation - The challenges for Congo Evangelistic Mission	387	318	0	705
Christian fathers as role models of the church's fulfilment of the Missio Dei in a fatherless society	273	318	1	592
Forced removals and migration: a theology of resistance and liberation in South Africa	460	27	0	487
James Cone and the Crisis of American Theology	447	26	0	473
The evangelical role of wichcraft in some Pentecostal movements - An African pastoral concern	324	115	1	440
"To flee or not to flee": Responses to persecution and the issue of relocation	400	9	1	410
A network society, social media, migration and mission	386	14	2	402
Black Theology of Liberation - (Is it the) Thing of the Past? A Theological Reflection on Black Students' Experiences	45	337	1	383
Evangelicalism in Africa. What it is and what it does	323	55	1	379
Missiology as social justice. A contextual reading of the mission of Christ in Luke 4:16-19	332	14	0	346
Themes and Methodologies in Pauline Missiology for a Contemporary World	214	126	2	342
Migration and mission. According to the book of Acts	251	82	2	335
The Christian churches, the state, and genocide in Rwanda	318	15	0	333
The role of personhood in development: An African perspective on development in South Africa	195	111	1	307
The Prosperity Gospel, the decolonisation of Theology, and the abduction of missionary imagination	115	157	5	277
Trends in contemporary Christian eschatological reflection	151	108	1	260
The implications of ecclesiology's understanding of church and εκκλησία for the current missiology	225	27	2	254
The Evangelical-Lutheran Church in South Africa: an introduction to its archival resources held at the Lutheran Theological Institute (LTI) Library, and the challenges facing this archive (Part One)	226	11	5	242
Reconciling the Supernatural Worldviews of the Bible, African Traditional Religion, and African Christianity	165	60	9	234
So that we might become the righteousness and justice of God. Re-examining the gospel in 2 Cor 5:21 for the church's contribution to a better world	213	10	0	223
Moving against the tide. Assemblies of God polity at the loggerhead with South African socio and theo - cultural reality	205	14	2	221
Citizenship in the Brazilian Context - Theoretically, practically and theologically	68	140	0	208
Responding to the decolonial turn: Epistemic vulnerability	173	31	1	205
Diakonia and Diaconal Church	180	22	1	203
Scottish missionary perceptions and images of amaXhosa in the nineteenth century	182	18	0	200
The interplay between theology and development: How theology can be related to development in post-modern society	146	48	1	195
The 'just war' tradition in Zimbabwean historiography. Dis(entangling) the Gordian knot between religion and morality of war	62	119	2	183
A Comparative Discourse on Christian and Secular Distinctive: Features of Transformational Development	166	11	2	179
Reverse mission and the establishment of Re-deemed Christian Church (RCCG) in Canada	149	30	0	179
Creative tensions in mission. Bosch 25 years on	170	7	0	177
The making of Allan Aubrey Boesak: Theologian and political activist	121	56	0	177
The Decolonising content of African Theology and the Decolonisation of African Theology - Reflections on a Decolonial future for African Theology	96	68	0	164
Poverty, marginalisation and the quest for collective wellbeing in the context of homelessness in the City of Tshwane	141	19	0	160
Renaissance and rebirth: A perspective on the African Renaissance from Christian mission praxis	143	16	1	160
John Wesley: Church Mission Struggle in the Fight against Slave Trade	93	59	1	153
Mission as liberation in socio-economic and political contexts: towards contextualand liberating theology of mission in the context of migration and human dislocation	120	24	1	145
Pentecostal mission spirituality: A study of the classical Pentecostal churches in Ghana	130	12	0	142
Prophetic mission of faith communities during apartheid South Africa, 1948-1994: An agenda for a prophetic mission praxis in the democratic SA	125	13	1	139
The rebirth of kairos theology and its implications for public theology and citizenship in South Africa	109	28	1	138
Tutu in Memory, Tutu on Memory. Strategies of Remembering	48	85	0	133
The defining moments for the Dutch Reformed Church mission policy of 1935 and 1947	121	10	1	132
Citizenship in South Africa today. Some insights from Christian ecclesiology	25	103	0	128
Paul and interreligious dialogue: Insights for mission in Africa	79	38	2	119
Mending the broken city of Pietermaritzburg through a transformative urban theological programme: A challenge to Union Bible Institute	102	14	3	119
A theological perspective on migrants and migration focussing on the Southern African Development Community (SADC)	95	19	0	114
More than just a piece of land: Power dynamics in the land discourse within the City of Tshwane	68	43	1	112
The dynamics of multicultural Youth Ministry in a changing South Africa	43	61	4	108
