The church has much to learn from an often overlooked community--those with disabilities. Theologian Stanley Hauerwas collaborates with Jean Vanier, founder of the worldwide L'Arche communities, to explore how Christians can embody a different way of being--one marked by gentleness, peacemaking and faithfulness.
Conflict resolution and peacemaking are not enough. What makes real reconciliation possible? Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice work from their experiences in Uganda and Mississippi to recover distinctively Christian practices that will help the church be both a sign and an agent of God's reconciling love in the fragmented world of the twenty-first ...
In 1994, the most Christianized country in Africa became the site of its worst genocide. The tragedy was in Rwanda, but what happened was a mirror reflecting the deep brokenness of the church in the West. Yet by looking at what happened and why, we can find hope for the global body of Christ.
The author of this book develops a theoretical framework and demonstrates that Hauerwas's claim about the relation between religion and ethics only makes sense within the wider framework of his attempt to set aside Kantian moral tradition.
Civil war, famine, genocide, AIDS - Africa has endured some of the most horrific human tragedies of recent times. The rapid rise of a Christian social ethics movement, however, suggests a powerful coping mechanism for African peoples. One of the leaders of this movement is Emmanuel Katongole, a Catholic priest in Uganda. In "A Future for Africa", ...
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