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Integration in Pentecostal Theological Education in South Africa
Elias Letwaba and Patmos Bible School
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Description
Using Elias Letwaba's Patmos Bible School as a model, Mookgo Solomon Kgatle theorizes Pentecostal theological education and integration in a South African context.
In this book, Kgatle discusses the life and impact of one of the first African gospel ministers in the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa and founder of the Patmos Bible School, Elias Letwaba (1870–1959). Letwaba's theological approach towards integration and religious education provides rich inspiration for contemporary Pentecostal ministers and educators. Working from this model, Kgatle formulates his own approach to integrated Pentecostal theological education. This form of integration and theological education is particularly important within a South African context, where the Pentecostalist movement has largely been overlooked and underexplored.
Table of Contents
1: Conceptualising Integration in Theological Education
2: Contemporary Challenges of Integration in Pentecostal Theological Education
3: The Life and Pentecostal Ministry of Elias Letwaba
4: The Historical and Theological Developments of Patmos Bible School
5: The Principles of Integration in Patmos Bible School
6: Towards an Integrated Pentecostal Theological Education in the South African Context
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Product details
| Published | 24 Dec 2026 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 192 |
| ISBN | 9798216448068 |
| Imprint | T&T Clark |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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As a leading African Pentecostal scholar, Mookgo Solomon Kgatle offers a compelling vision for Pentecostal theological education. He utilizes Elias Letwaba and the Patmos Bible School as historical ressourcement for developing an integrative educational model that challenges existing academic and church-based approaches to theological training in South Africa. His proposal calls for sensitivity to the needs of African Pentecostal churches without compromising academic quality.
Simo Frestadius, Bangor University, UK
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Solomon Kgatle offers a challenging and passionate call to bring together Pentecostalism and theological education. More than a creative case study on Elisa Letwaba and the Patmos Bible School, this book highlights practical theological and pedagogical responses to the disintegration found in Pentecostal theological education not only in South Africa. Similar problems among Pentecostals worldwide underscore the importance of Kgatle's broad and integrative vision of theology, education, ministry, and community that clearly resonates with the crisis of theological education beyond the confines of Pentecostalism.
Wolfgang Vondey, University of Birmingham, UK

























