Allan Aubrey Boesak
Biographic Data
| ID | 1425405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Aubrey Boesak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan Aubrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Boesak |
| SIGNATURE | BOESAK A A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5925-7447 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“We are what we are”
This article argues that Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s submission to the apartheid government’s Eloff Commission of Inquiry in 1982 is his most important, most thorough theological achievement. It was foundational for the work of the South African Council of Churches of which he was General Secretary. As such, its contribution to ecumenical theology and the work of ecumenical organizations globally remains invaluable. It also still stands as a singul…
Selfless Revolutionaries
When tomorrow is yesterday
In an early 1977 interview, Steve Biko offered not only insights into the events of June 16 the year before, but also a prophetic analysis of a post-apartheid situation if black people’s political liberation did not include economic liberation as an essential and indispensable reality. Taking those insights as point of departure, and engaging the intellectual work of Kwame Nkrumah, this article argues that Biko’s words were not only prophetic and…
Selfless Revolutionaries
In search of our human face
This contribution grapples with the question: Is there a relationship between Steve Biko’s ‘quest for a true humanity’ or, differently put, his search for South Africa’s ‘human face’ and Vuyani Vellem’s quest for an African spirituality ? Our proposition is that there is such a relationship. This discussion is framed overall by two other questions: What is the relevance of this ‘quest’ within the present South African context, what is its contrib…
The Need for “A Fighting God”
There is an upsurge of renewed interest in South Africa in Black Consciousness, Black theology and consequently in the work of Steven Bantu Biko who remains a central figure for a movement that now seems to inspire a new generation, especially pertaining to the raging debates on Africanity, decolonisation, and Africanisation. This author believes that this resurgence presents an historic moment that calls for a serious re-examination of Biko’s th…
Children of the Waters of Meribah
"In the decades since Black liberation theology burst onto the scene, it has turned the world of church, society, and academia upside down. It has changed lives and ways of thinking as well. But now there is a question: What lessons has Black theology not learned as times have changed? In this expansion of the 2017 Yale Divinity School Beecher Lectures, Allan Boesak explores this question. If Black liberation theology had taken the issues discuss…
Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid
Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid
In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in that society. This book is a call to discern new moments
Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid
"The 1985 Kairos Document came as a call to discern the devastating crises apartheid was causing and for the church to understand this as a Kairos moment and a call for conversion and action. Thirty years later Christians and faith communities across the world are facing global apartheid: in growing social and economic inequalities, environmental devastation, the destruction of societies and victimization of the defenseless through endless war an…
Hearing the Cry and Reading the Signs of the Times
South Africans who stand in the prophetic tradition of the Kairos Document that came out of South Africa in the dark days of the anti-apartheid struggle and the first state of emergency in 1985, are the first to admit that the Palestinian Kairos called them to a moment of awareness of that prophetic tradition they seemed by and large to have forgotten. It was a reawakening of kairos in a community where the prophetic voice has not only been scarc…
Deification, Demonization and Dispossession
Many regard South Africa’s reconciliation process as a model for a search for peace in and among nations. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission played an admirable part in this. However, problems remain in continuing and completing this reconciliation project. For many the failure to secure social justice through reconciliation remains one challenge. At issue is also how South Africans deal with their fractured and painful past. T…
And Zaccheus remained in the tree
And Zaccheus remained in the tree: Reconciliation and Justice and the Truth and Reconciliation CommissionSouth Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has been praised the world over for its work and its example is being followed by many countries, in Africa especially. In South Africa the TRC has raised hopes and expectations that went beyond the TRC’s functionality within the framework of South Africa’s political settlement and its l…
Kan die NG Kerk vandag nog iets vir Suid Afrika beteken
This article is the edited version of the presentation held at the University of Pretoria’s “Theological Day” on January 31, 2008. It seeks to answer the question: “Can the Dutch Reformed Church still make a difference in South Africa today?” This article places this question within the wider world and African contexts, then focuses on the South African situation. It describes the South African context as one of spiritual uncertainties and confus…
African renaissance and spirituality
The African Renaissance is now more than just an idea . . . In South Africa itself, ten years of democracy have ripened our discussions and deepened our insights. We are less starry‐eyed and euphoric, and more cautious; less optimistic but more hopeful. We are beginning to understand much better just how much South Africa is part of Africa, as we are beginning to understand that ‘Africa’ is much more than a geographical connotation. Africa is its…
Black Theology and the Struggle for Liberation in South Africa
Allan Boesak is president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. He received an honorary doctorate in divinity from Yale University at commencement in May 1984. The following excerpts are taken from Black and Reformed: Apartheid, Liberation, and the Calvinist Tradition, edited by Leonard Sweetmap (Orbis, 1984). - The EditorsThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click he…
The State of Apartheid
Vision of the future
(1987). Vision of the future: An anthology of writings and speeches. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 385-395
Banning Black Theology in South Africa
“It must be made clear: black theology, as an expression of faith, cannot be banned. Of course, the South African government can ban books and articles. It can ban the people who wrote them. But it cannot take away the faith of an oppressed people who have discovered that God always has been, and is now, on the side of the poor and the needy. It cannot take away the truth that this God is passionately involved in history for the sake of his peopl…
