Browsing Research Institute for Theology and Religion by Subject "World Council of Churches"

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The Dutch Reformed Church, Beyers Naude and the ghost of Cottesloe

Vosloo, Robert (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2011)

This article revisits the important and controversial Cottesloe Church Consultation that was held from 7 to 14 December 1960 in South Africa under the auspices of the World Council of Churches. It focuses mainly on events ...
Listening to the marginalised voices: a postmodern reading of texts on the World Mission Conferences of the International Missionary Council (IMC) and the World Council of Churches (WCC)

Botha, Nico (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2007)

Most readings of the mission conferences under discussion in the study show the tendency to interpret the conferences in terms of an “imperial hermeneutic”. In the article the postmodern interpretive strategy of ...
Voices from the Third World on epistemological shifts in the World Council of Churches: the case of the World Mission Conference of Mexico City and Bangkok

Botha, Nico Adam (Church History Society of Southern Africa, 2006)

The pre-1960 mission conferences arranged under the auspices of the International Missionary Council (IMC) have undoubtedly contributed greatly to the worldwide body of missiological knowledge. Very creative and innovative ...

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