„Die Südafrika-Problematik und der Ökumenische Rat der Kirchen in Genf“
Five "white" churches in South Africa were amongst the founding members of the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam in 1948. But six years later, in 1954, at the WCC's Second Assembly at Evanston, controversy arose with these churches, when the Assembly declared racial segregation t...
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| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
1996
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 1996, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 232-250 |
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| Summary: | Five "white" churches in South Africa were amongst the founding members of the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam in 1948. But six years later, in 1954, at the WCC's Second Assembly at Evanston, controversy arose with these churches, when the Assembly declared racial segregation to be incompatible with the Gospel. Despite patient efforts, for instance by the General Secretary, Visser't Hooft, who frequently visited South Africa and tried to convince these churches of the injustice of Apartheid, a breach could not be avoided. The "white" churches left the WCC, while the "black" churches of South Africa remained members, and demanded more energetic measures from the WCC on the question of race. A new era began with the WCC's establishment in 1979 of the "Programme to Combat Racism", which initiated a discussion in WCC circles about the use of force in the struggle against racism. The WCC called for a "Campaign against Racism", which however did not achieve its goal. Nevertheless, because of the changed political situation in South Africa, in 1994 the WCC's Central Committee at its meeting in Johannesburg agreed to the "lifting of all sanctions and other financial and economic pressures designed to cause the end of Apartheid" and instead endorsed a "programme for resistance against the use of force". |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
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