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The gospel contra Nietzsche: a South African literary critique of Wille zur Macht
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2017)
A century of scholarship has shed countless photons of light on the reception
of Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas in numerous countries. Still largely unilluminated,
however, are South African reactions to his scepticism and ...
Baptist ethics of conscientious objection to military service in South Africa: the watershed case of Richard Steele
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2005)
English: Although the Baptist Union of Southern Africa included relatively few outspoken critics
of the apartheid system, during the 1970s and 1980s a small number of its younger
members confronted the military system ...
Stuart Cloete's construction of Voortrekker religion in Turning Wheels
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2001)
Stuart Cloete’s novel of 1937, Turning Wheels, was unquestionably the most controversial of
many fictional reconstructions of the Great Trek, a book which fell foul of Afrikaner nationalism
and whose further importation ...
Marching towards the Cruzada: Douglas Jerrold's road to nationalist Spain
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2002)
The Spanish Civil War pitted British Christians against each other in an intense
battle for the hearts and minds of the public. Generally speaking, Roman Catholics
in the United Kingdom favoured the insurgency of General ...
The Great Trek as exodus in J.D. Kestell's and N. Hofmeyr's De Voortrekkers of Het Dagboek van Izak van der Merwe
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2003)
English: Both before and after the end of the nineteenth century the Great Trek of the 1830s
and 1840s was a recurrent theme in historical fiction. Not only in many of the novels
written in Dutch and Afrikaans, but also ...
Debating Igbo conversion to Christianity: a critical indigenous view
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2006)
English: Since the 1970s the dynamics of conversion have been a focal point of research with
regard to the impact of Christianity on traditional African societies. Much of the scholarly
debate about the matter has ...
The postfigurative Christ in Morley Callaghan's Such is my beloved
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2005)
English: Symbolic Christ figures, i.e. characters whose lives to greatly varying extents mirror
those of Jesus of Nazareth without being fully fledged allegories thereof, were
frequently employed as fictional devices in ...
The critique of Gĩkũyũ religion and culture in S.N. Ngũbiah's A curse from God
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2007)
English: The relationship between missionary Christianity and traditional African cultures was a prominent theme in post-colonial literature during and for many years after the era of decolonisation.In contrast to the ...
A Shona assessment of evolving missionary Christianity in Zimbabwe
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2004)
English: Beginning before the wave of African decolonisation of the 1960s but accelerating
noticeably thereafter, both Christians and non-Christians across much of the continent
created retrospective literary reconstructions ...
Debating Toynbee's theory of challenge and response: Christian civilisation or Western imperialism?
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2004)
English: In his 1952 Reith Lectures on the British Broadcasting Corporation, “The World and
the West”, the eminent London historian Professor Arnold Toynbee sought to explain
inter alia why western European hegemony over ...