Theologia Viatorum

• ‘Justice be with you’: Transcending the peace talk rhetoric in the Zion Christian Church 29th November 2024
  The Zion Christian Church is one of the largest, most powerful and influential African Independent Churches (AICs). Its membership of about 6 million makes up about 50% of the total membership of AICs. The church has been preaching peace from its inception which became one of the cores of its theology and practice. Thus, the […]
  Mookgo S. Kgatle
• Salvation and the Gospel of prosperity in Zimbabwe in view of its religious and cultural milieu 29th November 2024
  This study grapples with the perception of salvation in the health and wealth gospel, the contestations and prospects posed to the religious and cultural environment bedevilled in Zimbabwe. The wide-ranging understanding, escalation and dynamic setting of this health and wealth gospel is explored. Emphasis of the study is centred on crucial nuances of deliverance, instant […]
  Peter Masvotore
• Acknowledgement to reviewers 8th November 2024
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• ‘Let the dead bury the dead’ (Mt 8:22): An African theological funeral thought 8th November 2024
  In Africa, life, death and burial are issues of survival. There is a perceived connection and dialogue between the living and the dead; hence, life continues after death. Although one seizes to live in this material world, life continues in the spirit world. Like any other rite of passage, funerals are key aspects of African […]
  Rabson Hove
• Religion, politics and war: Recollections on General Ndaya and Kenya’s quest for independence 29th October 2024
  The mosaic law of advocating the paying of life with life, and an “eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, [and] stripe for stripe” (Exodus 21:23-25), came out clearly on 15th and 16th October 1953, as the politics of land and freedom [wiyathi na […]
  Julius M. Gathogo
• Rethinking a fundamentalist literalist reading of Mark 16:18 by some new prophetic churches 18th October 2024
  Some of the New Prophetic Churches apply the fundamentalist literalist reading of the biblical text in their sermons and theology because of a lack of knowledge and application of proper reading and interpretation of scripture. The fundamentalist literalist reading of scripture particularly Mark 16:18 is linked here to the abuses by some of the pastors […]
  Mookgo S. Kgatle
• Bringing faith to the public: Positioning church communities for social good in sub-Saharan Africa 8th October 2024
  The Christian faith must move beyond private belief and engage more actively in public issues to promote societal well-being. Churches, as key actors in the public sphere alongside for-profit institutions and political bodies, have the potential to contribute to the common good. This involves contestation, dialogue, and collaboration with other sectors to develop approaches that […]
  Patrick Nanthambwe
• Reviewing equitable justice and the land question in South Africa from a reformation perspective 4th October 2024
  This article reviews equitable justice and the land question in South Africa from a reformation perspective. Land as the source of individual and corporate group identity and livelihood is one of the most sensitive, contentious and controversial of all debatable issues in South Africa. As such, the question is: what counts as the criteria for […]
  Takalani A. Muswubi
• Sowing seeds: A pastoral critique to the theology of survival by the mega-church movements of Makandiwa’s United Family International Church and Magaya’s Prophetic, Healing and Deliverance in Zimbabwe 26th September 2024
  The political instability and poor governance of Zimbabwe since the Mugabe era have led to gross socio-economic deprivation that caused many citizens to sink into abject poverty. This has created a sense of insecurity and despondency among the citizens. Amid the suffering, the mega-church prophets rose, who seemed to provide an alternative route to recover […]
  Rabson Hove
• The spate of spousal homicide in Nigeria: Reconsidering the Christian divorce prohibition 20th September 2024
  In recent times, spousal homicide resulting from domestic violence has been on the increase in Nigeria, and one major factor responsible for this is the Christian doctrine that prohibits divorce. Hence, employing the historical-critical exegesis and descriptive approach, this article postulated a correlation between this doctrine and spousal homicide, and sought a possible reconsideration of […]
  Solomon O. Ademiluka