Description: Using Elias Letwaba's Patmos Bible School as a model, this book theorizes forms of Pentecostal theological education and integration in a South African context.
Brief description: Mookgo Solomon Kgatle is Professor of Missiology at the Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, University of South Africa, South Africa
Review Quotes:
"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
"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