Prophet from the South
Subtitle: essays in honour of Allan Aubrey Boesak
By: editors, Prince Dibeela, Puleng Lenka-Bula, Vuyani Vellem
Edition: Revised edition.
Publisher: Sun Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: [Stellenbosch]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781920689247; 9781920689254
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Political and social views; Christianity and politics; Race relations; Religious aspects; Apartheid; Reformed Church; Biography; Clergy; Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sendingkerk in Suid-Afrika
Description: "Allan Boesak was one of the foremost leaders in the struggle against apartheid. His role in the church in South Africa, internationally and in the United Democratic Front, contributed significantly to the demise of apartheid. He championed the rights of the oppressed and became the representative voice of the poor and disadvantaged. Allan is a gifted preacher, teacher, theologian, writer and an orator blessed with poetic tendencies and a flourishing vocabulary. He has the natural ability to inspire, motivate and stimulate critical and analytical thinking and responses) where globalisation threatens to be a new form of colonisation. He has eloquently championed the cause of economic justice, justice for the earth, gender justice and the struggle against homophobia in the church."--Publisher's website.
Notes: First published in South Africa in 2012 by UCCSA Publications, Johannesburg.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Resisting "Lordless powers"? : Boesak on power  -- Dirkie Smit; title: Jesus Christ is Lord! : an indispensable parameter for theology in public life?  -- Nico Koopman; title: A personal reflection : questioning the present from the lenses of the theological and political influence of Allan Boesak  -- Alex Bhiman; title: Signposts, or the Cassandra Syndrome  -- Roberto Jordan; title: Truth revealed  -- Nyambura Njoroge; title: If there is no justice there will be no peace  -- Martin Robra; title: Nevertheless, God : the theology of the absurd  -- Orfelia Ortega; title: Justice, peace and human rights : a call to active prayer  -- Setri Nyomi; title: Africa in African American religious history and teaching : the case of black theology  -- Dwight Hopkins; title: Black and reformed : conversations with Caribbean theology  -- Roderick Hewitt; title: Lessons of liberation in the struggle for freedom  -- Katie G. Cannon; title: Talking about race in the twenty-first century  -- Jeremiah Wright, Jr.; title: Strange fruit : the cross and the lynching tree  -- James Cone; title: Running with horses without losing the tenderness of conscience : the contribution of Allan Boesak to South African politics and theology  -- Tinyiko Sam Maluleke; title: In pursuit of a liberating humanism : reflections in honour of Allan Aubrey Boesak  -- Prince Dibeela; title: A confessing journey : towards justice in the economy and the earth  -- Park Seong-Won; title: Allan Aubrey Boesak : a Black public theologian from the belly of a kgodumodumo -- Vuyani Vellem.