ORIGINAL RESEARCH

 

A missiological glance at South African Black theology

 

 

Kalemba Mwambazambi

Department of Development Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

Correspondence

 

 

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ABSTRACT

Black South African theologians created South African Black theology during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a conscious and theological dimension of the liberation struggle against apartheid. They drew inspiration from African-American theology, biblical hermeneutics and the raw material of their own experiences and suffering, whilst simultaneously creating a new theological paradigm and political orientation to liberate Black South Africans from apartheid and European domination. Inevitably, South African Black theology was a liberation theology aimed at helping to eradicate the existing socio-political order. This article gave a missiological overview of Black theology and examined and assessed the relevance of this theology to contemporary post-apartheid South Africa. The critical-theological research method was used.

Keywords: Apartheid; Black theology; Christian mission; liberation; South Africa

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Correspondence:
Kalemba Mwambazambi
PO Box 3037
Pretoria 0001
South Africa
Email: Profkalemba@yahoo.fr

Received: 07 Oct. 2009
Accepted: 10 Sept. 2010
Published: 11 Nov. 2010