Reformed churches in South Africa and the struggle for justice
Subtitle: remembering 1960-1990
By: edited by Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel and Robert Vosloo
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: SunMedia
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Stellenbosch
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9781920689100; 9781920689117
Subjects: Reformed Church; Race relations; Christianity; Apartheid; Church history; Belhar confession
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A - Memory and reformed identity: Remembering the role of the Reformed churches in the struggle for justice in South Africa (1960-1990): some remarks on the promise and pitfalls of memory and historiography / Robert Vosloo; title: The contest for reformed identity in South Africa during the church struggle against apartheid / John de Gruchy. B - Remembering the role of Reformed churches: Remembering Cottesloe : delegates to the Cottesloe Consultation tell their stories; title: Piet Meiring; title: The Dutch Reformed Church from Ras, Volk en Nasie to Kerk en samelewing : the struggle goes on / Johan van der Merwe; title: From Church and Society (1986) to Rustenburg (1990): developments within the Dutch Reformed Church / Frits Gaum; title: The voice of protest within the Dutch Reformed Mission Church: 1976-1986 / Nico Botha; title: The struggle for justice in South Africa (1986-1990) : the participation of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church and the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa / Klippies Kritzinger; title: The Dutch Reformed Church in Africaʹs bumpy road to the establishment of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa : from Tshilidzini to Pretoria, 1971-1991 / Leepo Modise; title: Fifty years of isolation : the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk 1960-2010 / Wim Dreyer; title: The witness of the Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa, 1960-1990 / Douglas Bax.; title: C - Remembering the reception of reformed theologians and theological currents: "Half-known" : a perspective on a contentious phase in the reception of Abraham Kuyper in South Africa, 1960-1990 / Jan Lubbe; title: The reception of Karl Barth in South Africa,1960-1990: selected perspectives / Piet Naudé; title: Remembering feminist theology South Africa, 1960-1990 / Christina Landman. D - Remembering prominent South African reformed voices: ʺThe time for pious words is overʺ : Beyers Naudé, decision, conscience and courage in the struggle for justice / Allan Boesak; title: ʺWe have a special responsibility in the sense of our reformed backgroundʺ : Beyers Naudé, 3 February 1990 (a transcription of an audiovisual presentation with comments ) / Pieter van Niekerk; title: Johan Heyns; title: Barometer of change in the Dutch Reformed Church: 1960-1990 / Henry Williams; title: The ambiguity of Johan Heyns : sitting at Bavinckʹs left or right hand? / Ernst Conradie; title: The alternative community and the struggle for liberation in the work of David Bosch / Cobus van Wyngaard; title: Willie Jonkerʹs gentle reformed promptings towards justice / Christo Lombard; title: ʺ...(T)hose who pray and do justice and wait for Godʹs own time: On Jaap Durand / Dirkie Smit; title: Allan Boesak and the Dutch Reformed Mission Church between, 1976-1990 / Eugene Fortein; title: Troublemaker in Israel : Nico Smith and the struggle for justice in apartheid South Africa / Willem Saayman. E - Remembering reformed documents: Reading the Belhar Confession as a historical text / Mary-Anne Plaatjies-Van Huffel; title: Revisiting church and society after a quarter of a century: a critical reappraisal / Andrie du Toit. F - Remembering ecumenical, public and international engagement: Many good words; title: little action? : the World Alliance of Reformed churches and the ʺSouth Africa questionʺ, 1960-1990 / Lennart Henriksson; title: Unlikely, but daring pioneers : on the Stellenbosch ecumenical tours from, 1984-1991 / Carel Anthonissen; title: Reformed churchesʹ struggle for justice : lessons learnt from their submissions before the TRC / Christo Thesnaar; title: From divine divisions to unity in Christ? : Church and reconciliation in South Africa and the southern United States, 1950-1990 / Marthe Hesselmans; title: Dealing with interwoven memories and histories: some perspectives in conversation with William Kentridgeʹs History of the main complaint / Helené van Tonder; title: Remembering 1960-1990 : three suggestions from a non-South African conference observer / Eddie van der Borght.