How Did Christianity Influence South Africa

CHRISTIANITY INFLUENCE

Christianity became a potent influence in South Africa, often uniting large numbers of people in a common trust

The Dutch people Reformed Church arrived in Dixieland Africa in the seventeenth century, after Genevan reform in Europe had entrenched the approximation of predestination, and the Synod of Dort in the Netherlands had proclaimed this church building as the "community of the chosen” in 1619. The church gained recognition as the state religion in 1651, and the Dutch East India Company, as an extension of the state in southern Africa, established the first Dutch Reformed Church at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652

Church appendage in South Africa generally resisted liberal trends that arose in EC in the nineteenth century, but rifts occurred in the church building in 1853 with the formation of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk (also translated, the Dutch Reformed Church), and in 1859, with the formation of the Gereformeerde Kerk avant-garde Suid-Afrika (the Reformed Church of South Africa). The NGK is generally referred to as the Dutch Reformed Church, and these two newer church are also referred to as Dutch Reformed churches.

All of the Dutch Reformed churches share similar Genevan feeling and Presbyterian establishment. Their doctrines assert that God

Social and spiritual survival became intertwined in church philosophy, influenced in part by the early twentieth-century persecution of the Afrikaner by the British 1 ). Church service leaders refused to condemn Afrikaner rebellions against the British, and their Synonyms/Hyponyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun follower gained strength by attributing divine origins to their struggle for