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Albertus (Albert) Stephanus Geyser (10 February 1918 – 13 June 1985) was a South African cleric, scholar and anti-apartheid theologian. Geyser was a deeply religious man who died an outcast of the Afrikaner community because of his unshakeable opposition to apartheid. A brilliant scholar with master's degrees in Greek, Latin and French, he was appointed professor at the age of 27 in the Theological Faculty of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk (NHK) at the University of Pretoria. He paid the price for being one of the first Afrikaner nationalists to speak out against the Broederbond and apartheid on theological grounds. He is also known for his work as one of a number of scholars involved in the first annotated edition (1953–1958) of the Bible in Afrikaans. ==Family background and early academic life== One of three children, Albert Geyser was born on 10 February 1918 to Nina and Petrus Geyser in Naboomspruit in the former Transvaal province (now Mookgophong in the Limpopo Province). From an early age he demonstrated a rich intellect and a sharp critical, scientific sense. After matriculating from Ermelose Hoërskool (High School) in 1935 he was admitted to the University of Pretoria in 1936 where he completed a BA degree cum laude in Greek and Latin in 1938. His BD followed in 1941 and a MA in Greek and Latin in 1943. In the same year he obtained his Doctor Divinitatis degree with distinction, also at the University of Pretoria. He completed additional courses in Aramaic and Syriac in 1945. Geyser married fellow Afrikaner Celia van der Westhuisen in Rustenburg in the early 1940s and the couple had three sons and two daughters. Geyser served the NHK as minister in Heilbron in the Orange Free State (1941–1943) and Pretoria North-West (1944–1945). He was only 27 years old when in 1946 he became Professor of New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology (Section A) at the University of Pretoria. Geyser's first years at the University of Pretoria (i.e. from 1946 until 1952) were characterised by his loyal support of both the policies of the government of the day and of his Church's missionary policy. At the time he endorsed the principle adopted by the NHK that only whites belonged to it. The position of the Church was that missionary work should be aimed at the establishment of separate indigenous churches. His position at the University of Pretoria afforded him the opportunity to study in Europe and to broaden his perspectives. In 1952 he was a visiting Professor in New Testament Studies at Utrecht University. He also worked in 1949 at the Faculté de Libre du Protenstantisme at the Sorbonne on the concept of "The Church in the New Testament". In the same year he was invited to the Papal Institute in Rome to visit the excavations under St. Peter's Basilica.〔 During his 1952 visit to Europe he was increasingly influenced by the progressive ecumenists who emerged in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the wake of the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches WCC held in Amsterdam in 1948. Following his return to South Africa Geyser became increasingly critical of the use of theology as a basis for apartheid. In 1955 Geyser was one of the "notorious" 13 Afrikaans academics who signed a petition condemning the removal of coloureds from Parliament and the stacking of the Senate. Within the Church he set out to refute any biblical justifications for apartheid. The NHK initially tolerated his views. In 1960 he was given an extensive hearing in the distinguished scholarly theological journal of his Church, ''Hervormde Teologiese Studies'', when he launched a scathing attack on a theological justification of apartheid as advocated in a book on "Eiesoortige Ontwikkeling tot Volksdiens" by Professor A. B. du Preez, at the time Professor of Dogmatics in the Faculty of Theology (Section B) at the University of Pretoria.〔 In the same year Geyser co-authored a book titled 'Vertraagde aksie' (Delayed action) which strongly condemned apartheid. For the Broederbond this was the equivalent of waving a red rag to a bull and the organisation led a smear campaign against Geyser and the other authors. 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「Albert Geyser」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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