Peace-Building in Africa: Biblical Insights - E-book - ePub

This book explores biblical insights relevant for peacebuilding in Africa with focus on both hermeneutics and exegesis. The book focuses on nine topics: Peace in Israel during Old Testament times (Tewoldemedhin Habtu (Ethiopia) The understanding of peace in Numbers 25:12; (Albert Ngengi Mundele - DRC)) Seek the peace of the City in Jeremiah 29:4-9; (Bungishabako Kato- DRC) Analysis of Peace in Psalm 85 and its application to Africa; (Ernst Wendland - USA & Zambia) Blessed are the peacemakers; (Isaac Kahwa Mbabazi - Uganda) Salt and Peace in Mk 9:50; (Jean-Claude Loba Mkole- DRC), Peace in Luke and Acts; (Pieter G.
R. de Villiers- SA) The God of peace in I Thessalonians 5:23; (Jesse N. K. Mugambi-Kenya) The ideal of peace and political reality in Africa after the Cold War. Both religion and culture are implicated and indispensable in the sustenance of Peace and Progress.