'A Policy of Sacrifice': G.B.A. Gerdener's Missionally Founded Racial Theory and the Religionization of Apartheid
In 1935 the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) accepted its federal mission policy which had racial segregation enshrined in it as a core and divinely sanctioned principle. As the foremost missiologist within South African church circles during the middle half of the 20th Century, Gustav Bernhard Augustus...
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Year: 2023, Volume: 14, Issue: 1 |
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