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Publisher: Editions Publibook
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Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 2342158610
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African theology in the 21st century : the contribution of the pioneers. 2
Author: Bénézet Bujo
Publisher: Paulines Publications Africa
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9966081577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican Theology as Liberating Wisdom
Author: Mari-Anna Pöntinen
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-03-27
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 9004245979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn African Theology as Liberating Wisdom; Celebrating Life and Harmony in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana, Mari-Anna Pöntinen analyses contextual interpretations of the Christian faith in this particular church. These interpretations are based on the special wisdom tradition which embraces monistic ontology, communal ethics in botho, and the indigenous belief in God as the Source of Life, and the Root of everything that exists. The constructing theological principle in the ELCB is the downward-orientated and descending God in Christ which interprets the ‘Lutheran spirit’ in a liberating and empowering sense. It deals with the cultural mythos which brings Christ down into people’s existence, unlike Western connotations which are considered to hinder seeing Christ and to prevent existential self-awareness.
Models of Contextual Theology
Author: Stephen B. Bevans
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1608330265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStephen B Bevans's Models of Contextual Theology has become a staple in courses on theological method and as a handbook used by missioners and other Christians concerned with the Christian tradition's understanding of itself in relation to culture. First published in 1992 and now in its seventh printing in English, with translations underway into Spanish, Korean, and Indonesian, Bevans's book is a judicious examination of what the terms "contextual theology" and "to contextualize" mean. In the revised and expanded edition, Bevans adds a "counter-cultural" model to the five presented in the first edition -- the translation, the anthropological, the praxis, the synthetic, and the transcendental model. This means that readers will be introduced to the way in which figures such as Stanley Hauerwas, John Milbank, Lesslie Newbigin, "and (occasionally) Pope John Paul II" need to be taken into account. The author's revisions also incorporate suggestions made by reviewers to enhance the clarity of the original three chapters on the nature of contextual theology and the five models.
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon
Author: Mark Dike DeLancey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-06-15
Total Pages: 831
ISBN-13: 1538119684
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCameroon is a land of much promise, but a land of unfulfilled promises. It has the potential to be an economically developed and democratic society but the struggle to live up to its potential has not gone well. Since independence there have been only two presidents of Cameroon; the current one has been in office since 1982. Endowed with a variety of climates and agricultural environments, numerous minerals and substantial forests, and a dynamic population, this is a country that should be a leader of Africa. Instead, we find a country almost paralyzed by corruption and poor management, a country with a low life expectancy and serious health problems, and a country from which the most talented and highly educated members of the population are emigrating in large numbers. To all of this is recently added a serious terrorism problem, Boko Haram, in the north, a separatist movement in the Anglophone west, refugee influxes in the north and east, and bandits from the Central African Republic attacking eastern villages. This fifth edition of Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Republic of Cameroon.
Visions of Development
Author: Wendy R. Tyndale
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-03-02
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1351875620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVisions of Development presents first-hand stories of groups and movements from many different religious and spiritual traditions that are working with impoverished communities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. It provides unique insights into how people's beliefs and spirituality can help to inform not only what they perceive 'development' to be but also how they go about achieving it. Through real-life examples of courageous and innovative work, the stories challenge much of the theory and practice of mainstream development agencies while also showing how religious inspiration can be a force for radical and positive change.
Faith in Action, Volume 3
Author: Stan Chu Ilo
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2020-12-15
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 1725293900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScribbles from the Den
Author: Dibussi Tande
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2009-05-15
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9956716537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection consists of 49 insightful essays by leading Cameroonian blogger Dibussi Tande, which originally appeared on his award-winning blog Scribbles from the Den. These essays tackle some of the most pressing and complex issues facing Cameroon today such as the stalled democratization process, the perennial Anglophone problem, the crisis of higher education, the absence of the rule of law, the lack of leadership renewal, a stifled collective memory, and a continued inability to harness technology for purposes of national development, among others. Scribbles from the Den goes beyond the news headlines to dispassionately analyze and unravel the complexities of Cameroonian politics and society.
Christians and Churches of Africa Envisioning the Future
Author: Kä Mana
Publisher: OCMS
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9781870345279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMigration, Transnationalism and Catholicism
Author: Dominic Pasura
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-02-21
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1137583479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first to analyze the impacts of migration and transnationalism on global Catholicism. It explores how migration and transnationalism are producing diverse spaces and encounters that are moulding the Roman Catholic Church as institution and parish, pilgrimage and network, community and people. Bringing together established and emerging scholars of sociology, anthropology, geography, history and theology, it examines migrants’ religious transnationalism, but equally the effects of migration-related-diversity on non-migrant Catholics and the Church itself. This timely edited collection is organised around a series of theoretical frameworks for understanding the intersections of migration and Catholicism, with case studies from 17 different countries and contexts. The extent to which migrants’ religiosity transforms Catholicism, and the negotiations of unity in diversity within the Roman Catholic Church, are key themes throughout. This innovative approach will appeal to scholars of migration, transnationalism, religion, theology, and diversity.
