the place called reconciliation - texts to explore
by David Stevens
'If we Christians cannot speak the message of reconciliation we have nothing to say.'
(Ray Davey, Founder of the Corrymeela Community)
These biblical reflections on reconciliation and related themes have been written out of the author's 40 years of involvement in the Corrymeela Community. The particular setting of Northern Ireland has meant that 'reconciliation' has emerged as the Community's overarching narrative for understanding the many facets of the conflict.
The book expands on the biblical reflections in the author's previous book
The Land of Unlikeness: Explorations into Reconciliation, often using the work of the French literary critic René Girard. Girard's work on religion and violence has alerted us to the presence of rivalry, conflict, scapegoating, exclusion and sacred violence in biblical texts and opened up the Bible to show its strangeness and newness. He has also spoken profoundly into a Northern Irish context.
David Stecens is the present Leader of the Corrymeela Community. He was formerly General Secretary of the Irish Council of Churches (1992-2003). He is the author of
The Land of Unlikeness: Explorations into Reconciliation (Columba Press, 2004)
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