Includes notes and bibliographical references (pages 390-396).
Contents:
Prologue: Why the church failed to resist apartheid before 1960 -- Chapter 1. The resurrection at Sharpeville -- Report of the World Council of Churches mission in South Africa: April-December 1960 -- Statement of the Cottesloe Consultation, 14-17 December 1960 -- Statement from the Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches, New Delhi, 1961 [excerpts] -- Chapter 2. The challenge of the apartheid republic -- All-In Africa Conference, Pietermaritzburg, 25-26 March 1961 -- A Programme of Action for the Christian Institute -- Attacks on the Christian Institute: statement by the executive committee of the CI, 9 November 1963 -- Statement from the WCC Mindolo Consultation on Christians and Race Relations in Southern Africa, 4 June 1964 -- Press statement by iNkosi Albert Luthuli on the Rivonia Trial verdict, 12 June 1964 -- Chapter 3. Trimphant apartheid -- Statement of the Christian Council of South Africa on the Bantu Laws Amendment Bill, February 1964 -- Bantu Laws Amendment Bill: a press statement of the Conference of the Catholic Bishops of South Africa, July 1964 -- Statement on the End of Session Legislation, June 1964 -- Declaration of Church Principles as accepted by the Christian Council of South Africa, August 1965 -- Message to Overseas Partners, June 1965 -- Chapter 4. Liberalism and race relations -- World Conference on Church and Society: 'Christians in the Technical and Social Revolutions of our time', Geneva, July 1966 -- The Woodstock Theses, October 1967 -- Statement from the Fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches, Uppsala, 20 July 1968 -- The Reformed Ecumenical Synod, Lunteren, August 1968 -- Message to the People of South Africa, 20 September 1968 -- Chapter 5. Black consciousness and Black theology -- "Black anger and White power in an unreal society" / Dr CF Beyers Naude -- Statement of the Black Theology Conference, Wilgespruit, 1971 -- Black priests solidarity group: principles and aims -- Desmond Tutu's Open Letter to John Vorster, 6 May 1976 -- Resolution on the Black Confessing Church, SACC Consultation on Racism, Hammanskraal, 11-15 February 1980 -- Chapter 6. Church support for armed resistance? -- Statement of the WCC Executive Committee, Arnoldshain, West Germany, September 1970 -- SACC Resolution on Conscientious Objection to Compulsory Military Conscription to the South African Military Forces, National Conference, August 1974 -- South Africa: what hope now?, December 1977 -- Chapter 7. The state versus the Christian Institute: Schlebush Commission -- A pilgrimage of confession -- Divine or civil disobedience: statement declaring refusal to testify before the Schlebusch Commission by the staff of the Christian Institute, 22 June 1973 -- Statement by the Christian Institute on the 'police state' -- Report of the Schlebusch Commission: conclusions and recommendations -- Statement of the SA Council of Churches on the Report of the Schlebusch Commission on Inquiry on the Christian Institute -- Chapter 8. The state versus the SACC: Eloff Commission -- SACC statement of theological principles -- SACC 1978 National Conference resolution: call for a national convention -- The Eloff Commission Report: official summary and recommendations -- SACC response to the findings of the Eloff Commission -- Chapter 9. The demise of Afrikaner civil religion -- NG Kerk: human relations and the South African scene in the light of scripture, 1974 General Synod -- Alliance of Black Reformed Christians in Southern Africa, 1981, ABRECSA Charter -- World Alliance of Reformed Churches, Ottawa, 1982: statement on racism and the South African Afrikaans Churches -- A statement on rejection of apartheid theology by 123 ministers of the NG Kerk, 8 June 1982 -- Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sendingkerk, 1982 Synod statement on apartheid: Belhar Confession of Faith Chapter 10. Call to prayer for an end to unjust rule -- Pastoral letter of the Southern African Catholic -- The Kairos Document: official summary -- A theological rationale and a call to prayer for an end to unjust rule, 16 June 1985 -- A memorandum to the State President, P.W. Botha, 17 March 1986 -- Urgent message to the State President from the Southern African Catholic Bishop's Conference, 20 August 1986 -- Belhar Confession of Faith, drafter in 1982, adopted in September 1986 -- Chapter 11. Sanctions: the world's moment of truth -- SACC National Conference Resolution on Disinvestment, 28 June 1985 -- The Harare Declaration, WCC World Church leaders emergency meeting on South Africa, 4-6 December 1985 -- United Church of Christ (USA): 1985 General Synod Resolution -- British Council of Churches, November 1985 General Assembly Resolution on South Africa -- Chapter 12. Pilgrimages to Lusaka -- A communique of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference, jointly with the African National Congress, 16 April 1986 -- Lusaka Statement, 8 May 1987 -- Theology and violence: a working document of the ICT Theological Conference, Cape Town, 26 November 1987 -- Chapter 13. Standing for the truth -- Statement by the leaders of South African churches, 25 February 1988 -- Church leaders' Petition to Parliament, 29 February 1988 -- Statement by the SACC on the State President's invitation to churches, 31 January 1990.
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