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Kairos, Crisis, and Global ApartheidCombative Love and Revolutionary Neighborliness: Kairos, Solidarity, and the Jericho Road

Kairos, Crisis, and Global Apartheid: Combative Love and Revolutionary Neighborliness: Kairos,... [If the parables Jesus told should be read as “subversive speech” and the Jesus telling them as “pedagogue of the oppressed” as William R. Herzog holds1—and I think he is right—then the inner-city ministry of Dr. J. Alfred Smith Sr., pastor emeritus of Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, California, ecumenical leader and public theologian, is itself a parable of prophetic ministry. It is a ministry imbued with what above I have called a kairos consciousness. However, a kairos consciousness is a subversive consciousness which in turn is rooted in a subversive piety. I see in him, as I do in Archbishop Desmond Tutu, such a subversive piety,springing from a spirituality of combative love that took him from the pulpit and the quiet of his prayer room to the struggle and from the crucifix on the wall to the streets where his people suffered on the crosses of racist oppression.2] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Kairos, Crisis, and Global ApartheidCombative Love and Revolutionary Neighborliness: Kairos, Solidarity, and the Jericho Road

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Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
ISBN
978-1-137-50309-1
Pages
169 –197
DOI
10.1057/9781137495310_8
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[If the parables Jesus told should be read as “subversive speech” and the Jesus telling them as “pedagogue of the oppressed” as William R. Herzog holds1—and I think he is right—then the inner-city ministry of Dr. J. Alfred Smith Sr., pastor emeritus of Allen Temple Baptist Church in Oakland, California, ecumenical leader and public theologian, is itself a parable of prophetic ministry. It is a ministry imbued with what above I have called a kairos consciousness. However, a kairos consciousness is a subversive consciousness which in turn is rooted in a subversive piety. I see in him, as I do in Archbishop Desmond Tutu, such a subversive piety,springing from a spirituality of combative love that took him from the pulpit and the quiet of his prayer room to the struggle and from the crucifix on the wall to the streets where his people suffered on the crosses of racist oppression.2]

Published: Dec 20, 2015

Keywords: Nonviolent Resistance; Walk Away; Apartheid Regime; Nobel Peace Prize; Racist Oppression

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