Open AccessPredikant en politiek
Author(s) -
J.H. Van Wyk
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
in die skriflig/in die skriflig
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2305-0853
pISSN - 1018-6441
DOI - 10.4102/ids.v26i4.1436
Subject(s) - pietism , politics , political science , theology , kingdom , religious studies , connection (principal bundle) , law , sociology , philosophy , german , engineering , paleontology , linguistics , biology , structural engineering
In this article different perspectives are given on the issue that a Christian minister can be - and should be - involved in politics. Pietism and quietism are foreign to a Reformational approach, although politicism as mooted by the Theology of Revolution is also unacceptable. The question is not whether a minister should engage in politics but how. In this connection the author attempts to provide a few guidelines for a politics of the kingdom of God