Reconciliation or Fighting Terrorism

Reconciliation: The Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu

Author: Michael Jesse Battl

Reconciliation 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. This model proved successful in opposing the apartheid racism in South Africa, but it also offers a Christian paradigm for resisting oppression wherever it appears. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including Tutu's unpublished speeches and sermons, as well as many secondary sources, Battle portrays the Nobel Peace Prize winner as a theologian who embraces Anglican orthodoxy and who has consistently applied that framework to issues of race in South Africa. Yet Tutu is much more than a conventional theologian. He is, as Battle shows, not only an articulate preacher and at times an unwilling politician, but a genuinely committed theologian whose deepest roots are in prayer and protest.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
1	Introduction: Holding Back a Tide of Violence	1
2	A Milk-and-Honey Land of Oppression	11
3	Delicate Networks of Interdependence	35
4	Filled with the Fullness of God	54
5	Inspired by Worship and Adoration of God	83
6	An African Spirituality of Passionate Concern	123
7	Conclusion: God and a Political Priest	154
	Notes	183
	Bibliography	217

New interesting textbook: Nasty Bits or The Machu Picchu Guidebook

Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat the International Terrorist Network

Author: Benjamin Netanyahu

The growth of terrorism has been accompanied by a steady escalation in the means of violence, from small arms used to assassinate individuals, to automatic weapons used to mow down groups, to car bombs now capable of bringing down entire buildings, to lethal chemicals that (as in Japan) can threaten entire cities. The very real possibility that terrorist states and organizations may soon acquire horrific weapons of destruction and use them to escalate terrorism beyond our wildest nightmares has not been addressed properly by Western governments. It mus be recognized that barring firm and resolute action by the United States and the West, terrorism in the 1990s will expand dramatically both domestically and internationally. Today's tragedies can either be the harbingers of much greater calamities yet to come or the turning point in which free societies once again mobilize their resources, their ingenuity, and their will to wipe out this evil from our midst. Fighting terrorism is not a "policy option"; it is a necessity for the survival of our democratic society and our freedoms. Showing how this battle can be won is the purpose of this book.

New York Times - Richard Bernstein

Vigorous . . . Mr.Netanyahu's argument, which is soberly and clearly made, cannot be taken lightly.

Washington Post Book World - Peter W. Rodman

Netanyahu has produced a small volume updating the story of international terrorism and his advice on how to defeat it.

Washington Times - Bill Gertz

An excellent primer on the groups, motives and methods of the current terrorist threat.

Detroit News - Berl Faulbaum

. . . makes a strong case that the west has not prepared itself properly for increased domestic and international terrorism.