Beyond a “Political Priest”: Exploring Desmond Tutu as a “Freedom-Fighter Mystic”: Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa’s Confessor, by Michael Battle, Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2021, 388 pp., 50, ISBN 978-0-6642-6727-8

The purpose of this essay is to critically review the remarkably unique account of Desmond Tutu’s life presented by Michael Battle in his book “Desmond Tutu: A Spiritual Biography of South Africa’s Confessor.” The central contention of this essay is that Michael Battle shifts the paradigm of biograp...

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Main Author: Nadar, Sarojini (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2021
In: Black theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 268-275
Further subjects:B Ubuntu
B Spiritual biography
B Social Justice
B Mysticism
B Reconciliation
B Humour
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