
Reading Jeremiah in Africa
Biblical Essays in Sociopolitical Imagination
- 230 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The book of Jeremiah is often presented as one of the most difficult texts in the Bible, yet it is also a text that speaks with immediacy and power to some of the greatest challenges facing our world today.In Reading Jeremiah in Africa, Dr. Bungishabaku Katho offers a study that is both accessible and deeply relevant to the particularities of an African context. In a series of ten selected passages, Dr. Katho demonstrates the many parallels between Jeremiah's Judah and a continent that continues to experience the complex and devastating realities of poverty, injustice, and war. Katho reminds us, however, that Jeremiah is also an exercise in imagination. It is a book of hope, and Katho, like Jeremiah, dares to dream past the present and into a future where God is known and humans flourish.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Called to Serve in a World Coming to an End
- 2 Idolatry and the Peril of the Nation
- 3 Agonizing for a Blind People
- 4 Poverty and Knowledge of God
- 5 The Anatomy of a Dysfunctional Community
- 6 The Secret of True Greatness and Power
- 7 The Use and Abuse of Political Power
- 8 Weak Leadership and the Dismantling of Judah
- 9 Seek the Peace of Babylon: Constructive Presence in Exile
- 10 New Covenant and New Community
- Bibliography
- Endnotes