ABSTRACT
Apparently continuing a history of compromise with former oppressors and new governors, academic theology in South Africa today seems to have entered a compromised phase. Black Theology as a critical theology has been replaced by contextual theology because whites who were involved in the liberation struggle felt left out by the idea of a Black Theology. So it seems that in a democratic dispensation, black theological language is changed to some “neutral theology” because the latter best embodies the spirit of a rainbow nation brought about by the negotiated settlement called the new South Africa. It is therefore not by chance that many prefer neutral language in opposition to language that insists on the particularity of some reflections. It will be argued that the present South African context is no different from the context in which Black Theology of Liberation was born in South Africa. For this very reason alone, it will be argued, Black Theology as liberation theology is a relevant discourse today.
