Faith Politics And Reconciliation

Author : Dominic O'Sullivan
Publisher : Huia Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1869691512

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Faith, Politics and Reconciliation by Dominic O'Sullivan Pdf

Were Catholics guilty of [aiding and abetting] the genocide of indigenous peoples during the colonization of Australia and New Zealand? Is saying sorry and paying some compensation for losses suffered to indigenous peoples of both countries enough? What obligations do Catholics now have if a peaceful and harmonious society is to emerge from the tragedy of the past? In order to answer these and other related questions over the role of the Roman Catholic Church in the colonization of Australia and New Zealand, Dominic O'Sullivan takes us on a theological, philosophical and political journey from the countries of Europe to the colonies of Australia and New Zealand.

Author : Christo Thesnaar,Len Hansen
Publisher : African Sun Media
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781928480518

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Unfinished Business by Christo Thesnaar,Len Hansen Pdf

This publication takes one back to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Faith Communities’ Hearings in 1997 and the re-enactment of those hearings in 2014. Some communities revisit their support of those in power and their change of heart. Others revisit their struggle against the regime and its ideology. All also revisit promises made in 1997 to work together - individually and collectively - toward a new society post 1994. After twenty years, the same faith communities (and some additional ones) and some prominent South Africans who played leading roles in the run-up to and during the hearings ask what faith communities promised at the time and whether this has been achieved by 2014. Over two days, together with local and international observers, they again face the past, but also the unfinished business in the present and future of a just, reconciled and transformed South Africa so clearly envisioned by the TRC, in 1997.

Author : David Tombs,Joseph Liechty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317137559

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Explorations in Reconciliation by David Tombs,Joseph Liechty Pdf

Theologians and scholars of religion draw on rich resources to address the complex issues raised by political reconciliation in the Middle East, the former Yugoslavia, South Africa, Northern Ireland and elsewhere. The questions addressed include: Can truth set a person, or a society, free? How is political forgiveness possible? Are political, personal, and spiritual reconciliation essentially related? Explorations in Reconciliation brings Catholic, Protestant, Mennonite, Jewish and Islamic perspectives together within a single volume to present some of the most relevant theological work today. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/ISBN, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. The support of the Irish School of Ecumenics Trust in making this OA version possible is gratefully acknowledged.

Author : Daniel Philpott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015064716064

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The Politics of Past Evil by Daniel Philpott Pdf

A formidable number of societies all over the world have sought to confront past evil. This volume features a conversation about reconciliation whose common denominator is theology. Theologians, philosophers, and political scientists explore the meaning of reconciliation for the politics of transition.

Author : Weber Theodore R
Publisher : Lutterworth Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718844707

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War, Peace and Reconciliation by Weber Theodore R Pdf

War, Peace, and Reconciliation invites Christians and their churches into a dialogue regarding how to think about war from a standpoint rooted in faith. It asks how reconciliation, which is central to Christian life and doctrine, can engage with therealities of war without surrendering its fundamental affirmations. Theodore Weber defines these realities politically by discussing the meanings of power, peace as a particular organisation of power, and the international system. The study of war and politics is unavoidable, as is engagement with reconciliation, because all human activity exists in the context of the gracious work of God to renew and reconcile the fallen creation. Weber's inquiry is theocentric and christocentric. It culminates in a stirring call to churches to examine all their practices in the light of this perspective.

Author : John W. De Gruchy
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451411618

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Reconciliation by John W. De Gruchy Pdf

Whether born in the Mideast, Africa, Asia, or brought home to the streets of America, violent hatreds often threaten to swamp the minimal cooperation needed to foster life and health. Does Christianity have anything besides warmed-over pieties to offer a world torn by estrangement, alienation, and violently opposed worldviews? In this signal contribution to public theology, John de Gruchy, an internationally esteemed political theologian, emphatically affirms the possibility and necessity of reconciliation. For Christians, he says, reconciliation is the center and perennial test of their faith. De Gruchy expands reconciliation's relevance beyond personal piety and ecclesial harmony to encompass group relations, politics, and even the environment. In all cases, he argues, it involves the restoration of justice. Forged in the recent experience of South Africa, his work delineates the political and ecclesial significance of reconciliation and shows its importance for interreligious relations, addressing victimization, and international peace. Reconciliation will be welcomed by all whose faith leads them to help alleviate the world's mounting agonies.

Author : Pauline Kollontai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317082903

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Peace and Reconciliation by Pauline Kollontai Pdf

Establishing a shared identity is an important part of any process of peace and reconciliation. This book discusses issues and theories of identity formation that can be implemented for peace and reconciliation from the perspectives of theology and religious studies, whilst interacting with politics, socio-cultural studies and economics. By focusing on the theme of peace and reconciliation, and employing an interdisciplinary approach, this volume will make a significant contribution to the discussion of the situation of the Korean peninsula, and wider global contexts. The volume explores theoretical issues such as political and economic implications of reconciliation; interfaith and biblical perspectives; and the role of religion in peace making. Furthermore the contributors examine practical implications of the theme in the contexts of Germany, Northern Ireland, South Africa, India, East Asia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Korean peninsula. The book offers invaluable insights for policy-makers, academics, and lay leaders, besides being an important tool for researchers and students of theology, religion, sociology, politics and history.

