The Church Struggle in South Africa
The Church Struggle in South Africa

Author: John W. de Gruchy

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2000-10-17

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1579105130

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John W. de Gruchy entangles the complex story of the South African church, reviewing its history of past divisions. present positions on social issues and reflecting on the church's significance for the future.

Priest and Partisan
Priest and Partisan

Author: Michael E. Worsnip

Publisher: Ocean Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9781875284962

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A biography of the life and work of Father Michael Lapsley who lost both hands and an eye as the target of a letter bomb from South Africa. Describes his struggles with his commitment to pacifism and his church in the face of apartheid in his adopted homeland, South Africa. Presents the events and experiences that converted him into a freedom fighter and after he became a victim, into a healer and a voice for reconciliation in the post-apartheid era. Includes a foreword by Nelson Mandela, a list of abbreviations and an index. The author is a prominent South African theologian.

In Good Faith
In Good Faith

Author: Renate Pratt

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0889206457

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In retrospect it is difficult to accept that Western democracies have implicitly supported, or at least tolerated, the legalized system of white supremacy in South Africa known as apartheid. Renate Pratt’s new book, In Good Faith, explains why the Christian churches were among the first to publicly protest, and why they provided such cogent and determined international support for the struggle against apartheid. The Taskforce on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility is a coalition of Christian churches that for nearly twenty years was one of Canada’s leading anti-apartheid advocates. As the first co-ordinator of this Taskforce, Renate Pratt was at the centre of the early anti-apartheid initiatives in Canada and consequently is able to supply a clear and accurate view. The book traces the history of exchanges between the Taskforce and successive ministers and senior civil servants of the Department of External Affairs. It details the reluctant and weak responses offered by the Canadian government and business community right up to the time of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. In Good Faith will be of particular interest to Canadian Christians concerned with ecumenical co-operation and with the social and political dimensions of their faith. Equally, it will appeal to those interested in the impact of public interest organizations on public policy or the relationship between politics and business interests.

Sowing in Tears
Sowing in Tears

Author: John Lamola

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2021-07-16

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1990931308

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A historicist interpretation of how the Christian religion, whose theology had notoriously been used to foster coloniality and explicitly nurture apartheid philosophy, had transformed itself into an intellectual force and an organisational bulwark of the struggle for freedom in South Africa. This is presented through documents and statements of the ecumenical movement which attest to the development of successive theological positions that were being arraigned against the apartheid regime. The reflection covers the period from the year 1960, which signaled the beginning of an identifiable Christian tradition of protest against political oppression and repression in South Africa, that is, from the Cottesloe Conference following the Sharpeville Massacre, to the 'Standing for the Truth Campaign' on the eve of FW De klerk's February 2 1990 Speech in Parliament. The gallant resistance of the people and the churches of South Africa is presented here as both a living record of the tumultuous past, and an inspiration for new local and global struggles.

Apartheid and the Church: Report
Apartheid and the Church: Report

Author: Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society. Church Commission

Publisher:

Published: 1972

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13:

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Report commenting on the implications of Apartheid legislation for the Protestant Church in South Africa R and on racial discrimination within the Church - includes recommendations to Church authorities for the social integration of Africans, and explains Christian doctrine with regard to basic human rights.