Kairos, crisis, and global apartheid: the challenge to prophetic resistance

Machine generated contents note: -- 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, Decisi...

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Main Author: Boesak, Allan 1946- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan June 2015
In:Year: 2015
Edition:First edition
Series/Journal:Black religion, womanist thought, social justice
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Challenge to the church / Society / Crisis / Resistance
Further subjects:B Social History / HISTORY
B Theology / RELIGION
B Kairos documents
B Christian Theology / RELIGION / Liberation
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Summary:Machine generated contents note: -- 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
"The 1985 Kairos Document came as a call to discern the devastating crises apartheid was causing and for the church to understand this as a Kairos moment and a call for conversion and action. Thirty years later Christians and faith communities across the world are facing global apartheid: in growing social and economic inequalities, environmental devastation, the destruction of societies and victimization of the defenseless through endless war and violence, and degradation of human dignity on a global scale are confronted with global apartheid. This book is call to discern these crises and to respond with faithful, prophetic resistance for the sake of the common good. "--
"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. Today, with global struggles against an equally destructive global apartheid, this book is a call to discern new moments of crisis, discernment and kairos, and respond with prophetic resistance to global injustice"--
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 255-266
ISBN:1137503084