The CIHA Blog in its continual coverage on the Ujamaa Centre speaker series at UKZN is excited to announce a lecture by Dr Allan Boesak scheduled for the 24th of August, 2015.
Allan Aubrey Boesak was born in Kakamas (1946), Northern Cape. He is a South African Dutch Reformed Church cleric, a political and anti-apartheid activist. Along with Beyers Naude and Winnie Mandela, Boesak won the 1985 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award.
He became known then as a liberation theologian, starting with the publication of his doctoral work (Farewell to Innocence, 1976). Boesak was elected as president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches from 1982 until 1991. During the 1980s he was an outspoken critic and opponent of the National Party’s policies and played a major anti-apartheid activist role as a patron of the United Democratic Front (UDF) from 1983 to 1991. It will never be forgotten that it was Boesak who dared to declare Apartheid is a heresy and proposed the expulsion of the White DRC from the WARC and WCC.
In 2008, while serving as the Moderator of the Cape Synod of the URCSA, he took a strong stance against the church’s discriminatory position on LGBTI, by invoking the 1986 Belhar Declaration, lambasting all forms of discrimination. He said that the church should welcome gays and lesbians and begin to perform gay marriage ceremonies and appoint gay clergy. Boesak also voiced his views on the Zimbabwe crisis, calling on citizens of the stricken country to rise up in opposition to President Robert Mugabe and his authoritarian ruling party. In June 2013, Christian Theological Seminary and Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana appointed Boesak as The Desmond Tutu Chair for Peace, Global Justice, and Reconciliation Studies, a new four-year position held jointly with both institutions.
The Ujamaa Centre together with the School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics presents the
Annual Allan Boesak Lecture with Prof. Allan Aubrey Boesak
Seeing Satan Fall Like
Lighting From Heaven: The Power of the Hopeful Sizwe.
Date: Monday August 24th, 2015
Venue: Collin Webb Hall, PMB, UKZN
Time: 18h00
Ujamaa Centre, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
