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William Nicol - practical believer in service of the Church This article focuses on ~Villiam Nicol as practical believer in his own time and comext. The aim is to indicate his permanent contributions to the Dutch Refonned Church of the last decades of the twentieth cenrury. He was tml)' a man who lived according to the love-commandment. He endeavoured to make Jesus Lord ill all walks of life. He was no great theologian, but a man of action. He represented the body of Christ, the Church, amongst his people. He sen'ed and led his people in a time of distress. He helped his people to regain their pride and to realise the importance of faith.
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This article focuses on ~Villiam Nicol as practical believer in his own time and comext
Dr \Villiam Nicol het jare lank 'n baie promi~ente rol in die Nederduits Hervormde of Gereformeerde Kerk van Suid-Afrika gespeel
Buiten sy leiersrol in die Sinode en aktiewe betrokkenheid by die Raad van die Ned Geref Kerke, het hy jare leiding op ringsvlak en in sy twee gemeentes Johannesburg-Oos en Pretoria-Oos geneem
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Nicol se ampstermyn as predikant (1913-1948) het saam met die stryd van die Afrikancr geval. Na die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog (1902) tot met die oorwinning van die Nasionale Party by die stembus (1948) moes die Afrikaner vir homself 'n regmatige plek, tussen alles wat Engels was, in Suid-Afrika oop stry. Ekonomies het die Afrikaner geworstel om kop bo water te hou en moes alles in die stryd gewerp word om 'n gesondc ekonomie, waaruit hy ook voordeel kon put, daar te stel. Apartheid as 'n "religiously justifiable ideology"[4] word na 1943 gepropageer In die jaar her die Raad van Ned Geref Kerke besluit dat daar Bybelse grande vir apartheid is. Die invloed van Duitse Nasionale Sosialisme met sy beklemtoning van rassuiwerheid op die teologie moet ook nie onderskat word nie[6], sodat in Suid-Afrika 'n "exclusively Afrikaner ideology influenced by Dutch Calvinist and German ideas to explain and justify Apartheid"[7] ontstaan het
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