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Christian Maramatanga Society

Christian Maramatanga Society

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The Christian Maramatanga Society is a small Christian based denomination originating in New Zealand in mid-1920s.
[edit] 1 History

Following a theological debate in the Rātana Established Church of New Zealand, Mrs. Ngapaki Hakaraia left the church to form her own movement at Kai Iwi , a settlement in New Zealand to the west of Wanganui. It is said that when Mr. Tahupotiki Wiremu Rātana, Mangai, founder of the Rātana Established Church of New Zealand (commonly known as Rātana Church) "closed the Bible", many thought that he implied that the members of the church should not read the Bible as well. This had an impact on Mrs. Hakaraia in which led to her forming her own church to ensure that the Bible "remained open". However, Rātana did not imply this but rather that the Bible be closed in order to stop fanciful prophecies being heralded from the Book of Revelation in the future.

Following the Rātana church, the Society actively engaged in politics.
[edit] 2 Today

The church continues today with a small membership.[citation needed]
[edit] 3 References

Henderson, James Mcleod (1963). Ratana The Man, The Church, The Movement (1st ed.) A.H & A.W. Reed Ltd ISBN 0-589-00619-3.
Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 153, 27 December 1944, Page 4 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19441227.2.23
Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 154, 28 December 1944, Page 7 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19441228.2.96
Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 57, 4 September 1943, Page 8 http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19430904.2.68




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This needs to be disambiguated from the Maramatanga movement, which is older than Ratana (the founder was Wiremu Ratana's aunt), and which is now a movement within the Roman Catholic Church, and is active with several centers in the North Island of New Zealand and (I would estimate) a few thousand adherants. Sen Mcglinn (talk) 14:24, 7 February 2010 (UTC)



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