FROM PLURALISM TO IDEOLOGY: THE ROOTS OF APARTHEID THEOLOGY IN ABRAHAM KUYPER, GUSTAV WARNECK AND THEOLOGICAL PIETISM

This paper explains how a "theology of apartheid" was constructed in the first half of the twentieth century in SA from a combination of three nineteenth century European theological currents: The neo-Calvinism of Kuyper, the missiological thinking of Warneck, and Pietism. In this way the...

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Main Author: Naudé, Piet 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2005
In: Scriptura
Year: 2005, Volume: 88, Pages: 161-173
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Summary:This paper explains how a "theology of apartheid" was constructed in the first half of the twentieth century in SA from a combination of three nineteenth century European theological currents: The neo-Calvinism of Kuyper, the missiological thinking of Warneck, and Pietism. In this way the celebration of plurality - so evident in postmodern theologies - turned into a debilitating, exclusivist ideology that was ultimately dismantled by the witness of the Confession of Belhar in 1982
ISSN:2305-445X
Contains:Enthalten in: Scriptura
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.7833/88-0-1002