SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
vol.83 número1Reflecting on our past: Reconciling a divided nation through listening índice de autoresíndice de materiabúsqueda de artículos
Home Pagelista alfabética de revistas  

Servicios Personalizados

Articulo

Indicadores

Links relacionados

  • En proceso de indezaciónCitado por Google
  • En proceso de indezaciónSimilares en Google

Compartir


Koers

versión On-line ISSN 2304-8557
versión impresa ISSN 0023-270X

Resumen

VAN WYK, J.H.. An essay on what the Reformation could not prevent the identification of church and 'volk'. Three examples reconsidered. Koers (Online) [online]. 2018, vol.83, n.1, pp.1-13. ISSN 2304-8557.  http://dx.doi.org/10.19108/koers.83.1.2403.

In this year of REFO 500 the author investigates the question why the Reformation with its 'theology of sola Scripture and solus Christus' could not prevent the successive identification of church and 'volk' in history and why it could not prevent the fatal consequences this identification had for the gospel message of reconciliation, the exemplary existence of the church of Christ and the coming of the kingdom of God. Three examples serve as proof for this statement: the attitude of the Anglican Church in England during the second Anglo-Boer War (now called the South African War)(l899-l902); the Lutheran Church in Germany during the Second World War (1939-1945) and the Reformed Churches in South Africa during the years of apartheid (1948-1994). All three examples reveal an untenable identification of church and 'volk', although in varying degrees. How could that happen?

Palabras clave : Reformation; church and 'volk'; Anglican Schurch; England; imperialism; Lutheran Church; Germany; Nazism; Reformed churches; South Africa; nationalism [apartheid].

        · texto en Inglés     · Inglés ( pdf )

 

Creative Commons License Todo el contenido de esta revista, excepto dónde está identificado, está bajo una Licencia Creative Commons