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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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
Contours of pacificism Ramsden Balmforth's advocacy of peace in the union of South Africa and beyond
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2013)
Among the many dimensions of Christian pacifism in South Africa which remain underexplored is the ministry of the Unitarian minister Ramsden Balmforth (1861-1941). For approximately four decades beginning shortly after his ...
Young Christians in Norway, national socialism, and the German occupation of 1940-1945
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2011)
The German occupation of Norway during the Second World War caused unprecedented problems for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway and other Christian denominations. The subordination of the church to the de facto ...
The World's Evangelical Alliance and the Spanish Civil War
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2000)
British Christians reacted variously to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and crossed verbal swords in the campaign for the hearts and minds of the public over this heated issue at a time when many people believed that ...
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 ...