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SPIRIT AND HEALING IN AFRICA: A REF
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It feels like this
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I would like to believe that my chi
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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 11 1
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PART II. EXPLORING A REFORMED PNEUM
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INTRODUCTION 1. Research background
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and her status? Does the Bible not
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traditional healing, the HIV/AIDS c
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This thesis centralizes the proper,
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subject of health within the variou
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7. Research outline This research c
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and materiality. The answers to thi
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physical affliction, and it points
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1.2 MEANING OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVIS
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trust) that can influence health an
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1.3.2 Discourse When one follows th
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still resists a clear definition an
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the study of African healing starte
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industrialized world” (Helman 200
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produced, that a certain gesture re
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influence in Southern Africa. The a
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collective experiences, codes of th
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However, despite many attempts to a
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impact on African indigenous cultur
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Suffering as a relational matter
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situation in which one is actively
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particular rituals are subject to c
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Ngoma’s ability to recreate socie
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2.4 BORDERS OF AFRICAN TRADITIONAL
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carefully balance their practices a
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connection with the human beings wh
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ancestors and other spirits is impo
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a network of vessels through which
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healing, because relationships are
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esistance. Without denying that mis
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century it turned out that the medi
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scientific insights. The rigid Enli
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determined the course of missionary
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exclusive and divergent therapy, th
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merely regarded as the mirror of th
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esearch starts (as it is in convent
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a given society), but it should be
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eliefs and deeds were reproduced th
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missionary discourse focuses not on
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The notion of transformation result
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3.5.3 Transformation without superi
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The transformation of biomedicine i
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people make sense of health and ill
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ut should have narratives and perso
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these, but all of them include, imp
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Epidemiological constructions of AI
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investigating sexual activities wit
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within a specific society. The ackn
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This section aims at exploring some
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assessment and prevention. However,
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which Jesus directly turns towards
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include the dismissal of the assume
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4.4.2 Quality of social life From a
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The church now acknowledges that it
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ehavior, has mainly determined the
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CHAPTER 5. CHURCH-BASED HEALING DIS
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independent Pentecostal Churches, t
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deficiencies in medical healthcare
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that the human covenant partner nee
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approach towards the cause of disea
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Besides the argument that Jesus him
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malevolent forces or demons, who ha
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of benevolent spiritual forces in o
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5.3.3 Power of the Holy Spirit With
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for Jesus’ holistic approach to t
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prophet-healer is seen as someone w
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church-based healing discourse does
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church-based healing would be depri
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who have to deal with a changing st
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manifests itself, but it is definit
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PART II. EXPLORING A REFORMED PNEUM
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matrix? What are the essential elem
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the work of the Spirit? What consti
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6.2 REFORMED PNEUMATOLOGIES The fol
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Another feature of Calvin’s pneum
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providence allows for a limited yet
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meaning of the association of Word
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Kuyper’s thought is of great impo
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life within the old life through hi
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physical healing is such an inactiv
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whether the Christological focus in
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the power that man receives from Go
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any room for dualism between heaven
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Van Ruler deliberately distinguishe
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The significance of Van Ruler’s a
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historical condition of this world,
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disabilities that they suffer, they
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the verb. The implication is that h
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The focus in Welker’s pneumatolog
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the power of sin by the forgiveness
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(becoming whole) and integrated thr
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eorientation of Christian theology.
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pattern of the confession — is cl
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salvation). Questions/answers 65-82
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(Shults 2008:271-287). The understa
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heart. Calvin in particular was ver
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the transformation of the believer
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and as such dependent on God who ha
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that healing is located outside the
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Hollingsworth 2008). The broad conc
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not be disappointed: God’s love w
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justice, liberation and the affirma
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elationships among the Trinitarian
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constitute an important element of
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lost. She was caught in a vicious c
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CHAPTER 8. THE SPIRIT AND TRANSFORM
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system of the Christian church (…
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8.2.3 Spirit of adoption James Dunn
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8.2.4 Physicality and transformatio
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Metaphorical language about transfo
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Reformed thought on the theme of tr
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that God’s plan of salvation tran
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gift into a gift that is beneficial
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considered a tentative condition in
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CHAPTER 9. THE SPIRIT AND QUALITY O
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physical abilities, social circumst
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The clear distinction between the C
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Conradie 54 shows, based on Van Rul
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could say that people’s bodies ma
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9.3.1 Vulnerability, creation and S
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in the cosmos, Polkinghorne (2006:1
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Page 281 and 282: provided the basis for a re-visioni
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