Description: While we acknowledge that all expressions of liberation theology are not identical, we must protest very strongly against the false divisions that some make: between black theology in South Africa and black theology in the United States, between black theology and African theology, and between black theology and Latin American liberation theology. But moving away from the illusioned universality of western theology to the contextuality of liberation theology is a risky business; one that cannot be done innocently. In the search for theological and human authenticity in its own situation, black theology does not stand alone. It is but one expression of this search going on within many different contexts.
Review Quotes: In this foundational and seminal work of South African black theology, Allan Boesak offers the timeless truth of God's concern for the poor and call to liberation of the oppressed.
-- Curtiss Paul DeYoung, executive director of the Community Renewal Society, Chicago
Farewell to Innocence is the first Christian ethics text I read that addressed redemptive and restorative justice in depth with academic integrity.
-- J. Alfred Smith Sr., Professor Emeritus, American Baptist Seminary of the West