Corneliu C Simuţ is Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Emanuel University of Oradea, Romania, where he currently acts as principal in charge of academic affairs. He is actively involved in research and publication and holds a PhD in Church History from the University of Aberdeen (UK), a ThD in Dogmatic Theology from the University of Tilburg (NL), and a Habilitation in Systematic Theology from the Reformed Theological University of Debrecen (HU). For the past decade he has also served as editor in chief of Perichoresis, the theological journal of Emanuel University, which is published by the Emanuel University Press in conjunction with De Gruyter Open (DE).
           

Rev Sotobe with his study supervisor, Prof Maake Masango

Rev Sotobe was born on 17 September 1929 in the Qeqe administrative area of Butterworth (Eastern Cape) and is an ordained pastor of the Assemblies of God. He obtained a Diploma in Biblical Studies from the Union Bible Institute at Pietermaritzburg in 1963, a BA(Hons) in Public Administration from the University of Transkei, and a BA(Hons) degree from the University of Pretoria in 2009. In 2010 he was awarded an MA (Theology), specialising in Practical Theology, and in April 2014 a PhD (Theology) will be conferred on Pastor Sotobe.

In his thesis titled ’The traumatised African clergies dealing therapeutically with traumatised families’, he deals with the occurrence of trauma faced by ministers in their pastoral duties and the challenges this  poses for their lives. The promovendus argues that, in traditional African society, health is conceived as more than physical well-being; it is a state that entails mental, physical, spiritual, social and environmental (cosmic) harmony.