Faces of Jesus in Africa
Author: Robert J. Schreiter
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2015-03-24
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1608331741
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Author: Robert J. Schreiter
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2015-03-24
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1608331741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert J. Schreiter
Publisher: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheological and mission worlds have long known the need to radically reinterpret christology for cultural realms not formed by Israelite and Western religious and cultural traditions. In Faces of Jesus in Africa, Robert Schreiter has compiled essays by ten creative French and English speaking African theologians, thinkers who are moving beyond prescribing what should be done to actually doing it. -- Christianbook.
Author: Küster, Volker
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2023-06-01
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1608339769
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Updated version of an Orbis classic"--
Author: Tokunboh Adeyemo
Publisher: WordAlive Publishers
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9966805133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica's heartrending picture begs the question: Is Africa cursed? In this book, the author conveys a winning message - that there can be hope for Africa. He unwraps Africa's place in the Bible, wards off superstition and advocates Christians' active engagement in transforming Africa.
Author: Martin Ott
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 632
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Terrence Merrigan
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13: 9789042909007
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Papers gathered here are the fruit of an international congress held at the Faculty of Theology of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 18-21 November, 1997."--Pref.
Author: Diane B. Stinton
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 308
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward J. Blum
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-09-21
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0807837377
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions--from witch hunts to web pages, Harlem to Hollywood, slave cabins to South Park, Mormon revelations to Indian reservations--to show how Americans remade the Son of God visually time and again into a sacred symbol of their greatest aspirations, deepest terrors, and mightiest strivings for racial power and justice. The Color of Christ uncovers how, in a country founded by Puritans who destroyed depictions of Jesus, Americans came to believe in the whiteness of Christ. Some envisioned a white Christ who would sanctify the exploitation of Native Americans and African Americans and bless imperial expansion. Many others gazed at a messiah, not necessarily white, who was willing and able to confront white supremacy. The color of Christ still symbolizes America's most combustible divisions, revealing the power and malleability of race and religion from colonial times to the presidency of Barack Obama.
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Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2017-05-09
Total Pages: 2162
ISBN-13: 1496424719
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Africa Study Bible brings together 350 contributors from over 50 countries, providing a unique African perspective. It's an all-in-one course in biblical content, theology, history, and culture, with special attention to the African context. Each feature was planned by African leaders to help readers grow strong in Jesus Christ by providing understanding and instruction on how to live a good and righteous life--Publisher.
Author: Richard Walsh
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press Limited
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781907534836
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe remarkable, award-winning film, Son of Man (2005), directed by the South African Mark Dornford-May, sets the Jesus story in a contemporary, fictional southern African Judea. While news broadcasts display the political struggles and troubles of this postcolonial country, moments of magical realism point to supernatural battles between Satan and Jesus as well. Jesus' Judean struggle with Satan begins with a haunting reprise of Matthew's 'slaughter of the innocents' and moves forward in a Steve Biko-like non-violent, community-building ministry, captured in graffiti and in the video footage that Judas takes to incriminate Jesus. Satan and the powers seemingly triumph when Jesus 'disappears', but then Mary creates a community that challenges such injustice by displaying her son's dead body upon a hillside cross. The film ends with shots of Jesus among the angels and everyday life in Khayelitsha (the primary shooting location), auguring hope of a new humanity (Genesis 1.26). This book's essays situate Son of Man in its African context, exploring the film's incorporation of local customs, music, rituals, and events as it constructs an imperial and postcolonial 'world'. The film is to be seen as an expression of postcolonial agency, as a call to constructive political action, as an interpretation of the Gospels, and as a reconfiguration of the Jesus film tradition. Finally, the essays call attention to their interested, ideological interpretations by using Son of Man to raise contemporary ethical, hermeneutical, and theological questions. As the film itself concisely asks on behalf of the children featured in it and their politically active mothers, 'Whose world is this'?