"Reconciliation: The Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu" is Michael
Battle's highly original analysis of Bishop Tutu's theology of
Ubuntu -- an African concept recognizing that persons and groups
form their identities in relation to one another -- and the model
it affords for facilitating interracial community and
reconciliation in South Africa.
Carefully drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including
Tutu's unpublished speeches, addresses, and sermons, as well as a
variety of secondary sources, Battle portrays Tutu as a theologian
who embraces Anglican orthodoxy and who has consistently applied
that framework to issues of race in the South African context.
Yet Desmond Tutu is much more than a conventional theologian.
Battle wisely recognizes in him not only an articulate preacher and
at times an unwilling politician, but most significantly a
genuinely committed theologian whose deepest roots are in prayer
and protest. Central to knowing this Tutu is understanding his
position that apartheid "makes no theological sense ... for it
denies that human beings are created in the image of God".
The author also looks at Bishop Tutu against the backdrop of
major traditions in Western theology (specifically, Calvinist and
Anglican) and especially contemporary liberation theologies
(including those of James Cone and Itumeleng Mosala) --
underscoring the ways in which Tutu's theology comes out of the
particularity of the black South African experience.
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