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Missionalia

On-line version ISSN 2312-878X
Print version ISSN 0256-9507

Abstract

MAKOFANE, Karabo M. The African Initiated Churches as an embodiment of the moratorium debate. Lessons for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, Central Diocese. Missionalia (Online) [online]. 2019, vol.47, n.1, pp.126-147. ISSN 2312-878X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.7832/47-1-296.

The African Initiated Churches pose a challenge to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa/Central Diocese, regarding living up to the challenges of moratorium debate in missions in the 1970s. Among other things, the moratorium debate was advocating for values of autonomy such as; self-governing, self-support, self-propagating and self-theologising (Bigambo, 2001; Kendall, 1978 & Wagner, 1975). In its original sense, a full moratorium meant the cessation of all activity on the part of missionary personnel as well as financial assistance brought to the African churches from Europe and North America. It also means that the missionaries were to return to home from Africa for a period of five years Uka (1989:193). In this article, I do not align myself fully with this definition perse, however I firmly believe that certain aspects of the moratorium debate illustrated by the African Initiated Churches in this article warrant attention in relation to Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa/Central Diocese.

Keywords : moratorium; Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa [Central Diocese]; African Initiated Churches.

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