Search for dissertations about: "Dutch Reformed Church"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Dutch Reformed Church.

  2. 1. A Journey with a Status Confessionis. Analysis of an apartheid related conflict between the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, 1982-1998

    Author : Lennart Henriksson; Mika Vähäkangas; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; goalposts; Status Confessionis; mission; ecumenism; Belhar confession; World Alliance of Reformed Churuches; Dutch Reformed Church; South Africa; contrapuntal; apartheid; reformed; post-colonialism; church unity; ecumenics; Reformed churches; Apartheid;

    Abstract : This dissertation deals with the conflict between the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) - the worldwide Reformed movement - and the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (DRC) regarding the latter's support for and theological legitimizing of apartheid. One of the strongest measures possible was taken when the issue in 1982 was declared a Status Confessionis and the Dutch Reformed Church was suspended from the fellowship. READ MORE

  4. 2. Theology in Conflict. Readings in Afrikaner Theology : The Theologies of F.J.M. Potgieter and B.J. Marais

    Author : Hans S. A. Engdahl; Sven-Erik Brodd; John de Gruchy; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Church studies; close reading; contrast reading; fundamentalism; deconstruction; ecclesiology; neo-Calvinism; life system; biblical principia; verbal inspiration; Word become Scripture; pluriformity; ecumenism; moral community; ‘Christian brotherhood’; radical and conservative principle; slavery; universalism; cosmopolitanism; nationalism; colour; race; apartheid; Kyrkovetenskap; Church studies; Kyrkovetenskap; kyrkovetenskap; kyrkovetenskap;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a critical study of Afrikaner theology during the apartheid era in South Africa. Focus in this systematic, theological inquiry is on two Dutch Reformed theologians, F. J. M. READ MORE