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Divine Word Missionaries in Papua New Guinea, 1896-1996, Steyler Verlag Nettetal, Germany: Verbum SVD, Vol. 37, 1996, Fasc. 1-2, 258pp. ISBN 3-8050-0380-3

Divine Word Missionaries in Papua New Guinea, 1896-1996, Steyler Verlag Nettetal, Germany: Verbum... 199 himself an active Methodist minister from the mid 1960s to independence in 1980 and the first President of independent Zimbabwe, particularly focuses on the Methodists, who under the colonists' doctrine of racial segregation opted for an approach that maintained black and white congre- gations as separate entities as the only way to uphold a united Church - a National Church with a Double Mandate. Against this background the author analyses the reactions of this church and some of its individual members to issues like racism, Ian Smith's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, the land question (especially the Land Apportion- ment Act made into law in 1931), the Smith/Home proposal for a Consti- tution in 1971, the Programme to Combat Racism of the World Council of Churches, the Internal Settlements of June 1978 and subsequent elections in 1979 making Bishop Muzorewa Prime Minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, the liberation struggle, and Independence in April 1980. In his analysis the author admits that in spite of many individual prophetic voices, the Meth- odist Church as a whole was far less radical than the Roman Catholic Church, which he explains by referring to the Double Mandate and con- sensus model of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Exchange Brill

Divine Word Missionaries in Papua New Guinea, 1896-1996, Steyler Verlag Nettetal, Germany: Verbum SVD, Vol. 37, 1996, Fasc. 1-2, 258pp. ISBN 3-8050-0380-3

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Brill
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© 1997 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0166-2740
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1572-543X
DOI
10.1163/157254397X00269
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199 himself an active Methodist minister from the mid 1960s to independence in 1980 and the first President of independent Zimbabwe, particularly focuses on the Methodists, who under the colonists' doctrine of racial segregation opted for an approach that maintained black and white congre- gations as separate entities as the only way to uphold a united Church - a National Church with a Double Mandate. Against this background the author analyses the reactions of this church and some of its individual members to issues like racism, Ian Smith's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, the land question (especially the Land Apportion- ment Act made into law in 1931), the Smith/Home proposal for a Consti- tution in 1971, the Programme to Combat Racism of the World Council of Churches, the Internal Settlements of June 1978 and subsequent elections in 1979 making Bishop Muzorewa Prime Minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, the liberation struggle, and Independence in April 1980. In his analysis the author admits that in spite of many individual prophetic voices, the Meth- odist Church as a whole was far less radical than the Roman Catholic Church, which he explains by referring to the Double Mandate and con- sensus model of

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