Gerstner | The Thousand Generation Covenant: Dutch Reformed Covenant Theology and Group Identity in Colonial South Africa, 1652-1814 | Buch | 978-90-04-09361-4 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

Gerstner

The Thousand Generation Covenant: Dutch Reformed Covenant Theology and Group Identity in Colonial South Africa, 1652-1814

Buch, Englisch, Band 44, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

ISBN: 978-90-04-09361-4
Verlag: Brill


This study presents the religious factor in the development of a separatistic group identity among the forebears of the Afrikaners during the Dutch colonial period of South African history. Dutch Reformed covenant theology and baptism practice rooted in the thousand generation covenant theory helped to shape this self-understanding.

It traces the basic developments of covenant theology in the Netherlands during the period and demonstrates how these concepts were conveyed to colonial South Africa. The dominant strain of covenantal thought treated the entire community as redeemed and called to be separate. It was presented through a variety of means through which virtually every colonist was exposed.

This study offers a balanced historical approach to the role of theological concepts in the colonial roots of Afrikaner group identity. It answers traditional scholarship in the field which either directly identify the concepts behind the development of apartheid with Calvinist theology or, more recently, deny that the Reformed faith had any role in the development of apartheid ideology until the twentieth century.
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Jonathan Neil Gerstner is Executive Secretary of the Reformed Church in Canada Cambridge, Ontario. Publication: Edwardsian Preparation for Salvation.


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