Theses

The theses below represent the academic research and views of the individual authors writing in their own personal capacity, and do not necessarily represent the views of DEWCOM or the MCSA. Methodist clergy and laity who would like to share their Masters and/or Doctoral level theses (in any theological discipline) are invited to email a pdf copy of their research to admin@dewcom.org.

Author	Degree	Year	Title
Botha, Zamuxolo	MTh	2022	African notions of the Trinity: Toward socio-political redress in South Africa
Dipali, Sam	PhD	2023	Dichotomies between Mainstream churches and African Indigenous churches: A Practical Theology exploration of ancestral veneration.
Fuku, Thozomile	PhD	2024	Developing an inclusive missional church beyond interracial conflicts and cultural divisions: A practical theological approach
Krige, Jeanette	PhD	2008	Chaplains in Independent Church Schools Straddling Church and School
Mokgothu, Sidwell	PhD	2021	Social cohesion and the Church: Exploring Racial Integration in a Methodist Congregation
Molale, Matshedesho	PhD	2018	Missio Dei: An ecclesiology of healing and reconciliation in the MCSA in post-1994 South Africa
Nyandoro, Patricia	MTh	2022	Pastoral care with bereaved widows who lost their spouses to Covid-19
Nyandoro, Patricia	PhD	2025	Relocation of clergy and its impact on the family: A pastoral challenge
Peega, Kgakalane	MA	2009	Caring for traumatized families of ‘crucified’ clergy: A challenge to pastoral care
Scholtz, Roger	PhD	2015	“Now my eyes have seen you”: Re-visioning Job’s wife in the Book of Job
Sekhejane, Moagi	MA	2016	A Systematic Theological Exploration of Hydraulic Fracturing in South Africa
Sekhejane, Moagi	PhD	2022	An African understanding of baptism in the Methodist Church with special reference to the stillborn
Sifo, Luvuyo	MA	2010	The Effects of Marital Conflict and Abuse on Children: A Pastoral Care Approach
Vilakati, Vusi	MPhil	2012	African Spiritual Consciousness within the Personal Interpersonal and Professional Leadership Perspective
Vilakati, Vusi	PhD	2020	Developing future-fit leadership for the advancement of sub-Saharan Africa: A focus on the changing goals of business
Vilakati, Vusi	MA	2005	Leviticus 16 – Day of Atonement: A comparison between biblical and African concepts of atonement and reconciliation
Williams, Don	MTh	2015	The Covenantal Relationship between the MCSA and her ministers: A Wesleyan Theological Critique
Williams, Don	PhD	2019	The Decolonisation and Africanisation of Ordination in the MCSA