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The privatization of the Christian faith amongst South African Baptists : with particular reference to its nature, extent, causes and consequences
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/17356 The privatization of the Christian faith amongst South African Baptists : with particular reference to its nature, extent, causes and consequences Kretzschmar, Louise Villa-Vicencio, Charles Religious Studies Baptists - South Africa Bibliography: pages 309-347. In this thesis, privatization means the restriction of the Christian Gospel to the private, spiritual concerns of the individual. A privatised Gospel is a dualistic, individualistic, spiritualised, and a-contextual distortion of the Christian faith. It either deliberately avoids the public sphere or responds to it in an uncritical and ineffective manner, thus, it is vulnerable to manipulation by group interests. The term the "South African Baptists" includes the 19th century pioneers who formed the Baptist Union (BU) in 1877 and those Baptists who have since been either full members of the BU or Associations of it. It also includes those groups who have since broken away from the BU such as the Transkei Baptist Union and the Baptist Convention of Southern Africa. For reasons of space, this thesis concentrates on the white and African components of the South African Baptists. Chapter one provides an explanation of what is meant by privatization and who the South African Baptists are. Chapter two outlines and defends the sociological, historical and theological methodologies employed in the thesis. Chapter three elucidates the Reformation roots of the Baptist tradition and, in particular, the importance of the influence of the Anabaptist tradition. Chapter four shows that only certain of the more privatised English Baptist traditions have been stressed by South African Baptist writers, whilst the important elements of social involvement and radicalism have been ignored or neglected. The fifth chapter of the thesis argues that the 19th century South African Baptists perpetuated a Eurocentric and privatised form of the Christian faith and conformed to colonialism. Chapter six deals with the period between 1892-1977 and shows that despite their verbal censure of the government, the BU propagated segregation and white domination within its own structures. Chapter seven, reveals that whilst many within the BU have exhibited reactionary or reformist approaches, the Fellowship of Concerned Baptists and the Baptist Convention, in particular, have resisted the privatised theological praxis that has dominated the BU for so long. Chapter eight, finally, proposes that the Baptists learn from their past and develop a more holistic theological praxis. 2016-02-29T12:04:52Z 2016-02-29T12:04:52Z 1992 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17356 eng application/pdf Department of Religious Studies Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
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| title_full | The privatization of the Christian faith amongst South African Baptists : with particular reference to its nature, extent, causes and consequences |
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| title_short | The privatization of the Christian faith amongst South African Baptists : with particular reference to its nature, extent, causes and consequences |
| title_sort | privatization of the christian faith amongst south african baptists with particular reference to its nature extent causes and consequences |
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