Open AccessDie Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk en die menseregtevraagstuk: 1910-1990
Author(s) -
Josefine Ernst
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
verbum et ecclesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.386
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2074-7705
pISSN - 1609-9982
DOI - 10.4102/ve.v16i2.455
Subject(s) - gospel , opposition (politics) , theology , civilization , human rights , philosophy , liberation theology , sociology , religious studies , political science , law , politics
The Dutch Reformed Church and the human rights issue: 1910-199 Research in the field of church history reveals that the Dutch Refonned Church disposes its own human rights tradition that should be viewed and judged alongside and not in opposition 10 its apartheid tradition. As common factor "Human Rights" proved to be a suitablkey to unlock the history of the theology of apartheid ("evangelie van volksvryhede") of the Afrikaans churches, the theology of civilisation ("gospel of co-operation") of the English churches and the theology of liberation ("gospel of humanisation") of the Black church movement in an impartial and systematical way