Hope and Sufferingi
Jordan, Patrick
In Brief Hope and Suffering: Sermons and SPEECHES, by Desmond Mpilo Tutu, Eerdmans, $10.95, 189 pp. Bishop Tutu has said elsewhere the church has five marks: it is one, holy, catholic,...
...The bishop speaks with flowing ease and ready passion...
...Either there is going to be power-sharing or . . .we must give up hope of peaceful settlement in South Africa...
...P.J...
...When we are free," he writes, "we will remember those who helped us to get free...
...The international community must bring economic pressure to bear on Pretoria...
...What he has to say is not always couched in irenic terms...
...His theological method is here likewise singleminded: liberation-exodus is the lens by which to examine and weigh the apartheid situation...
...He proposes, but does not detail, a prophetic vision for societal change there, and simultaneously offers his personal example of enduring hope, one capable of sustaining the longsuffering in movements for human rights everywhere...
...It is that deliverance which animates Tutu...
...Finally, Tutu and his people are watching...
...On occasion, he caricatures opponents, a fact not likely to engender their trust...
...Desmond Tutu's theme is singular and unabashed: the abhorrent evil of the South African system...
...Bishop Tutu has said elsewhere the church has five marks: it is one, holy, catholic, apostolic, and suffering...
...It is a hope assured, and richer than mere words...
...He is firmly set as to his goals: the solution must be political...
...In this brief collection of addresses and sermons, he describes the sufferings of South Africa's majority black population under apartheid...
Vol. 112 • September 1985 • No. 15
