Professor Eugene Baron

Qualifications

PhD; MA; BA (Hons) Psych; BA Hons (Theo); BTh

NRF Rating

Currently teaching

Mission Spirituality; Black Theology of Liberation; Pentecostal Mission and Environment; Narrative Missiology

Books

• Baron, E. 2014. Forming good habits: A case for the homeless in the City of Tshwane. In Mashau, TD & Kritzinger, JNJ. 2014. Pavement encounters for justice. Doing transformative missiology with homeless people in the City of Tshwane. Parow: Acadsa. (DHET)
• Baron, E. 2017. Belhar as a therapeutic resource to the Dutch Reformed family. In, Modise, LP & Van-Huffel Plaatjies, MA (eds). (2017). Belhar Confession: The embracing confession of faith in the church and society. Stellenbosch: Sun Press. (DHET)
• Baron, E. 2018. When a foreign, homeless person in South Africa suffers? In Mashau, TD (ed). 2018. Standing where God stands. Doing transformative missiology with homeless People in the City of Tshwane. Parow: Acadsa. (DHET)
• Baron, E. 2019. The concurrent challenge of being a mission agent and the facilitation of agency in mission encounters on the margins: A missiological perspective. In Hermans CA & Schoeman, JW (eds). 2019. Theology in an age of contingency. Wien, Germany: Litverlag Publishers. (WOS – overseas)
• Pali, K.J & Baron, E. 2020. Congregational Leadership through imitation and Persuasive speech for the Transformation of Church and Society. In, Hermans, CA & Van den Berg, JA. 2020. A Battle for the Heart. How (not) to Transform Church and Society. Wien, Germany: Litverlag.  (WOS–overseas)
• Baron, E. 2021. Missiology and the quest for a 'grassroots' narrative to address ‘radicalisation and violence’ in a post-apartheid South Africa. In, Temmerman, J.(ed) 2021. Religious Radicalism. Demarcations and Challenges. Netherlands: Open Access. (WOS – overseas)
• Baron, E. 2021. Towards a deepened Christology in the Cape Flats: the “Spirit of Christ” metaphor in the Neo-Pentecostal church.  In, Kgatle M.S Nel M, Banda C. 2020. Paradigm shifts in Christology: Jesus in various lenses of South African Pentecostalism. Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion. (WOS-overseas)
• Baron, E. 2021. Steve Biko as a ‘Christian’: A contribution to ethnic reconciliation in post- apartheid South Africa. In, Regan, P, Gudmarsdottir S & Solomons, D. (eds). 2021. Trading Justice for Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in South Africa, Canada, and Norway. Pretoria: AOSIS Publishers. (WOS - SA)
• Botha, NA & Baron, E. 2022. The Protestant World Mission and Race Discourse: Edinburgh 1910 – Ghana 1958. In Kim, K. 2021. Handbook for Mission Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (WOS–overseas)
• Baron, E. 2022. Ministerial formation of former ‘mission churches’ in South Africa: “Missional Consciousness” as an enabler for community development. In, Addy, T, Klaasen, JS & Haugen, HM. 2021. Developing Just and Inclusive Communities. London: Regnum Books International (WOS – overseas)
• Baron, E. 2022. Becoming a Resilient Christian Community: A Narrative Approach. In, Hermans CAM & Schoeman, WJ. Resilient Religion, Resilience and Heartbreaking Adversity. Germany, Munster: LitVerlag. (WOS – Overseas)
• Baron, E. 2023. (accepted). A postcolonial comparative analysis between theological methods used in practical theology and missiology. In, Kobo, F & Mashau, TD. 2020. Pretoria: AOSIS. (DHET)
• Baron, E & Maponya, MS. 2023. (accepted). Black Ecclesiology: In the shadow of a Missional Ecclesiology? In, Solomons, D & Baron, E (ed). 2023. Liberating Black Theology: Emerging South African Voices. Stellenbosch: African Sun Media (DHET)
• Baron, E & Maponya, MS. 2023. (accepted). Racialised Identities within a Black Liberationist paradigm. In, Solomons, D & Baron, E (ed). 2023. Liberating Black Theology: Emerging South African Voices. Stellenbosch: African Sun Media. (DHET)
• Baron, E. 2023. (submitted) The paradigm of Reconciliation in South African Mission stories: Beyond “God-human” and “human-human” to Black-and-White” Reconciliation politics. (Wipf & Stock) (Overseas publication)

