Apartheid resistance and biblical interpretation: from Christian confession to materialist analysis

Title: Apartheid resistance and biblical interpretation: from Christian confession to materialist analysis
Creator: McKay, Niall
Relation: Politics and Religion Vol. 8, Issue 2, p. 358-378
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755048315000280
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2015
Description: The rhetorical resistance to Apartheid in South Africa appealed to many sources of authority. In Christian communities, the New Testament was brought into creative conversation with traditional "confessional" texts, modern scholarship, and Marxist class analysis in order to develop contextually-located theologies and practices of resistance. This article highlights the important insights of Allan Boesak, Albert Nolan, and Itumeleng Mosala, which served the Apartheid struggle. After noting key differences in the methods and conclusions of these scholars, I suggest that another look at their insights may well be critical in developing Christian responses to the deep structural injustices of the post-Apartheid period.
Subject: Apartheid; Biblical interpretation; Christianity; New Testament; theology
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1340326
Identifier: uon:28447
Identifier: ISSN:1755-0483
Language: eng
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