Giving an account of hope in South Africa Interpreting the Theological Declaration (1979) of the Broederkring van NG Kerke
This paper analyses the Theological Declaration of the Belydende Kring (1979) in view of the South African context at the time. After sketching the credibility crisis facing black ministers of the Dutch Reformed family' of churches in the late 1970s, it outlines the vision of the Belydende Kri...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of South Africa
[2019]
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Missionalia
Year: 2019, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 97-130 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDD Protestant Church |
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| Summary: | This paper analyses the Theological Declaration of the Belydende Kring (1979) in view of the South African context at the time. After sketching the credibility crisis facing black ministers of the Dutch Reformed family' of churches in the late 1970s, it outlines the vision of the Belydende Kring and the threefold purpose of its Declaration: an apologia to its critics, an exercise in contextual theologising, and an engagement with the fathers' of the Reformed tradition. The paper uses a praxis matrix' to explore the performance enacted by the Declaration, in terms of its own declared intentions |
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| ISSN: | 2312-878X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Missionalia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.7832/47-1-335 |