Before the pool of Narcissus : the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk's journey to confessional orthodoxy and isolation through the lense [sic] of doctrine

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dc.contributor.advisorDe Gruchy, John Wen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorHolkeboer, Mieke Raeen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-14T08:34:02Z
dc.date.available2015-09-14T08:34:02Z
dc.date.issued1995en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves 116-122.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis thesis considers South Africa's Nederduitse Gerefonneerde Kerk (NGK) in its journey toward confessional orthodoxy and isolation which began already in the late nineteenth century and continued, through the apartheid era, well into the twentieth. The dates chosen roughly to frame this inquiry (1907 to 1962), however, drive equally toward a particular ecclesial unity. For in 1907, the NGK synods established, out of a desire to cooperate more closely, the Federal Council of Churches (FCC). In 1962 this drive toward ecclesial unity then culminated in the convening of the General Synod, where delegates from all the church's "mother" synods gathered in a single synod for the first time in one hundred years. So united, however, the NGK was, in its ecumenical affiliations, at an all-time low. What were the circumstances within which this unity-in-isolation occurred? In light of the NGK's role in sanctioning and advancing apartheid, this thesis explores Afrikaans church and missionary periodicals and church documents from these years with a view to evaluating what went wrong. More specifically, however, the inquiry is driven by an interest in the complex role of doctrine in hermeneutics and the life of the church. Indeed, this thesis views doctrine as the key to understanding the NGK's journey to isolation and apartheid and asks, how did it function - in the church's ecumenical decisions, internal church matters and even its political involvement during this period? In The Nature of Doctrine1 George Lindbeck offers a metaphor within which to conceive doctrine's role for a healthy church: doctrine is "grammar" for the primary language of Scripture. This thesis employs (with several critical divergences) Lindbeck's theory of doctrine in evaluating healthy and unhealthy dynamics within the NGK. The inquiry is broken into four chapters:1) Lindbeck and the NGK; 2) Ecumenicity and the NGK; 3) Confessional Foundations; and 4) Race Relations and the NGK.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationHolkeboer, M. R. (1995). <i>Before the pool of Narcissus : the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk's journey to confessional orthodoxy and isolation through the lense [sic] of doctrine</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13863en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationHolkeboer, Mieke Rae. <i>"Before the pool of Narcissus : the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk's journey to confessional orthodoxy and isolation through the lense [sic] of doctrine."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13863en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHolkeboer, M. 1995. Before the pool of Narcissus : the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk's journey to confessional orthodoxy and isolation through the lense [sic] of doctrine. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Holkeboer, Mieke Rae AB - This thesis considers South Africa's Nederduitse Gerefonneerde Kerk (NGK) in its journey toward confessional orthodoxy and isolation which began already in the late nineteenth century and continued, through the apartheid era, well into the twentieth. The dates chosen roughly to frame this inquiry (1907 to 1962), however, drive equally toward a particular ecclesial unity. For in 1907, the NGK synods established, out of a desire to cooperate more closely, the Federal Council of Churches (FCC). In 1962 this drive toward ecclesial unity then culminated in the convening of the General Synod, where delegates from all the church's "mother" synods gathered in a single synod for the first time in one hundred years. So united, however, the NGK was, in its ecumenical affiliations, at an all-time low. What were the circumstances within which this unity-in-isolation occurred? In light of the NGK's role in sanctioning and advancing apartheid, this thesis explores Afrikaans church and missionary periodicals and church documents from these years with a view to evaluating what went wrong. More specifically, however, the inquiry is driven by an interest in the complex role of doctrine in hermeneutics and the life of the church. Indeed, this thesis views doctrine as the key to understanding the NGK's journey to isolation and apartheid and asks, how did it function - in the church's ecumenical decisions, internal church matters and even its political involvement during this period? In The Nature of Doctrine1 George Lindbeck offers a metaphor within which to conceive doctrine's role for a healthy church: doctrine is "grammar" for the primary language of Scripture. This thesis employs (with several critical divergences) Lindbeck's theory of doctrine in evaluating healthy and unhealthy dynamics within the NGK. The inquiry is broken into four chapters:1) Lindbeck and the NGK; 2) Ecumenicity and the NGK; 3) Confessional Foundations; and 4) Race Relations and the NGK. DA - 1995 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1995 T1 - Before the pool of Narcissus : the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk's journey to confessional orthodoxy and isolation through the lense [sic] of doctrine TI - Before the pool of Narcissus : the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk's journey to confessional orthodoxy and isolation through the lense [sic] of doctrine UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13863 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/13863
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationHolkeboer MR. Before the pool of Narcissus : the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk's journey to confessional orthodoxy and isolation through the lense [sic] of doctrine. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of Religious Studies, 1995 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13863en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Religious Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherReligious Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleBefore the pool of Narcissus : the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk's journey to confessional orthodoxy and isolation through the lense [sic] of doctrineen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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