Allan Aubrey Boesak

Author of Black and Reformed: Apartheid, Liberation, and the Calvinist Tradition

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About the Author

Allan Aubrey Boesak, South African theologian and human rights activist, is the first holder of the Desmond Tutu Chair for Peace, Justice and Reconciliation Studies at Christian Theological Seminary and Butler University, Indianapolis. He is also the Dean's Research Associate at the Theological show more Faculty, Pretoria University. His previous books include Dare We Speak of Hope? (2014). show less

Includes the names: Alan Boesak, Allan Boesak, Allan A. Boesak

Works by Allan Aubrey Boesak

Farewell to Innocence: A Socio-Ethical Study on Black Theology and Black Power (1977) 39 copies

Walking on Thorns, the Call to Christian Obedience (1984) 38 copies

Comfort and Protest: The Apocalypse from a South African Perspective (1987) 32 copies

Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism and Christian Quietism (2012) 30 copies

If This Is Treason, I Am Guilty (1986) 23 copies

Dare We Speak of Hope?: Searching for a Language of Life in Faith and Politics (2014) 22 copies

The Finger of God: Sermons on Faith and Responsibilty (English and Afrikaans Edition) (1982) 18 copies

The fire within : sermons from the edge of exile (2004) 8 copies

Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid: The Challenge to Prophetic Resistance (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social… (2015) 7 copies

Pharaohs on both sides of the blood-red waters : prophetic critique of empire : resistance, justice, and the power of… (2017) 6 copies

Black Theology, Black Power (1978) 4 copies

When Prayer Makes News (1986) 4 copies

Globalisation. volume II : global crisis, global challenge, global faith : an ongoing response to the Accra confession… (2010) 3 copies

Tot Sterwens Toe (2001) 3 copies

If This Is Treason, I Am Guilty (1987) 3 copies

Running with horses : reflections of an accidental politician (2009) 3 copies

Children of the Waters of Meribah: Black Liberation Theology, the Miriamic Tradition, and the Challenges of… (2019) 3 copies

The Tenderness of Conscience (2005) 2 copies

Globalisation: The Politics of Empire, Justice and the Life of Faith (2009) 1 copy

Die vinger van God: Preke oor geloof en die politiek (Afrikaans Edition) (1979) 1 copy

Dreaming a Different World: Globalization and Justice for Humanity and the Earth: The Challenge of the Accra Confession… 1 copy

Call for an End to Unjust Rule (1986) 1 copy

Relevant Preaching in a Black Situation 1 copy

Selfless Revolutionaries: Biko, Black Consciousness, Black Theology, and a Global Ethic of Solidarity and Resistance (2021) 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Cambridge Companion to Black Theology (2012) — Contributor — 25 copies

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Canonical name: Boesak, Allan Aubrey
Birthdate: 1945-02-23
Gender: male
Birthplace: Kakamas, Northern Cape, South Africa
Places of residence: Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa
Paarl, South Africa
Kampen, Holland
New York, New York, USA
Goodwood Prison, Weastern Cape, South Africa
Picketberg, Western Cape
Education: Bellville Theological Seminary, South Africa
Occupations: Preacher
Politician
Organizations: Head of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
United Democratic Front
Moderator of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sendingkerk

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Radical Reconciliation: Beyond Political Pietism… by Allan Boesak

A little more than midway through this short but intense examination of reconciliation in the Bible and in contemporary South Africa and American Christian churches, I had an epiphany. Boesak writes that for true reconciliation to take place, wealthy empowered people must step into the place of poor, marginalized people. Sure, I am not a millionaire, but compared to most people alive today, I am very wealthy and powerful by virtue of being a middle-class American. That means I have to go lower and deeper, and not only me, but all of us middle class Americans. Call to conversion, anyone?… (more)

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