Culture et foi dans la théologie africaine

Culture et foi dans la théologie africaine

Author: Marco Moerschbacher

Publisher: KARTHALA Editions

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 2811111646

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"Les contributions rassemblées dans ce volume, en mémoire au père jésuite Ludwig Bertsch (1929-2006), font le point sur quelques défis actuels de la théologie africaine. Ludwig Bertsch s. j. était un grand ami du Congo, pays qu’il a visité plusieurs fois. Il y a assuré des cours et a participé aux colloques scientifiques qui y ont été organisés. Pendant de longues années, il a été membre du Conseil administratif des Facultés catholiques de Kinshasa, aujourd’hui Université Catholique du Congo. Au sein de la communauté ecclésiale vivante de base Boyambi (paroisse Notre-Dame de Lingwala à Kinshasa), il a pu vivre de l’intérieur les retombées pratiques des initiatives pastorales déployées dans le diocèse de Kinshasa. Cette expérience sur le terrain lui a permis de publier en 1990 un ouvrage remarqué sur les dirigeants laïcs de communautés. L’expérience qu’il a poursuivie au gré de ses voyages et de ses nombreux contacts avec les agents pastoraux et les théologiens a nourri ses contributions scientifiques sur les communautés ecclésiales vivantes de base, les ministères laïcs, la liturgie et les tâches pastorales d’une Église congolaise authentique et inculturée, œuvrant dans une société en crise. Les contributions rassemblées dans ces Mélanges mettent en évidence le dynamisme de l’Église congolaise dont le père L. Bertsch se sentait un membre actif. En rapport avec sa riche personnalité, cet ouvrage présente des perspectives nouvelles qui éclairent l’articulation entre foi et culture dans la recherche d’une théologie en contexte africain."--Quatrième de couverture


The Routledge Handbook of African Theology

The Routledge Handbook of African Theology

Author: Elias Kifon Bongmba

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-05-25

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1351607448

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Theology has a rich tradition across the African continent, and has taken myriad directions since Christianity first arrived on its shores. This handbook charts both historical developments and contemporary issues in the formation and application of theologies across the member countries of the African Union. Written by a panel of expert international contributors, chapters firstly cover the various methodologies needed to carry out such a survey. Various theological movements and themes are then discussed, as well as biblical and doctrinal issues pertinent to African theology. Subjects addressed include: • Orality and theology • Indigenous religions and theology • Patristics • Pentecostalism • Liberation theology • Black theology • Social justice • Sexuality and theology • Environmental theology • Christology • Eschatology • The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament The Routledge Handbook of African Theology is an authoritative and comprehensive survey of the theological landscape of Africa. As such, it will be a hugely useful volume to any scholar interested in African religious dynamics, as well as academics of Theology or Biblical Studies in an African context.


Liberation Theologies on Shifting Grounds

Liberation Theologies on Shifting Grounds

Author: Georges de Schrijver

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9789042903029

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Besides their insistence on praxis and the application of the Word of God to a given situation, Liberation Theologies make ample use of tools of analysis to uncover root causes of oppression. Now, it is precisely with respect to these tools that Liberation Theologies today find themselves on shifting grounds. In intra-ecclesiastical circles cultural concerns have come to replace socio-economic analysis, whereas after the implosion of the East Bloc the liberationists proper also pay more attention to the issues of gender, ecology, and indigenous movements. The contributions to this volume, originating from various continents, discuss to what extent this shift in emphasis is desirable, and acceptable, and conclude that the cultural focus cannot possibly invalidate but only enrich and complete the socio-economic analysis. They, moreover, try to assess the developments in light of globalization (economics, informatics), on the one hand, and postmodernity on the other. Given the impact of western culture politics, the question arises as to whether the native cultures will succeed in keeping up their religious core values and structures of solidarity - two elements so indispensable for liberative commitments.


Encyclopedia of Christian Theology

Encyclopedia of Christian Theology

Author: Jean-Yves Lacoste

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-27

Total Pages: 3974

ISBN-13: 1135456410

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The Encyclopedia of Christian Theology, translated from the French Dictionnaire Critique de Théologie 2nd Edition, features over 530 entries, contributed by 250 scholars from fifthteen different countries. Alphabetically arranged entries provide the reader a critical overview of the main theological questions and related topics, including concepts, events, councils, theologians, philosophers, movements, and more. Hailed as a "masterpiece of scholarship," this reference work will be of great interest and use for scholars, students of religion and theology as well as general readers.


Identity and Ecclesiology

Identity and Ecclesiology

Author: Stephanie A. Lowery

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-04-25

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1498298451

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Questions of identity continue to intrigue theologians in Africa, and African intellectuals often note communal emphases in African thought. This raises the question, How do ecclesiologies in Africa engage with identity concerns, and how do they envision the Christian identity? Stephanie Lowery argues in this book that theologians in Africa provide theological and biblical arguments regarding Christian identity that are relevant to individual Christians and ecclesiologies in all contexts. She also proposes the social identity approach as a tool that can both further articulate and advance these discussions.


Dictionary of Mission

Dictionary of Mission

Author: Karl Muller

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2006-01-30

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1597525499

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ÒConceived and developed by two of Europe's most eminent missiologists, in the country where the scientific and sustained study of mission first took shape, [the 'Dictionary of Mission'] represents the finest of the chorus of voices that comprise contemporary missiology . . . The choice of topics and the authors to address them reflects what Christian mission has become: a genuinely worldwide and ecumenical phenomenon. That there would be entries on regional theological developments is indicative of how the world church is developing. A host of other topics here explored show too how the landscape of mission is changing. Taken as a whole, then, the 'Dictionary of Mission' is a road map through this exciting and challenging terrain. --from the Foreword


Christianity in Tropical Africa

Christianity in Tropical Africa

Author: C. G. Baëta

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-16

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1351042807

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Originally published in 1968 this volume discusses the issues and problems relevant to Christianity in Tropical Africa. It includes historical studies of the earlier Catholic and Protestant missions and their relationship with African communities, traders and colonial administrations; the social and psychological aspects of conversion and responses to the teaching of the gospel and the impact of Christian teaching on indigenous beliefs; the analysis of modern trends such as separatism.


Cristologia e missione oggi

Cristologia e missione oggi

Author: Gianni Colzani

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13:

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Il presente volume costituisce la raccolta degli interventi dei relatori al Congresso di Missiologia organizzato dalla Pontificia Università Urbaniana e dall'International Association of Catholic Missiologists (IACM). Il Congresso, svoltosi a Roma dal 17 al 20 ottobre 2000, ha proposto una riflessione missiologica sul passato, sul presente e sul futuro della missione cristiana studiando il ruolo salvifico di Gesù Cristo alla luce dei contesti socio-culturali dei diversi continenti. Annotation Supplied by Informazioni Editoriali