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CHRISTIANITY AMIDST APARTHEID Also by Martin Prozesky RELIGION AND ULTIMATE WELL-BEING Christianity Amidst Apartheid: Selected Perspectives on the Church in South Africa Edited by Martin Prozesky Ad Hominem Professor and Head of Department of Religious Studies, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg Afterword by Desmond Tutu Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-0-333-49953-5 ISBN 978-1-349-20527-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-20527-1 © Martin Prozesky 1990 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1990 All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 First published in the United States of America in 1990 ISBN 978-0-312-03529-7 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Christianity Amidst Apartheid: Selected Perspectives on the Church in South Africa! edited by Martin Prozesky; foreword by Desmond Tutu p. em. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-312-03529-7 1. South Africa-Race relations 2. Race relations-Religious aspects-Christianity. 3. Apartheid-South Africa. I. Prozesky, Martin. DT763.C542 1990 276.8--dc20 89-34299 CIP Contents List of Figures vii Acknowledgements viii Notes on the Contributors ix Introduction Martin Prozesky 1 PART I. Christianity and the Black People ofS outh Africa 1 African and Christian: From Opposition to Mutual Accommodation James Kiernan 9 2 Christian Missions in South Africa: Achievements, Failures and the Future Willem Saayman 28 3 Black Theology in South Africa: Achievements, Problems and Prospects Takatso Mofokeng 37 PARTII ChristiansandApartheid 4 The Theology of Separate Equality: A Critical Outline of the D RC's Position on Apartheid Johann Kinghorn 57 5 Christian Resistance to Apartheid: Periodisation, Prognosis James Cochrane 81 6 Christianity's Impact on Race Relations in South Africa G. C. Oosthuizen 101 7 Implications of Apartheid for Christianity in South Africa Martin Prozesky 122 v VI Contents PART III Christianity and Socia! Issues 8 The Impact of Christianity on Socio-Economic Developments in South Africa Klaus Nurnberger 149 9 Christians and Education in South Africa Calvin Cook 168 10 Christianity, Evangelisation and the Social Factor in South Africa Denis Hurley OM/ 180 PART IV Contemporary Challenges 11 When Violence Begets Violence: Is the Armed Struggle Justified? Charles Villa-Vicencio 193 12 Religious Pluralism and Christianity in South Africa Gerrie Lubbe 208 PART V Christianity and the Future in South Africa 13 The Church and the Struggle for a Democratic South Africa John De Gruchy 219 14 Afterword: A Christian Vision ofthe Future of South Africa Desmond Tutu 233 Index 241 List of Figures 1 Periodic typology of resistance 93 vii Acknowledgements As editor of the present collection of essays my appreciation to the authors who have joined me in compiling it requires special mention here in addition to the gratitude expressed towards them in my Introduction. For details about the first known Christian contacts with Southern Africa I am indebted to Professor Eric Axelson, formerly of the University of Cape Town, through his elegantly learned publications and through personal correspondence. My own essay in this collection on the implications of apartheid for Christianity in South Africa originated as a conference paper in 1985 organised by my depart mental colleague Dr Ronald Nicolson, to whom thanks are due for kindly inviting me to present a paper at that event. For valuable critical comments and other suggestions about the original paper I must also thank Dr David Chidester, Mr Patrick Maxwell, Professor Stewart Sutherland and the late Dr Alan Paton. Next I must acknowledge with gratitude the help I received in the typing of the text of this compilation from Mrs Maureen Yardley and from my wife Elizabeth, who has been unfailingly supportive during my various literary and academic pursuits; and lastly let me thank the relevant staff members of Southern Publishers and especially The Macmillan Press for their exemplary promptness, efficiency and encouragement in bringing this book into being. M.P. Pietermaritzburg October 1988 viii Notes on the Contributors James Cochrane is a Lecturer in Theological Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. Calvin Cook is Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Faculty of Divinity, Rhodes University. John De Gruchy is Personal Professor of Christian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Cape Town. Denis Hurley OMI is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Durban. James Kiernan is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of African Studies, University of Natal, Durban. Johann Kinghorn is a senior lecturer in the Department of Biblical Studies, University of Stellenbosch. Gerrie Lubbe is a lecturer in the Department of Science of Religion, University of South Africa, Pretoria. Takatso Mofokeng is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Theology, University of South Africa, Pretoria. Klaus Nurnberger is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. G. C. Oosthuizen is Director of the Research Unit, New Religious Movements and Independent/Indigenous Churches (NERMIC), co-sponsored by the Human Sciences Research Council and the University of Zululand, based in Durban. Martin Prozesky is Ad Hominem Professor and Head of the Depart ment of Religious Studies, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. Willem Saayman is a Professor of Missiology in the Faculty of Theology, University of South Africa, Pretoria. IX
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