Reconciliation: by Michael Battle

Author: Michael Battle

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The Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu

RECONCILIATION: THE UBUNTU THEOLOGY OF DESMOND TUTU is Michael 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, and the model it affords for facilitating interracial community and reconciliation in South Africa.

Carefully drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including Tutu's unpublished speeches, addresses, and sermons, as well as a variety of secondary sources, Battle portrays Tutu as a theologian who embraces Anglican orthodoxy and who has consistently applied that framework to issues of race in the South African context.

Yet Desmond Tutu is much more than a conventional theologian. Battle wisely recognizes in him not only an articulate preacher and at times an unwilling politician, but most significantly a genuinely committed theologian whose deepest roots are in prayer and protest. Central to knowing this Tutu is understanding his position that apartheid "makes no theological sense . . . for it denies that human beings are created in the image of God."

The author also looks at Bishop Tutu against the backdrop of major traditions in Western theology (specifically, Calvinist and Anglican) and especially contemporary liberation theologies (including those of James Cone and Itumeleng Mosala), underscoring the ways in which Tutu's theology comes out of the particularity of the black South African experience.

MICHAEL BATTLE is assistant professor of religion at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, and former adjutant to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1993-94.

Features: Bibliography, Table of Contents
Physical Info: 0.71" H x 8.46" L x 5.5" W (0.8 lbs) 255 pages
Publisher: Pilgrim Press
US SRP: $ 20.00 US
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: June 1997

A highly original analysis of Bishop Tutu's theology of ubuntu, an African concept that identity is formed by community, Battle draws on Tutu's many unpublished addresses and sermons to portray a man for whom the conventions of Anglicanism serve as roots and resources in the ongoing struggle against apartheid. Foreword by Desmond Tutu.

Additional Information
CPC Categories:
- Theology | Theology & Doctrine | Contemporary Theologies
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology | General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | African American Studies - General
- Social Science | Sociology of Religion
- Religion | Theology
LC Subjects:
- 20th century - Christianity
- History of doctrines - Reconciliation
- Religious aspects - Tutu, Desmond
Themes:
Theometrics | Academic
Ethnic Orientation | African-American
Religious Orientation | Christian
Dewey: 230.3092
LCCN: 97008407

Reconciliation: by Michael Battle Author: Michael Battle
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The Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu: Carefully drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including Tutu's unpublished speeches, addresses, and sermons, as well as a variety of secondary sources, Battle portrays Tutu as a theologian who embraces ...

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