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From Moral Authority to Insignificant Minority:

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From Moral Authority to Insignificant Minority:

[Article]

The Precarious State of the Dutch Reformed Church in a Post-Apartheid South Africa

P.F. (Flip) Theron

Leiden

Brill

This article focuses on the transformation of the 'dearly beloved church' of the Afrikaners from a formerly mighty social institution in the 'old' South Africa to just another minority group in the 'new.' It argues that the Reformed tradition needs a 'political theology' in which the church's message of the cross is not compromised in search of social glory and political power. This article focuses on the transformation of the 'dearly beloved church' of the Afrikaners from a formerly mighty social institution in the 'old' South Africa to just another minority group in the 'new.' It argues that the Reformed tradition needs a 'political theology' in which the church's message of the cross is not compromised in search of social glory and political power.

2008

228-239

Journal of Reformed Theology

2/3

1569-7312

AFRIKANERDOM

APARTHEID

CIVIL RELIGION

MORALITY

POLITICAL THEOLOGY

SECULAR AND SACRED

THEOCRACY AND DEMOCRACY

P.F. (Flip) Theron

10.1163/156973108X333722

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