Vosloo, Robert.

Reforming Memory essays on South African church and theological history. [electronic resource] : - Stellenbosch : African Sun Media, 2017. - 1 online resource (286 p.)

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Intro -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1 -- 1 -- ON FORGETTING: HISTORICAL INJUSTICE AND THE ART OF FORGETTING -- 2 -- ON HISTORY: THE WRITING OF HISTORY AS REMEDY OR POISON? -- 3 -- ON REMEMBERING: MEMORY, HISTORY, AND JUSTICE -- 4 -- ON THE ARCHIVE: ARCHIVING OTHERWISE -- 5 -- ON TRADITION: REFORMING TRADITION? -- 6 -- ON DOING CHURCH HISTORY: FIVE THESES -- 7 -- ON COMMEMORATING: REMEMBERING THE REFORMATION AFTER 500 YEARS -- PART 2 -- 8 -- ON POVERTY: THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH AND 'THE POOR WHITE PROBLEM' -- 9 -- ON URBANISATION: THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH AND THE CITY 10 -- ON DIVISION: THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH AND SOME RESPONSES TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- 11 -- ON READING SCRIPTURE: THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH AND THE BIBLICAL JUSTIFICATION OF APARTHEID -- 12 -- ON ECUMENISM: THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH, BEYERS NAUDÉ AND THE GHOST OF COTTESLOE -- PART 3 -- 13 -- ON CALVIN'S THEOLOGICAL HERITAGE IN SOUTH AFRICA: ENGAGING AN AMBIVALENT, CONTESTED AND PROMISING LEGACY -- 14 -- ON THE DISPLACED CALVIN: 'REFUGEE REALITY' AS A LENS TO EXAMINE CALVIN'S LIFE, THEOLOGY AND LEGACY -- 15 -- ON CALVIN AND THE MIRROR OF THE STRANGER: 'REFUGEE REALITY' AND THE GIFT OF RECOGNITION 16 -- ON BEYERS NAUDÉ: REVISITING A LEGACY OF HOSPITALITY AND TRUTH-TELLING -- 17 -- ON DIRKIE SMIT: TAKE, READ ... INTERPRET, CONFESS -- 18 -- FOR JOHN DE GRUCHY: DEMOCRACY IS COMING TO THE RSA -- PART 4 -- 19. ON THE LORD'S SUPPER: THE 'WELCOME TABLE', EXCLUSION AND THE REFORMED TRADITION -- 20 -- ON THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION: CALVIN, THE ACADEMY OF GENEVA AND 150 YEARS OF THEOLOGY AT STELLENBOSCH -- 21 -- ON THE HEIDELBERG CATECHISM: REMEMBERING A 16TH-CENTURY REFORMED CONFESSION IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY 22 -- ON THE BELHAR CONFESSION: REMARKS ON THE RECEPTION OF A 20TH CENTURY CONFESSIONA LDOCUMENT IN THE DUTCH REFORMED CHURCH



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Reformed Church--South Africa.
Theology--South Africa.
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Memory--Biblical teaching.
Memory--Biblical teaching.
Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Reformed Church.
Theology.


South Africa--Church history.
South Africa.


Electronic books.
Church history.

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