A missiological analysis of strategies of the Seventh-day Adventist Church missionaries in South Africa

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dc.contributor.advisorBaron, E.en_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorPali, K. J.en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorWilliams, Sicelo Jamesen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-16T13:02:46Z
dc.date.available2023-08-16T13:02:46Z
dc.date.issued2022en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) was organised in 1860 in the United States of America (USA). In the 1890s, the church was established in South Africa among White people (Mafani 2011:84). The church employed different strategies to convert the people in South Africa. The reason for this study was to identify and analyse the strategies used by SDA missionaries to convert people to Christianity in South Africa. The researcher used the praxis cycle of Madge Karecki as an analytical framework to analyse the missionary activities of the SDA missionaries at three mission stations. This was done by reading the primary "missionary reports" and "archival documents" written by SDA missionaries, or others who wrote about SDA missionary work in South Africa. The researcher visited the archives, selected books on the missionaries, and documented the histories of the missionaries, as well as others on the mission activities that took place. The study found that the strategies were marked by evils such as racism, militant sectarianism, and blind support of oppressive economic and political systems. The missionary strategies were not contextualised to fit in the local situation of the African people. The missionary strategies focused only on the teachings of the Bible and failed to address issues of human dignity and social justice. The SDA missionary strategies were Eurocentric and failed to consider the local cultures of the African people.en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/12127
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.subjectThesis (Ph.D. (Practical and Missional Theology))--University of the Free State, 2022en_ZA
dc.subjectSeventh-day Adventist Churchen_ZA
dc.subjectmissionary strategiesen_ZA
dc.subjectWestern missionen_ZA
dc.subjectconversionen_ZA
dc.subjectChristianityen_ZA
dc.subjectcultureen_ZA
dc.subjectcontextualisationen_ZA
dc.subjectWestern Christianityen_UZA
dc.subjectAfrican traditional religionen_ZA
dc.subjectsalvationen_ZA
dc.titleA missiological analysis of strategies of the Seventh-day Adventist Church missionaries in South Africaen_ZA
dc.typeThesisen_ZA
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