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The Dutch Reformed Church and Apartheid
Journal of Contemporary History, 1967Among the many sad ironies of South African life perhaps none is more poignant than the role of the dominant church of the Afrikaner people the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk.1 For the Afrikaners remain one of the few western peoples of the modern era whose values and customs are established by, and expressed through, their church, and over the years ...
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John Robinson and the Dutch Reformed Church
Studies in Church History, 1966Whilst the English Separatists and Non-Separating Independents, the forerunners of the congregationalists as delineated by Dexter, Arber, Powicke, Burrage, and more lately by Miller and Stearns, were conducting their internecine warfare in the Netherlands in the early seventeenth century, the Dutch Reformed Church was also going through difficult times.
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Slavery and Social Power in Dutch Reformed Churches
2021This chapter turns to the region's Dutch Reformed churches. It reviews the ways in which social power manifested within the church space, focusing in particular on the conditions of free and enslaved Black New Yorkers in these churches. The chapter argues that congregations' practices of selective admission to these spaces, exclusion from these ...
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Missionaries, Anthropologists, and the Policies of the Dutch Reformed Church
The Journal of Modern African Studies, 1984This article discusses the relationship of missionaries and anthropologists in South Africa. Due to such important factors as ethnicity, linguistic group membership, denominationalism, and party political affiliation, it is essential to present historical perspectives on these and related matters.
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From Dutch Mission Church to Reformed Church in Zambia
The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 1985John P. Ragsdale +1 more
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Influence of the Church of Scotland on the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa
20131. Account of the Cape of Good Hope 1652 to the beginning of the 19th Century. 2. Account of the Dutch Reformed Church 1652 to the beginning of the 19th Century. The aim of this thesis is to show the influence of the Church of Scotland on the DRC, in pastoral work, missionary enterprise, educational undertrakings, and Church polity; and to evaluate its
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