Download or read book Faces of Jesus in Africa written by Robert J. Schreiter and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jesus in Africa written by Kwame Bediako and published by OCMS. This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book J sus Christ et la religion africaine written by Luka Lusala lu ne Nkuka and published by Pontificia Univ. Gregoriana. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gesu Cristo e la religione africana. Tesi di Lusala Lu Ne Nkuka Luka. Analizzando e confrontando il mito egizio di Osiride, peul di Gueno, yoruba di Obatala, rundi di Kiranga, kongo di Nzala Mpanda e l'inno cristologico di Fil 2,6-11, l'autore scopre che la religione africana possiede la grammatica della salvezza cristiana. La question qui traverse la presente etude est la suivante: est-il possible de retrouver dans la religion africaine la structure qui fait l'essence du christianisme, a savoir: l'homme a peche et est des lors devenu incapable de mener une vie harmonieuse ici-bas et d'atteindre le bonheur eternel dans l'au-dela: Dieu envoie son Fils pour sauver l'humanite, en la faisant passer, par sa mort et sa resurrection, de la mort a la vie? En analysant et en comparant les mythes egyptien d'Osiris, peul de Gueno, yoruba d'Obatala, rundi de Kiranga, kongo de Nzala Mpanda et l'hymne christologique (Ph 2,6-11), l'auteur decouvre que la religion africaine possede effectivement la grammaire du salut chetien. De ce fai, il arrive a la conclusion que la religion africaine constitue pour les Africains une sorte de chemin vers la recontre avec Jesus-Christ dans le christianisme historique; rejoignant ainsi l'affirmation de saint Augustin selon laquelle la realite meme que l'on appelle maintenant la religion chretienne existaint jadis, meme chez les anciens; des les origines, elle n'a pas fait defaut au genre humain jusqu'a ce que vienne le Christ dans la chair (les Revisions, XIII,3).
Download or read book Le christianisme et l Afrique written by François Kabasele Lumbala and published by Karthala. This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Faith as an African written by Jean-Marc Ela and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Jesus and the Gospel in Africa written by Kwame Bediako and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jesus and the Gospel in Africa collects writings by Kwame Bediako and is the best source for his insights into the Christ of present-day African history and the Jesus of African faith. Bediako shows how intimately bound together are such elements as the message of Jesus and the struggle to give birth to African democracy." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Engaging Religions and Worldviews in Africa written by Yusufu Turaki and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book African Theology in Its Social Context written by Benezet Bujo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-03-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Increasingly, theologians from non-Western lands demand that theology be done in a new, non-eurocentric way. First published in German, 'African Theology in Its Social Context', by one of Africa's most respected theologians, meets this challenge. Bujo takes traditional African values to the horizon of contemporary social issues: extreme poverty, mass unemployment, rapid urbanization, changing family life. His underlying concern is for the African people and for the models they will choose for their society, their economy, their church. Bujo begins with Jesus. Asking how Christ can be seen as an African among Africans, Bujo identifies Jesus as Ancestor -- the One from Whom all life flows. He goes on to define distinctively African roles for the church, clergy, and lay people alike. From the standpoint of African legal and religious traditions -- many far older than those of the Western church -- Bujo describes pastoral approaches to such issues as death and marriage in Africa. This original and challenging work shows how Africans need not change culture to be called children of God; and how, indeed, Christianity can become a source of fullness of life for Africans.
Download or read book J sus Christ Vie et soci t s africaines written by Sylvain Mukulu Mbangi and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2006 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jésus est-il venu pour que les Africains aient également la vie et qu'ils l'aient en abondance (Cf. Jn 10, 10) ? Voilà la question de fond qui préside aux réflexions sur la problématique de la crédibilité de la foi chrétienne dans les sociétés africaines. Ces réflexions cernent la foi comme acte anthropologique et théologique. Et si par elle, l'homme accède à la vie que Jésus octroie à l'humanité, la conception de la vie selon deux traditions différentes - celle des religions traditionnelles africaines et celle de la religion judéo-chrétienne - y est également traitée. Dans les deux traditions, la vie est un don de Dieu ou de l'Etre suprème. Elle est pourtant étranglée par certains phénomènes de l'actuel environnement socioéconomique et politique africain, comme la culture de la mort et le processus de la mondialisation. Ces phénomènes restent-ils sans influence sur la pratique de la foi en ce Dieu révélé par Jésus ? De quoi dépend désormais la pertinence de la foi chrétienne en milieux africains ? Ne faut-il pas adopter une autre manière de dire Dieu dans le quotidien et l'actuel africains ?
