Abstract
The free church: Some comments on the origins and contents of this idea.In 1859 fifteen members of the then established Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in the ZAR notified the Synod of that church that they were relinquishing their membership of the said church to form their own free church. Thus the first Afrikaans free church was formed. In this study the history of the idea of the free church is traced to independentistic tendencies in English puritanism which found its way to the Dutch Nadere Reformatie. From there the idea was carried forward by the Moravians and implanted in the European Réveil. Within the climate, created by the Réveil, the 1834 schism took place in the Netherlands. From this Dutch free church the idea was brought to the ZAR. The contents of the idea are briefly examined and contrasted with the idea of the established church based on the covenant.
Highlights
In 1859 fifteen members of the established Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk in the ZAR notified the Synod of that church that they were relinquishing their membership of the said church to form their own free church
In this study the history of the idea of the free church is traced to independentistic tendencies in English puritanism which found its way to the Dutch Nadere Reformatie
Within the climate, created by the Réveil, the 1834 schism took place in the Netherlands. From this Dutch free church the idea was brought to the ZAR
Summary
In Maart 1987 word prof CH Rautenbach vyf en tagtig jaar. Dit is 'n lang lewenstyd wat hy gevul het met 'n reeks blywende bydraes op verskil lende lewensterreine, maar dan veral op die terrein van die onderwys, die universiteit en die kerk. Die kerk het so 'w êreldlik' geword dat dit nie meer vir hervorming vatbaar is nie en buitendien word die ware gelowiges daar verhinder om werklik hulle geloof uit te lewe. Die Calvinistiese siening wat dit moontlik gemaak het, word deur Haitjema (1964: 81) soos volg beskrywe na aanleiding van NGB 36: Voor hen was het geloofswaarheid, dat er maar een publiek erkende Kerk kon zijn in een staat, die door een gereformeerde overheid wordt geregeerd. Maar daarmee èn met die siening dat kerk en staat alleen antiteties teenoor mekaar kan staan, leef die afskeiding eerder uit dié denke wat sy wortels in die Engelse separatisme het as in die 16de-eeuse Calvi n ism e. Dit was nie vreemd dat hy hier ook die gedagte van 'n vrye kerk ingedra het nie
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