Dutch-Afrikaans women in South Africa have inherited the worst and the best from Dutch piety. On the negative side they have become heir to the guilt-ridden, self-humiliating piety of the Dutch pietists from the seventeenth ...

History shows us that ‘there is no smoke without fire’. The reformation in Europe was not deemed to be schism; reformers cited a number of reasons why the church needed reforming. The South African situation does not ...

The medieval church displayed a theological pluralism unknown until the contemporary era. The polarised age of the reformation and postreformation periods can be traced to the middle ages and earlier for many doctrines ...

During the latter half of the nineteenth century, the previously exclusively Lutheran Scandinavian countries of northern Europe became denominationally pluralistic. Until the 1890s, all the nonconformist denominations, ...