BrianBowman
Posting Priviledges Revoked
Folks,
The following stuff below the ------'s is from another board where the Dispensational Sect (Greater Grace World Outreach - GGWO) we left over a year ago is constantly discussed. A former member who is a "neo-Dispensationalist" and DTS grad is hammering on another former member (who happens to be a strong Reformed guy for 15 years now) about the Dutch Reformed Church supporting apartheid.
I'm basically ignorant of these matters, but would simply like some critical comments from knowledgeable PB'ers about the Dutch Reformed Church relative to what is written below. The "Reformed Guy" I mentioned in the previous paragraph was instrumental in "blowing open" the antinomian immorality that plugues GGWO. If there is any possibilty that the this "interjection" of the Dutch Reformed Church's actions (true or false) is simply a smoke screen to bash the Reformed Faith, I would like to expose it for what it is, because many (if not most) of the people who have GGWO are still very confused about true historical Ecclesiology.
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On the role of the Dutch Reformed Church in the development of apartheid:
http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ricsa/jtsa/j70/j70_king.htm
One significant quote:
From the press and from political circles and eventually also from within the DRC, the proposals, as well as the people who proposed them, were vilified. The position was very clear: the concept of apartheid had become a doctrine. It was considered nothing less than a Godgiven order for human existence about which no question, least of all ethical, could be raised. It was an article of faith and only those who were either completely atheist or agnostic could dispute the validity and the legitimacy of apartheid.
On the University of Stellenbosch as the intellectual home of apartheid:
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/sp961025.html
Significant quotes:
From the ranks of this University's alumni came each of the Prime Ministers who governed white-dominated South Africa in the era between the two Bothas. This University was the leading intellectual home of Afrikaner Nationalism. It was from this University that Apartheid received a great deal of its theoretical justification.
This institution has left its unmistakable imprint on our country's troubled history - a history whose scars still show.
But also:
Last week saw an event of the greatest significance that originated right here in Stellenbosch. This was when the Stellenbosch Presbytery of the Dutch Reformed Church confessed before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission a collective share in the systematic injustice of our past. Neither the message this conveyed, nor the impact this will make on the process of reconciliation, is to be underestimated.
Also:
What the Stellenbosch Presbytery did reminds us also of a narrow but significant current in the history of the Afrikaners and of this University which is often quite lost sight of and, indeed, passed over in silence. After all, is it not from this same University of Stellenbosch that there arose courageous voices of warning against and opposition to the doctrine of Apartheid? Voices such as those of a B. B. Keet, a Ben Marais, a Johan Degenaar, an Andrι Hugo, an Andrι du Toit, and others as well? In the affirmation of that current within your history lies the greatest hope, not only for yourselves, but for the whole of South Africa.
[Edited on 9-30-2005 by BrianBowman]
The following stuff below the ------'s is from another board where the Dispensational Sect (Greater Grace World Outreach - GGWO) we left over a year ago is constantly discussed. A former member who is a "neo-Dispensationalist" and DTS grad is hammering on another former member (who happens to be a strong Reformed guy for 15 years now) about the Dutch Reformed Church supporting apartheid.
I'm basically ignorant of these matters, but would simply like some critical comments from knowledgeable PB'ers about the Dutch Reformed Church relative to what is written below. The "Reformed Guy" I mentioned in the previous paragraph was instrumental in "blowing open" the antinomian immorality that plugues GGWO. If there is any possibilty that the this "interjection" of the Dutch Reformed Church's actions (true or false) is simply a smoke screen to bash the Reformed Faith, I would like to expose it for what it is, because many (if not most) of the people who have GGWO are still very confused about true historical Ecclesiology.
----------------------------
On the role of the Dutch Reformed Church in the development of apartheid:
http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ricsa/jtsa/j70/j70_king.htm
One significant quote:
From the press and from political circles and eventually also from within the DRC, the proposals, as well as the people who proposed them, were vilified. The position was very clear: the concept of apartheid had become a doctrine. It was considered nothing less than a Godgiven order for human existence about which no question, least of all ethical, could be raised. It was an article of faith and only those who were either completely atheist or agnostic could dispute the validity and the legitimacy of apartheid.
On the University of Stellenbosch as the intellectual home of apartheid:
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/mandela/sp961025.html
Significant quotes:
From the ranks of this University's alumni came each of the Prime Ministers who governed white-dominated South Africa in the era between the two Bothas. This University was the leading intellectual home of Afrikaner Nationalism. It was from this University that Apartheid received a great deal of its theoretical justification.
This institution has left its unmistakable imprint on our country's troubled history - a history whose scars still show.
But also:
Last week saw an event of the greatest significance that originated right here in Stellenbosch. This was when the Stellenbosch Presbytery of the Dutch Reformed Church confessed before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission a collective share in the systematic injustice of our past. Neither the message this conveyed, nor the impact this will make on the process of reconciliation, is to be underestimated.
Also:
What the Stellenbosch Presbytery did reminds us also of a narrow but significant current in the history of the Afrikaners and of this University which is often quite lost sight of and, indeed, passed over in silence. After all, is it not from this same University of Stellenbosch that there arose courageous voices of warning against and opposition to the doctrine of Apartheid? Voices such as those of a B. B. Keet, a Ben Marais, a Johan Degenaar, an Andrι Hugo, an Andrι du Toit, and others as well? In the affirmation of that current within your history lies the greatest hope, not only for yourselves, but for the whole of South Africa.
[Edited on 9-30-2005 by BrianBowman]
