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Author : J. A. Loubser
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Apartheid Bible written by J. A. Loubser and published by Hippocrene Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. A. Loubser
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773497948
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (979 download)
Download or read book A Critical Review of Racial Theology in South Africa written by J. A. Loubser and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a structrual analysis of South African history, showing interaction between social realities and white theology. The book describes the philosophy that led to the acceptance by the Dutch Reformed Church of biblical proofs for apartheid in 1943 and eventually led to its rejection in 1986. It assesses the role of the church in apartheid and in South African history, and addresses the question of whether South Africa can succeed in building a non-racial and democratic society.
Author : J. A. Loubser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Critical Review of Racial Theology in South Africa written by J. A. Loubser and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dwight N. Hopkins
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 159752476X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Black Theology USA and South Africa written by Dwight N. Hopkins and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black theology continually poses a challenge to Christian witness and faith. Through a critical analysis of leading religious thinkers, Dwight N. Hopkins explores the fundamental differences and similarities between black theology in the United States and black theology in South Africa and asks: What is the common denominator between the two? Part I examines the historical, political, cultural, and theological background of contemporary black theology in both countries. Hopkins delves into the distinctive situation of each country, focusing on civil rights, black power, and related political, cultural, and theological themes in the United States, and on civil disobedience, black consciousness, the unity of politics and culture, and political/cultural/theological themes in South Africa. Through interviews with leading black religious scholars, Part II explores these theologies in depth. Contrasting the cultural-theological trend with the political-theological trend in the USA, Hopkins explores the ideas of theologians Albert B. Cleage, James H. Cone, J. Deotis Roberts, William R. Jones, Gayraud S. Wilmore, Charles H. Long, Cecil W. Cone, and Vincent Harding. In Part III Hopkins examines the same two trends - cultural-theological and political-theological - in South Africa. Here the focus is on the impact of black consciousness and Soweto, and the works of Manas Buthelezi, Allan Boesak, Simon S. Maimela, Frank Chikane, Bonganjalo C. Goba, Itumeleng J. Mosala, Takatso A. Mofokeng, and Desmond M. Tutu. Part IV brings black theology USA and black theology South Africa into dialogue. Hopkins locates the common denominator between the tow theologies: that they both claim the Christian gospel as the gospel of liberation for black people struggling against racism and for a holistic humanity - physically and spiritually, politically and culturally. He concludes by looking toward future areas of development and collaboration, arguing that an effective black theology of liberation must integrate politics and culture, insuring that the two are equal and complementary, two tributaries within the same current.
Author : Santosh C. Saha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313075638
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Religious Fundamentalism in Developing Countries written by Santosh C. Saha and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-03-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a variety of methodological approaches, this timely book offers a thorough examination of the impact and implications of religious fundamentalism in developing nations. The authors explore why and how adherence to fundamentalist principles affects the social, political, and religious development of such countries as Israel, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, and the Philippines. One of the most significant contributions of this volume is that it challenges the assumption that fundamentalism in developing countries is based solely on religious motivations. The authors maintain that fundamentalism of this sort is motivated by both religious and political convictions. This combination of religious and political motivations allows fundamentalism to exert a tremendous influence on the public policies of these developing nations. As the social fabric of such countries continues to be developed, it is clear that fundamentalism will continue to play a significant and potentially dangerous role.
Author : Ben Chigara
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136656243
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Re-conceiving Property Rights in the New Millennium written by Ben Chigara and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes volume two of a two volume examination of development community land issues in Southern Africa. Following from volume one Southern African Development Community Land Issues, this book considers the possibility of a new, sustainable land relations policy for Southern African Development Community States (SADC) that are currently mired up in land disputes that have become subject of domestic, regional and international tribunals. Chigara demonstrates that land relations in the SADC have always been, and will perhaps remain, a matter for constitutional regulation. Because constitutional laws are distinctive from other laws only by constitutional design, legal contests appear to be the least likely means for settlement in the sub-region. Only human rights inspired policies, that respond to the call for social justice by acknowledging both the current and the underlying contexts to the disputes, hold the most potential to resolve these disputes. The book recommends efficient pedagogical counter-apartheid-rule psychological distortions regarding the significance of human dignity (PECAPDISH) as a pre-requisite and corollary to the dismantling of the salient physical legacy of apartheid-rule in affected SADC States. The book shows that PECAPDISH’s potential and benefits would be enormous. The book will be of interest to students and researchers of Property and Conveyancing Law, Human Rights Law, and Land Law.
