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The saints of African Independent Churches in Namibia : empirical research from Korean missionary perpective
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/46160 The saints of African Independent Churches in Namibia : empirical research from Korean missionary perpective Kgatla, Selaelo T. Park, Jinho UCTD African culture African Independent Churches (AIC) Rituals African Traditional Religion (ATR) Healing Namibia Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2014. The history of African Independent Churches (AICs) in Southern Africa goes back for more than a hundred years. They have proliferated geographically and demographically in Africa more than the mainline churches could ever have imagined. They have grown to be as widespread and as influential as the African mainline churches. The reason for this growth is that the AICs are the churches of African indigenous people. They are launched by Africans from a background of an African traditional and cultural frame of reference. The most significant reason is that the founders of these churches are not Westerners, but Africans. Western missionaries find it difficult to understand the AICs from their perspective. Thus the Western churches describe the AICs as sectarian, separatist, syncretist, nativitist, and so on. Nevertheless, some scholars are attempting to view the AICs in positive ways. The fact that these two different churches have never acknowledged each other as true churches is a big challenge for Christian missions in Namibia. Each group has been viewing and judging the other party through suspicious eyes from their own perspective, each driving the other to block the channel of reconciliation before the presence of God. With the aim of solving this problem, this thesis attempts to answer the following questions about the AICs in Namibia: • What are the reasons that the AICs in Namibia have been seceded from mission churches? • What are the activities in civil society in which the AICs in Namibia are currently involved? • Do the AICs engage in any activities which go against the Word of God? • What causes other churches to be suspicious of the AICs? • What level of enculturation is inherent to the AICs in Namibia? In other words, what is the relationship between the liturgies of the AIC and African traditional religion and African culture? • What makes the AICs in Namibia regard themselves as a church? Would it be possible for the AICs and the mainline churches in Namibia to cooperate in Christian missionary work? • What is a possible Korean missionary perspective on this particular situation? This will be dealt throughout this thesis from a Korean missionary missional perspective. tm2015 Science of Religion and Missiology PhD Unrestricted 2015-07-02T11:07:01Z 2015-07-02T11:07:01Z 2015/04/28 2014 Thesis Park, J 2014, The saints of African Independent Churches in Namibia : empirical research from Korean missionary perpective, PhD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46160> A2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46160 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 African culture African Independent Churches (AIC) Rituals African Traditional Religion (ATR) Healing Namibia The saints of African Independent Churches in Namibia : empirical research from Korean missionary perpective |
| title | The saints of African Independent Churches in Namibia : empirical research from Korean missionary perpective |
| title_full | The saints of African Independent Churches in Namibia : empirical research from Korean missionary perpective |
| title_fullStr | The saints of African Independent Churches in Namibia : empirical research from Korean missionary perpective |
| title_full_unstemmed | The saints of African Independent Churches in Namibia : empirical research from Korean missionary perpective |
| title_short | The saints of African Independent Churches in Namibia : empirical research from Korean missionary perpective |
| title_sort | saints of african independent churches in namibia empirical research from korean missionary perpective |
| topic | UCTD African culture African Independent Churches (AIC) Rituals African Traditional Religion (ATR) Healing Namibia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/46160 |