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Contents
Introduction
1
1 Hearing the Cry and Reading the Signs of the Times: A Humanity with a Kairos Consciousness
9
2 At the Heart of It All: Kairos, Apartheid, and the Calvinist Tradition
39
3 The Time for Pious Words Is Over: Kairos, Decision, and Righteous Choices
69
4 The Inclusiveness of God’s Embrace: Kairos, Justice, the Dignity of Human Sexuality, and the Confession of Belhar
93
5 The End of Words? Kairos, Challenge, and the Rhetoric of the Barricades
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6 Speaking Truth to the Tower: Kairos, Dissent, and Prophetic Speech
141
7 Combative Love and Revolutionary Neighborliness: Kairos, Solidarity, and the Jericho Road
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8 That Which Avails Much: Kairos, Public Prayer, and Political Piety
199
Notes
213
Bibliography
255
Index
267
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