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


African Theology Today

African Theology Today

Author: Emmanuel M. Katongole

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2017-05-09

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1532631790

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This book brings together twelve essays on a wide and rich range of topics, discussions and methodologies in African theology today. Even the book's limitations provide an insight into the situation: its variety also indicates the absence of comprehensive and sustained discussion flowing from the economic and institutional limitation of Africa where research in theology is often beyond the means of many theologians. Then there is the difficulty of staying abreast of continually changing contexts and events in Africa itself. For all of these reasons then, a compelling introduction to a dynamic analysis and conversation.


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.


Church We Want

Church We Want

Author: Orobator, Agbonkhianmeghe E.

Publisher: Orbis Books

Published: 2016-08-18

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1608336689

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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.


For a Missionary Reform of the Church

For a Missionary Reform of the Church

Author: Antonio Spadaro, SJ

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 712

ISBN-13: 1587687143

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Thirty essays presented at a symposium that deals with reform of the church and reforms in the church, according to the vision of Pope Francis.


African Christian Theologies and the Impact of the Reformation

African Christian Theologies and the Impact of the Reformation

Author: Heinrich Bedford-Strohm

Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 461

ISBN-13: 3643908202

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One of the strongest heritages of the Reformation for Christianity was to return to the central role given to the Bible, translated in local dialects. Christianity expanded thanks to the translation of the Bible in vernacular languages worldwide. Most importantly, the people who had been victims of prejudices of race supremacy could now have access to God in their own language, culture, and idioms without intermediaries. It is largely thanks to Bible translations that the majority of those churches in Africa, born of European mission activities, continued to develop positively after the end of the colonial age, and that independent African churches emerged. (Series: Theology in the Public Square / Theologie in der Ã?Â?ffentlichkeit, Vol. 10) [Subject: African Studies, Christian Studies]


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.


In Search of Foundations for African Catholicism

In Search of Foundations for African Catholicism

Author: Mika Vähäkangas

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-05-18

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9004320032

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This study deals with the interaction between neo-Thomism and African traditional thinking in Charles Nyamiti's theological methodology. The approach of the study is groundbreaking as it is the first monograph published on the theological method of any African theologian. The question about the position and relevance of Western philosophical-theological systems in a non-Western context also has a wider relevance concerning contextual theologies in general. Nyamiti's theology is a germane and a fruitful choice for the study of this issue because of his programmatic attempt to build a coherent African Roman Catholic theological system. His theology is also well-known for its strong African flavor in elaborating theological questions within the framework of orthodox Roman Catholic doctrine.


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.