Towards A Christian Theology Of African Ancestors

Author : Thomas Ochieng Otanga
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666733068

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Towards a Christian Theology of African Ancestors by Thomas Ochieng Otanga Pdf

This book examines the similarities and relationship between Christian saints and African ancestors. Further, it analyzes the deep cultural roots of African peoples and the ancestral frame as a point of departure for developing an indigenous African theology. Questions dealt with include: Does the conversion of Africans to Christianity require a break with their African cultural heritage? Who is an African ancestor? Is syncretism a good thing for an African Christian? What contribution can the African church make to the universal church? The author argues that rather than being antithetical to formal Christianity, an African Christian theology of ancestors is an example of how an indigenous African tradition can best express Christianity as well as make considerable impact on world Christianity.

Author : Reuben Turbi Luka
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783687176

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Jesus Christ as Ancestor by Reuben Turbi Luka Pdf

In this critical study, Dr Turbi Luka uses historical-theological methodology to engage in detail with Christologies of key African theologians and conventional theological sources for Christology, including the church fathers Tertullian and Athanasius as well as modern theologians. Turbi argues that existing African Christologies, specifically ancestor Christologies, are inadequate in expressing the person of Christ as Messiah and saviour, the fulfilment of Old Testament prophesies. Providing a new approach, Turbi proposes an African Linguistic Affinity Christology that explicitly portrays Jesus as Christ in a contextually relevant way for Africans in everyday life. This crucial study highlights the need for biblically rooted Christology and for sound theological understanding and naming of Jesus at every level. This book also warns the church in Africa, and elsewhere, to avoid repeating the dangerous christological heresies of the ancient church by remaining faithful to a biblical interpretation and orthodox theology of Christ.

Author : Peter Wasswa Mpagi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Africa
ISBN : 997044557X

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African Ancestors and Christian Saints by Peter Wasswa Mpagi Pdf

Author : Josiah Ulysses Young
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015029731174

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A Pan-African Theology by Josiah Ulysses Young Pdf

Author : Rudolf K. Gaisie
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725252875

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Jesus Christ as Logos Incarnate and Resurrected Nana (Ancestor) by Rudolf K. Gaisie Pdf

This book seeks to demonstrate the significance of Ancestor Christology in African Christianity for christological developments in World Christianity. Ancestor Christology has developed in the process of an African conversion story of appropriating the mystery of Christ (Eph 3:4) in the category of ancestors. Logos Christology in early Christian history developed as an intricate byproduct in the conversion process of turning Hellenistic ideas towards the direction of Christ (A. F. Walls). Hellenistic Christian writers and modern African Christian writers thus share some things in common and when their efforts are examined within the conversion process framework there are discernible modes of engagement. The mode of Logos Christology that one finds in Origen, for example, is an innovative application of the understanding of Jesus Christ as Logos (incarnate); a new key but not discontinuous with the Johannine suggestive mode or the clarificatory mode of Justin Martyr. African Ancestor Christology is at the threshold of an innovative mode and the argument this book makes is that this strand of African Christology should be pursued in the indigenous languages aided by respective translated Bibles; a suggested way is a Logos-Ancestor (Nanasɛm) discourse in Akan Christianity.

Author : Cletus Chukwuemeka Nwaogwugwu
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781450262293

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Ancestor Christology by Cletus Chukwuemeka Nwaogwugwu Pdf

The study of the application of the title ancestor to Christ permits the author to delve into the Christological reflection in Africa today through one of the principal ways. At play here is the inculturation of the faith, which cannot be fully achieved without a process of theological assimilation of the fundamental parameters in the African life. The thesis, therefore, is not only limited to a mere description of the contemporary panorama in that respect, but attempts to offer a theological evaluation of the real expressive capacity of the title, as it has been proposed. The criterion used is therefore double: In the first place, the thesis tried to show that the human and the divine natures of Jesus Christ can be maintained in such a way that there is no rupture with the great tradition of the Christological councils. In the second place, if it is capable of responding to demands of Christology from above and from below. In all this, however, the horizon of the debate is not occidental exegetical investigation well known by the author; but from the theological ambient of sub-Saharan world. The conclusion is positive, pondering the terms involved. The work can be of great use in the christoogical endeavors of contemporary Africa, as well for those who desire to delve into it. Don Alfonso Carrasco Rouco (director of the thesis and now Bishop of the Diocese of Lugo Spain) The work of Don Cletus Chukwuemeka contains a clear description of what we may call African traditional religiosity as well as the theological efforts to inject Christianity into this cultural and religious tradition. The central point of these efforts revolves around the understanding of Christ. The most original aspect of this work is in the critical recourse to the figure of the ancestor or proto-ancestor to present the identity of Christ in a way that is faithful to the Church tradition, and at the same time, significant for the religious and cultural tradition of Africa. Dr. Don Gerardo del Pozo Abejn (Censor of the thesis)

Author : Gwinyai H. Muzorewa
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579103392

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The Origins and Development of African Theology by Gwinyai H. Muzorewa Pdf

The Origins and Development of African theology is a very informative survey of African theology over approximately the last twenty years. The author is widely read on the subject, as far as English publications go, and highlights the salient issues with balanced objectivity. The literature, both as discussed in the substance of the book and in the bibliography, is also a valuable source for further study of African theology. John Mbiti, author of Prayers of African Religion

Author : Uchenna A. Ezeh
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015056801015

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Jesus Christ the Ancestor by Uchenna A. Ezeh Pdf

Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Oxford, Wien. There is a plethora of Christological initiatives to creatively and firmly root Christianity in Africa without either Christianity compromising its prophetic vocation or the healthy cultural values of the people being destroyed. From the backdrop of the African religio-cultural scenario and the patrimony of the Church these Christological models seek to address the question, but you, who do you say that I am? (Mt16:15). It is a Christological question which underlines the need for a relevant theology which arises from and is accountable to the people. The African cult of the ancestors epitomizes the African quest for salvation (soteriology), goodness in the society (ethics), relationship with one another (community), union with God (spirituality), and the end of the human person (anthropology and eschatology). These African values are perfectly fulfilled in Christ. This work singles out the African ancestral Christological model with its paschal and ecclesiological dimensions to demonstrate, that even though no human term can exhaust the mystery of Jesus Christ, the ancestorship of Christ as perfect and analogical model opens up a mutually enriching dialogical encounter between Christianity and the African culture. Through the analysis and application of the Christological conciliar definitions of the Church from the council of Nicea to Chalcedon, this African confession of Christ as the ancestor is weighed on the balance of the classical Christological orthodoxy. Contents: Ancestor - Christology - Christianity - Inculturation - African Theology - African Culture - Councils - Religion.

Author : Samuel Waje Kunhiyop
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783686940

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African Christian Theology by Samuel Waje Kunhiyop Pdf

God is eternal, but the questions we ask about him are always rooted in our own culture. Thus our understanding of theology is also rooted in our culture. Dr Samuel Kunhiyop is deeply aware of this, and so has produced African Christian Theology as a companion book to his African Christian Ethics. In this book, Dr Kunhiyop addresses many of the same issues mentioned in Western systematic theologies, but also addresses issues that are not mentioned in those books, including the spirit world, ancestors, and the power of blessings and curses. This book thus constitutes an excellent introduction to systematic theology in relation to the traditional African world view and to the Bible.

Author : Joseph Healey
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608331871

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Towards an African Narrative Theology by Joseph Healey Pdf

Reflects what traditional proverbs used in Christian catechetical, liturgical, and ritual contexts reveal about Tanzanian appropriations of and interpretations of Christianity.

Author : Charles Nyamiti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015069160227

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Jesus Christ, the Ancestor of Humankind by Charles Nyamiti Pdf

Author : Tim Hartman
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506480459

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Kwame Bediako by Tim Hartman Pdf

Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako presses all Christians to question their own theological commitments. He does so by rethinking Christian identity in light of cultural identity and the shortcomings of colonialism. Bediako's quest to be both African and Christian informs what it means to be Christian in a secularized Europe and North America. Far more than just chronological and biographical, Tim Hartman's analysis of the arc of Bediako's theology demonstrates that Bediako's vision of Christianity as a non-Western religion allows it to serve as a resource for World Christianity amid the exponential growth of Christianity in the Global South. Hartman points to how Bediako sidesteps the influence of Western thought by rooting African Christianity in a twin heritage of pre-Christendom patristic theology and precolonial traditional religious practices of Africa. Bediako expands the canon of theological resources available for Christians by eliminating the distinction between gospel and culture. Since there is no such thing as a pure theology for Bediako, culture itself becomes a source of divine revelation through the incarnation. Hartman's study of Bediako helpfully corrects inaccurate portrayals of African Christianity. The growth of African Christianity should not be feared, nor mischaracterized as narrow-minded or too conservative. Bediako asserts a polycentric understanding of the Christian faith based in grassroots theologies and the beliefs of actual Christians. While Bediako agrees that Christianity in Africa (and the Global South) is the future of the Christian faith, he rejects assumptions that the Christian faith needs to be yoked to political power. Instead, Bediako offers an alternative understanding of politics based on democracy and nondominating power. Both Bediako and the book offer a way forward in thinking about questions of religious pluralism. African Christianity has never known cultural hegemony as African Christians have always lived with Islam and African traditional religions. Bediako offers a theology of "Jesus is Lord" while appreciating the integrity of Islam and traditional African religions. In the end, the book presents an African Christian theologian who values--and does not simply reject--African traditional religions. Bediako believed that traditional African religions, far from being demonic, served as evangelical preparation for the Christian faith and as the substructure of African Christianity, and that African religious imagination was the foundation for the Christian faith worldwide. As Hartman shows, the more distinctively African Bediako's Christianity became, the more suited that theology became for the world.

Author : Yusufu Turaki
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781783688418

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Engaging Religions and Worldviews in Africa by Yusufu Turaki Pdf

In a world of increasing globalization, we live amidst a clash of cultures, religions, and worldviews – each battling for the human heart and mind. In this in-depth study, Yusufu Turaki offers a theological framework for engaging this clash of perspectives in Africa, where traditional African religions, colonialism, and exposure to Christianity have each had a lasting impact on contemporary African worldviews. Professor Turaki undertakes a systematic analysis of the nature of African Traditional Religion, its complex history with Christianity, and the need for African Christian theology to address its cultural and historical roots effectively. He provides both a conceptual framework and practical guide for engaging African cultures and religions with compassion, understanding, and a firm foundation rooted in scriptural truth. This book is an excellent resource for students of religion and theology, as well as those interested in Africa’s traditional heritage or drawn to the important work of cross-cultural and inter-religious dialogue.

Author : John Parratt
Publisher : Iacademic Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111882333

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A Reader in African Christian Theology by John Parratt Pdf

Author : Charles Nyamiti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122959674

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Jesus Christ, the Ancestor of Humankind by Charles Nyamiti Pdf