Calvinisme en Neo-Marxisme: 'n Ideologiekritiek van Calvinisme in Suid-Afrika

Abstract

An encounter even a confrontation, with Marxism and Neo-Marxism cannot leave Calvinism untouched. Calvinism’s critique of modern Western culture, especially since the Enlightenment, has not prevented leaders in South Africa committed to Calvinism to subscribe uncritically to power ideologies derived from Enlightenment philosophy. A crisis in the course of Calvinism in South Africa has become apparent. Neo-Marxism affords us with categories to analize this problem critically. Calvinism in South Africa should heed the lessons from this exercise in a critique of ideology, and rediscover its own and original humanism.