Christian Mission in South Africa: Political and Ecumenical

Willem Saayman

doi:10.25159/217

Christian Mission in South Africa: Political and Ecumenical

Authors

Willem Saayman

University of South Africa

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25159/217

Keywords:

Missionary, Christianity, Dutch Reformed Church, African missionary churches

Synopsis

Pages: 138pp

ISBN: 0 86981 697 7

This book undertakes a redefinition of mission for our time and our situation in South Africa. The author does this by reviewing the missionary contribution of some black and white pioneers, as well as the missiological impact of important documents such as the Kairos Document. It opens attractive and challenging new avenues towards a vibrant new way of understanding mission. In the process the book evokes new enthusiasm for mission as a matter of life and death for the Christian church in South Africa.

CONTENTS

Foreword vii

Introduction ix

1 Mission, politics and the ecumene 1

2 Mission and colonialism in South Africa 22

3 Three White pioneers 36

4 Three Black pioneers 53

5 An ecumenical perspective 69

6 Some future perspectives 96

List of works consulted 123

Author Biography

Willem Saayman, University of South Africa

Willem Saayman was professor of Missiology and Head of the Department of Missiology at the University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa. He was a member of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church and has worked as a missionary in Zambia, Namibia and South Africa.

Red lettering of main title in top left-hand corner on high-contrast black-and-white photocollage of a church building montaged against a South African coastline shape, filled with photographic landscape imagery, including a tall palm tree, right. Author's name is in red lettering at bottom right of cover.

Published

January 1, 1991

Series

Heritage Collection