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Africa has seen many political crises ranging from violent
political ideologies, to meticulous articulated racist governance
system, to ethnic clashes resulting in genocide and religious
conflicts that have planted the seed of mutual suspicion.The masses
impacted by such crises live with the past that has not passed. The
Healing of Memories: African Christian Responses to Politically
Induced Trauma examines Christian responses to the damaging impact
of conflict on the collective memory. Troubled memory is a recipe
for another cycle of conflict. While most academic works tend to
stress forgiving and forgetting, they did not offer much as to how
to deal with the unforgettable past. This book aims to fill this
gap by charting an interdisciplinary approach to healing the
corrosive memories of painful pasts. Taking a cue from the
empirical expositions of post-apartheid South Africa, post-genocide
Rwanda, the Congo Wars, and post-Red Terror Ethiopia, this volume
brings together coherent healing approaches to deal with traumatic
memory.
New York Times bestseller God's Politics struck a chord with
Americans disenchanted with how the Right had co-opted all talk
about integrating religious values into our politics, and with the
Left, who were mute on the subject. Jim Wallis argues that
America's separation of church and state does not require banishing
moral and religious values from the public square. God's Politics
offers a vision for how to convert spiritual values into real
social change and has started a grassroots movement to hold our
political leaders accountable by incorporating our deepest
convictions about war, poverty, racism, abortion, capital
punishment, and other moral issues into our nation's public life.
Who can change the political wind? Only we can.
Medical and bioethical issues have spawned a great deal of debate
in both public and academic contexts. Little has been done,
however, to engage with the underlying issues of the nature of
medicine and its role in human community. This book seeks to fill
that gap by providing Christian philosophical and theological
reflections on the nature and purposes of medicine and its role in
a Christian understanding of human society. The book provides two
main 'doorways' into a Christian philosophical theology of
medicine. First it presents a brief description of the contexts in
which medicine is practiced in the early 21st century, identifying
key problems and challenges that medicine must address. It then
turns to issues in contemporary bioethics, demonstrating how the
debate is rooted in conflicting visions of the nature of medicine
(and so human existence). This leads to a discussion of some of the
philosophical and theological resources currently available for
those who would reflect 'Christianly' on medicine. The heart of the
book consists of an articulation of a Christian understanding of
medicine as both a scholarly and a social practice, articulating
the philosophical-theological framework which informs this
perspective. It fleshes out features of medicine as an inherently
moral practice, one informed by a Christian social vision and
shaped by key theological commitments. The book closes by returning
to the issues relating to the context of medicine and bioethics
with which it opened, demonstrating how a Christian
philosophical-theology of medicine informs and enriches those
discussions.
The intersection of religion and development has for some decades
been considered contentious, with scholars of both disciplines
inhibited by the constraints of either the religious or the secular
paradigm they primarily inhabit. Development Beyond the Secular
aims to provide a new resource for those interested in the study of
religions and development (primarily postgraduate and academic),
and for those development practitioners wishing to contextualize
their discipline within a religious frame. Using the work of
Christian Aid as its primary lens, this book examines and critiques
the theological underpinnings of development work and questions how
Christian values are manifest through day-to-day work in the world
of poverty eradication. Table of Contents 1. Practical Theology and
Faith-based Development 2. Secular and Faith-based Development
*Defining development *The shared origins of faith and secular
development *Economic growth models of development *Secularization
and its impact on development *Faith discourses of development *The
capabilities approach, faith and development 3. Three Theological
Voices: Discerning faith at work *The three theological voices -
explicit, implicit and null *Christian Aid's identity expressed
through the voices *Christian Aid's values expressed through the
voices *Christian Aid's theologies of international development
*Working with Christian Aid's theologies of development 4. New Life
in Christ: A renewed theology of development *A Christology of
development for a prophetic future *Christ as equality: A theology
of mutual partnership
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