Unschuld die schuldig macht. Eine sozialethische Studie uber Schwarze Theologie und Schwarze Macht
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Banning Black Theology in South Africa
“It must be made clear: black theology, as an expression of faith, cannot be banned. Of course, the South African government can ban books and articles. It can ban the people who wrote them. But it cannot take away the faith of an oppressed people who have discovered that God always has been, and is now, on the side of the poor and the needy. It cannot take away the truth that this God is passionately involved in history for the sake of his peopl…
Unschuld die schuldig macht. Eine sozialethische Studie uber Schwarze Theologie und Schwarze Macht
Vision of the future
(1987). Vision of the future: An anthology of writings and speeches. Third World Quarterly: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 385-395
Black Theology and the Struggle for Liberation in South Africa
Allan Boesak is president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches. He received an honorary doctorate in divinity from Yale University at commencement in May 1984. The following excerpts are taken from Black and Reformed: Apartheid, Liberation, and the Calvinist Tradition, edited by Leonard Sweetmap (Orbis, 1984). - The EditorsThis article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click he…
The State of Apartheid
African renaissance and spirituality
The African Renaissance is now more than just an idea . . . In South Africa itself, ten years of democracy have ripened our discussions and deepened our insights. We are less starry‐eyed and euphoric, and more cautious; less optimistic but more hopeful. We are beginning to understand much better just how much South Africa is part of Africa, as we are beginning to understand that ‘Africa’ is much more than a geographical connotation. Africa is its…
And Zaccheus remained in the tree
And Zaccheus remained in the tree: Reconciliation and Justice and the Truth and Reconciliation CommissionSouth Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has been praised the world over for its work and its example is being followed by many countries, in Africa especially. In South Africa the TRC has raised hopes and expectations that went beyond the TRC’s functionality within the framework of South Africa’s political settlement and its l…
Kan die NG Kerk vandag nog iets vir Suid Afrika beteken
This article is the edited version of the presentation held at the University of Pretoria’s “Theological Day” on January 31, 2008. It seeks to answer the question: “Can the Dutch Reformed Church still make a difference in South Africa today?” This article places this question within the wider world and African contexts, then focuses on the South African situation. It describes the South African context as one of spiritual uncertainties and confus…
Deification, Demonization and Dispossession
Many regard South Africa’s reconciliation process as a model for a search for peace in and among nations. The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission played an admirable part in this. However, problems remain in continuing and completing this reconciliation project. For many the failure to secure social justice through reconciliation remains one challenge. At issue is also how South Africans deal with their fractured and painful past. T…
Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid
In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in that society. This book is a call to discern new moments
Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid
"The 1985 Kairos Document came as a call to discern the devastating crises apartheid was causing and for the church to understand this as a Kairos moment and a call for conversion and action. Thirty years later Christians and faith communities across the world are facing global apartheid: in growing social and economic inequalities, environmental devastation, the destruction of societies and victimization of the defenseless through endless war an…
Hearing the Cry and Reading the Signs of the Times
South Africans who stand in the prophetic tradition of the Kairos Document that came out of South Africa in the dark days of the anti-apartheid struggle and the first state of emergency in 1985, are the first to admit that the Palestinian Kairos called them to a moment of awareness of that prophetic tradition they seemed by and large to have forgotten. It was a reawakening of kairos in a community where the prophetic voice has not only been scarc…
Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid
Children of the Waters of Meribah
"In the decades since Black liberation theology burst onto the scene, it has turned the world of church, society, and academia upside down. It has changed lives and ways of thinking as well. But now there is a question: What lessons has Black theology not learned as times have changed? In this expansion of the 2017 Yale Divinity School Beecher Lectures, Allan Boesak explores this question. If Black liberation theology had taken the issues discuss…
In search of our human face
This contribution grapples with the question: Is there a relationship between Steve Biko’s ‘quest for a true humanity’ or, differently put, his search for South Africa’s ‘human face’ and Vuyani Vellem’s quest for an African spirituality ? Our proposition is that there is such a relationship. This discussion is framed overall by two other questions: What is the relevance of this ‘quest’ within the present South African context, what is its contrib…
The Need for “A Fighting God”
There is an upsurge of renewed interest in South Africa in Black Consciousness, Black theology and consequently in the work of Steven Bantu Biko who remains a central figure for a movement that now seems to inspire a new generation, especially pertaining to the raging debates on Africanity, decolonisation, and Africanisation. This author believes that this resurgence presents an historic moment that calls for a serious re-examination of Biko’s th…
Selfless Revolutionaries
When tomorrow is yesterday
In an early 1977 interview, Steve Biko offered not only insights into the events of June 16 the year before, but also a prophetic analysis of a post-apartheid situation if black people’s political liberation did not include economic liberation as an essential and indispensable reality. Taking those insights as point of departure, and engaging the intellectual work of Kwame Nkrumah, this article argues that Biko’s words were not only prophetic and…
Selfless Revolutionaries
“We are what we are”
This article argues that Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s submission to the apartheid government’s Eloff Commission of Inquiry in 1982 is his most important, most thorough theological achievement. It was foundational for the work of the South African Council of Churches of which he was General Secretary. As such, its contribution to ecumenical theology and the work of ecumenical organizations globally remains invaluable. It also still stands as a singul…
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