TABLE OF CONTENTS
REFERENCE LIST
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
RESEARCH PROBLEM, SIGNIFICANCE, AND METHODOLOGY
Background
Significance
Problem Description
Summary of Research Problem
Purpose of Dissertation
Research Questions
Delimitations of Study
Research Methodology
Descriptive-Evaluative Methodology
Missiological Methodology is Multi-Disciplinary
Missiological Methodology Uses Context Analysis
Missiological Methodology Analyzes Worldview Presuppositions
Sources of the Research
Organization of Dissertation
Assumptions
Definitions of Terms
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
Introduction
Historical Survey of the Missiological Background Literature on Church and Society
Development of Apartheid Social Theology
Missiological Background of HRLS and C&S
Historical Development of NGK's Missiology
Summary of Missiological Background
Evolutionary Development of NGK Social Theology since 1986
Does C&S Abandon HRLS' Apartheid Social Theology?
Conclusion
Pressure to Abandon Apartheid Social Theology
Internal NGK Dissent after Adoption of HRLS
Ecumenical Efforts to Declare NGK Social Theology Heretical
Movement towards Consensus with the Belhar Confession
NGK Desire to Rejoin the World Conciliar Movement
Final Conclusion
THE NGK AND SCRIPTURE
Introduction to Classic Sola Scriptura Doctrine
Infallibility: Foundational Presupposition of Sola Scriptura
A Pluralistic View of Scripture
Development of the NGK's View of Scripture
Influence of G. C. Berkouwer's Paradigm Shift
NGK Synodical View of Scripture
1986 General Synod on Biblical Authority
The Western Cape Regional Synod
Sola Scriptura Denied by C&S Theologians
NGK Family Theologians Document Paradigm Shift
Examples of Professors' Paradigm Shifts
P. Potgieter, UOVS Theologian and 1990 General Synod Moderator
Johan Heyns, UP Dogmatics Professor
A. B. Du Toit: UP New Testament Professor
Specific Application to C&S
C&S' Noble Attempt to Maintain Biblical Authority
Attack on Certainty Applied
Sola Scriptura Implies Models Can Be Deduced from Scripture
Final Summary
THE NGK AND ESCHATOLOGY
Recapitulation and Restoration of Creation
Introduction
Background
Trinitarian Approach Protects Against Imbalance
Brunner and Moltmann absorb the first article into the third
Relationship of Protology to Eschatology: Options
Recapitulatio: Not a Nova Creatio
Conclusion
Recapitulation: Not A Return to a Pristine Eden
Recapitulatio: Transformation of the World
Creation-Eschaton Relation: The Last Correlated with the First
The Meaning of Recapitulatio
Conclusion
Recapitulatio Does Not End Creation Covenant's Law-Order
Implications of Recapitulatio for Social Theology
Christ Recapitulates Moses
The Second Moses Restores All of Culture
Classic Puritan Hope Versus the Modern Eschatological Hope
Church as Eschatological "Sign" of Future Kingdom
Proleptic Eschatology is Exclusively Future Oriented
Ethical Implications of Proleptic Eschatology
The WCC and Proleptic Eschatology
Evaluation of Proleptic Eschatology
Socio-Cultural Implications of Proleptic Eschatology
Several Logical Deductions from Recapitulative Eschatology
Application to C&S
C&S Reduces Gospel to Second or Third Article
Evaluation
Passages used by confessional conservatives
Passages used by radicals
Two possible theories for excision of passages
Ecumenically Correct Expediency As Possible Motive
Higher Critical Rejection of First Article Absolutes
Third Article Reductionism: The Church as Nova Creatio
A first indication of possible futurist influence
A second indication of possible futurist influence
Evaluation
The NGK's implicit radical model for social transformation
Radical gradualism described
Conclusion
C&S and the Creation of the Peoples
Reasons for C&S' Shift in the Assessment of Ethnicity
Evaluation and Conclusion
Final Conclusion
Alternative Critique of Apartheid Needed