Allan Boesak

Allan Aubrey Boesak (born 23 February 1945 Kakamas, Cape Province ) is a South African Reformed pastor, theologian, anti-apartheid activist, and occasionally also a politician. He was sentenced in 1999 to three years' imprisonment, of which he served one year and was then paroled. At the turn of 2004/2005 he was again admitted in his church as a pastor and also by the state pardoned.

Theologian, pastor and activist

Boesak first made in 1976 with his published doctoral dissertation Farewell to Innocence attention to himself, which he sent a contribution to the South African liberation theology (in particular in the field of social ethics) wrote, especially in dialogue with the U.S. black theologian James Cone. In the following decade came a number of other relevantly well-known publications.

From 1982 to 1991 he was president of the World Alliance. During the 1980s he was known as an anti -apartheid activist and was the 1986 Thomas Merton Award for peace and social justice. 1990 had Boesak of his ecclesiastical office in South Africa to resign after an extramarital relationship with Elna Botha ( whom he later married ) was publicly known become.

In 1991, he was elected in the Western Cape chairman of the regional branch of the African National Congress.

Fraud controversy

In the late 1990s, it came to Boesak and his non-governmental Foundation for Peace and Justice to a controversy and ultimately to a process in which he was sentenced to three years in prison for fraud. He sat them but from only one year.

On 15 January 2005, announced by the office of South African President Thabo Mbeki that Boesak had received an official pardon; his criminal history was removed from the register. A few months earlier, a rural community near Cape Town had him elected pastor.

Works

• Farewell to Innocence: A Socio- Ethical Study on Black Theology and Black Power. 1976 ( Eng.: the guilty innocence makes: a social-ethical study on Black Theology and Black Power. ) Hamburg: Lutheran Publishing House 1977 ISBN 3-7859-0424- X
• The Finger of God: Sermons on Faith and Socio- Political Responsibility. 1982 ( Eng.: A sign from God: 12 Sermons in d situation in South Africa Black Hamburg. Lutheran Publishing House 1980 ISBN 3-7859-0465-7 )
• Black and Reformed: Apartheid, Liberation, and the Calvinist tradition. Maryknoll: Orbis Books 1984 ISBN 0883441489th
• Boesak, AA & C Villa - Vicencio ( eds ) 1986. When Prayer Makes News. Philadelphia: Westminster Press. ISBN 0664240356 [ = A Call for an End to Unjust Rule. Edinburgh: Saint Andrew Press. ISBN 0715205943 ]
• Comfort and Protest: Reflections on the Apocalypse of John of Patmos. 1987 ( Eng.: Write to the angel of South Africa: comfort and protest in d d Apocalypse John Stuttgart. ISBN 3-7831-0913-2 Cross 1988 )
• If This Is Treason, I Am Guilty. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 1987 ISBN 0802802516th