"Who'll be a witness for my Lord?": Witnessing as an ecclesiological and missiological paradigm	95	8	2	105
The African Initiated Churches as an embodiment of the moratorium debate. Lessons for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, Central Diocese	86	19	0	105
Decolonising development? Re-claiming Biko and a Black Theology of Liberation within the context of Faith Based Organisations in South Africa	56	43	1	100
Bringing the crucified down from the cross: Preferential option for the poor in the South African context of poverty	82	15	1	98
The ethics of identity and world Christianity	88	9	0	97
Contextual views on Paul the tentmaker. Did we forget the poor?	30	66	1	97
Cone's binary view of Africanness and Christianity through the eyes of his African American critics	82	13	0	95
The Bible and/as the Lynching Tree - A South African Tribute to James H. Cone	74	18	0	92
Perspectives on mission in the book of Zechariah	82	7	2	91
Funding God's mission: Towards a missiology of generosity	73	17	1	91
Christian mission in creative tension with African worldview(s): A post-colonial engagement regarding life after deat and ancestry	80	7	3	90
Ndadhinhiwa (I am fed up) - A Missiological Framing of the Gendered Notions of African Pentecostalism in Zimbabwe	84	4	2	90
Liberation and dependency: A theological reading of social sciences in Latin America	75	11	0	86
Standing where God stands. JNJ Kritzinger as an encountering missionary and missiologist	79	6	1	86
The first ten years (1923-1933) of the Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa - From mission to church, from church to mission?	67	19	0	86
Between Empire and Anti-Empire: African Mission in the 21st Century	76	5	3	84
Challenges of Climate Change and the Culpability of Churches: Towards an Effective Church Climate Change Action in Nigeria	70	13	1	84
A socio-historical background to the Keswick theology in East African Revival Movement as "walking in the light" - Perspectives from Kenya	68	10	2	80
Factors inhibiting inculturation of the holy communion symbols in the Anglican Church in Kenya. A case study of the diocese of Thika	63	13	2	78
Living in the land. An oiko-theological response to the amadiba crisis committee of xolobeni's struggle for ubuntu, land and ecology	64	10	3	77
'Missio Dei' as embodiment of 'Passio Dei'. The role of God-images in the mission-outreach and pastoral caregiving of the church - a hermeneutical approach	54	18	4	76
Intercultural theology and the challenge of the indigenous peoples in Latin America	40	35	0	75
Temple symbolism and mission in the Pauline churches	63	9	2	74
Building missional leadership and spiritual formation practical theological perspectives on a Master's programme	57	16	0	73
Cracking the Eurocentric Code - A Battle on the Banks of the 'New Blood Rivers'	40	30	3	73
Resonance at Rutba: The relevance of New Monasticism for South Africa	63	6	0	69
Youth intervention through training and equipping in the midst of challenges and crisis. The LIFEPLAN® programme as a possible solution	61	7	1	69
AIC theologies and western missions - A South African analysis	55	11	0	66
Missional and indigenization nexus - Assemblies of God and Grace Bible Church in South Africa	55	10	1	66
Towards an approach to development as mission: The category of personhood as addressed by Amartya Sen?	57	5	2	64
Together towards Life and Evangelii Gaudium: Implications for African Child Theology today	45	18	1	64
The church, gender and AIDS: What's wrong with patriarchy?	46	17	1	64
True disciples, nature and leiturgia: Preservation of the earth	57	5	2	64
An Adamic incarnational Christological framework as a theological approach for African contextual ministry	51	11	1	63
Reformation & African Christianity - Mapping the Transitional Movement of African Christianity from the Margin of Classical Reformation to the Centre of Modern Reformation	42	21	0	63
To cover the many sins of Galamsey Mining	57	4	0	61
When state corruption becomes a 'Sunday School Picnic'. A response to media reports on corruption	43	5	13	61
Decolonising theological education in urban spaces. A reflection on the "Abantu Book Festival"	38	17	2	57
Walking with the Poor: Principles and Practices of Transformational Development	47	8	0	55
Ecumenical perspectives on Pentecostal pneumatology	32	20	3	55
Reflections on Yosefa Mhalamhala's involvement in the formation of the Igreja Presbyterian de Moçambique	37	17	1	55
Mission from the margins: A reflection on faith by "women" displaced or trafficked into forced labour in the City of Tshwane	37	13	2	52
Cultivating the "good city". The theological engagement of the Institute for Urban Ministry within the City of Tshwane	40	12	0	52
Hope in the midst of death: Charismatic spirituality, healing evangelists and the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone	46	4	1	51
Missionising youth identity crisis: Towards a missional hermeneutic of coping in youth ministry practice	47	4	0	51

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