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Price: $36.10
Publisher: Christian Council of South Africa, Strand, Cape Province: 1949
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: bvgh
Condition: Good
107 pages (complete). An assured copy. A few years before the Dutch Reformed Churches persuaded themselves of a Christian Ideology to support Apartheid at their conference in Pretoria, the South African Churches met, just after the imposition of apartheid, to discuss a Christian reaction and role. Albert Luthuli's historic address to the conference is included. As an insight into the early intellectual and religious resistance to apartheid, this booklet is invaluable. This copy includes many newspaper clippings, dated from the early 1950s, from newspapers such as: "The Rand Daily Mail... View more info
Price: $57.00
Publisher: Voortrekkerpers, Beperk, Johannesburg (printers): 1954
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: bvfw
Condition: Very Good
185 pages (complete). A neat copy. By 1953 the main Afrikaner churches of the Dutch Reformed Churches were intent on providing theological and Christian support for the policy of apartheid. The conference was called for November 1953. Here, despite the inclusion of liberal, equality-progressive speakers from other churches, the Conference set a line that the Dutch Reformed churches did not cross for several decades. As is noted in the 'Routledge Religions of South Africa' this conference ensured that "the Dutch Reformed Church had not only produced an apartheid theology, but had in ef... View more info
