Despite neo-Calvinism’s thorny historic relationship with apartheid, this article retrieves from neo-Calvinism to contribute to the contemporary evangelical conversation about ethnic and multiethnic churches. Scholars of various disciplines have commonly accepted a link between neo-Calvinism and South Africa’s apartheid. Meanwhile, neo-Calvinists labor to sever this link, wishing to disentangle their tradition from apartheid’s evils, such as the enforcement of racially segregated churches. In reaction to the evils of such segregation, many contemporary Evangelicals have advocated for multiethnic churches that demographically reflect their ethnically diverse communities on the basis of Christian unity. This has implicitly and explicitly challenged the legitimacy of ethnic churches. This article contends that despite the link between neo-Calvinism and apartheid, and despite neo-Calvinist efforts to sever this link, neo-Calvinism offers good biblical and theological support for the establishment of ethnic churches in multiethnic contexts without at all denigrating multiethnic churches or falling into the evils of apartheid.

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多民族背景下的新加尔文主义和民族教会

尽管新加尔文主义与种族隔离有着棘手的历史关系，但本文从新加尔文主义中检索，为当代关于种族和多种族教会的福音派对话做出贡献。各个学科的学者普遍接受新加尔文主义与南非种族隔离之间的联系。与此同时，新加尔文主义者努力切断这种联系，希望将他们的传统与种族隔离的罪恶分开，例如强制执行种族隔离的教会。为了应对这种种族隔离的弊端，许多当代福音派人士提倡多民族教会，在人口统计上反映他们在基督教团结基础上的多民族社区。这隐含而明确地挑战了民族教会的合法性。