Download or read book Jesus in Post Missionary Africa written by Nicholas Ibeawuchi Mbogu and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Theologie - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Since the 1960s African theology has been a locus of debate on the relevance of the Christian God in African societies. Pioneer African theologians felt the need to protest against what was considered as the disregard or even denial of African religions cultures by Western missionaries. They called for a theology that would take seriously African religious values. The Christological inquiry, that is, the question about how to present Christ meaningfully to Africans has dominated this debate for more than 30 years. This enquiry is based on the assumption that missionary Christianity did not bring God to Africa, rather it brought Christ. Hence presenting Christ through African symbols will help Africans to become Christians without losing their identity. However, there seem to be a shift in the recent times. Young African theologians see the need to move away from a cultural nostalgic anti-missionary theology to a free expression of the Christian faith in such a way that it responds to the Africans‘ present search for meaning as well as the necessary healthy tension between the Gospel and Cultures. This theology is more critical and kerygmatic. While prlonging the intuition of pioneer African theologians, it seeks to offer broader scriptural and dogmatic bases to faith interpretation in Africa. The book, Jesus in Post-Missionary Africa-Questions and Issues in African Contextual Christology, proposed here by the Claretian theologian, Nicholas Mbogu takes its place in this refreshing shift of emphasis. The author states clearly that our proclamation of God in Africa will be seriously deficient without an adequate Christology. The book is presented in ten chapters. Chapters 1-3 present the origin and development of theology in Africa. It is shown clearly that since the seminal gestures of Black priests who wrote the famous book, Des pretres noirs s’interrogant, 1956, asking whether and how catholicity can integrate the Negritude, African theology has affirmed and consolidated itself as a contextual theology that is mindful of orthodoxy. With dexterity, the author shows the interpretation of theology and historical events, as well as historical science and literature. Political and economic developments, especially the searach for independence and distorted systems of post-colonial government also affected theology in Africa. [...]
Download or read book Who Do You Say That I Am written by Rodney L. Reed and published by Langham Global Library. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the church, there can be no more significant question than Christ’s Who do you say that I am? It is the cornerstone upon which all of Christian faith and praxis must stand. In this volume, the sixth from the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology, contributors explore the question of Christ’s identity – and its implications for the global church – from a distinctly African perspective. Engaging biblical studies, church history, and applications for missions, discipleship, and inter-religious dialogue, these essays utilize African hermeneutics and rich cultural perspectives to shed light on Christ’s contextual relevance for Africa and for the world. The final section is dedicated to the memory of John S. Mbiti, the father of modern African theology, who passed away in 2019.
Download or read book Biblical Revelation and African Beliefs written by Kwesi Dickson and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this reprinted edition of Biblical Revelation and African Beliefs, the contents of traditional African religions and their relevance to Christian ideas are explored. Through presenting the principal papers of a consultation of African theologians, Dickson and Ellingworth offer an extensive exploration of how these traditional religions and their ideas can enrich and enlighten Christianity in Africa. Rejecting a Eurocentric vision of Christianity in Africa, Biblical Revelation and African Beliefs explores ideas such as the knowledge of God, the notion of power, time, and man, as well as examining the ethical content of African traditional religion and when it can be reconciled to Christian ethics. This group of esteemed African theologians offers a framework for a synthesis between the Christian gospel and African theology, which is illuminating for historians and Christian theologians alike.
Download or read book Out of the Shadows of African Traditional Religion written by Moss Ntlha and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francinah Baloyi was sixteen when the ancestors demanded that she continue the family tradition and be trained as a sangoma, one through whom the spirits would speak. She was twenty-three when Christ appeared to her in vision and cast out those spirits, showed her heaven and hell, brought her to repentance for her numerous abortions, and commissioned her to proclaim him. Today, she is a powerful preacher, who has led many to Christ. Her story demonstrates that conversion must affect every aspect of our life and challenges the syncretism that is threatening the church in Africa.
Download or read book Double appartenance religieuse des chr tiens africains written by Didier Mafuta Kiyungu and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cet ouvrage vise à reformuler la question de l'identité chrétienne africaine dans un contexte où la conscience de la pluralité des religions existe de facto. La réflexion s'arrête sur le rapport entre le christianisme et la culture africaine. Elle s'articule essentiellement sur la compénétration réciproque entre l'Evangile du Christ et la terre africaine.
Download or read book Jesus Christ as Ancestor written by Reuben Turbi Luka and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Le Credo de l Eglise en dialogue avec les cultures written by Bénézet Bujo and published by Schwabe Verlag (Basel). This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le but de cet ouvrage est d'expliquer aux fidèles africains subsahariens la profession de foi que la liturgie leur propose, particulièrement dans les célébrations eucharistiques du dimanche. Pour ce faire, il a semblé plus judicieux de mettre en évidence le Symbole des Apôtres qui, contrairement au Symbole de Nicée-Constantinople, n'est pas encore marqué de discussions philosophiques ultérieures. Il rejoint ainsi mieux le langage et les caractéristiques de la conception africaine, plus proches de celle de la Bible. Le commentaire que l'auteur propose au public africain se base sur l'interprétation théologique classique, mais se permet d'interroger celle-ci du point de vue de la culture des destinataires. Aussi, le livre attire l'attention sur le Dieu des ancêtres qui ne s'oppose pas à celui de Jésus Christ. Il y est également question de s'interroger sur ce que signifient les réalités comme l'Esprit Saint, la descente aux enfers, l'Eglise, la communion des saints, la résurrection de la chair, la vie éternelle, etc. dans la logique de la rationalité et du contexte africains. La préoccupation en tout cela est, selon les paroles du Pape Paul VI à Kampala (1969), de parvenir à construire un christianisme authentiquement africain.
Download or read book Christ d Afrique written by Kä Mana and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
