Reconciliation: Restoring Justice - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800636007 ISBN 13: 9780800636005

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2002

Synopsis

Whether born in the Mideast, Africa, Asia, or brought home to the streets of America, violent hatreds often threaten to swamp the minimal cooperation needed to foster life and health. Does Christianity have anything besides warmed-over pieties to offer a world torn by estrangement, alienation, and violently opposed worldviews?

In this signal contribution to public theology, John de Gruchy, an internationally esteemed political theologian, emphatically affirms the possibility and necessity of reconciliation. For Christians, he says, reconciliation is the center and perennial test of their faith. De Gruchy expands reconciliation’s relevance beyond personal piety and ecclesial harmony to encompass group relations, politics, and even the environment. In all cases, he argues, it involves the restoration of justice. Forged in the recent experience of South Africa, his work delineates the political and ecclesial significance of reconciliation and shows its importance for interreligious relations, addressing victimization, and international peace. Reconciliation will be welcomed by all whose faith leads them to help alleviate the world’s mounting agonies.

About this title

About the Author:

John W. de Gruchy is Robert Selby Taylor Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Director of its Graduate School in Humanities. Editor of the Making of Modern Theology series (Fortress Press), he is also author of Christianity and Democracy (1995) and Christianity, Art, and Transformation (2001), and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1999).

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0800636007
• ISBN 13: 9780800636005
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: De Gruchy John W.