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The Afrikaanse Protestantse Kerk (English: ''Afrikaans Protestant Church''), commonly abbreviated APK or AP Kerk is a South African conservative Reformed Church federation with about 35,000 adherents.〔()〕 The federation was formed by 240 congregations, including some in Namibia, and has ecumenical ties with the Afrikaans Protestant Church in England and Wales. Its official motto is ''lig in duisternis'' (meaning ''light in the darkness'') from 1 John 2:9-11 "If we say that we are in the light, yet hate others, we are in the darkness to this very hour. If we love others, we live in the light, and so there is nothing in us that will cause someone else to sin. But if we hate others, we are in the darkness; we walk in it and do not know where we are going, because the darkness has made us blind." And also from John 12:35-36: "So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light.” ==Formation== In 1982 the World Alliance of Reformed Churches's General Council declared Apartheid to be a sin and its theological justification a heresy, in the process expelling from its membership the Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK), the major branch of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in South Africa and the traditional mother church of South Africa's Afrikaner population.〔(Reformed Churches Online )〕 The shock of this isolation from other branches of the Reformed Churches worldwide led to the adoption in 1986 of Belhar Confession by some branches of the DRC; the NGK, while stopping short of adopting the Belhar Confession, retracted its 1976 defence of apartheid as a biblical imperative, instead releasing a "more nuanced" document called ''Church and Society'' that provided "qualified support for separate development." 〔(Sojourners magazine )〕 However, the document "reflected the new majority consensus within the NGK which rejected the older, Kuyperian theology"〔(Mark R. Kreitzer )〕 and thus outraged the more conservative clergy within the NGK: as a "direct result"〔(Minority Nationalism ) by Michael Watson〕 the Afrikaanse Protestantse Kerk was founded in Pretoria on Saturday, 27 July 1987 by 3000 dissidents, together with conservative elements from other branches of the DRC in South Africa.〔(Good Over Evil ) by Meche Okwesili〕 Another reason for the formation of the new church, was the growing influence of Arminian and liberal theology in the NGK. The new church also opposed the use of the new Afrikaans Bible translation (1983) during worship services. The APK strongly opposed these modernist reforms and sought to preserve traditional Calvinism. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Afrikaans Protestant Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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