de Gruchy, John W(esley)

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DE GRUCHY, John W(esley)

DE GRUCHY, John W(esley). South African, b. 1939. Genres: Area studies, Theology/Religion, Humanities. Career: Ordained minister of United Congregational Church, 1961; pastor of United Congregational Church in Durban, South Africa, 1961-68, and Johannesburg, South Africa, 1968-73; University of Cape Town, South Africa, lecturer, 1973-75, senior lecturer, 1975-80, associate professor, 1980-86, professor of Christian studies, 1986-, director of the Graduate School in Humanities, 1999-. South African Council of Churches, director, 1968-73; United Congregational Church, moderator, 1980-81. Publications: The Church Struggle in South Africa, 1979, 2nd ed., 1986; Bonhoeffer and South Africa, 1985; Cry Justice!, 1986; Theology and Ministry in Context and Crisis, 1987; Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Witness to Jesus Christ, 1987; Liberating Reformed Theology, 1991; Christianity and Democracy, 1995. EDITOR: E. Bethge, Bonhoeffer: Exile and Martyr, 1975; (with C. Villa-Vicencio) Apartheid Is a Heresy, 1983; (with C. Villa-Vicencio) Resistance and Hope: South African Essays in Honour of Beyers Naude, 1985; (with L. Rasmussen) Reinhold Niebuhr, 1988; (with C. Green) Karl Barth: Theologian of Freedom, 1989; (with G. Kelly) Karl Rahner: Theologian of the Graced Search for Meaning, 1989; (with H.M. Rumscheidt) Adolf Von Harnack: Liberal Theology at Its Height, 1989; (with M. Prozesky) A South African Guide to World Religions, 1991; (with C. Villa-Vicencio) Doing Theology in Context, 1994; Bonhoeffer for a New Day, 1997; (with J. Cochrane and S. Martin) Facing the Truth, 1999; The Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1999; Christianity, Art and Transformation: Theological Aesthetics in the Struggle for Justice, 2001. Address: Graduate School in Humanities, University of Cape Town, Private Bag Rondebosch 7701, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa. Online address: [email protected]

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