Download or read book Th ologie africaine pour temps de crise written by Kä Mana and published by Karthala. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Foi dialogue et reconciliation written by Sj Mbiribindi and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wealth Health and Hope in African Christian Religion written by Stan Chu Ilo and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion offers a portrait of how contending narratives of modernity in both church and society play out in Africa today through the agency of African Christian religion. It explores the identity and features of African Christian religion and the cultural forces driving the momentum of Christian expansion in Africa, as well as how these factors are shaping a new African social imagination, especially in providing answers to the most challenging questions about poverty, wealth, health, human, and cosmic flourishing. It offers the academy a good road map for interpreting African Christian religious beliefs and practices today and into the future.

Download or read book The Quest for Liberation and Reconciliation written by James Deotis Roberts and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading contemporary theologians and scholars present essays on the themes of liberation and reconciliation in tribute to J. Deotis Roberts. The essays are divided into the following sections: Theological Reflection, Faith in Dialogue, and Shaping the Practice of Ministry. The compilation presents an interesting array of perspectives on the ways in which Christian theology, ethics, and ministry are involved in the quests for liberation and reconciliation in North America and the rest of the world.

Download or read book La P que de l Afrique written by Antoine Nouwavi and published by Editions du Cerf. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La crise multisectorielle qui sévit en Afrique conduit l'auteur à réévaluer toutes les grandes familles de la théologie africaine à l'aune de leur capacité à donner aux chrétiens d'Afrique les moyens d'espérer et de créer un avenir meilleur en raison de leur foi au Christ. Ce parcours a été l'occasion d'une requalification de la crise africaine comme crise du fait chrétien écartelé entre mémoire ancestrale et avenir. Les courants principaux de la théologie africaine participent et entretiennent, eux aussi, la crise. Quand ces théologies veulent émerger à partir de l'objet même de la foi, c'est-à-dire de la personne unique du Christ et de son message, elles élaborent leur pensée à partir du modèle d'une incarnation insuffisamment pascale, ou à partir du modèle du Crucifié insuffisamment montré comme le Ressuscité. L'hypothèse de la recherche entreprise est la suivante : le fondement régénérateur de la théologie africaine est la Pâques du Christ. Ce mystère personnel du Christ est aussi le lieu matriciel de l'engendrement d'une Afrique nouvelle. Ainsi la nouvelle « théologie pascale » que défend l'auteur, va-t-elle promouvoir, non une culture de l'adaptation ou d'une double adhésion malaisée à la mémoire des ancêtres et à celle de Jésus le Christ mais un nouvel humanisme africain né de l'abandon de soi pour le renouveau total de tout le continent.

Download or read book La th ologie africaine face l urgence cologique De la th andricit la cosmoth andricit written by Dieudonné Mushipu-Mbombo and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’urgence écologique engendre un bouleversement qui nous interroge sur les fondements de notre existence, exigeant de nous un changement radical des moeurs et un nouveau style de vie et de pensée. Les Églises sont invitées à saisir ce signe des temps que constitue le défi climatique pour proposer une manière nouvelle de faire la théologie qui prenne en compte les impératifs environnementaux. C’est le cri de ce livre qui se concentre plus particulièrement sur la situation africaine. Car, selon les experts, le continent africain subira durement les effets du réchauffement et des variations climatiques : sécheresse, épuisement des ressources naturelles, appauvrissement de la biodiversité, déficit de pluviométrie, etc. Revisitant l’histoire de la théologie africaine, l’auteur examine l’importance accordée aux questions concernant le cosmos, la nature, la place de l’homme dans l’univers, sa relation à Dieu ou aux dieux. Son propos est une invitation, ancrée dans les connaissances contemporaines sur l’écologie, à confronter nos idées liées à la tradition chrétienne, aux cosmogonies et aux mythes fondateurs de l’anthropologie africaine. Une meilleure compréhension de la révélation incitera le croyant à modifier ses représentations de Dieu et à préciser ses engagements. Ce livre donne ainsi des pistes pour engager les communautés chrétiennes dans un dialogue avec tous, pour la sauvegarde de la nature, la défense des pauvres et la construction de réseaux de respect et de fraternité.

Download or read book Trajectories of Religion in Africa written by Cephas N. Omenyo and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, in the main, discusses issues relating to mission, ecumenism, and theological education and is presented in four sections. The first segment discusses works on ecumenical and theological education and assesses the relevance of the World Council of Churches. Other issues discussed in this segment relate to the interrelationships that exist between academic theology, ecumenism, and Christianity. The World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh in 1910, which set the agenda for world-wide mission in a promising manner in the 1920s, is also assessed in this section of the work. The second segment, which covers Religion and Public Space, discusses works that examine the relationships between religion and power, religion and development, religion and traditional religious beliefs, and religion and practices in Africa. The third segment of the book treats Religion and Cultural Practices in African and how all these work out in couching out an African theology and African Christianity. Some of the issues discussed in this section related to African traditional philosophy, spiritism, and the interrelationships that exist between African Christianity and African Traditional Religion. The last segment of the book discusses the issue of African biblical hermeneutics and specifically looks at contemporary hermeneutical approaches to biblical interpretations in Africa.

