Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa

Graham A. Duncan is Research Associate at the University of South Africa. Previously, he served as Emeritus Professor of Church History and Church Polity at the University of Pretoria. He is a member of the South African Missiological Society (SAMS) and the Church History Society of Southern Africa. He was also a member of the South African Council for Theological Education. He is the author of over hundred peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters and the author of Coercive Agency: Power and Resistance in Mission Education, Pietermaritzburgh: Cluster Publications, 2003 and co-author (with Denis P.) of The Native School that Caused all the Trouble: A History of the Federal Theological Seminary of Southern Africa, Pietermaritzburgh: Cluster Publications, 2012.

• Introduction Chapter 1. Background to the studyChapter 2. The origins and early development of Scottish Presbyterian mission in South Africa (1824-1865)Chapter 3. Rev Tiyo Soga (1829 – 1871): a paragon of early indigenous leadershipChapter 4. The role of Mission Councils in the Scottish Mission in South Africa: 1864—1923Chapter 5. The Rev Edward Tsewu’s dispute with the Free Church of Scotland Mission.Chapter 6. The Mzimba Secession: A South African ‘Disruption’Chapter 7. Presbyterianism in South Africa, 1897-1923: To unite or not to unite?Chapter 8. Preparations for the formation of the Bantu Presbyterian Church of South AfricaChapter 9. The formation of the Bantu Presbyterian Church of South AfricaChapter 10. Mission to Church – Church to mission: The first ten years, 1923-1933Chapter 11. Reaching out: The Bantu Presbyterian Church in South Africa and the Presbyterian Church of South Africa and Ecumenism, 1923-1939Chapter 12. The Bantu Presbyterian Church in South Africa and Ecumenism, 1940-1999Chapter 13. The end of Mission Councils: The Church of Scotland South Africa, Joint Council, 1971–1981Chapter 14. A young church in mission or maintenance mode? The Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa (1923-1999)Chapter 15. The Bantu/Reformed Presbyterian Church and Socio-political issuesChapter 16. Bantu/Reformed Presbyterian Church Women in Leadership in MinistryConclusion: Indigenous Presbyterians and Missionaries – transferring contending roles and responsibilitiesBibliography

I have no doubt that this will be an important book on aspects of Scottish mission history and South African church history. There are not many people with the knowledge and background to take on a task like this; Graham Duncan is one of the few people who has accomplished this with aplomb.