theology genocide christian imagination

books:

Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith after Genocide in Rwanda
Emmanuel M. Katongole, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

Zondervan, 2009

In 1994, the most Christianized country in Africa became the site of its worst genocide. The tragedy was in Rwanda, but what happened was a mirror reflecting the deep brokenness of the church in the West. Yet by looking at what happened and why, we can find hope for the global body of Christ.

A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination (African Theology Today)
Emmanuel M. Katongole

University of Scranton Press, 2005

Civil war, famine, genocide, AIDS?Africa has endured some of the most horrific human tragedies of recent times. The rapid rise of a Christian social ethics movement, however, suggests a powerful coping mechanism for African peoples. One of the leaders of this movement is Emmanuel Katongole, a Catholic priest in Uganda. In A Future for Africa , Katongole wrestles with Africa's concrete and debilitating problems, including poverty, corruption, ...