Apartheid’s segregation doctrine was generalized from church self-governance to the whole polity.

Evidence

Originally referring to the self-governance and self-determination of the separate – or separately conceived – churches that were supposed to minister to these differentiated national communities, the doctrine of apartheid quickly came to be generalized across the entire polity. The separateness of a theological community committed to developing the authenticity of “one’s own” came to ground the political theology of separate development. The spirit of self-determining national differentiation fueled the power of political segregation ordered by and in the overriding interests of whites. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1515

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines apartheid’s genesis as a theological doctrine of ‘separate development’ moving from church autonomy to full political segregation — the core definitional frame of the chapter.
• XREF: connects to: Apartheid originated as a church self-governance doctrine generalized across the whole polity — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1515; Apartheid’s political doctrine was generalized from a theological principle of separate churches

Broader Connections

• Apartheid originated as a church self-governance doctrine generalized across the whole polity #corroborates (1.00) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1515
• Apartheid’s political doctrine was generalized from a theological principle of separate churches #corroborates (0.98)