With the Rwandan genocide, Christianity was once again implicated
in atrocity. In his latest work, Mario Aguilar contends that a
prevailing ecclesiology and theology set the context for the
genocidal evil unleashed. Drawing parallels with the political
struggles in Latin America, Aguilar applies the lens of liberation
theology and detects signs of God's reign returning in the
iberating praxis of love at the peripheries of Rwandan life. This
hope-filled book stems from Aguilar's conviction that liberation
theology remains a necessary hermeneutical tool and force for
transformational justice Julie Clague, Department of Theology and
Religious Studies, University of Glasgow In exploring, probing,
interrogating, the relationships between theology, liberation, and
genocide, Mario I. Aguilar follows the path of his friend Marcella
Althaus-Reid in analysing "what liberation theologians in Latin
America, Africa or Asia have not done." For those of us who do our
work in such places, we need read no further without our thoughts
filling with a multitude of incomplete tasks in our liberation
praxis. But for those of us in Africa, haunted as we by the recent
genocide in Rwanda and the continuing genocide perpetrated by HIV
and its accomplices, we must read further because we must now
"theologize about an absent God or about the silence of God." While
we should do this differently from those who have gone before us in
Europe after Auschwitz, drawing from the realities and resources of
our own African contexts, do this we must. And Aguilar shows us the
way. Gerald West, School of Religion and Theology, University of
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Theology, Liberation and Genocide
explores the theological implications of genocide from the point of
view of liberation theology. The issue of the mass extermination of
people links Latin America and the genocide of indigenous peoples
from 1492 to Rwanda and the killing of over one million people in
1994. Despite these links, the issue of genocide has not previously
been explored by liberation theologians, and this volume attempts
to deal with the issue of God's presence (or absence) within
genocide in the context of Rwanda, a country in which the majority
are Roman Catholics and in which the killings were not only
perpetrated by soldiers, police or militia but also by neighbours,
friends and relatives within the Rwandan communes. This theological
book argues for the presence of God as victim within genocide
rather than the absence of God. God was in Rwanda at the time of
the genocide not only comforting her people but also as a victim,
tortured and crucified as one of those victims. After the genocide
God liberates, her essence, by providing hope and resurrection even
in those terrible circumstances. Within this post-genocide
theological reflection there is a post-genocidal divine presence in
the unburied bones of the victims that speak of memory, of lives
and of the lessons of the genocide. Mario Aguilar is Professor of
Religion & Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of
Religion & Politics at St Mary's College in the University of
St Andrews, Scotland
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