Ministerial formation policies of the Northern Theological Seminary of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa

This article investigates the theoretical and practical effectiveness of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa’s (URCSA) ministerial formation of the Northern Synod. The URCSA is part of the Reformed Movement (Calvinism) that was established by the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) of South Africa that mainly came from the Netherlands to establish itself in South Africa and later established ethnic churches called daughter churches into existence in terms of a racially designed formula. After many years of the Dutch Reformed Church missionary dominance, the URCSA constituted its first synod in 1994 after the demise of apartheid. It was only after this synod that the URCSA through its ministerial formation tried to shake off the legacy of colonial paternalism and repositioned itself to serve its members; however, it fell victim to new ideological trappings. This article is based on a study that traces some basic Reformed practices and how the URCSA Theological Seminary of the Northern Synod dealt or failed to deal with them in its quest for the ideal theological ministerial formation

Calvinism · Colonialism · Demise · Ethnology · Fell · Geography · Ideology · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Synod · Theological seminary · Theology · Christian Theology and Mission · History · Law · Legal Issues in South Africa · Philosophy · South African History and Culture

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