Reconciliation
Subtitle: the Ubuntu theology of Desmond Tutu
By: Michael Battle ; [foreword by Desmond Tutu].
Publisher: Pilgrim Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cleveland, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Tutu, Desmond; Reconciliation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History of doctrines -- 20th century
Description: Reconciliation 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. This model proved successful in opposing the apartheid racism in South Africa, but it also offers a Christian paradigm for resisting oppression wherever it appears.

Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including Tutu's unpublished speeches and sermons, as well as many secondary sources, Battle portrays the Nobel Peace Prize winner as a theologian who embraces Anglican orthodoxy and who has consistently applied that framework to issues of race in South Africa. Yet Tutu is much more than a conventional theologian.

He is, as Battle shows, not only an articulate preacher and at times an unwilling politician, but a genuinely committed theologian whose deepest roots are in prayer and protest.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-255).