AN ESSAY ON WHAT THE REFORMATION COULD NOT PREVENT THE IDENTIFICATION OF CHURCH AND VOLK'. THREE EXAMPLES RECONSIDERED
In this year of REFO 500 the author investigates the question why the Reformation with its theology of sola Scriptura and solus Christus' could not prevent the successive identification of church and volk' in history and why it could not prevent the fatal consequences this identification...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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South African Publ.
2018
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Koers
Year: 2018, Volume: 83, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-13 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics CH Christianity and Society KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church NCD Political ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
nationalism (apartheid)
B Anglican Church B Lutheran Church B church and volk' B Nazism B England B Imperialism B South Africa B Reformation B Reformed Churches B Germany |
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| Summary: | In this year of REFO 500 the author investigates the question why the Reformation with its theology of sola Scriptura and solus Christus' could not prevent the successive identification of church and volk' in history and why it could not prevent the fatal consequences this identification had for the gospel message of reconciliation, the exemplary existence of the church of Christ and the coming of the kingdom of God. Three examples serve as proof for this statement: the attitude of the Anglican Church in England during the second Anglo-Boer War (now called the South African War)(1899-1902); the Lutheran Church in Germany during the Second World War (1939-1945) and the Reformed Churches in South Africa during the years of apartheid (1948-1994). All three examples reveal an untenable identification of church and volk', although in varying degrees. How could that happen? |
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| ISSN: | 2304-8557 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Koers
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.19108/KOERS.83.1.2403 |