Rothney Tshaka

Director of the School of Humanities at the University of South Africa

Dr. Rothney Tshaka is professor of Systematic Theology and Ethics as well as Director of the School of Humanities at the University of South Africa. He taught ethics and theology at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey, USA. He has also taught in Zimbabwe. Tshaka is an ordained Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA). His research interests are in the areas of Politics, Race and Theology, and Afrophobia, as well as the intersections of being African and Reformed. As a theologian specialising in the history of the Reformed faith in South Africa, Tshaka has published numerous articles on the intersections of these two aspects of the African Christian. Tshaka is author of the book, Confessional Theology?: A Critical Analysis of the Theology of Karl Barth and its Significance for the Belhar Confession. He has also published a number of articles on Black Theology of Liberation in post-apartheid South Africa. His most recent works engages the subject of race and theology critically, see for instance, “The Black Church as the Womb of Black Liberation Theology? Why the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URCSA) is Not a Genuine Black Church.” He is a member of several editorial boards of theological journals in South Africa as well as a member of the editorial board for Black Theology: An International Journal, which is based in the UK.