Albert Nolan

Albert Nolan OP (born 1934) is a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Dominican order in South Africa. Albert Nolan - Life. Nolan was born in Cape Town, South Africa, as a fourth-generation South African of English descent. Reading the works of Thomas Merton, Nolan became attracted to the idea of religious life (ie. joining a religious order). Eventually he joined the Dominican Order in 1954, and studied in South Africa and Rome, where he received a doctorate. From 1976 to 1984, he was Vicar-Gener ...

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Nolan was born in Cape Town, South Africa, as a fourth-generation South African of English descent. Reading the works of Thomas Merton, Nolan became attracted to the idea of religious life (ie. joining a religious order). Eventually he joined the Dominican Order in 1954, and studied in South Africa and Rome, where he received a doctorate. From 1976 to 1984, he was Vicar-General of the Dominicans in South Africa. In 1984, he was elected Master of the Dominican Order (worldwide), but he declined in order ...

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The Order of Preachers (Ordo Praedicatorum), more commonly known as the Dominican Order, or Dominicans is a Catholic religious order. In England and some other countries the Dominicans are referred to as Blackfriars on account of the black "cappa" or cloak they wear over their white habits, just as the Carmelites are known as "Whitefriars" for the same reason. Founded by Saint Dominic de Guzman in the early 13th century, it is one of the great orders of mendicant friars that revolutionized religious life in Europe during the high middle ages. It is managed by the Master of ...

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The contemporary period of the history of the Preachers begins with the different restorations of provinces undertaken after the revolutions which had destroyed the Order in several countries of the Old World and the New. This period begins more or less early in the nineteenth century, and it cannot be traced down to the present day without naming religious who are still living and whose activity embodies the present life of the Order. The revolutions not having totally destroyed certain of the provinces, nor decimated them, simultaneously, ...

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The document is structured in five short chapters (the second edition comes to less than 40 pages): (1) The Moment of Truth; (2) Critique of 'State Theology'; (3) Critique of 'Church Theology'; (4) Towards a Prophetic Theology; (5) Challenge to Action; and a short conclusion. The following summary is based on the revised edition (1986) and is designed to focus on the most important aspects of the KD, without comment. Kairos Document ...

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Kairos Document, Kairos Document - Context, Kairos Document - Summary, Kairos Document - Chapter One: The Moment of Truth, Kairos Document - Chapter Two: Critique of State Theology, Kairos Document - Chapter Three: Critique of 'Church Theology', Kairos Document - Chapter Four: Towards a Prophetic Theology, Kairos Document - Chapter Five: Challenge to Action, Kairos Document - Conclusion, Kairos Document - Reactions, Kairos Document - Literature

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The modern period consists of the three centuries between the religious revolution at the beginning of the sixteenth century (Protestantism) and the French Revolution with its consequences. The Order of Preachers, like the Church itself, felt the shock of these destructive revolutions but its vitality enabled it to withstand them successfully. At the beginning of the sixteenth century the order was on the way to a genuine renaissance when the Revolutionary upheavals occurred. The progress of heresy cost it six or seven provinces and several ...

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The KD was written by an ecumenical group of pastors in Soweto, though their names have never (officially) become public: there appears to have been a conscious decision at the time to make this an anonymous document, perhaps for security reasons, since the Apartheid regime frequently harassed, detained, or tortured clergy who opposed the government. It is widely thought though that Frank Chikane (a black pentecostal pastor and theologian) and Albert Nolan (a white Roman Catholic priest and member of the Dominican order) belonged to this gro ...

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Kairos Document, Kairos Document - Context, Kairos Document - Summary, Kairos Document - Chapter One: The Moment of Truth, Kairos Document - Chapter Two: Critique of State Theology, Kairos Document - Chapter Three: Critique of 'Church Theology', Kairos Document - Chapter Four: Towards a Prophetic Theology, Kairos Document - Chapter Five: Challenge to Action, Kairos Document - Conclusion, Kairos Document - Reactions, Kairos Document - Literature

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Although the Apartheid State was not directly addressed in the KD, the government (not surprisingly) reacted strongly against it. A government spokesperson rejected it in a speech in Parliament, denouncing it as (allegedly) a call for violence, and calling for its prohibition ('banning') by the government (Crisis News 6, March 1986, p.1). An Inkatha political magazine, the Clarion Call, similarly attacked it as a theological document that supported the 'violence of the ANC' (African National Congress). However, to the surprise of many observers at the time, the KD ...

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Kairos Document, Kairos Document - Context, Kairos Document - Summary, Kairos Document - Chapter One: The Moment of Truth, Kairos Document - Chapter Two: Critique of State Theology, Kairos Document - Chapter Three: Critique of 'Church Theology', Kairos Document - Chapter Four: Towards a Prophetic Theology, Kairos Document - Chapter Five: Challenge to Action, Kairos Document - Conclusion, Kairos Document - Reactions, Kairos Document - Literature

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See also: Category:Dominicans Important Dominicans include: St. Thomas Aquinas St. Dominic St. Albertus Magnus St. Catherine of Siena St. Rose of Lima Bartolome de las Casas Tomas de Torquemada Giordano Bruno Bernard Gui Andrew of Longjumeau Girolamo Savonarola Edward Fenwick, first Bishop of Cincinnati, OH John Bromyard Nicolau Aymerich Meister Eckhart Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Timothy Radcliffe Felix Faber Joseph Sadoc Aleman ...

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1. Laudare, Benedicere, Praedicare To praise, to bless and to preach (from the Roman Missal, Preface of the Blessed Virgin Mary) 2. Veritas Truth 3. Contemplare et Contemplata Aliis Tradere To study and to hand on the fruits of study (or, to contemplate and to hand on the fruits of contemplation) ...

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Their history may be divided into three periods: The Middle Ages (from their foundation to the beginning of the sixteenth century); The Modern Period up to the French Revolution; The Contemporary Period. In each of these periods we shall examine the work of the order in its various departments. ...

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In 1990, Albert Nolan received an honorary doctorate from Regis College, Toronto, Canada. In 2003, the South African government awarded him the Order of Luthuli in silver, in recognition of "his life-long struggle dedication to the struggle for democracy, human rights and justice and for challenging the religious dogma including theological justification of apartheid". ...

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Nolan became famous for his 1976 book, Jesus before Christianity, in which he presented an account of Jesus' radical involvement in the struggle for full humanity in the context of first-century Palestine: he "challenged the rich to identify in solidarity with the poor, a spirituality of solidarity that resonated with white Catholics seeking a new, progressive direction" (Egan 1999). The book was translated into nine languages, and a 25th annivers ...

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