Rev. Emeka Obiezu, OSA has attained a remarkable achievement in his
book. Both academics and workers in the field focusing on
contemporary Africa, especially Nigeria, as well as those
interested in our global reality can all find that Fr. Obiezu
speaks clearly and urgently to them. I can think of only one
audience who will not gladly welcome these well-researched,
well-written pages--those people who now profit from an oppression
that causes suffering for others. John Paul Szura, OSA, St.
Augustine Center of Studies, Quezon City, Philippines What Emeka
Obiezu offers with his particular type of analysis is a Christian
political theology applicable to the specific situation of Nigeria,
but whose implications are global as well. As I read him, Obiezu
seems to be advocating for a more robust political theological
action that blends the best of Christian theological views and
values of compassion with a realistic approach to the actual
situation in Nigeria. Marsha Hewitt, Professor of Ethics and
Contemporary Theology, Trinity College, University of Toronto
Towards a Politics Compassion. includes a wide range of reading in
various different areas: philosophy and theology of suffering and
compassion; socio-political theologies of liberation and current
socio-political issues in Nigeria. It brings the areas of
spirituality, political theology, and socio-moral thought into
constructive and integrative dialogue. This is a significant
contribution from a fine young scholar. Michael Stoeber, Professor
of Spirituality and Pastoral Theology, Regis College, University of
Toronto. Emeka's book, Towards a Politics of Compassion., exposes
his dogged power of reasoning and down-to-earth response to duty.
He typically makes a very strong case for the functionality of
compassion in operative theology. Emeka's diligent analysis and
illustration, makes Christ's participation in sinful humanity
without being a sinner very lucid, and thus compels every reader to
participate in the cause of poverty eradication in Nigeria and
other lands. I am glad that it is coming to Nigeria now that we
need such a powerful proposal to reinvent our nation Nigeria.
Bartholomew Chidili, OSA, PhD, Professor of Religious Studies at
Kaduna State University, Kaduna, Nigeria. Among other noticeable
virtues of Towards a Political Compassion: Socio-political
Dimensions of Christian Responses to Suffering are its simplicity
of structure and clarity of focus. The case made on behalf of
"politics of compassion" is done in the light of two viewpoints:
(a) an explicit recognition of the inadequacy - even bankruptcy -
of self-interest, ambition and force for achieving political and
economic justice, and (b) it takes its stand on a Christian
premise: that the "way" of Jesus is in fact the most promising
'way' for empirically healing and advancing genuine community at
all levels of human and environmental relationships in Nigeria.
Jack Costello, SJ, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Regis College,
University of Toronto Emeka Xris Obiezu, OSA, an Augustinian
priest, is a doctoral student of Political Theology at Regis
College, University of Toronto, Canada. He has special interest in
issues that relate to the socio-political dimension of the mission
of the Church especially the Church's relation with international
organizations.
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