Table Of ContentCHRISTIANITY AMIDST APARTHEID
Also by Martin Prozesky
RELIGION AND ULTIMATE WELL-BEING
Christianity Amidst
Apartheid:
Selected Perspectives on the Church
in South Africa
Edited by
Martin Prozesky
Ad Hominem Professor and Head of Department of Religious Studies,
University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg
Afterword by Desmond Tutu
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 978-0-333-49953-5 ISBN 978-1-349-20527-1 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-20527-1
© Martin Prozesky 1990
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Christianity Amidst Apartheid: Selected Perspectives on the Church in
South Africa! edited by Martin Prozesky; foreword by Desmond Tutu
p. em.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-312-03529-7
1. South Africa-Race relations 2. Race relations-Religious
aspects-Christianity. 3. Apartheid-South Africa. I. Prozesky,
Martin.
DT763.C542 1990
276.8--dc20 89-34299
CIP
Contents
List of Figures vii
Acknowledgements viii
Notes on the Contributors ix
Introduction
Martin Prozesky 1
PART I. Christianity and the Black People ofS outh Africa
1 African and Christian: From Opposition to Mutual
Accommodation
James Kiernan 9
2 Christian Missions in South Africa: Achievements,
Failures and the Future
Willem Saayman 28
3 Black Theology in South Africa: Achievements,
Problems and Prospects
Takatso Mofokeng 37
PARTII ChristiansandApartheid
4 The Theology of Separate Equality: A Critical
Outline of the D RC's Position on Apartheid
Johann Kinghorn 57
5 Christian Resistance to Apartheid: Periodisation,
Prognosis
James Cochrane 81
6 Christianity's Impact on Race Relations in South
Africa
G. C. Oosthuizen 101
7 Implications of Apartheid for Christianity in South
Africa
Martin Prozesky 122
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PART III Christianity and Socia! Issues
8 The Impact of Christianity on Socio-Economic
Developments in South Africa
Klaus Nurnberger 149
9 Christians and Education in South Africa
Calvin Cook 168
10 Christianity, Evangelisation and the Social Factor
in South Africa
Denis Hurley OM/ 180
PART IV Contemporary Challenges
11 When Violence Begets Violence: Is the Armed
Struggle Justified?
Charles Villa-Vicencio 193
12 Religious Pluralism and Christianity in South
Africa
Gerrie Lubbe 208
PART V Christianity and the Future in South Africa
13 The Church and the Struggle for a Democratic
South Africa
John De Gruchy 219
14 Afterword: A Christian Vision ofthe Future of
South Africa
Desmond Tutu 233
Index 241
List of Figures
1 Periodic typology of resistance 93
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Acknowledgements
As editor of the present collection of essays my appreciation to the
authors who have joined me in compiling it requires special mention
here in addition to the gratitude expressed towards them in my
Introduction.
For details about the first known Christian contacts with Southern
Africa I am indebted to Professor Eric Axelson, formerly of the
University of Cape Town, through his elegantly learned publications
and through personal correspondence. My own essay in this collection
on the implications of apartheid for Christianity in South Africa
originated as a conference paper in 1985 organised by my depart
mental colleague Dr Ronald Nicolson, to whom thanks are due for
kindly inviting me to present a paper at that event. For valuable critical
comments and other suggestions about the original paper I must also
thank Dr David Chidester, Mr Patrick Maxwell, Professor Stewart
Sutherland and the late Dr Alan Paton.
Next I must acknowledge with gratitude the help I received in the
typing of the text of this compilation from Mrs Maureen Yardley and
from my wife Elizabeth, who has been unfailingly supportive during
my various literary and academic pursuits; and lastly let me thank the
relevant staff members of Southern Publishers and especially The
Macmillan Press for their exemplary promptness, efficiency and
encouragement in bringing this book into being.
M.P.
Pietermaritzburg
October 1988
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Notes on the Contributors
James Cochrane is a Lecturer in Theological Studies in the
Department of Religious Studies, University of Natal,
Pietermaritzburg.
Calvin Cook is Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Faculty of
Divinity, Rhodes University.
John De Gruchy is Personal Professor of Christian Studies in the
Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town.
Denis Hurley OMI is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Durban.
James Kiernan is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology in the
Department of African Studies, University of Natal, Durban.
Johann Kinghorn is a senior lecturer in the Department of Biblical
Studies, University of Stellenbosch.
Gerrie Lubbe is a lecturer in the Department of Science of Religion,
University of South Africa, Pretoria.
Takatso Mofokeng is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Theology,
University of South Africa, Pretoria.
Klaus Nurnberger is Professor of Systematic Theology at the
University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
G. C. Oosthuizen is Director of the Research Unit, New Religious
Movements and Independent/Indigenous Churches (NERMIC),
co-sponsored by the Human Sciences Research Council and the
University of Zululand, based in Durban.
Martin Prozesky is Ad Hominem Professor and Head of the Depart
ment of Religious Studies, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
Willem Saayman is a Professor of Missiology in the Faculty of
Theology, University of South Africa, Pretoria.
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