ABSTRACT
This 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 CONTENTS
chapter 2|22 pages
“Who has bewitched you?”
The Christological shift from faith to works in Galatians 3:1–9 applied to South African Pentecostalism
chapter 3|18 pages
Towards a deepened Christology on the Cape Flats
The “Spirit of Christ” metaphor in the neo-Pentecostal church
chapter 4|22 pages
Wo/Men's God-given power
Male headship versus female agency in Pentecostal sermons
chapter 6|16 pages
African neo-Pentecostalism's emphasis on prosperity and its implications for its Christology
An African Pentecostal hermeneutical consideration
chapter 7|23 pages
Insufficient to ransom Africans?
The neo-Pentecostal fear of generational curses in Africa and Christ's vicarious atonement
chapter 8|19 pages
Christ and the neo-Pentecostal preacher on the platform
Catechists or celebrities?
chapter 9|26 pages
From replacing Christ to crisis
Rethinking Christology in some new religious ministries in South Africa
