The Kotzé Case

The Kotzé Case

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Bleek reviews the controversial Kotzé case in which Johannes Jacobus Kotzé, the Minister of Darling, was expelled by the Synodical Commission following their rejection of his Heidelberg Catechism. As the Right Reverend Moderator of the Cape Synod, Andrew Murray chastised him for refusing to preach from question 60 of the Catechism, which Kotzé felt was in error. The Synod called his refusal to retract heretical. The Synod's decision to expel Kotzé was not unanimous.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

23/04/1864

Two cut out columns of newsprint text, positioned vertically parallel, pasted onto a plus-sized A4 unlined sheet with visible warping. "The Kotzé Case" is subsequently handwritten onto the mount/paper backing.