Christian Reflection in Africa
Christian Reflection in Africa

Author: Paul Bowers

Publisher: Langham Publishing

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 980

ISBN-13: 1783684453

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This reference collection presents academic reviews of more than twelve-hundred contemporary Africa-related publications relevant for informed Christian reflection in and about Africa. The collection is based on the review journal BookNotes for Africa, a specialist resource dedicated to bringing to notice such publications, and furnishing them with a one-paragraph description and evaluation. Now assembled here for the first time is the entire collection of reviews through the first thirty issues of the journal’s history. The core intention, both of the journal and of this compilation, is to encourage and to facilitate informed Christian reflection and engagement in Africa, through a thoughtful encounter with the published intellectual life of the continent. Reviews have been provided by a team of more than one hundred contributors drawn from throughout Africa and overseas. The books and other media selected for review represent a broad cross-section of interests and issues, of personalities and interpretations, including the secular as well as the religious. The collection will be of special interest to academic scholars, theological educators, libraries, ministry leaders, and specialist researchers in Africa and throughout the world, but will also engage any reader looking for a convenient resource relating to modern Africa and Christian presence there.

Thinking Globally and Responding Locally in the Church
Thinking Globally and Responding Locally in the Church

Author: Thomas Knieps-Port le Roi

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 3643916361

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How has Pope Francis’s groundbreaking document on marriage and family, Amoris Laetitia, been implemented in Africa? In Asia? In Latin America? In this volume, scholars from across these regions reflect on their experiences, correcting the overly western focus of most reactions to AL. The contributions look at local issues like polygamy in Africa, as well as more global issues in a local context, like feminism in Indonesia and synodality in Colombia. The reader will find that concerns about marriage and family can be similar throughout the world or specific to different contexts. As a whole, the book contributes to a more diverse and revisited catholic understanding of marriage and family.

Understanding the Needs of Elderly African Immigrants
Understanding the Needs of Elderly African Immigrants

Author: Komla Happy Ocloo

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2011-06-29

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1462019277

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Understanding the Needs of Elderly African Immigrants focuses on African immigrant elders culture, religion, and spirituality in the United States. The ultimate aim is to provide a resource guide on African immigrant elders for the social workers, nursing homes, physicians, pharmacists, bankers, lawyers, police officers, community leaders, senior centers, religious leaders, and universities in the United States that will allow them to focus their services appropriately. Over the last few decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of African immigrants to the United States and specifically to central Minnesota, particularly among those aged fifty-five and over. With Understanding the Needs of Elderly African Immigrants, Pastor Komla Ocloo provides an overview of their unique culture and examines the specific needs of this special group. This study extends knowledge and practical wisdom of religion, spirituality,s and culture in terms of their constitutive impact on gerontology education and programs for African immigrants. Understanding the Needs of Elderly African Immigrants provides a framework for service providers to better understand the challenges African immigrant elders experience in the United States.

African Christianities
African Christianities

Author: Eloi Messi Metogo

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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Concilium has long been a household-name for cutting-edge critical and constructive theological thinking. Past contributors include leading Catholic scholars such as Hans Küng, Gregory Baum and Edward Schillebeeckx, and the editors of the review belong to the international "who's who" in the world of contemporary theology. Published five times a year, each issue reflects a deep knowledge and scholarship presented in a highly readable style, and each issue offers a wide variety of viewpoints from leading thinkers from all over the world.

Emerging from Aborted Liberations for a Free and United Africa
Emerging from Aborted Liberations for a Free and United Africa

Author: Joseph Habamahirwe

Publisher: Babelcube Inc.

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 1071545000

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The book "Emerging from Aborted Liberations for a Free and United Africa" is a translation of the French work "Sortir des libérations avortées pour une Afrique libre et unie" by Joseph Habamahirwe. It is a careful and thoughtful analysis of the many problems that the African continent and its peoples are still facing after more than 50 years of independence from direct colonial rule. It is a work of liberation theology and the author has been particularly influenced by the late African Sociologist and theologian Jean-Marc Ela.

God, Spirit, and Human Wholeness
God, Spirit, and Human Wholeness

Author: Elochukwu Eugene Uzukwu

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2012-03-09

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1621891666

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The Holy Spirit provides access to relationship with and reflection on the Triune God. In West Africa, Christians approach the Triune God in a way that challenges the Jewish-Christian memory. Deeply rooted in their ancestral memory, where living is relationality, they embrace the Trinitarian faith, the economy of the relational God-Christ-Spirit, by expanding and reinventing their indigenous experience of God, deities, spirits, and ancestors. Christian faith-practice is marked by the spectacular dominance of the Holy Spirit, whose charisms reflect the operations of deities. African Initiated Churches (AICs), Protestant and Catholic charismatic movements, experience God-Spirit's liberating and healing hand for the enhancement and realization of communal and individual destiny (what one expects from a concerned providential deity). This book argues that the emergent West African Trinitarian imagination is in harmony with Hebrew insight into the One and Only Yahweh of the patriarchs that assumed the dimensions of Elohim, God--experienced as a sound of sheer silence by Elijah, and proposed in utter weakness as the Only God by Deutero-Isaiah--the God that Jesus called Abba, Father. As Spirit and Life, the Holy Spirit, which is the source of all charisms (Origen), is our link to the Trinity.