A Theology of Reconstruction : Nation-Building and Human Rights / Charles Villa-Vicencio.
The changing situation in South Africa and eastern Europe prompts Charles Villa-Vicencio to investigate the implications of transforming liberation theology into a theology of reconstruction and nation-building. Such a transformation, he argues, requires theology to become an unambiguously inter-dis...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1992.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in ideology and religion ;
no. 1. |
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| Summary: | The changing situation in South Africa and eastern Europe prompts Charles Villa-Vicencio to investigate the implications of transforming liberation theology into a theology of reconstruction and nation-building. Such a transformation, he argues, requires theology to become an unambiguously inter-disciplinary study. This book explores the encounter between theology, on the one hand, and constitutional writing, law-making, human rights, economics, and the freedom of conscience on the other. Locating his discussion in the context of the South African struggle, the author compares this situation to that in eastern Europe, and the challenge of what is happening in these situations is identified for contexts where 'the empire has not yet crumbled'. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2011). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780511607592 0511607598 9780521416252 0521416256 9780521426282 0521426286 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511607592 |