AN ENCOUNTER BETWEEN BLACK THEOLOGY AND REFORMED THEOLOGY: THE INVOLVEMENT OF GOVENDER, MAZAMISA, MOFOKENG AND NTOANE

Nico Botha

doi:10.25159/2412-4265/347

Authors

Nico Botha Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology University of South Africa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/347

Keywords:

Black theology, Reformed theology, Takatso Mofokeng, Kekuha Ntoane, Llewellyn Mazamisa, S.P. Govender

Abstract

During the nineteen eighties numerous meaningful booklets were published by Christian groups on social analysis and against an apartheid society. Less known, but extremely powerful, four black Dutch Reformed theologians wrote similar sophisticated doctorate theses. This article delineates the gist of these messages to honour Takatso Mofokeng. The urgent question is also whether these alarming analyses and bone-cutting witnesses would be relevant for the contemporary situation regarding the horrific violence, un-arrested poverty, unemployment, rampant â€˜officialâ€™ theft and crime. The outcome is that this type of hermeneutics keeps the dream of freedom alive and rekindles hope towards renewal.

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