De Villiers, D.E. (Dawid Etienne)2013-01-182013-01-181995-09-20De Villiers, DE & Smit, DJ 1995.'"Met watter gesag se U hierdie dinge?" Opmerkings oor kerklike dokumente oor die openbare lewe', Skrif en Kerk, vol. 16, no.1, pp 39-56.0257-8891 (print)2074-7705 (online)http://hdl.handle.net/2263/20836Continued 2001 as 'Verbum et Ecclesia'Spine cut of Journal binding and pages scanned on flatbed EPSON Expression 10000 XL; 400dpi; text/lineart - black and white - stored to Tiff Derivation: Abbyy Fine Reader v.9 work with PNG-format (black and white); Photoshop CS3; Adobe Acrobat v.9 Web display format PDF"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.18 pagesPDFAfrikaansFaculty of Theology, University of PretoriaChurch and social problemsChurch and stateArticle