Author : Robert Vosloo
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1928314376
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (283 download)
Download or read book Reforming Memory written by Robert Vosloo and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although we should acknowledge the fragility of memory, we should nevertheless affirm the remarkable ability of memory to reform and transform our identity. Our memories and ways of remembering are, however, often marked by trauma and violence. Memory, therefore, not merely reforms; it too is in need of reformation, redemption and transformation. With this emphasis in mind, Reforming Memory grapples with the question what a responsible engagement with the past entails, also for Christians and churches associated with the Reformed tradition. The history of Reformed churches in South Africa is, one can argue, a deeply divided and ambivalent one. The same figures are heroes to some and villains to others; historic events are deeply ambiguous and conflicting views surround different discourses. Yet the histories, and perhaps futures, of these churches and traditions are inextricably interwoven. Reforming Memory fundamentally combines an interest in the notion of "e;memory"e; with an interest in (South African) Reformed theology and history. Central is the question: how should we remember and represent the past responsibly? The essays collected in this book engage in different ways with this question, attending in the process to some episodes in the history of the Dutch Reformed Church, some influential Reformed theologians, and some important Reformed practices and confessional documents.
Author : Ran Greenstein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349262528
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book Comparative Perspectives on South Africa written by Ran Greenstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines South African history and society from a variety of comparative perspectives. It brings together work by scholars based in South Africa, USA and the UK to reflect on the nature and evolution of what was considered for a long time a unique society. Drawing on studies of social, political and intellectual processes elsewhere, the authors seek to place South African developments in a broader context that sheds light on their specific features as well as global relevance.
Author : Dirkie Smit
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920109633
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Essays in Public Theology written by Dirkie Smit and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of the church in society? What role did the church play in South Africa ? during apartheid, in the struggle against apartheid and during the period of transformation? The essays collected and published in this volume deal with questions such as these. They are all occasional pieces. They were written over two decades and reflect the times in which they originated ? always intended for specific audiences, always addressing issues of the particular moment.
Author : Kevin Giles
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532633696
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women written by Kevin Giles and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Giles has been writing on women in the Bible for over forty years. In this book, What the Bible Actually Teaches on Women, he gives the most comprehensive account to date of the competing conclusions to this question and the issues surrounding it. To understand the bitter and divisive debate among evangelicals over the status and ministry of women, it needs to be understood that those who since 1990 have called themselves "complementarians" argue that in creation before the fall God set the man over the woman. Thus, the leadership of the man and the subordination of the woman in the home, the church, and wherever possible in the world (the whole creation) is the God-given ideal that is pleasing to God. It is this "theology" that Kevin Giles deconstructs and shows to be without a biblical foundation. Giles shows that he is fully conversant with the complementarian position and yet is unpersuaded by it. He sees it as an appeal to the Bible to preserve male privilege, similar to the appeals to the Bible to validate slavery and Apartheid; appeals to the Bible made by some of the best Reformed and evangelical biblical scholars, and now seen to be special pleading. Carefully studying the limited number of texts on which complementarians predicate their theology of the sexes, Giles finds not one of them actually teaches what complementarians claim. Furthermore, complementarians too often ignore the texts that are very difficult for them. In this book the ordination of women gets only passing mention. The constant focus is on whether or not the Bible subordinates women to men as an abiding theological principle.
Author : C. N. Van der Merwe
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051835908
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Breaking Barriers written by C. N. Van der Merwe and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Prior
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1850758158
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Bible and Colonialism written by Michael Prior and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical claim of the divine promise of land is integrally linked with a divine mandate to exterminate the indigenous people. The narrative has supported virtually all Western colonizing enterprises (e.g. in Latin America, South Africa, Palestine), resulting in the suffering of millions of people, and loss of respect for the Bible. According to modern secular standards of human and political rights, what the biblical narrative calls for are war-crimes and crimes against humanity. In this provocative and compelling study, Prior protests at the neglect of the moral question in conventional biblical studies, and attempts to rescue the Bible from being a blunt instrument in the oppression of people.