Author : Allan Aubrey Boesak and Curtiss Paul DeYoung
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Race relations
ISBN : 9781608332113

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Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism by Allan Aubrey Boesak and Curtiss Paul DeYoung Pdf

Author : Megan Shore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317068143

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Religion and Conflict Resolution by Megan Shore Pdf

This book examines the ambiguous role that Christianity played in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It has two objectives: to analyse the role Christianity played in the TRC and to highlight certain consequences that may be instructive to future international conflict resolution processes. Religion and conflict resolution is an area of significant importance. Ongoing conflicts involving Palestinians and Israelis, Muslims and Hindus, and even radical Islamic jihadists and Western countries have heightened the awareness of the potential power of religion to fuel conflict. Yet these religious traditions also promote peace and respect for others as key components in doing justice. Examining the potential role religion can play in generating peace and justice, specifically Christianity in South Africa's TRC, is of utmost importance as religiously inspired violence continues to occur. This book highlights the importance of accounting for religion in international conflict resolution.

Author : Kjell-Ake Nordquist
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532600807

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Reconciliation as Politics by Kjell-Ake Nordquist Pdf

Is "political reconciliation" a new tool for peace-building and justice--in peace processes and other complex social reconstruction efforts-after dictatorship or civil wars? Or is it just another term for established practices like negotiation, conflict resolution, and cooperation? Reconciliation processes after conflict and war can be very different in form and content. Kjell-Ake Nordquist analyzes the concept of reconciliation from a political perspective and outlines an understanding of its characteristics in a comparison with its closest "conceptual relatives": forgiveness and conflict resolution. In addition, Nordquist specifically addresses the structural dimensions of reconciliation, and formulates an understanding of reconciliation that identifies a specific contribution to the settlement of political conflicts. In this way, political reconciliation has the potential to be an approach that, along with other activities, contributes to more complete and genuine peace processes.

Author : Iain S. Maclean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317070474

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Reconciliation, Nations and Churches in Latin America by Iain S. Maclean Pdf

This book examines the recent phenomenon in Latin America of national Truth and Reconciliation commissions. Few studies have examined the role of Churches or religion in political processes that proclaim valued theological terms as their agenda - truth, forgiveness, and reconciliation. This book questions the role of religion, specifically of established Churches. The impact of such reconciliation commissions on Indigenous Native Americans is also examined, as is the role of women and how both commissions and Churches or religions were challenged by their experiences. The contributors offer differing perspectives on one or more national truth and reconciliation processes and thus offer a collection that serves as valuable source for the disciplines of Religious Studies, Ethics, Theology, Political Science, Social Sciences and Women's Studies.

Author : Ralf K. Wüstenberg
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802828248

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The Political Dimension of Reconciliation by Ralf K. Wüstenberg Pdf

When a nation is working through its past, the call for reconciliation is often expressed, as was the case in South Africa after the end of apartheid and in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Informed by Ralf Wstenberg s long residence in South Africa and his own native Germany, this book investigates the conditions and dynamics associated with political reconciliation. Wstenberg starts from the observation that reconciliation as a central theme in Christian theological teaching is spoken of in both theology and politics. But does it mean the same thing in both contexts? Is there a commonality of meaning for words like guilt and reconciliation in politics and theology? Where and under what conditions is it possible to translate from theological language into political and vice versa? Wstenberg s study promotes a genuine dialogue between religion and politics by carefully analyzing moral discourses in political transitions to democracy.

Author : Brian Cox
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1469131390

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Faith-Based Reconciliation by Brian Cox Pdf

The faith-based reconciliation process is an innovative approach to diplomacy and peacemaking that has been developed over the past twenty years by Brian Cox who brings together a unique background in politics, theological and pastoral training, conflict resolution and international experience. This approach is defined by eight core values and by a deliberative process that focuses on creating a reconciling spirit between antagonists as a prelude to constructive joint problem solving. As a methodology it is not a form of interfaith dialogue or a traditional confl ict resolution model. It is a totally unique process that causes participants to search the depths of their own being and to experience at the deepest level the heart of "the other" in a faith-based context. It is Abrahamic reconciliation!

Author : Daniel Philpott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190248352

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Just and Unjust Peace by Daniel Philpott Pdf

In Just and Unjust Peace, Daniel Philpott offers an innovative and hopeful response to these questions. He challenges the approach to peace-building that dominates the United Nations, western governments, and the human rights community. While he shares their commitments to human rights and democracy, Philpott argues that these values alone cannot redress the wounds caused by war, genocide, and dictatorship. Both justice and the effective restoration of political order call for a more holistic, restorative approach. Philpott answers that call by proposing a form of political reconciliation that is deeply rooted in three religious traditions--Christianity, Islam, and Judaism--as well as the restorative justice movement. These traditions offer the fullest expressions of the core concepts of justice, mercy, and peace. By adapting these ancient concepts to modern constitutional democracy and international norms, Philpott crafts an ethic that has widespread appeal and offers real hope for the restoration of justice in fractured communities. From the roots of these traditions, Philpott develops six practices--building just institutions and relations between states, acknowledgment, reparations, restorative punishment, apology and, most important, forgiveness--which he then applies to real cases, identifying how each practice redresses a unique set of wounds.

Author : Harold J. Berman
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802848524

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Faith and Order by Harold J. Berman Pdf

This book argues that despite the tensions existing in all societies between religious faith and legal order, they inevitably interact. In the course of his discussion Berman traces the history of Western law, exposes the fallacies of law theories that fail to take religion into account, examines key theological, prophetic, and educational themes, and looks at the role of religion in the Soviet and post-Soviet state.