From Pluralism to Ideology: the Roots of Apartheid Theology in Abraham Kuyper, Gustav Warneck and Theological Pietism
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: 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
Source: Scriptura
DOI: 10.7833/88-0-1002
Author: Piet Naude
Institution: Nelson Mandela University
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $391
OpenAlex ID: W2107986257