"A title from the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-284) and index.

1. Politics, Ideas, and Institutions: Explaining Church Change in South Africa. The Churches and Legitimacy. Patterns of Change. Explaining Church Change -- 2. A Legacy of Protest and Challenge. The Roots of Challenge. The Liberation Movement Responds. The Turn to Armed Resistance - the 1960s. Black Consciousness and Exile - the 1970s -- 3. Changing Political Context: The Spiral of Involvement. The Political Context: The 1980s. Church Involvement in the 1980s -- 4. Changing Religious Context: The Role of Ideas. The Origins of Contextual Theology. Theological Evolution: From Race to Class. Contextual Theology -- 5. Contextual Theology and the Spiral of Involvement. Issues in Contextual Theology in the 1980s. Evidence of Influence. Overlapping Roles -- 6. The Institutional Context of Political Debates. The SACC and SACBC: A Difference in Type. Decision-Making Structures and Their Consequences. Ties between the SACC and Its Member Churches. The Race Factor.

International Linkages. State Repression: SACC versus SACBC -- 7. South Africa in the 1990s: New Contexts, New Identities. Changing Political Context. Church Response to a New Political Context. Changing Religious Context. A New Institutional Context. Where Have the Prophets Gone? An Update on Actors and Events.