Mirror to the Church
Resurrecting Faith After Genocide in Rwanda
Zondervan · Print & ebook · January 28, 2009
We learn who we are as we walk together in the way of Jesus.
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- Who it’s for
- A pilgrimage through Rwanda’s genocide asks what Christian identity can become after profound rupture.
- Themes
- Rwanda’s genocide, Church complicity, Christian identity
- Pacing
- Reflective
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We learn who we are as we walk together in the way of Jesus. So I want to invite you on a pilgrimage. Rwanda is often held up as a model of evangelization in Africa. Yet in 1994, beginning on the Thursday of Easter week, Christians killed other Christians, often in the same churches where they had worshiped together. The most Christianized country in Africa became the site of its worst genocide.
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With a mother who was a Hutu and a father who was a Tutsi, author Emmanuel Katongole is uniquely qualified to point out that the tragedy in Rwanda is also a mirror reflecting the deep brokenness of the church in the West. Rwanda brings us to a cry of lament on our knees where together we learn that we must interrupt these patterns of brokenness But Rwanda also brings us to a place of hope. Indeed, the only hope for our world after Rwanda’s genocide is a new kind of Christian identity for the global body of Christ—a people on pilgrimage together, a mixed group, bearing witness to a new identity made possible by the Gospel.
Faith Under Strain
A pilgrimage through Rwanda’s genocide asks what Christian identity can become after profound rupture.
Come here for
- A searching account of faith entangled with violence
- Questions about the church’s brokenness and its witness
Expect
- Lament alongside a call to hope
- A vision of Christian identity shaped by pilgrimage together
Where it sits
| Ecclesiology | 70% |
|---|---|
| Genocide & War Crimes | 28% |
| East African History | 21% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Central African History
- Inspirational Christian Books
- The Christian Church
- Authors
- Emmanuel M. Katongole, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
- Publisher
- Zondervan
- Published
- January 28, 2009
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Rwanda’s genocide · Church complicity · Christian identity
- Reading lane
- Central African History