Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid The Challenge to Prophetic Resistance

by Boesak, Allan Aubrey

• ISBN13: 9781137503084
• ISBN10: 1137503084
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-06-04
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The 1985 Kairos Document came as a call to discern and rise up against the devastating crises of the South African apartheid. Thirty years later, Christians and faith communities across the world are facing a different, more global, sort of apartheid. This apartheid is caused and characterized by growing social and economic inequalities, environmental devastation, and degradation of human dignity on a global scale. This book is a call to note the contours of these crises and respond with faithful, prophetic resistance for the sake of the common good.

Author Biography

Alan A. Boesak, along with Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, was the co-leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa from the 1970s to Nelson Mandela's release in 1990. Throughout his long career of social activism, he has served as President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, an advisor to the Apartheid Commission of the United Nations, and National Vice President of the South African Council of Churches. He is ordained in the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa and is currently the inaugural Desmond Tutu Chair of Peace, Global Justice, and Reconciliation Studies at Christian Theological Seminary and Butler University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Hearing the Cry and Reading the Signs of the Times: 'A Humanity with a Kairos Consciousness'
2. At the Heart of it All: Kairos, Apartheid and the Calvinist Tradition
3. 'The Time for Pious Words is Over': Kairos, Decision and Righteous Choices
4. The Inclusiveness of God's Embrace: Kairos, Justice, the Dignity of Human Sexuality and the Belhar Confession
5. The End of Words?: Kairos, Challenge and the Rhetoric of the Barricades
6. Speaking Truth to the Tower: Kairos, Dissent and Prophetic Speech
7. Combative Love and Revolutionary Neighborliness: Kairos, Solidarity and the Jericho Road
8. That Which Avails Much; Kairos, Public Prayer and Political Piety