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The Dangerous Hope of Visceral Lament: A Response to Lynch, Ocobock, Cavanaugh and Maluleke

Emmanuel Katongole
August 31, 2017August 31, 2017

What the portraits of Born from Lament reveal is a theology and through that theology the possibility of a non-violent politics of solidarity and compassion born out of the deep experience of suffering in the world.

Something Rotten in the State of Denmark: Katongole on Africa’s Gifts for the West

William Cavanaugh
August 18, 2017August 8, 2017

The choice for Katongole is not simply the choice between Africa and the West. The cure for Africa’s problems does indeed need to come from outside of Africa, but not from a Western state. It needs to come from God.

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The Dangerous Hope of Visceral Lament: A Response to Lynch, Ocobock, Cavanaugh and Maluleke

Something Rotten in the State of Denmark: Katongole on Africa’s Gifts for the West