Reconciliation: The Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu
Reconciliation is Battle's highly original analysis of Bishop Tutu's theology of ubuntu-an African concept recognizing that persons and groups form their identities in relation to one another. This model proved successful in opposing apartheid in South Africa, and it also offers a Christian paradigm for resisting oppression wherever it appears.\ Using a wide range of primary sources from Tutu, as well as a number of secondary sources, Battle shows Tutu as not only a dynamic preacher and at...
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Reconciliation is Battle's highly original analysis of Bishop Tutu's theology of ubuntu-an African concept recognizing that persons and groups form their identities in relation to one another. This model proved successful in opposing apartheid in South Africa, and it also offers a Christian paradigm for resisting oppression wherever it appears.Using a wide range of primary sources from Tutu, as well as a number of secondary sources, Battle shows Tutu as not only a dynamic preacher and at times an unwilling politician, but a genuinely committed theologian whose deepest roots are in prayer and protest.
ForewordPreface1Introduction: Holding Back a Tide of Violence12A Milk-and-Honey Land of Oppression113Delicate Networks of Interdependence354Filled with the Fullness of God545Inspired by Worship and Adoration of God836An African Spirituality of Passionate Concern1237Conclusion: God and a Political Priest154Notes183Bibliography217
