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Integration in Pentecostal Theological Education in South Africa

Elias Letwaba and Patmos Bible School

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Integration in Pentecostal Theological Education in South Africa

Elias Letwaba and Patmos Bible School

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Using Elias Letwaba's (1870–1959) Patmos Bible School as a model, this book theorizes Pentecostal theological education and integration in a South African context.

Due to the continent's fraught colonial history, African theology often relies on Western ideologies and models of practice, many of which do not speak directly to the needs of African believers. Mookgo Solomon Kgatle remedies this disconnect, offering Letwaba as an alternative to these mismatched Western theologies. Across six chapters, Kgatle discusses the life and impact of Elias Letwaba, one of the first African gospel ministers in the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa and founder of the Patmos Bible School. Letwaba's theological approach towards integration and religious education, reflected in the Patmos Bible School, provides rich inspiration for contemporary, African Pentecostal ministers and educators. Working from this model, Kgatle formulates his own approach of integrated Pentecostal theological education. In doing so, he affirms that integration is an important step towards reckoning with the colonial and imperialist matrices of power rampant within South African theology and epistemology. This form of integration and theological education envisioned by Kgatle through Letwaba offers a remedy to these histories and shines a light upon the Pentecostalist movement in South Africa, which has largely been overlooked and underexplored.

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Table of Contents

Introduction
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
Bibliography

Product details

Published 29 Oct 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 192
ISBN 9798216448082
Imprint T&T Clark
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Mookgo Solomon Kgatle

Mookgo Solomon Kgatle is Professor of Missiology a…

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