Toward an African Theology
Author: John S. Pobee
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 184
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Towards an African Narrative Theology
Author: Joseph Healey
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 574
ISBN-13: 1608331873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReflects what traditional proverbs used in Christian catechetical, liturgical, and ritual contexts reveal about Tanzanian appropriations of and interpretations of Christianity.
African Theology in Images
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.
African Christian Theology
Author: Samuel Waje Kunhiyop
Publisher: Zondervan Academic
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 0310107121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristian theology evolves out of questions that are asked in a particular situation about how the Bible speaks to that situation. This book, African Christian Theology, is written to address questions that arise from the African context. It is intended to help students and others discover how theology affects our minds, our hearts, and our lives. As such, it speaks not only to Africans but to all who seek to understand and live out their faith in their own societies. Samuel Kunyihop understands both biblical theology and the African worldview and throws light on areas where they overlap, where they diverge, and why this matters. He explores traditional African understandings of God and how he reveals himself, the African understanding of sin and way the Bible sees sin, and how the work of Christ can be understood in African terms. The treatment of Christian living focuses on matters that are relevant to Christians in Africa and elsewhere, dealing with topics such as blessings and curses and the role of the church as a Christian community. The book concludes with a discussion of biblical thinking on death and the afterlife in which it also addresses the role traditionally ascribed to African ancestors.
African Public Theology
Author: Sunday Bobai Agang
Publisher: Langham Publishing
Published: 2020-04-30
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 1783688130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrica needs leaders and Christians from every walk of life to rediscover their identity and purpose in all spheres of society. African Public Theology sounds a clarion call to accomplish this vital task. God created all humans equally, intending for us to live in community and take responsibility for the world around us – a mandate we need to act on. Through faithful application of Scripture to contexts common in the continent today, contributors from across Africa join as one to present a vision for the Africa that God intended. No simplistic solutions are offered – instead African Public Theology challenges every reader to think through the application of biblical principles in their own community, place of work and sphere of influence. If we heed the principles and lessons that God’s word has for society, culture and public life, then countries across Africa can have hope of a future that is free from corruption and self-promotion and is instead characterized by collective stewardship and servant-hearted leadership.
Theology and Identity
Author: Kwame Bediako
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 527
ISBN-13: 1610974409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKwame Bediako examines the question of Christian identity in the context of the Greco-Roman culture of the early Roman Empire. He then addresses the modern African predicament of quests for identity and integration. Theology and Identity was one of the finalists for the 1992 HarperCollins Religious Book Award.
Toward an African Theology of Fraternal Solidarity
Author: Ikenna Ugochukwu Okafor
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2014-09-29
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1630875279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Ikenna Okafor tackles an interesting and timely topic and demonstrates competence and maturity in developing his insight into Igbo humanism--to make liberation theology from an African perspective into a theology of solidarity and fraternity. With a good narrative style, Okafor critiques the Latin American liberation theological project. And inspired by the hermeneutical implications of "UBE NAWANNE," the evangelical positioning of material poverty and pathos for the poor as defining Christian discipleship is persuasively presented. The potent nwanne idiom guides his critical evaluation of the social teachings and praxis of the Catholic Church. In fact, it is clear that Okafor embarked on a subject matter that is of theological moment and has creative pastoral implications for the Church of Nigeria, the Churches of Africa, and the World Church.
The Church as Salt and Light
Author: Stan Chu Ilo
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2011-06-16
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1630879614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an attempt at a critical, constructive, and creative theological praxis of social transformation in Africa. The authors apply a multi-disciplinary approach to examining how Christianity in Africa is engaging the problems of Africa's challenging social context. This is a prophetic work that applies the symbols of "salt" and "light" as ecclesiological images for reenvisioning the path towards procuring abundant life for God's people in the African continent through the agency of African Christianity. The contributors to this volume ask these fundamental questions: What is the face of Jesus in African Christianity? What is the face and identity of the Church in Africa? How can one evaluate the relevance of the Church in Africa to African Christians who enthusiastically embrace and celebrate their Christian faith? In other words, what positive imprint is Christianity leaving on the lives and societies of African Christians? Does the Christian message have the potential of positively affecting African civilization as it once did in Europe? What is the relevance and place of African Christianity as a significant voice in shaping both the future of Africa and that of world Christianity?
How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind
Author: Thomas C. Oden
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2010-07-23
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 0830837051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas C. Oden surveys the decisive role of African Christians and theologians in shaping the doctrines and practices of the church of the first five centuries, and makes an impassioned plea for the rediscovery of that heritage. Christians throughout the world will benefit from this reclaiming of an important heritage.
African American Theology
Author: Frederick L. Ware
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1611646499
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a substantial introduction to the major methodologies, figures, and themes within African American theology. Frederick L. Ware explores African American theology from its inception and places it within dual contexts: first, the African American struggle for dignity and full humanity; and second, the broader scope of Christian belief. Readers will appreciate Ware's demonstration of how black theology is expressed in a wide range of sources that includes not only scholarly publications but also African American sermons, music, news and editorials, biography, literature, popular periodicals, folklore, and philosophy. Each chapter concludes with questions for discussion and suggested resources for further study. Ware provides a seasoned perspective on where African American theology has been and where it is going, and he demonstrates its creativity within the chorus of Christian theology.
