In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to the church in that society. This book is a call to discern new moments of crisis, discernment and kairos, and respond with prophetic resistance to global injustice.

Autorentext
Allan Aubrey Boesak is Desmond Tutu Chair of Peace, Global Justice and Reconciliation Studies at Christian Theological Seminary, USA.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. Hearing the Cry and Reading the Signs of the Times: 'A Humanity with a Kairos Consciousness' 2. At the Heart of it All: Kairos, Apartheid and the Calvinist Tradition 3. 'The Time for Pious Words is Over': Kairos, Decision and Righteous Choices 4. The Inclusiveness of God's Embrace: Kairos, Justice, the Dignity of Human Sexuality and the Belhar Confession 5. The End of Words?: Kairos, Challenge and the Rhetoric of the Barricades 6. Speaking Truth to the Tower: Kairos, Dissent and Prophetic Speech 7. Combative Love and Revolutionary Neighborliness: Kairos, Solidarity and the Jericho Road 8. That Which Avails Much; Kairos, Public Prayer and Political Piety