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The Theology of Graduation: an Experiment in Training Colonial Clergy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
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Nowadays when ‘Executive Officers’ and ‘Councils for Evangelical Strategy’ plan a ‘Younger Church’ one of the things they worry about most is the training of an indigenous clergy. In the nineteenth century men were not so self-conscious about missions. You took the Gospel to the heathen. You relied upon clergy coming from ‘home.’ Even where there was a small population of white colonists, they did not often expect to have to produce their own clergymen. Of the fifty or sixty Anglican clergymen who served in South Africa between the second British occupation of the Cape and the appointment of the first bishop (1806-1848), only one was born in the colony—and he was a white man.
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