Faith In African Lived Christianity
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Author |
: Karen Lauterbach |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 900439849X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004398498 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Faith in African Lived Christianity by : Karen Lauterbach
Faith in African Lived Christianity brings together anthropology and theology in the study of how faith shapes the understanding of social life in Africa. It offers discussions on positionality, method, and political, social and ecological aspects of African Christian spirituality.
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 370 |
Release |
: 2019-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004412255 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004412255 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Faith in African Lived Christianity by :
Faith in African Lived Christianity – Bridging Anthropological and Theological Perspectives offers a comprehensive, empirically rich and interdisciplinary approach to the study of faith in African Christianity. The book brings together anthropology and theology in the study of how faith and religious experiences shape the understanding of social life in Africa. The volume is a collection of chapters by prominent Africanist theologians, anthropologists and social scientists, who take people’s faith as their starting point and analyze it in a contextually sensitive way. It covers discussions of positionality in the study of African Christianity, interdisciplinary methods and approaches and a number of case studies on political, social and ecological aspects of African Christian spirituality.
Author |
: Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher |
: InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2010-07-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780830837052 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0830837051 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind by : Thomas C. Oden
Thomas 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.
Author |
: Lamin Sanneh |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2005-03-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190292164 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190292164 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Changing Face of Christianity by : Lamin Sanneh
Over the past century, Christianity's place and role in the world have changed dramatically. In 1900, 80 percent of the world's Christians lived in Europe and North America. Today, more than 60 percent of the world's Christians live outside of that region. This change calls for a reexamination of the way the story of Christianity is told, the methodological tools for its analysis, and its modes of expression. Perhaps most significant is the role of Africa as the new Christian heartland. The questions and answers about Christianity and its contemporary mission now being developed in the African churches will have enormous influence in the years to come. This volume offers nine new essays addressing this sea-change and its importance for the future of Christianity. Some contributions consider the development of "non-Western" forms of Christianity, others look at the impact of these new Christianities in the West. The authors cover a wide range of topics, from the integration of witchcraft and Christianity in Nigeria and the peacemaking role of churches in Mozambique to the American Baptist reception of Asian Christianity. The Changing Face of Christianity shows the striking cultural differences between the new world Christianity and its western counterpart. But with so many new immigrants in Europe and North America, the faith's fault lines are not purely geographical. The new Christianity now thrives in American and European settings, and northerners need to know this faith better. At stake is their ability to be good neighbors-and perhaps to be good Christian citizens of the world.
Author |
: Jean-Marc Ela |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 211 |
Release |
: 2009-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781606086230 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1606086235 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Faith as an African by : Jean-Marc Ela
At a time when Africans, like other peoples, are facing the shock of technological and cultural modernity, liberation of the oppressed must be the primary condition for an authentic inculturation of the Christian message. This is the central axis of the papers in this book, which begins with the questions of faith posed by cultural variables, an internal dimension of the African's condition. In order to understand what is at stake, we need to place these matters in the overall context of a society and a history marked by conflicts-which lead to a rereading of our African memory. The basic issue of the Credibility of Christianity is being raised from with in the dynamic which allows Africans to escape from the inhumanity of the destiny to which certain factors would condemn them. So critical reflection on the relevance of an African Christianity requires us to identify the structures or strategies of exploitation and impoverishment against which Africans have always struggled, finding their own specific forms of resistance within their cultures.
Author |
: A. E. Orobator |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1626982767 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781626982765 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and Faith in Africa by : A. E. Orobator
Before his conversion to Christianity, A E Orobator was raised in the practice of traditional African religion - animism. This repository of African religion, he maintains - at its heart a deep belief in the livingness of creation - is the soil in which Christianity and Islam have taken root. Drawn from his "Duffy Lectures" delivered at Boston College, Orobator examines the living interplay between African religion, Christianity, and Islam in Africa, and argues that the religious experience and spiritual imagination of Africa offers a genius capable of renewing the global community of believers. Among these gifts: a deep conscience of transcendence in day-to-day living; reverence towards human and natural ecologies; and a holistic understanding of creation and shared responsibility of stewardship for the universe.
Author |
: Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator |
Publisher |
: Orbis Books |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781608331000 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1608331008 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Theology Brewed in an African Pot by : Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator
An intriguing introduction to Christian doctrine from an African perspective. Using a framework of excerpts from Chinua Achebe's well-known novel, Things Fall Apart, the author introduces the major themes of Christian doctrine: God, Trinity, creation, grace and sin, Jesus Christ, church, Mary, the saints, inculturation, and spirituality. While explaining basic Christian beliefs, Theology Brewed in an African Pot also clarifies the differences between an African view of religion and a more Eurocentric understanding of religion. Very accessible and engaging, each of the eleven short chapters ends with three discussion questions followed by one or two African prayers.
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: |
Publisher |
: Tyndale House Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 2162 |
Release |
: 2017-05-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781496424716 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1496424719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Africa Study Bible, NLT by :
The 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 |
: Caleb Oluremi Oladipo |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0820463892 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780820463896 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Will to Arise by : Caleb Oluremi Oladipo
One of the most important developments of Christianity in the twentieth century was its transformation in South Africa, where it became a vibrant religion rooted in African idioms and cultures. The church also became engaged in the struggle against social and political injustice, and church leaders employed the vocabularies of faith to secure civil liberty. This hard-hitting book focuses on post-apartheid Christian character and establishes the theological and spiritual authority of African Christians, calling contemporary Christians to renew their faith and Christian identity. It shows, too, that one cannot seriously consider contemporary Christianity apart from the African experience.
Author |
: Tim Hartman |
Publisher |
: Augsburg Fortress Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2022-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781506480459 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1506480454 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kwame Bediako by : Tim Hartman
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.