The Need for Incorporating Health and Healing in Theological Education in Africa
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Health and Healing, Theological Education, Africa, Botswana, Curriculum
Abstract
Observing that theological education in Africa needs a review in light of its history of association with Western missionaries, this article joins that call by focusing on the need to incorporate health and healing in this review. The article is based on findings from a field study as well as from literature. It argues for incorporating health and healing in the revised African theological education curriculum, among other reasons, on the pursuit for healing in African churches. Opening with a discussion of theological education in Africa in terms of its offering, its meaning and goals, the article then makes a presentation of findings on Batswana’s views of health and healing in theological education. It then discusses the need for incorporating health and healing in theological education as reflected by respondents and in literature.
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Adedoyin, O. O. and Shangodoyin, Kehinde. 2010. Concepts and practices of outcomesbased education for effective educational system in Botswana, European Journal of Social Science 13, 161-170.
Banks, Robert. 1999. Reenvisioning Theological Education: Exploring a Missional Alternative to Current Models, Grand Rapids, Eerdmans.
Bartmann, Peter Beate Jakob, Ulrich Laepple, Dietrich Werner, 2008. Health, Healing and Spirituality. The Future of the Church's Ministry of Healing. A German position paper offering ecumenical, diaconal and missiological perspectives on a holistic understanding of Christian witness for healing in western societies, (www.oikoumene.org/en/folder/documents-pdf/2008-11-07Health__Healing_and_Spirituality.pdf, accessed 19 April 2018).
Cheeseman, G. 1993. Competing Paradigms in Theological Education Today, Evangelical Review of Theology.
Chitando, Ezra and Klagba, Charles (eds.), 2013. In the Name of Jesus: Healing in the Age of HIV, Geneva: WCC Publications.
Chitando, Ezra. 2009. Equipped and ready to serve? Transforming theological and religious studies in Africa. Paper presented at the Joint Conference of Academics Societies in the fields of religion and theology, Stellenbosch, University of Stellenbosch.
Dossou, Marcellin S. 2013. Healing and HIV: a theological proposal, Chitando, Ezra and Klagba, Charles (eds.), In the Name of Jesus: Healing in the Age of HIV, Geneva: WCC Publications, 171-178.
Faloyan, Abraham. 2017. What is the purpose of theological education? (https://sckool.org/what-is-the-purpose-of-theological-educationabraham-folayanc.html, accessed 20 April 2018).
Gatwa, T. 2009. Transcultural global mission: an agenda for theological education in Africa. Paper presented at the Joint Conference of Academics Societies in the fields of religion and theology, Stellenbosch, University of Stellenbosch.
Gerloff, R. 2009. The African diaspora and the shaping of Christianity in Africa: perspectives on religion, migration, identity, theological education and collaboration. Paper presented at the Joint Conference of Academics Societies in the fields of religion and theology, Stellenbosch, University of Stellenbosch.
Hadebe, Nothando M. 2007. A Theology of Healing in the HIV&AIDS era, Geneva: WCC Publications.
Hill, Judith L. 2007. Health, Sickness and Healing in the New Testament: a brief theology, Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology 26.2, 151-196.
Kelsey, D. 1992. To Understand God Truly: What's Theological About a Theological School, Louisville: John Knox Press.
Naidoo, Marylin. 2008. The call for spiritual formation in protestant theological institutions in South Africa. Acta Theologica 11, 128-146.
Noelliste, Diememe. 1995. Towards a Theology of Theological Education, in Evangelical Review of Theology, 19:3, July.
Nyende, Peter. 2013. Ethnicity in Theological Education in Africa, in Werner, D. et al. (eds.), Handbook of Theological Education in Africa, 600-610. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1ddcphf.66
Pilch, John J. 2000. Healing in the New Testament: Insights from Medical and Mediterranean anthropology, Minneapolis: Fortress Press.
Wahl, W.P. 2013. Towards relevant theological education in Africa: comparing the international discourse with contextual challenges, Acta Theologica 33:1, 266-285. https://doi.org/10.4314/actat.v33i1.14
Walls, Andrew F. 2002. Christian scholarship in Africa in the twenty-first century, Transformation 19.4, 217-228.https://doi.org/10.1177/026537880201900401
Werner, Dietrich. 2008. Magna Carta on ecumenical formation in theological education in the 21st century- 10 key convictions. Ministerial Formation 110:82-88.
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The Need for Incorporating Health and Healing in Theological Education in Africa. (2024). Utambuzi: Journal for the Study of the Religions of Africa and Its Diaspora, 6(1), 90-99. https://doi.org/10.36615/p1zzd175
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The Need for Incorporating Health and Healing in Theological Education in Africa. (2024). Utambuzi: Journal for the Study of the Religions of Africa and Its Diaspora, 6(1), 90-99. https://doi.org/10.36615/p1zzd175