Mission driven by fear and despair : the case of Kranspoort - the first Dutch Reformed Church mission station outside the Cape Colony

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dc.contributor.author Kgatla, Selaelo Thias
dc.date.accessioned 2016-02-25T12:34:03Z
dc.date.available 2016-02-25T12:34:03Z
dc.date.issued 2015
dc.description.abstract This article surveys the Dutch Reformed Church Mission Policy and the close collaboration of mission and politics. The 1948 Nationalist Party election victory brought about a host of laws designed to bring total control and dominance over black people’s lives and their destiny. The Dutch Reformed Church was drawn into the government agenda to the extent that they lost their prophetic voice. The use of government instruments such as the forced removal of ‘excess’ and unwanted people from white farms was employed by the church. Black Christians that held a different political view were declared “no longer Christians” and forcefully removed from the mission stations. The pious outlook of mission did not help the church to realise that its social and political interests were against the love of Christ and thus the love of the neighbour. en_ZA
dc.description.librarian am2015 en_ZA
dc.description.uri http://ojs.reformedjournals.co.za/index.php/stj en_ZA
dc.identifier.citation Kgatla, ST 2015, 'Mission driven by fear and despair : the case of Kranspoort - the first Dutch Reformed Church mission station outside the Cape Colony', Stellenbosch Theological Journal, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 471-490. en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn 2413-9459 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2413-9467 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.17570/stj.2015.v1n2.a22
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/51559
dc.language.iso en en_ZA
dc.publisher Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology en_ZA
dc.rights 2015 © Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust en_ZA
dc.subject Squatters en_ZA
dc.subject Mission policy en_ZA
dc.subject Apartheid en_ZA
dc.subject Separateness en_ZA
dc.subject Military force en_ZA
dc.subject Resistance en_ZA
dc.subject Forced removals en_ZA
dc.subject Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) en_ZA
dc.title Mission driven by fear and despair : the case of Kranspoort - the first Dutch Reformed Church mission station outside the Cape Colony en_ZA
dc.type Article en_ZA


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