Journal articles

• Baron, E. 2014. Forming good habits: A case for the homeless in the City of Tshwane.
• Missionalia, 42 (1/2):p.134-146. (DHET)
• Baron, E. 2015. Remorse and repentance stripped of its validity. Amnesty granted by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae,41(3): p.169 (DHET)
• Baron, E. 2015. Responsibility: A case for the homeless in the City of Tshwane. HTS Theological Studies, 71(3): p.1-7. (WOS – SA)
• Baron, E. 2017. The role of church youth in the transformation agenda of South African cities.
• HTS Theological Studies, 73(3): p.1-7.  (WOS – SA)
• Baron, E. 2019. Dancing with Jesus as the incarnate male ‘missionary’ conversant: A homeless group’s reading of John 4 in addressing gender-based violence. Verbum et Ecclesia, 40(1): p.1-10. (DHET)
• Baron, E. 2019. The 1619 Dordrecht Synod’s decision on corruptio totalis: A missional challenge for the church in terms of media reporting on corruption in South Africa. In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi, 53(3): p.1-9. (DHET)
• Baron, E. 2019. The call for African missional consciousness through renewed mission praxis in URCSA. Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 45(2):1-19. (DHET)
• Baron, E. 2019. When state corruption becomes a ‘Sunday school picnic’: A response to media reports on corruption. Missionalia, 47 (1): p.1-17. (DHET)
•  Baron, E. 2020. Mission studies at South African Higher Education institutions: An ethical and decolonial perspective in the quest to ‘colour’ the discipline. HTS Theological Studies, 76(1): p.1-14. (WOS – SA)
•   Baron, E & Maponya, MS. 2020. The recovery of the prophetic voice of the church. The adoption of a ‘missional church’ imagination. Verbum et ecclesia, 41 (1): p.1-9 (DHET)
• Baron, E. 2020. Die Ligdraer as a Grassroots Engagement on URCSA’s Unification and Reconciliation between 1990-1997. Missionalia, 48 (1): p.81-100 (DHET)
• Baron, E. 2020. The questions and challenges for South African missiology in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). HTS Theological Studies, 76 (2): p.1-11 (WOS – SA)
• Mangayi, L & Baron, E. 2020. Ten years (2010-2020) of exciting missiology in South Africa: Trends and trajectories. Scriptura, 119 (3). (DHET)
• Baron, E. 2021. Church Media and Reconciliation in The Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA). Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, 46 (3), p.1-14 (DHET)
• Baron, E & Letsosa, RS. 2021. Liturgy as an anti-racist praxis for Reformed Churches in South Africa. In die Skriflig, 55 (2):1-10 (WOS-SA)
• Baron, E & Pali, KJ. 2021. The shaping and formation of a missional ecclesiology of township congregations in the Mangaung Metro Municipality during COVID-19. HTS Theological Studies, 77 (3): 1-11(WOS-SA)
• Baron, E. 2021. Protecting our Environment: The Need for South African Youth with a Mission and Black Consciousness. HTS Theological Studies, 77 (2):1-9(WOS-SA)
• Baron, E. 2021. The role of the media in the formation of virtuous citizens: A contribution to reconciliation in a post-apartheid South Africa. Acta Theologica, 41 (1) 31-51 (WOS – SA)
• Baron, E. 2021. ‘Coloured’, you’re on your own? A dialectic between Biko’s black consciousness thought and the post-apartheid conditions of the ‘coloured’ people in South Africa. Black Theology, 20 (2): 125-148 (WOS – overseas)
• Baron, E. 2023. (submitted). The Future of Black Theology of Liberation: Narrative as Epistemological resource. Verbum et ecclesia.
• Baron, E. 2023. (submitted). African Christian Leadership. Scandinavian Journal of Leadership

Professional positions, fellowships & awards

1. Online Editor – Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology
2. Assistant Editor: Mission Studies (Journal of the International Association of Mission Studies)
3. Research Fellowship: Protestant Theological University (Groningen, Netherlands) (1 Sept – 30 September 2022)
4. Research Fellowship: Polin Institute, Abo Akademi, Finland (20 November – 20 December 2022)
5. Erasmus Mundus Doctoral Exchange Scholarship: 2010

Projects

Baron, E & Yong, A. 2024. (Forthcoming June 2024). Pentecostal Mission and Ecological Degradation. Oxford, United Kingdom: Regnum Publishers.

Baron, E & Solomons, D. 2023. (Forthcoming December 2023). Liberating Black Theology: Emerging South African Voices. Stellenbosch: Sun Media.