No Future Without Forgiveness, Paperback

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The establishment of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a pioneering international event. Never had any country sought to move forward from despotism to democracy both by exposing the atrocities committed in the past and achieving reconciliation with its former oppressors. At the center of this unprecedented attempt at healing a nation has been Archbishop Desmond Tutu, whom President Nelson Mandela named as Chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. With the final report of the Commission just published, Archbishop Tutu offers his reflections on the profound wisdom he has gained by helping usher South Africa through this painful experience. In No Future Without Forgiveness, Tutu argues that true reconciliation cannot be achieved by denying the past. But nor is it easy to reconcile when a nation -looks the beast in the eye.- Rather than repeat platitudes about forgiveness, he presents a bold spirituality that recognizes the horrors people can inflict upon one another, and yet retains a sense of idealism about reconciliation. With a clarity of pitch born out of decades of experience, Tutu shows readers how to move forward with honesty and compassion to build a newer and more humane world.

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Desmond Tutu

politician și cleric, arhiepiscop anglican al Africii de Sud (1931–2021)

Desmond Mpilo Tutu a fost un arhiepiscop anglican emerit de Cape Town, activist împotriva apartheid-ului din Africa de Sud. A fost episcop de Johannesburg din 1985 până în 1986 și apoi arhiepiscop de Cape Town din 1986 până în 1996, în ambele cazuri fiind primul african de culoare care a ocupat această funcție. Din punct de vedere teologic, el a căutat să fuzioneze ideile din teologia neagră cu teologia africană.