‘Render to Caesar’

This article examines the relationship between missions and the government during the late colonial and early independence era in Sudan. I approach the matter of religious liberty by looking at missionaries’ references to Scripture and their understandings of the roles of Church and State during a p...

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Published in:Social sciences and missions
Main Author: Tounsel, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Social sciences and missions
Further subjects:B Missions Christianisme Soudan Soudan du Sud
B Missions Christianity Sudan South Sudan
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Summary:This article examines the relationship between missions and the government during the late colonial and early independence era in Sudan. I approach the matter of religious liberty by looking at missionaries’ references to Scripture and their understandings of the roles of Church and State during a period of political change. Acknowledgments that Christians are called to ‘render to Caesar’ were coupled by defiance to the government’s aim to inculcate Islam in the South. Mission articulations of religious thought allow for a useful comparison to the liberationist religious rhetoric that Southern Sudanese Christians fashioned during the First Civil War. Missionaries were co-architects of political theology during an era of sociopolitical change.
Cet article examine la relation entre les missions et le gouvernement pendant la fin de l’ époque coloniale et début de l’ indépendance au Soudan. J’ approche la question de la liberté religieuse en regardant les références des missionnaires aux Écritures et leur compréhension des rôles de l’ Eglise et de l’ Etat pendant une période de changement politique. Les remerciements que les chrétiens sont appelés à «rendre à César» ont été couplés par le défi au but du gouvernement d’ inculquer l’ Islam dans le Sud. Les articulations de la mission de la pensée religieuse permettent une comparaison utile avec la rhétorique religieuse libérationniste que les chrétiens soudanais du Sud ont façonné pendant la Première Guerre Civile. Les missionnaires étaient des co-architectes de la théologie politique lors d’ une ère de changement sociopolitique.
ISSN:1874-8945
Contains:In: Social sciences and missions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18748945-03103005