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In die Skriflig

On-line version ISSN 2305-0853
Print version ISSN 1018-6441

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ZUIDDAM, B.A.. Reason's dead end in David Faure: Why the Cape's earliest liberal minister embraced spiritualism. In Skriflig (Online) [online]. 2009, vol.43, n.2, pp.271-290. ISSN 2305-0853.

This article deals with nineteenth-century liberal thought in the Cape Colony. It argues that both orthodox rationalism and liberal reason failed to provide the liberal minister the Rev. D. Faure with a satisfactory source and standard for theological thinking. As a basis for this conclusion serves the correspondence between Faure, the first liberal minister who was born in the Cape, and the Rev. Peter Huet. The latter initially was an evangelical preacher and poet. Towards the end of their respective ministries, however, both Faure and Huet evidence high hopes regarding communications with the spirits of deceased. This article concludes that although Faure tried his best to base his theological thinking on human reason only, he arrived at a dead end and revelation was desperately needed. His theological framework collapsing, Faure looked to spiritualism for answers. The collapse of his theological thinking reflects unpromisingly on the present New Reformation (Nuwe Hervorming) movement in South Africa.

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