Boesak Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid

The Challenge to Prophetic Resistance
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-49531-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice

In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in that society. This book is a call to discern new moments of crisis, discernment and kairos, and respond with prophetic resistance to global injustice.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boesak, Allan Aubrey

Boesak, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Hearing the Cry and Reading the Signs of the Times: 'A Humanity with a Kairos Consciousness' 2. At the Heart of it All: Kairos, Apartheid and the Calvinist Tradition 3. 'The Time for Pious Words is Over': Kairos, Decision and Righteous Choices 4. The Inclusiveness of God's Embrace: Kairos, Justice, the Dignity of Human Sexuality and the Belhar Confession 5. The End of Words?: Kairos, Challenge and the Rhetoric of the Barricades 6. Speaking Truth to the Tower: Kairos, Dissent and Prophetic Speech 7. Combative Love and Revolutionary Neighborliness: Kairos, Solidarity and the Jericho Road 8. That Which Avails Much; Kairos, Public Prayer and Political Piety

Über Autor(innen)

Allan Aubrey Boesak is Desmond Tutu Chair of Peace, Global Justice and Reconciliation Studies at Christian Theological Seminary, USA.