Download or read book Emerging Theologies from the Global South written by Mitri Raheb and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-29 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades there has been a seismic shift in world Christianity. Whereas formerly Christianity existed as a Caucasian Euro-American phenomenon, the majority of Christians today reside in the Southern Hemisphere, or the Global South. And what is true for the demographics of Christianity has followed lockstep for its theological developments. The era of German theologians setting the tone for global church are gone. Today, some of the loudest and most creative voices in theology speak from the emerging contingencies of the Global South, for example, promoting Latinx, Black, Caribbean, and Asian theologies and their influence often influences the conversation in the United States and Europe. In addition, just as the center of Christianity has moved geographically from north to south, so with theological seminaries in the west, which have declined as training centers for clergy. These events coincide with new theological centers are opening in Asia, Africa, Oceania, and Latin America. The bottom line is--contemporary Christianity today looks significantly different than it did a century ago, and publications have been slow to acknowledge, let alone describe and elaborate upon, this major shift to the largest religion in the world. These shifts guide our intentions in this book. Such a reference book, which could also be used as a textbook, therefore is very much needed. In fact, there is nothing like the contents of this single-volume book in the publishing market which allows for high-quality, interdisciplinary, and international dialogue.

Download or read book African Theology as Liberating Wisdom written by Mari-Anna Pöntinen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In African Theology as Liberating Wisdom; Celebrating Life and Harmony in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Botswana, Mari-Anna Pöntinen analyses contextual interpretations of the Christian faith in this church. These interpretations draw from the Tswana tradition and liberation in Christ.

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Christian Theology written by Jean-Yves Lacoste and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-27 with total page 3974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Handbook of African Catholicism written by Ilo, Stan Chu and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2022-07-13 with total page 1003 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A disciplinary map for understanding African Catholicism today by engaging some of the most pressing and pertinent issues, topics, and conversations in diverse fields of studies in African Catholicism"--

Download or read book Pour une th ologie africaine written by Jean-Claude Mulekya Kinombe and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'avenir ne se construit pas en gommant les événements du passé, il se construit plutôt sur la mémoire des réussites et des échecs de l'histoire humaine. Pour cette raison, la mémoire douloureuse de l'Afrique doit servir de leitmotiv pour que jamais ne se répètent les mêmes événements malheureux : « Plus jamais ça ! » La façon dont les Africains sont traités quotidiennement ne peut laisser indifférent le discours théologique et le christianisme africains. La quête de la signification de Dieu pour les personnes vivant dans des situations de paradoxe s'impose comme une des exigences de la réappropriation de la foi chrétienne.

Download or read book A Listening Church written by Elochukwu Eugene Uzukwu and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-12-05 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AIDS. Famine. Ethnic strife. Refugees. Poverty. Debt. Environmental degradation. These form the wounded face of Africa today, the reality confronting the church of Africa. To heal Africa, Spiritan Father Elochukwu Uzukwu argues that the church in Africa must become a credible and effective agent of change by making full use of African resources--natural and sociohistorical--including traditional patterns of social organization. In order to renew itself, the church must remember that it does not exist for itself but for the people--to bear witness in Africa to the risen Lord. Focusing on the Catholic Church in Africa today, A Listening Church proposes a fresh approach to ecclesiology. Following closely on the African Synod of Bishops, Uzukwu proposes the initiation of serious theological discussion on the structure of the Church in Africa that came out of that historic occasion. Simply speaking, the African churches must listen to their people, and the Church in Rome must listen to the churches in Africa.

Download or read book Christian Churches in Dahomey Benin written by Patrick Claffey and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republic of Benin struggles to find its way into socio-political modernity. The Christian churches have played various roles in this struggle. This book is an account of both the historical difficulties of state formation and the role the Churches have played in this process.

Download or read book The Modern Theologians written by David F. Ford and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-23 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular text has been updated to ensure that it continues to provide a current and comprehensive overview of the main Christian theologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each chapter is written by a leading theologian and gives a clear picture of a particular movement, topic or individual. New and updated treatments of topics covered in earlier editions, with over half the chapters new to this edition or revised by new authors. New section singling out six classic theologians of the twentieth century. Expanded treatment of the natural sciences, gender, Roman Catholic theology since Vatican II, and African, Asian and Evangelical theologies. Completely new chapters on spirituality, pastoral theology, philosophical theology, postcolonial biblical interpretation, Pentecostal theology, Islam and Christian theology, Buddhism and Christian theology, and theology and film. As in previous editions, the text opens with a full introduction to modern theology. Epilogue discussing the present situation and prospects of Christian theology in the twenty-first century.

Download or read book Pentecostalism in Africa written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within recent decades Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity has moved from an initially peripheral position to become a force to be reckoned with within Africa’s religious landscape. Bringing together prominent Africanist scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this book offers a comprehensive and multifaceted treatment of the ways in which Pentecostal-Charismatic movements have shaped the orientations of African Christianity and extended their influence into other spheres of post-colonial societies such as politics, developmental work and popular entertainment. Among other things, the chapters of the book show how Pentecostal/charismatic Christianity responds to social and cultural concerns of Africans, and how its growth and increasingly assertive presence in public life have facilitated new kinds of social positioning and claims to political power.

Download or read book Christian Reflection in Africa written by Paul Bowers and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference collection presents academic reviews of more than twelve-hundred contemporary Africa-related publications relevant for informed Christian reflection in and about Africa. The collection is based on the review journal BookNotes for Africa, a specialist resource dedicated to bringing to notice such publications, and furnishing them with a one-paragraph description and evaluation. Now assembled here for the first time is the entire collection of reviews through the first thirty issues of the journal’s history. The core intention, both of the journal and of this compilation, is to encourage and to facilitate informed Christian reflection and engagement in Africa, through a thoughtful encounter with the published intellectual life of the continent. Reviews have been provided by a team of more than one hundred contributors drawn from throughout Africa and overseas. The books and other media selected for review represent a broad cross-section of interests and issues, of personalities and interpretations, including the secular as well as the religious. The collection will be of special interest to academic scholars, theological educators, libraries, ministry leaders, and specialist researchers in Africa and throughout the world, but will also engage any reader looking for a convenient resource relating to modern Africa and Christian presence there.