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- Title
The Dutch Reformed Church is continuously changing: Revision of the church order of 1998.
- Authors
Strauss, Piet J.
- Abstract
As the name of the title suggests, the Dutch Reformed Church is continuously changing or reforming. This change focuses on improvement as times change. In 1994, the Dutch Reformed Church was confronted with a new South African society built on a new paradigm, as expressed in Chapter 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996. Against this background, the General Synod of 1998 amended the church order. The amendments, including employment relationships of ministers, church discipline and the relationship between church and state, echoed the new South Africa and were an attempt to operate anew from reformed constants or principles. As a changing church in a changing situation, the Dutch Reformed Church wished to reform on these points or change on the basis of reformed principles.
- Subjects
SOUTH Africa; NETHERLANDS Reformed Church; CHURCH orders; CHURCH discipline; EMPLOYMENT
- Publication
Hervormde Teologiese Studies, 2019, Vol 75, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
0259-9422
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4102/hts.v75i4.5445