CELEBRATING OUR GRADUATES!
September is Counseling Month
September is Christian Counselling month at the SATS Symposium. We have three open sessions as outlined below:
- On 15 September (14:00–15:30 CAT), Dr. Matome Mashiapata, Ps. Femi Ali, and Ms. Idalette Müller will be discussing Ethical Excellence in Christian Counselling.
- Next, Prof. Nicolene Joubert will present part two of Ethical Excellence in Christian Counselling on 22 September (14:00–15:30).
- Finally, Drs. June Dickie and Lissa Wray Beal will discuss The Value of Lament for the Believer Today on 29 September (14:00–15:30).
All events are open to anyone, and attendance is free.
Join us every Friday in September for our Couceling Symposia! You can click on the following link.
2023 SATS Graduation Ceremony
This year, the SATS graduation ceremony will take place this Saturday, 2 September, in Johannesburg, South Africa. The ceremony starts at 13:00 CAT, and you can celebrate the day with us by watching the Live Stream HERE.
“Embodied Afterlife: The Hope of an Immediate Resurrection” by Robert Falconer
For many Christians, one of the most important aspects of their faith is the sure and certain knowledge that they will be reborn after death, resurrected to live on forever, free from suffering and pain. Most of us imagine that this is a distant future event. We have conflicting information about heaven being an eternal disembodied spiritual state or a temporal disembodied state, where one waits for the general resurrection. But what if there was an alternative?
This book, Embodied Afterlife: The Hope of an Immediate Resurrection, explores the possibility of another option, in chapters that examine:
- The Resurrection of Christ
- The problem of an intermediate state in heaven
- Near-death experiences (NDE’s)
- The makeup of the body, soul, and spirit
- Concepts of time in the afterlife
- Hope for the future
- And more…
The idea that there is the possibility of an immediate resurrection provides a promising alternative to the traditional beliefs and concept of the afterlife held by most Christians.
Embodied Afterlife is intended to shape that thinking and bring that expectation into sharper focus so that we may all follow in Jesus’s footsteps in resurrected life as he has conquered death, with the knowledge that the physical resurrection we seek is not in some distant future but immediate.
For more information, visit the author’s website: www.robertfalconer.co.za
Student Research Hub
The Student Research Team put out a questionnaire a few months ago asking about how the Student Research Commons (now called the Student Research Hub) is used and what improvements we could make. We are proud to announce that we have updated it in response to your comments. It has a fresh look-and-feel with updated and added content. Related to the Student Research Hub, there is The Gathering, which is a platform where students and supervisors meet to share thesis research findings and progress, and we also launched the Student Research Quarterly, a newsletter specifically for our MTh and PhD students.
Students can visit the Student Research Hub and have a look around.
Additional Free Resources
SATS has free resources available in a variety of formats. Our YouTube Channel covers a broad range of topics ranging from African Theology, Bible Interpretation, Christology, Ecclesiology, and others that can be viewed for your personal growth. In addition, we provide monthly Blog articles on interesting topics written by expert theologians and bi-annual academic articles in our scholarly journal, Conspectus. You are also welcome to register for future free events on our Events page.