Doing the Truth

This article reads two Reformed confessions—the 1986 Belhar Confession and the 2004 Accra Confession—alongside each other in light of their relevance for the twenty-first century and makes two general arguments. The first is that Belhar still matters today because the naming of apartheid as heresy also constitutes a call to examine ways in which racial separations intersect with other injustices, particularly those of economic and ecological nature. The second is that the Accra Confession shares a confessional type with Belhar and represents its contextual and theological continuation. After a short overview of the Accra Confession, both confessions are compared to demonstrate that Accra can be understood as “doing the truth” of Belhar and that it speaks to our contexts where racial, economic, and environmental forms of separations continue in renewed forms.