%0 Journal Article
%T The Reformed tradition as public theology
%A Vuyani S. Vellem
%J HTS Theological Studies/Teologiese Studies
%D 2013
%I AOSIS OpenJournals
%R 10.4102/hts.v69i1.1371
%X This article is a South African perspective of a Black African reflection on the publicity of Reformed faith. Whilst the notion of public theology is fairly new, the article argues, it is important to define the ¡®public¡¯ of the type of public theology to which Reformed faith and tradition could be linked. As a confessional tradition, Reformed faith is intrinsically public, the article demonstrates. The publicity of this tradition is however ambivalent and tainted. I attempt to show this by discussing two important tenets of the Reformed Tradition: sola scriptura and sola fide, within the festering wounds of Black African colonialism, apartheid and the hegemony of the neoliberal paradigm in the 21st century.
%K apartheid
%K faith
%K Reformed Tradition
%K theocracy
%U http://www.hts.org.za/index.php/HTS/article/view/1371