Confessing Responsibility for the Evils of Apartheid
The Dutch Reformed Church in the 1980s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11421085 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Dunbar Moodie (Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 627-650 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South African Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0258-2473 • E-ISSN: 1726-1686 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02582473.2020.1839542 |
| OpenAlex | W3107142835 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The Dutch Reformed Church (NGK) in South Africa during and before the apartheid years was long seen as an obstacle to social change. Occasional critical Afrikaner voices in the 1960s and early 1970s were firmly silenced by church authorities. After 1976, scattered clerical dissent was more clearly asserted, but at the national synod of 1982 it was abjured and critics were removed from positions of authority. At the 1986 synod, however, in a complete turnaround, church policy was radically reformed and former dissenters were returned to positions of clerical authority. As a result, in 1990, Professor Jonker of the theological faculty at Stellenbosch University was able publicly to confess his deep regret about his and his church’s responsibility for the manifest evils of apartheid. This paper provides a social and intellectual history of how such transformation was brought about, its personal costs and its ultimate limitations
Political science · Sociology · Christian Theology and Mission · Gender Studies · History · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · Philosophy · Religious studies · South African History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |