Toward an African Theology
Title | Toward an African Theology PDF eBook |
Author | John S. Pobee |
Publisher | Abingdon Press |
Pages | 184 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Religion |
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Towards an African Narrative Theology
Title | Towards an African Narrative Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Healey |
Publisher | Orbis Books |
Pages | 574 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1608331873 |
Reflects what traditional proverbs used in Christian catechetical, liturgical, and ritual contexts reveal about Tanzanian appropriations of and interpretations of Christianity.
African Theology in Images
Title | African Theology in Images PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Ott |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Art |
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This is a revised and updated edition of the comprehensive study of the role of art in the process of inculturation in Africa, first issued in 2000. The study is a substantial contribution toward a theology of inculcation in Africa, and enriches the debate on indigenous African and Christian artistic traditions. It represents the first systematic theology constructed in and from Malawi that establishes a theology of symbolic expression in Africa.
African Christian Theology
Title | African Christian Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Waje Kunhiyop |
Publisher | Zondervan Academic |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2019-04-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0310107121 |
Christian theology evolves out of questions that are asked in a particular situation about how the Bible speaks to that situation. This book, African Christian Theology, is written to address questions that arise from the African context. It is intended to help students and others discover how theology affects our minds, our hearts, and our lives. As such, it speaks not only to Africans but to all who seek to understand and live out their faith in their own societies. Samuel Kunyihop understands both biblical theology and the African worldview and throws light on areas where they overlap, where they diverge, and why this matters. He explores traditional African understandings of God and how he reveals himself, the African understanding of sin and way the Bible sees sin, and how the work of Christ can be understood in African terms. The treatment of Christian living focuses on matters that are relevant to Christians in Africa and elsewhere, dealing with topics such as blessings and curses and the role of the church as a Christian community. The book concludes with a discussion of biblical thinking on death and the afterlife in which it also addresses the role traditionally ascribed to African ancestors.
African Perspectives on Culture and World Christianity
Title | African Perspectives on Culture and World Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Ogbonnaya |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2017-05-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1443891592 |
Unlike the global North, “the ferment of Christianity” in the global South, among the majority of world people, has been astronomical. Despite the shift in the center of gravity of Christianity to the global South, intra-ecclesial tensions globally remain those of the relationship of culture to religion. The questions posed revolve around to what extent Western Christianity should be adapted to local cultures. Should we talk of Christianity in non-Western contexts or of majority world Christianity? Is it appropriate to describe the shift as the emergence of global Christianity or world Christianity? Should Christianity in the global South mimic Christianity in the global North, or can it be different in the light of the diversity of these cultures? Can Africans, Asians, Latin Americans, Europeans and North Americans – the entire global community – speak of God in the same way? This book is devoted to examining varieties of the intercultural process in world Christianity. It understands culture broadly as a common meaning upon which communities’ social order is organized. Culture in this sense is the whole life of people. It is the integrator of the filial bond holding people together and the various institutional structures – economic, technological, political and legal – that guarantee peace and survival in societies, states, and nations, both locally and internationally. As this book shows, the centrality of culture for world Christianity equally showcases the important position the scale of values occupies in world Christianity.
African Public Theology
Title | African Public Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Sunday Bobai Agang |
Publisher | Langham Publishing |
Pages | 451 |
Release | 2020-04-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1783688130 |
Africa needs leaders and Christians from every walk of life to rediscover their identity and purpose in all spheres of society. African Public Theology sounds a clarion call to accomplish this vital task. God created all humans equally, intending for us to live in community and take responsibility for the world around us – a mandate we need to act on. Through faithful application of Scripture to contexts common in the continent today, contributors from across Africa join as one to present a vision for the Africa that God intended. No simplistic solutions are offered – instead African Public Theology challenges every reader to think through the application of biblical principles in their own community, place of work and sphere of influence. If we heed the principles and lessons that God’s word has for society, culture and public life, then countries across Africa can have hope of a future that is free from corruption and self-promotion and is instead characterized by collective stewardship and servant-hearted leadership.
Church We Want
Title | Church We Want PDF eBook |
Author | Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E. |
Publisher | Orbis Books |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2016-08-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1608336689 |
Featuring essays from a broad range of contributors this book is a treasure for anyone interested in theological reflection from an African perspective and is a necessary resource for theologians and scholars working in a church that is steadily moving its center to the Global South.