Comfort, Comfort my People: A Theology of Forgiveness and Reconciliation in the context of the Democratic Republic of Congo - A Case Study

Mutikwele, Jacques (2004) Comfort, Comfort my People: A Theology of Forgiveness and Reconciliation in the context of the Democratic Republic of Congo - A Case Study. Licentiate thesis, Weston Jesuit School of Theology.

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Abstract

Thanks to progress in communications, television and radio are able to broadcast military operations live from the field of combat. A broadcast can look like an ordinary movie with familiar scenarios: tons of bombs dropped on towns of thousand of inhabitants; thousands of people injured or killed; houses, hospitals, schools, churches, cultures, fauna and environment destroyed. We are so used to violence that we have become desensitized. Scenes of violence and war have become mere entertainment. Human life has become cheap. The human drama unfolding before us can leave us desperate since we don't have the means to stop it. Victims of violence are not anonymous. They have faces, names. The atmosphere in a battlefield is far from the one of a movie theater where music in the background softens our feelings of anger, revolt, compassion and mercy depending on whose side we are on. This is the painful reality of war. Is it the only way by which humanity can resolve its conflicts? Are war and violence the only reasonable and humane responses to problems that affect relationships in our globalized world?

Item Type:	Thesis (Licentiate)
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BT Doctrinal Theology
Divisions:	Jesuitica
Depositing User:	JHI Africa
Date Deposited:	03 Nov 2014 08:17
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2018 09:59
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/125

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