The Dutch Reformed Church and the poor white problem in the wake of the first Carnegie Report (1932) : some church-historical and theological observations
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: This article focuses on some of the events leading to the first \nCarnegie Report (1932) and the way the Dutch Reformed \nChurch responded in its wake to the so-called poor white \nproblem. Special attention is given to a National Congress \n(Volkskongres) that was held in Kimberley in October 1934, \nand that was immediately followed by a church conference. \nThe article also refers to some earlier conferences that became \nprecursors to the Carnegie report and the subsequent Kimberley \nconferences. In addition, the article makes some remarks \nregarding the significance of the Kimberley conferences of \n1934 as a response to the Carnegie report of 1932 and the \ncumulative experience of the poor white problem in the previous \ndecades. Given the fact that the 1930s were also a period \nin which a form of neo-Calvinism found a stronger foothold \nwithin the Dutch Reformed Church, the last section of the \narticle offers some brief comments on aspects of the theological \ndiscourse surrounding the role of the church in caring for \nthe poor.
Author: Robert Vosloo
Language: English
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2139349888