Civil Disobedience and Beyond: Law, Resistance and Religion in South Africa by Charles Villa-Vicencio

David Philip Publishers, December 1990

184 pages, Paperback

South Africa is living between the times, 'the old is dying, the new cannot be born'. Though the country is closer than perhaps ever before to a political settlement, popular resistance and state opression are likely to continue. The issues discussed in this book, which include civil disobedience, armed conflict and the task of government , are among the most important issues likely to face South Africa in the 1990s. 

These and other concerns are located within the history of the centuries old struggle for liberation by South Africa's oppresssed people. The author concludes that from the perspective of its own teaching the church is obliged to share in the quest for a new South Africa. Written at the interface of theological, legal and political debate, the book is likely to have an appeal well beyond the confines of the church.