Duncan, Graham A.2015-11-252015-11-252015/09/012015Cannon, JG 2015, Afrikaner identity and responses to Mormon missions in the Cape Colony 1852-1865, MA Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50849>S2015http://hdl.handle.net/2263/50849Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2015.This dissertation explores the utility of employing Afrikaner concepts of the biblical covenant between God and His people as a paradigm for understanding Afrikaner history in the Cape Colony, especially in relation to the Afrikaners‘ reaction to Mormon proselytising in the mid-nineteenth century. Mormon efforts in the Cape during this period were concentrated on people with European ancestry and were disproportionately more successful among English speakers than the Colony‘s Dutch/Afrikaners. Beginning with a discussion of competing theories of Afrikaner history in chapter 1, the study moves into a review of Afrikaner history from pre-Reformation Europe until the time under consideration in chapter 2. Special attention is given to the origins of covenant theology and its applications in Reformed Zurich and Geneva and also in the South African context. Chapters 3 and 4 explore the covenant milieu of the 1850s and 1860s, when Mormon missionaries were active in the Cape Colony, and the Afrikaner response to Mormon proselytising. Afrikaner reactions to Mormon proselytising are found to be in harmony with a covenant paradigm on the part of the Afrikaners.en© 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.UCTDAfrikanerBakerBullingerCalvinCovenantDutch Reformed ChurchMissiologyMormonRaathZwingliTheology theses SDG-16SDG-16: Peace, justice and strong institutionsDissertation26403448