Reparations and Reconciliation
A global conversation towards reparatory theology
Will be published approx. on 31. December 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-334-06688-0 (ISBN)
Description
Reparations is currently a 'stubborn' and 'hot' conversation point across various landscapes. In churches and mission bodies, intentional conversations mean that ecclesial communities are called upon to wrestle with past historical colonial complicities and their ongoing legacies. Handwringing and hand washing will no longer work. This volume attends to the specific matter of reparations and the theological underpinnings and implications of such a call. It addresses this by drawing on voices from across the globe, with contributors from Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi, Britain, Jamaica, Guyana, Brazil and the USA. These scholars and activists are experts in the area and related areas, bringing together multiple intersecting insights to what is an ongoing conversation.
Bringing together in a focused volume multiple perspectives on reparatory theology towards just repair, the critical engagement in this book serves as a necessary and helpful theological resource for engaging ecumenically with reparatory justice and the implications for our common life together. Reparations and Reconciliation is an important attempt to help ecclesial communities to engage in more constructive conversations on reparations.
Bringing together in a focused volume multiple perspectives on reparatory theology towards just repair, the critical engagement in this book serves as a necessary and helpful theological resource for engaging ecumenically with reparatory justice and the implications for our common life together. Reparations and Reconciliation is an important attempt to help ecclesial communities to engage in more constructive conversations on reparations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-334-06688-0 (9780334066880)
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Persons
Michael N. Jagessar is from Guyana. Prior to retirement Michael, worked with various ecclesial communities, mission bodies and theological institutions. He has contributed chapters to a wide range of academic theology books, including the follow recent SCM Press titles: Anglican Theology: Postcolonial Perspectives (2024).
Graham McGeoch has worked in Africa, Europe, and Latin America. He has taught theology and religious studies at Faculdade Unida de Vitoria in Brazil; collaborated with UNIperiferias, a civil society university based in the favela Mare, Rio de Janeiro; and develops liberation and contextual theologies with the Council for World Mission. He is currently Mission Secretary - Discipleship & Dialogue at the Council for World Mission.
Thandi Soko de Jong is a Malawian-Dutch activist-theologian. She is a PhD candidate at the Protestant Theological University in the Netherlands where the focus of her studies is within Intercultural theology, and a tutor at the Foundation Academy of Amsterdam. She holds degrees in African Studies from Leiden University, Theology and Development from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Biblical Studies and Mass Communications form the African Bible College, Malawi.
Graham McGeoch has worked in Africa, Europe, and Latin America. He has taught theology and religious studies at Faculdade Unida de Vitoria in Brazil; collaborated with UNIperiferias, a civil society university based in the favela Mare, Rio de Janeiro; and develops liberation and contextual theologies with the Council for World Mission. He is currently Mission Secretary - Discipleship & Dialogue at the Council for World Mission.
Thandi Soko de Jong is a Malawian-Dutch activist-theologian. She is a PhD candidate at the Protestant Theological University in the Netherlands where the focus of her studies is within Intercultural theology, and a tutor at the Foundation Academy of Amsterdam. She holds degrees in African Studies from Leiden University, Theology and Development from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and Biblical Studies and Mass Communications form the African Bible College, Malawi.
Content
Contents
Preface: Jooseop Keum
01 Introduction
Graham McGeoch
Legacies of Slavery & The Onesimus Project
02 The CWM Onesimus Project: A Missional Response to Mechanistic Dehumanization, Past and Present
Roderick Hewitt
03 Just Repair: A Critical Reflection on Onesimus Narratives
Thandi Soko de Jong
04 haunting (g)hosts: disruptive re-imaginings and archival (un)silencing
Michael Jagessar
Theological and Pastoral Perspectives on Reparations
05 From Amazing Grace to Cheap Grace: Learning from 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree' for the Legacies of Slavery?
Anthony Reddie
06 A Theology of Reparations: Addressing Multigenerational Trauma and Creating a Framework for Restorative and Reparative Justice?
Larry Pickens
07 Reparation Theology: Repairing Relationship Christ's Way
Gordon Cowans
08 A Theological Case for Reparations: Reviewing the Literature
Janel Bakker
09 Theological Reflections on CARICOM Reparations 10-point Action plan
Michael Jagessar
Ecclesial Praxis and Reparations
10 The AACC and its Member Churches on Reparations
John Njoroge
11 "Racism is a Sin against God" The Theology and Praxis of Anti-Racism in the World Council of Churches (WCC)?
Masiiwa Gunda
12 Speaking of reconciliation in contexts of injustice and the legacy of violence - learning from the experience of churches in Ireland
Nicola Brady
Critical Decolonial Voices?
13 Tracking the Decolonial in African Theology
Teddy Sakupapa
14 "Teoquilombismo" and the symphony of black women's voices?
Cleusa Caldeira
15 A Theological Note on the Question of Satisfaction and the CARICOM call for Reparations
Anna Perkins
16 [Title Pending}
Iva Carruthers
Reparatory Justice: Futures
17 Reparations and Solidarity: Dead Ends and New Beginnings
Joerg Rieger
18 Towards 'Orthopathos': the feeling function in theologies of reparations
Carlton Turner
19 Up-ending Just Repair
Michael Jagessar
Preface: Jooseop Keum
01 Introduction
Graham McGeoch
Legacies of Slavery & The Onesimus Project
02 The CWM Onesimus Project: A Missional Response to Mechanistic Dehumanization, Past and Present
Roderick Hewitt
03 Just Repair: A Critical Reflection on Onesimus Narratives
Thandi Soko de Jong
04 haunting (g)hosts: disruptive re-imaginings and archival (un)silencing
Michael Jagessar
Theological and Pastoral Perspectives on Reparations
05 From Amazing Grace to Cheap Grace: Learning from 'The Cross and the Lynching Tree' for the Legacies of Slavery?
Anthony Reddie
06 A Theology of Reparations: Addressing Multigenerational Trauma and Creating a Framework for Restorative and Reparative Justice?
Larry Pickens
07 Reparation Theology: Repairing Relationship Christ's Way
Gordon Cowans
08 A Theological Case for Reparations: Reviewing the Literature
Janel Bakker
09 Theological Reflections on CARICOM Reparations 10-point Action plan
Michael Jagessar
Ecclesial Praxis and Reparations
10 The AACC and its Member Churches on Reparations
John Njoroge
11 "Racism is a Sin against God" The Theology and Praxis of Anti-Racism in the World Council of Churches (WCC)?
Masiiwa Gunda
12 Speaking of reconciliation in contexts of injustice and the legacy of violence - learning from the experience of churches in Ireland
Nicola Brady
Critical Decolonial Voices?
13 Tracking the Decolonial in African Theology
Teddy Sakupapa
14 "Teoquilombismo" and the symphony of black women's voices?
Cleusa Caldeira
15 A Theological Note on the Question of Satisfaction and the CARICOM call for Reparations
Anna Perkins
16 [Title Pending}
Iva Carruthers
Reparatory Justice: Futures
17 Reparations and Solidarity: Dead Ends and New Beginnings
Joerg Rieger
18 Towards 'Orthopathos': the feeling function in theologies of reparations
Carlton Turner
19 Up-ending Just Repair
Michael Jagessar