Victim Theology

Rarely does a book come along with a renewed understanding on the way certain issues are treated especially the Churchs response to HIV/AIDS. Other books talk about the social, economic issues in relation to HIV/AIDS, but this book goes further to show the theological basis of the churchs response. With evidence from the history of the main line churches, Mageto exposes the suppressed views within the mission churches on the HIV/AIDS. The book opens up yet another way of understanding the churchs response to HIV/AIDS so far and shows new ways of looking at the pandemic in particular those who are infected and affected.

 

Esther M. Mombo,

Academic Dean, St. Pauls College, Limuru.

 

 

Mageto has provided truly insightful, eye-opening information that inspires one to think. As I read it, I thought of the Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. We cant go back and start over, we have to fix the damage done.

 

Patricia L. Wilson,

Free-lance editor, Photographer and Writer

 

 

Peter Mageto presents a thoroughly researched and highly accessible investigation into the Church in Africas response to HIV/AIDS, issues of stigmatization, discrimination and gender relations. Victim theology tackles the stubborn realities of African life and yet charts the way forward to human flourishing and empowerment. An invaluable resource for African liberation.