This widely acclaimed and influential volume by internationally noted theologian John de Gruchy is now available in a greatly revised and expanded 25th anniversary edition that places the monumental religious struggle against South African apartheid into a larger and instructive global setting. Fully updated, John De Gruchy's authoritative account of Christian complicity with and then resistance to one of the world's most notoriously repressive regimes holds indispensable lessons and "dangerous memories" for all concerned about evil, justice, and racial reconciliation.
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John W. de Gruchy is Robert Selby Taylor Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Director of its Graduate School in Humanities. Editor of the Making of Modern Theology series (Fortress Press), he is also author of Christianity and Democracy (1995) and Christianity, Art and Transformation (2001), among other works, and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Steve de Gruchy teaches Religion at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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It has been a failure of European colonialist historians to write about South African history as though it began with the arrival of Portuguese explorers in the sixteenth century and the Dutch settlers in the next. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
church struggle, black renaissance, black theology, initiated churches, migratory labour, black theologians, contextual theology, ecumenical church, separate development, apartheid society, confessing church Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cape Town, Dutch Reformed, Prime Minister, Gereformeerde Kerk, Kairos Document, Desmond Tutu, Reformed Church, Christian Council, Church of the Province, Manas Buthelezi, Word of God, World Council of Churches, Jesus Christ, Oxford University Press, Pro Veritate, Christian Institute, Fort Hare, Charles Villa-Vicencio, David Philip, Frank Chikane, African National Congress, Cottesloe Consultation, Roman Catholic Church, Belhar Confession, Great Trek New!
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It has been a failure of European colonialist historians to write about South African history as though it began with the arrival of Portuguese explorers in the sixteenth century and the Dutch settlers in the next. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
church struggle, black renaissance, black theology, initiated churches, migratory labour, black theologians, contextual theology, ecumenical church, separate development, apartheid society, confessing church Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cape Town, Dutch Reformed, Prime Minister, Gereformeerde Kerk, Kairos Document, Desmond Tutu, Reformed Church, Christian Council, Church of the Province, Manas Buthelezi, Word of God, World Council of Churches, Jesus Christ, Oxford University Press, Pro Veritate, Christian Institute, Fort Hare, Charles Villa-Vicencio, David Philip, Frank Chikane, African National Congress, Cottesloe Consultation, Roman Catholic Church, Belhar Confession, Great Trek New!
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- Confessions of a Christian Humanist by John W. De Gruchy on 7 pages
- Theology in Dialogue: The Impact of the Arts, Humanities, and Science on Contemporary Religious Thought: Essays in Honor of John W. de Gruch by Lyn Holness on 4 pages
- The Church Speaks, Volume 2: Papers of the Commission on Theology Reformed Church in America, 1985-2000 (Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America) by James I. Cook on page 31, and page 50
- A History of South Africa, Third Edition by Leonard Thompson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Reconciliation of Peoples: Challenge to the Churches by Gregory Baum on page 28, and Back Matter
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