Reconciling All Things: A Christian Vision for Justice, by Emmanuel Katongole,Chris Rice

By Emmanuel Katongole,Chris Rice

2009 Christianity Today e-book Award winner!

Our international is damaged and cries out for reconciliation.

But mere clash solution and peacemaking will not be sufficient. What makes actual reconciliation attainable? How is it that a few individuals are capable of forgive the main horrendous of evils? And what position does God play in those tales? Does reconciliation make any experience except the biblical tale of redemption?

Secular versions of peacemaking are inadequate. And the church has now not regularly fulfilled its name to be brokers of reconciliation on the earth. In Reconciling All Things Emmanuel Katongole and Chris Rice, codirectors of the heart for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity institution, solid a finished imaginative and prescient for reconciliation that's biblical, transformative, holistic and international. They draw at the assets of the Christian tale, together with their very own person stories in Uganda and Mississippi, to carry stable, theological mirrored image to undergo at the paintings of reconciling participants, teams and societies. They recuperate distinctively Christian practices that might support the church be either an indication and an agent of God's reconciling love within the fragmented global of the twenty-first century.

This robust, concise booklet lays the philosophical foundations for the assets for Reconciliation, a brand new sequence from InterVarsity Press and the guts for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity college which explores what it skill to pursue wish in parts of brokenness in thought and practice.

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