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The spiritual weakness of Western Missionary Founded Churches as the cause of the rise of Africa Independent Churches in Zimbabwe with special reference to theUniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa
Dissertation (MA Theol)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/37314 The spiritual weakness of Western Missionary Founded Churches as the cause of the rise of Africa Independent Churches in Zimbabwe with special reference to theUniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa Duncan, Graham A revmushayavanhu@yahoo.com Mushayavanhu, David Zimbabwean society Presbytery of Zimbabwe Spiritually weak people Ordained ministers Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) Africa Independent Churches in Zimbabwe Western Missionary Founded Churches UCTD Dissertation (MA Theol)--University of Pretoria, 2013. This dissertation is an attempt to analyse and investigate ways of responding to the poor UPCSA missional approach to Zimbabwean society. The desire to write this dissertation was born out of the experience of working for the past six years as an ordained minister of this denomination in the Presbytery of Zimbabwe, there are six congregations with the right to call a minister, thirty grant receiving and fifteen preaching stations in the whole country which is serviced by thirteen ministers, including probationers. The UPCSA has a total of four thousand five hundred and ninety seven members not counting Sunday school children. The dissertation seeks to survey the history of how the people in the Presbytery of Zimbabwe came to be some of fewer memberships as compared to other denominations in the country. It will focus on colonial and post –colonial events, which led to evangelizing the nation. The spiritual weakness which the people of Presbytery of Zimbabwe (POZ) experience is a product of the evangelism mode of missional approach to society and the failure to contextualize the Good-News. This dissertation considers the possibility of how to correct this state of affairs. Spiritually weak people have been destroyed precisely because they have reduced them to products. How to understand the context and achieve that change is the central issue which the writer addresses in this dissertation. gm2014 Church History and Church Policy unrestricted 2014-04-01T09:12:38Z 2014-04-01T09:12:38Z 2013-09-05 2013 Dissertation Mushayavanhu, D 2013, The spiritual weakness of Western Missionary Founded Churches as the cause of the rise of Africa Independent Churches in Zimbabwe with special reference to theUniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa, MA(Theol) dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/37314> E13/9/1193/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/37314 en © 2013 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Zimbabwean society Presbytery of Zimbabwe Spiritually weak people Ordained ministers Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) Africa Independent Churches in Zimbabwe Western Missionary Founded Churches UCTD The spiritual weakness of Western Missionary Founded Churches as the cause of the rise of Africa Independent Churches in Zimbabwe with special reference to theUniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa |
| title | The spiritual weakness of Western Missionary Founded Churches as the cause of the rise of Africa Independent Churches in Zimbabwe with special reference to theUniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa |
| title_full | The spiritual weakness of Western Missionary Founded Churches as the cause of the rise of Africa Independent Churches in Zimbabwe with special reference to theUniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa |
| title_fullStr | The spiritual weakness of Western Missionary Founded Churches as the cause of the rise of Africa Independent Churches in Zimbabwe with special reference to theUniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | The spiritual weakness of Western Missionary Founded Churches as the cause of the rise of Africa Independent Churches in Zimbabwe with special reference to theUniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa |
| title_short | The spiritual weakness of Western Missionary Founded Churches as the cause of the rise of Africa Independent Churches in Zimbabwe with special reference to theUniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa |
| title_sort | spiritual weakness of western missionary founded churches as the cause of the rise of africa independent churches in zimbabwe with special reference to theuniting presbyterian church in southern africa |
| topic | Zimbabwean society Presbytery of Zimbabwe Spiritually weak people Ordained ministers Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA) Africa Independent Churches in Zimbabwe Western Missionary Founded Churches UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/37314 |