Die stryd om die aard en omvang van die tugreg by die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sendingkerk (1881−1994)
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2012-03
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Abstract
The struggle of the Dutch Reformed Mission Churches (1881–1994) with reference to the
character and extend of discipline. In this article the struggle concerning the nature and extent
of the disciplinary power in the Dutch Reformed Mission Church (DRMC) (1881–1994) is
discussed. Since the establishment of the DRMC in 1881 until 1982 the Dutch Reformed Church
(DRC) retained the right to censure and discipline the missionaries in the DRMC. The article
argues that the struggle for disciplinary power under the Constitution of the DRMC, the Statute
of the DRMC as well as under the memorandum of agreement between the DRMC and the
DRC, was nothing less than an attempt by the DRMC to entrench the principles of Voetius in
the disciplinary power of the church polity and church government of the DRMC. In 1982 the
DRMC accepted a new church order in which these principles were entrenched. The acceptance
of this church order provision concluded the DRMC’s struggle for disciplinary power of all its
officers, missionaries included, which already began in 1908. At the inaugural meeting of the
Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa a Church Order was adopted in which provisions
with regards to the disciplinary power based on above principles was hedged.
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CITATION: Plaatjies Van Huffel, M-A. 2012. Die stryd om die aard en omvang van die tugreg by die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sendingkerk (1881−1994). HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 68(1): 1-8, doi: 10.4102/hts.v68i1.1007.
The original publication is available at http://www.hts.org.za
Publication of this article was funded by the Stellenbosch University Open Access Fund.
The original publication is available at http://www.hts.org.za
Publication of this article was funded by the Stellenbosch University Open Access Fund.
Keywords
Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity, South Africa -- Church history, Race relations -- Religious aspects -- Christianity, Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sendingkerk in Suid-Afrika, Verenigende Gereformeerde Kerk in Suider-Afrika, Church discipline
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Plaatjies Van Huffel, M-A. 2012. Die stryd om die aard en omvang van die tugreg by die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sendingkerk (1881−1994). HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 68(1): 1-8, doi: 10.4102/hts.v68i1.1007