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Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid : The Challenge to Prophetic Resistance / by Allan Aubrey Boesak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boesak, Allan, 1945- Author.
- Series:
- Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice, 2945-6983
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and sociology.
- Social policy.
- Social history.
- Human rights.
- Theology.
- World history.
- Sociology of Religion.
- Social Policy.
- Social History.
- Human Rights.
- Christian Theology.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Local Subjects:
- Sociology of Religion.
- Social Policy.
- Social History.
- Human Rights.
- Christian Theology.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Hearing the Cry and Reading the Signs of the Times: 'A Humanity with a Kairos Consciousness'
- At the Heart of it All: Kairos, Apartheid and the Calvinist Tradition
- 'The Time for Pious Words is Over': Kairos, Decision and Righteous Choices
- The Inclusiveness of God's Embrace: Kairos, Justice, the Dignity of Human Sexuality and the Belhar Confession
- The End of Words?: Kairos, Challenge and the Rhetoric of the Barricades
- Speaking Truth to the Tower: Kairos, Dissent and Prophetic Speech
- Combative Love and Revolutionary Neighborliness: Kairos, Solidarity and the Jericho Road
- That Which Avails Much; Kairos, Public Prayer and Political Piety.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137503091
- 1137503092
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