Open AccessAN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN BLACK THEOLOGY AND REFORMED THEOLOGY: THE INVOLVEMENT OF GOVENDER, MAZAMISA, MOFOKENG AND NTOANE
Author(s) -
Nico Botha
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
studia historiae ecclesiasticae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2412-4265
pISSN - 1017-0499
DOI - 10.25159/2412-4265/347
Subject(s) - honour , hermeneutics , dream , black theology , poverty , theology , sociology , unemployment , religious studies , criminology , political science , law , philosophy , psychology , neuroscience , economics , economic growth
During the nineteen eighties numerous meaningful booklets were published by Christian groups on social analysis and against an apartheid society. Less known, but extremely powerful, four black Dutch Reformed theologians wrote similar sophisticated doctorate theses. This article delineates the gist of these messages to honour Takatso Mofokeng. The urgent question is also whether these alarming analyses and bone-cutting witnesses would be relevant for the contemporary situation regarding the horrific violence, un-arrested poverty, unemployment, rampant ‘official’ theft and crime. The outcome is that this type of hermeneutics keeps the dream of freedom alive and rekindles hope towards renewal.