The Church Struggle in South Africa, John W. de Gruchy's study, twenty fifth anniversary edition with Steve de Gruchy, Fortress Press, 2005, originally Eerdmans, 1979, is the standard academic history of the churches' role in and against apartheid, updated through 2004 in this edition: the Dutch Reformed Church's apartheid theology and its daughter churches, the 1982 status confessionis and Belhar Confession, the South African Council of Churches under Tutu and Naude, the 1985 Kairos Document, and the 1997 Truth and Reconciliation Commission faith community hearings. Its strength is that this edition reaches the full span of the fact this source is cited for. Its limit is that it focuses on the churches specifically, not a general history of the anti apartheid movement as a whole.
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John W. de Gruchy's The Church Struggle in South Africa, twenty fifth anniversary edition, Fortress Press, 2005, the top tier reflecting the standard academic history of the churches' role in and against apartheid, updated through 2004. Its limit is that it focuses on the churches specifically, not a general history of the anti apartheid movement as a whole. NotesThe standard academic history of the churches' role in and against apartheid, updated to 2004 in the 25th anniversary edition: the Dutch Reformed Church's apartheid theology and its daughter churches, the 1982 status confessionis and Belhar Confession, the South African Council of Churches under Tutu and Naude, the 1985 Kairos Document, and the 1997 Truth and Reconciliation Commission faith-community hearings. Reaches the full span of the fact this source is cited for.
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AuthorJohn W. de Gruchy (25th anniversary edition with Steve de Gruchy)
PublisherFortress Press (25th anniversary edition; originally Eerdmans, 1979)
Publication Year2005
URLhttps://www.fortresspress.com/store/product/9780800637552/The-Church-Struggle-in-South-Africa
Source TypeScholarly work
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