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Stoep funerals : a Challenge to Pastoral Care
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/46080 Stoep funerals : a Challenge to Pastoral Care Masango, Maake J.S Palmer, George H. UCTD Parishioners Church wardens Synod of Bishops Congregation members Lay leader (elected) Assembly / gathering of Bishops Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2014. This study is concerned with how the black township church leadership mismanage their defunct members especially at times of funerals. In the absence of a pragmatic pastoral method of how to deal with defunct members when they die, the church has devised a church policy which adds to the already experienced pain and grief of mourners. The criteria in the policy stipulates that, if at the time of death, the member has become defunct with regard to: - Church attendance, - Dedicated giving ( tithing ), the person should be given a stoep funeral. The problem with this policy, is the manner in which it is communicated to mourners - cold and insensitive, loaded with arrogance and rigidity. Cases are not viewed on merit but mourners are being emotionally and spiritually destroyed by this practice. Stoep funerals have developed a negative stigma in the townships since everyone is aware of the punishment being meted out to the deceased. Because of their alleged dysfunctionality , defunct members gets treated like spiritual criminals by the leadership through the refusal of church funerals. Church funerals are reserved for those who are in good standing and who enjoy implacable status in the church in relation to the mentioned criteria. The priest is expected to conduct church funerals while the lay ministers are assigned to do stoep funerals. A stoep funeral is an embarrassment and it leaves mourners with feelings of rejection and shame, if not truamatization. The aim of this research is to assist the township church to journey with her defunct members in creating a model directed by scriptural truth from a perspective of African pastoral care. tm2015 Practical Theology PhD Unrestricted 2015-07-02T11:06:46Z 2015-07-02T11:06:46Z 2015/04/28 2014 Thesis Palmer, GH 2014, Stoep funerals : a Challenge to Pastoral Care, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46080> A2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46080 en © 2015 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 | UCTD Parishioners Church wardens Synod of Bishops Congregation members Lay leader (elected) Assembly / gathering of Bishops Stoep funerals : a Challenge to Pastoral Care |
| title | Stoep funerals : a Challenge to Pastoral Care |
| title_full | Stoep funerals : a Challenge to Pastoral Care |
| title_fullStr | Stoep funerals : a Challenge to Pastoral Care |
| title_full_unstemmed | Stoep funerals : a Challenge to Pastoral Care |
| title_short | Stoep funerals : a Challenge to Pastoral Care |
| title_sort | stoep funerals a challenge to pastoral care |
| topic | UCTD Parishioners Church wardens Synod of Bishops Congregation members Lay leader (elected) Assembly / gathering of Bishops |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46080 |