Evangelical Christians have been prone—too prone—to judge leniently the system of apartheid in South Africa because they identified with the protestant orthodoxy in the South African church and because they admired the staunch anticommunism of the South Africa republic. In this issue, CHRISTIANITY TODAY seeks first to understand apartheid and then condemns it as flatly contradictory to biblical ethics both in practice and in theory.

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