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Book SynopsisThis book explores recent developments in South African Pentecostalism, focusing on new prophetic churches. The chapters engage with a number of paradigm shifts in Christology, identified as complementing Christ, competing with Christ, removing Christ and replacing Christ. What are the implications of these shifts? Does it mean that believers no longer believe in Christ but in their leaders? Does it shift believers' faith towards materiality than the person of Christ? This volume will be valuable for scholars of African Christianity and in particular those interested in the neo-prophetic movement and Christology in a South African context.
Table of ContentsIntroduction-Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Marius Nel and Collium Banda; 1 The paradigmatic shift of some New Prophetic Churches from the ipsissima verba of Scripture to a non-existent Christology-Paul Themba Mngadi; 2 "Who has bewitched you?": The Christological shift from faith to works in Galatians 3:1-9 applied to South African Pentecostalism-Elise B. Kisungu; 3 Towards a deepened Christology on the Cape Flats: The "Spirit of Christ" metaphor in the neo-Pentecostal church-Eugene Baron; 4 Wo/Men’s God-given power: Male headship versus female agency in Pentecostal sermons-Tumi Mampane; 5 Examining the position of prophets in relation to Christology within contemporary South African Pentecostal missions-Themba Shingange; 6 African neo-Pentecostalism's emphasis on prosperity and its implications for its Christology: An African Pentecostal hermeneutical consideration-Marius Nel; 7 Insufficient to ransom Africans?: The neo-Pentecostal fear of generational curses in Africa and Christ’s vicarious atonement-Collium Banda; 8 Christ and the neo-Pentecostal preacher on the platform: Catechists or celebrities?-Kelebogile T. Resane; 9 From replacing Christ to crisis: Rethinking Christology in some new religious ministries in South Africa-Bekithemba Dube; Epilogue-Mookgo Solomon Kgatle, Marius Nel and Collium Banda
