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| Titre : | The Passing Summer : A South African Pilgrimage in the Politics of Love |
| Auteurs : | Michael Cassidy, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Londres [GB] : Hodder and Stoughton, 1989 |
| Format : | xxi + 534 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Index. décimale : | HH (Histoire de l'Eglise/protestantisme: Afrique, Madagascar et Moyen-Orient) |
| Résumé : |
For many decades South Africa has been controlled by the . twin and escalating emotions of white fear and black anger. ' Feeding off each other, these provide a sure recipe for a forthcoming cataclysm. The doctrine of apartheid has infected ■ all of society. Time is running out for peaceful solutions. ‘The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved-, lamented the people of Judah just prior to their Babylonian captivity. The same sense of urgency and impending doom inspires The Passing Summer, and Michael Cassidy urges all onlookers, as well as South Africans to play their part in peacemaking.
Written from the front line. The Passing Summer appeals for true renewal, justice and reconciliation. As such it will inspire and stimulate not only all who arc concerned for South Africa, but also those who believe the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only foundation upon which to build a better world. Interviews and conversations with the key protagonists -President P. W. Botha; Law and Order Minister Louis Le Grange: Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, and many others pepper the pages, adding a human dimension to Michael Cassidy’s prophetic analysis. |
| Note de contenu : |
- Foreword (Rev. Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba)
- Author's Preface - Acknowledgements PART ONE - Nation Aflame (South Africa in crisis) - 1. The Passing Summer - 2. The Long Week PART TWO - Pilgrim with a Problem (Personal struggles with applying the gospel) - 3. Family and Volk - 4. Conviction, Conversion and Confusion - 5. Pilgrim’s Progress PART THREE - How to be Afrikaner, South African and Christian (The Afrikaner dilemma) - 6. Nationalism or Patriotism? I - 7. Understanding Afrikaner Nationalism - 8. The Dilemmas of Winning with Apartheid PART FOUR - The Tree, the Root and the Fruit (The links between structural injustice, theological error and black anguish) - 9. No Grapes from the Bramble Bush (A white education in the black experience) - 10. A Victim a Day on the Jericho Road (The regular violation of black dignity) - 11. Black Rights and White Wrongs (The black struggle for human rights) PART FIVE - If My People (The church’s responsibility) - 12. Understanding (The church’s responsibility for spiritual comprehension) - 13. Getting the Act Together (The church’s responsibility to connect the vertical and the horizontal) - 14. Practical Steps Towards Biblical Balance (The church’s responsibility to seek ministry holism) - 15. Reaching for Reconciliation (The church’s responsibility to be united and uniting) - 16. Humbling Ourselves (The church’s responsibility to labour for spirituality and revival) - 17. Liberating the Captives (The church’s responsibility to promote freedom in Christ) - 18. Rendering to Caesar (The church’s responsibility to the state) PART SIX - The Politics of Love (The outworking of love as a valid political principle) - 19. Winning in the World’s Workshop - 20. Love as a Political Virtue - 21. Love in Structures PART SEVEN - Postlude (Maintaining eternal perspectives) - 22. No Continuing City (Maintaining eternal perspectives) Appendices: 1. Major events in the history of South Africa / 2. The Freedom Charter / 3. A biblical picture of human rights / 4. Evangelism and social responsibility statements from the Lausanne Covenant / 5. National Initiative for Reconciliation Statement of Affirmation, 12 September 1985 / 6. NIR possible options of initiative, action and response / 7. Latin American Liberation Theology (a personal view by Michael Cassidy) / 8. Defining the dialectic (Derek Morphew) - Notes |
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| HH 041 | HH 041 | Livre | Bibliothèque principale | Livres empruntables | Prêt possible Disponible |
