Racial Integration in the Church of Apartheid: A Unity Only God Wants (Studies in Reformed Theology; Volume 36) by Marthe Hesselmans - 2019

BRILL, 2019. Paperback. New Book. Paperback. By the late 1990s, says Hesselmans, Reformed Churches in South Africa had concluded that they had misinterpreted the will of God during the period of Apartheid, and began actively to integrate the churches they so fiercely kept segregated for decades. She describes the process in terms of when religion unites or divides, the South African context: a torn (hi)story, once we were one: church (dis)unity from 1948 until today, talking unity and living apart, jointing in prayer but not in the pews, and change or perish. (2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR)