Law, religion and the covenanted community: the impact of the Zurich Reformation on the early Cape settlement, 1652-1708
The Zurich Reformation was actively supported by the Dutch East India Company in its care for the religious, political and legal needs of the early Cape settlement. Not only the promotion of the Reformed religion by the Classis of Amsterdam but also the political and legal interests of the settleme...
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The Zurich Reformation was actively supported by the Dutch East India Company in its care for the religious, political and legal needs of the early Cape settlement. Not only the promotion of the Reformed religion by the Classis of Amsterdam but also the political and legal interests of the settlement were advanced on the basis of the Zurich reformation and its emphasis on the covenant. It was Huldrych Zwingli and his successor Heinrich Bullinger whose idea of the covenanted community served as the blueprint for the activities of the Sick Comforters, the proceedings of the Council of Justice and the decisions of the Council of Policy, rather than the influence of the Genevan reformer John Calvin. The so-called Calvinistic roots of the early settlement at the Cape, flowing from Calvin’s doctrine of predestination, must therefore, be thoroughly revisited.
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| spelling | doaj-art-547c917d8662446f9b58bdcc8afa863c2025-02-11T12:34:31ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Theologica1015-87582309-90892003-06-0123110.38140/at.v23i1.1615Law, religion and the covenanted community: the impact of the Zurich Reformation on the early Cape settlement, 1652-1708A. W. G. Raath0University of the Free State The Zurich Reformation was actively supported by the Dutch East India Company in its care for the religious, political and legal needs of the early Cape settlement. Not only the promotion of the Reformed religion by the Classis of Amsterdam but also the political and legal interests of the settlement were advanced on the basis of the Zurich reformation and its emphasis on the covenant. It was Huldrych Zwingli and his successor Heinrich Bullinger whose idea of the covenanted community served as the blueprint for the activities of the Sick Comforters, the proceedings of the Council of Justice and the decisions of the Council of Policy, rather than the influence of the Genevan reformer John Calvin. The so-called Calvinistic roots of the early settlement at the Cape, flowing from Calvin’s doctrine of predestination, must therefore, be thoroughly revisited. https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/at/article/view/1615South African history1652-1708Law & religionZwingliBullingerSuid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis |
| spellingShingle | A. W. G. Raath Law, religion and the covenanted community: the impact of the Zurich Reformation on the early Cape settlement, 1652-1708 Acta Theologica South African history 1652-1708 Law & religion Zwingli Bullinger Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis |
| title | Law, religion and the covenanted community: the impact of the Zurich Reformation on the early Cape settlement, 1652-1708 |
| title_full | Law, religion and the covenanted community: the impact of the Zurich Reformation on the early Cape settlement, 1652-1708 |
| title_fullStr | Law, religion and the covenanted community: the impact of the Zurich Reformation on the early Cape settlement, 1652-1708 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Law, religion and the covenanted community: the impact of the Zurich Reformation on the early Cape settlement, 1652-1708 |
| title_short | Law, religion and the covenanted community: the impact of the Zurich Reformation on the early Cape settlement, 1652-1708 |
| title_sort | law religion and the covenanted community the impact of the zurich reformation on the early cape settlement 1652 1708 |
| topic | South African history 1652-1708 Law & religion Zwingli Bullinger Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis |
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