The Thousand Generation Covenant: Dutch Reformed Covenant Theology and Group Identity in Colonial South Africa, 1652-1814, by Jonathan Neil Gerstner / A View of the Covenant of Grace, by Thomas Boston. Introduction by Rev. Malcolm H. Watts / All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes: Christians & Popular Culture, by, Kenneth A. Myers / David: His Life and Times, by Ivor Powell

The Thousand Generation Covenant: Dutch Reformed Covenant Theology and Group Identity in Colonial South Africa, 1652-1814, by Jonathan Neil Gerstner. Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1991. 280 pages. Hardcover. 135 gulden (about $70). (Reviewed by the Editor.) It is the contention of Reformed theologian Dr. Jonathan Gerstner that an erroneous doctrine of the covenant on the part of many early Dutch Reformed theologians contributed significantly to the "heresy" of apartheid in South...