Abstract:
"What authority do you have to say these things?" Remarks on church
documents about public issues:
For a number of reasons it has become important for South African
churches to reconsider the ways in which they were accustomed to speak
about public issues. In the first part of the article some of these reasons are
pointed out. In the second part an important study of the German
Protestant Church, the EKD, addressing these issues, is analysed. In the
third part an assessment is made of the contribution the German study
makes to the debate on church declarations on public issues in the South
African context.