Author : Ernst M. Conradie
Publisher : AOSIS
ISBN 13 : 1779953070
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (799 download)
Download or read book The Place of Story and the Story of Place written by Ernst M. Conradie and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of the series on “An Earthed Faith” focuses on creation theology. The ten invited essays address the following core question: “What difference does it make to the story of cosmic, planetary, human and cultural evolution to re-describe this as the creative work of God’s love?” Inversely, what difference does it make to the story of God’s love to describe it in evolutionary and geographic terms? Addressing this question requires theological reflection on place (land, geography and landscape) and on evolution (cosmic, biological, hominid and human) as the story of such place. This entails a narrative reconstruction of the story where current interests, positions of power and fears are necessarily at stake (the place where the story is being told), often dominated by issues of race rather than by grace. How, then, is this story to be told, given such a sense of place? This volume will entail a highly constructive effort to address the classic tasks associated with creation theology at the cutting edge of contemporary ecotheology.
Author : Edley J. Moodley PhD
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630879967
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Shembe, Ancestors, and Christ written by Edley J. Moodley PhD and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian axis has shifted dramatically southward to Africa, Asia, and Latin America, so much so that today there are more Christians living in these southern regions than among their northern counterparts. In the case of Africa, the African Initiated Churches-founded by Africans and primarily for Africans-has largely contributed to the exponential growth and proliferation of the Christian faith in the continent. Yet, even more profoundly, these churches espouse a brand of Christianity that is indigenized and thoroughly contextual. Further, the power and popularity of the AICs, beyond the unprecedented numbers joining these churches, are attributed to their relevance to the existential everyday needs and concerns of their adherents in the context of a postcolonial Africa. At the heart of Christian theology is Christology-the confessed uniqueness of Christ in history and among world religions. Yet this key feature of Christianity, as with other important elements of the Christian faith, may be variously understood and re-interpreted in these indigenous churches. The focus of this study is the amaNazaretha Church, an influential religious group founded by the African charismatic prophet Isaiah Shembe in 1911 in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The movement today claims a following of some two million adherents and has proliferated beyond the borders of South Africa to neighboring countries in Southern Africa. The book addresses the complex and at times ambivalent understanding of the person and work of Christ in the amaNazaretha Church, presenting the genesis, history, beliefs, and practices of this significant religious movement in South Africa, with broader implications for similar movements across the continent of Africa and beyond.
Author : Nadine Bowers Du Toit
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 199120177X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Faith, Race and Inequality amongst Young Adults in South Africa written by Nadine Bowers Du Toit and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many young South African adults (often called ‘born frees’), who were born just before or just after the demise of political apartheid, the ongoing realities of poverty and inequality bring to light the question of whether they truly are ‘free’ in contemporary South Africa? Their lived experiences of poverty and inequality seem to be in conflict with theologically laden concepts that remain prominent in social and political life, such as reconciliation, forgiveness, justice and restitution. This leads to a bi‑directional process of contesting, and being contested, by such notions and discourses. Furthermore, in light of the double legacy of both the church and youth as resisting injustice, this publication seeks to explore the many perspectives from which the Christian faith, race and inequality amongst youth can be brought to light.
Author : Bernard Lategan
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
ISBN 13 : 1920689915
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Hermeneutics and Social Transformation written by Bernard Lategan and published by AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a South African context ... condemning apartheid is not enough. To make a non-racial, democratic, inclusive society viable and enduring, much more is required ? of which creative and imaginative theological thinking is not the least. Fundamental theological values and their implications for all the facets of society must be thought through ? not as an academic exercise, but as a grass-roots undertaking ? and the greatest challenge is to act in terms of this new understanding of society." - Bernard Lategan, Some implications of the family concept in New Testament texts
Author : Richard A. Burridge
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802844588
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Imitating Jesus written by Richard A. Burridge and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to many studies of New Testament ethics, which treat the New Testament in general and Paul in particular, this book focuses on the person of Jesus himself. Richard Burridge maintains that imitating Jesus means following both his words -- which are very demanding ethical teachings -- and his deeds and example of being inclusive and accepting of everyone. Burridge carefully and systematically traces that combination of rigorous ethical instruction and inclusive community through the letters of Paul and the four Gospels, treating specific ethical issues pertaining to each part of Scripture. The book culminates with a chapter on apartheid as an ethical challenge to reading the New Testament; using South Africa as a contemporary case study enables Burridge to highlight and further apply his previous discussion and conclusions.
