-
DEPARTAMENTOS
INTERESSE GERAL
INTERESSE GERAL 2
LIVROS TÉCNICOS
LIVROS TÉCNICOS 2
CATEGORIAS
- IMPORTADOS
Theology, Liberation and Genocide
Cód:
491_9780334041900
With the Rwandan genocide, Christianity was once again implicated in atrocity. In his latest work, Mario Aguilar contends that a prevailing ecclesiology and theology set the context for the genocidal evil unleashed. Drawing parallels with the political struggles in Latin America, Aguilar applies the lens of liberation theology and detects signs of Gods reign returning in the iberating praxis of love at the peripheries of Rwandan life. This hope-filled book stems from Aguilars conviction that liberation theology remains a necessary hermeneutical tool and force for transformational justice Julie Clague, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of GlasgowIn exploring, probing, interrogating, the relationships between theology, liberation, and genocide, Mario I. Aguilar follows the path of his friend Marcella Althaus-Reid in analysing what liberation theologians in Latin America, Africa or Asia have not done. For those of us who do our work in such places, we need read no further without our thoughts filling with a multitude of incomplete tasks in our liberation praxis. But for those of us in Africa, haunted as we by the recent genocide in Rwanda and the continuing genocide perpetrated by HIV and its accomplices, we must read further because we must now theologize about an absent God or about the silence of God. While we should do this differently from those who have gone before us in Europe after Auschwitz, drawing from the realities and resources of our own African contexts, do this we must. And Aguilar shows us the way.Gerald West, School of Religion and Theology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaTheology, Liberation and Genocide explores the theological implications of genocide from the point of view of liberation theology. The issue of the mass extermination of people links Latin America and the genocide of indigenous peoples from 1492 to Rwanda and the killing of over one million people in 1994.Despite these links, the issue of
Veja mais
