Download or read book The Contributions of African Independent Churches Zionist Apostolic to the Communication and Contextualization of the Gospel in Natal South Africa Using Beliefs of African Traditional Religion written by Sibongiseni Elliot Sithole and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Zionist Christian Church in South Africa written by Piet Naudé and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blow the Trumpet in Black Zion a Phenomenological Exploration of the Zionist Christian Church of South Africa written by Victoria Morongwa Peagler and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The raison d'être for this phenomenological case study is an exploration of the collective responses of Zionist enthusiasts to the outward manifestations of the "Spirit." The disclosure and analyzes of several professed responses to the "supernatural" as they are expressed in the Zionist Christian Church worship experience determine the prevailing attitude and ideology of churches within the Zionist movement. An examination of essential theological, ecclesiological, pneumatological, and biblical themes will help to facilitate what aspects of African Zionism, if any, remain within the ethos of African Traditional Religion and which aspects, if any, have been contextualized to authenticate the Zionist churches as Christian. In essence, have the Zionists by virtue of being authentically cultural been able to express Christian faith in ways that are faithful to the gospel, thus achieving what non-indigenous religious movements can never hope to do? The first phase of this work was achieved through archival literature review and prosopographical materials and a modification of "Life as a Paradigm for Doing Theology" appropriated for the South African context. These resources were pivotal in confronting the implicit phenomenological anonymities and the inferred biblical and theological ambiguities that serve to isolate churches within the Zionist taxonomy from mainstream African Christianity. Ethnography facilitated the second phase of gathering primary data. Participant observation at several Zionist sites, informant interviews with current and ex-members of the Zionist Christian Church, and a one-on-one conversation with Bishop Barnabas Lekganyane proved to be invaluable to this phase of the dissertation. The combined methodologies afforded optimistic outcomes in search for a model of contextualization that permits Zionist-type churches, where necessary, to be nearer mainstream Christianity in their beliefs and praxis in the context of a transforming South Africa. The Zionists are churches in progress and not in their final form. Today, what appears as strange phenomena to our Western worldview may yet be a vibrant growing and adaptable "Church" on the way to becoming truly African expressions of the Lordship of Jesus Christ. From a missiological perspective, the implications of this dissertation appeals to the validity of the ZCC as a viable means for missionary expansion.
Download or read book The Gospel and Tradition written by NENE SAKITE and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is deeply rooted in the African cultural realism in which the concept of Mawu or God existed before the arrival of the missionaries from Europe. Krobo culture has always accepted and expressed the presence of the Supreme Creator in all (without exception) aspects of social, occupational, emotional engagements of life. Throughout the book, there are illustrations depicting the essence of God in Krobo traditional religion before the arrival of Christian missionaries from Europe. The only new concept my ancestors acquired from the missionaries was the story of the life and teaching of Christ and the doctrine as the Savior and Mawu (second person in the Trinity) at the same time. Krobo culture eloquently and sincerely found expression in names like Mawulede (God’s wish); Mawulepee (God did it); Mawu le ha nor (it is God who provides); and in sentences expressing hope, as in Mawu nge (God lives), Mawumaalewor (God would care for us), and others all of which existed before the story of the cross. The book is the manifestation of what is happening today with the gospel and tradition on the continent with the self-acclaimed preachers of the gospel and how they have misrepresented the whole doctrine of Christianity to acquire wealth rather than preaching salvation to the people of Africa. These “preachers” I refer to as false prophets and mostly blasphemers who have taken undue advantage of the ignorance of the people of Africa wisely because religion is part and parcel of life in the African society. This book goes at length to delineate Christian influence on the cultural values in Africa using the Krobo experience and to display cultural traits and interaction with the missionaries. It will also go into Christian tradition and the African tradition, which apparently would lead us into the training of the clergy and show why Christianity is being represented deceptively by “false prophets” in Africa and sometimes at the expense of our tradition. There will be a discussion on Krobo culture and the gospel as well as cultural norms that affect Christians the most. A full discussion depicts the world of blasphemy which preachers and people call it Christianity but which I term “victims of Christianity.” It is very important to admire our traditional saints and show the similarities with the religious saints. And who are the traditional saints anyhow? In the end, I conclude with a discussion on poverty, spelling out the tradition that must be reformed to diminish poverty which is portrayed in the book as the enemy of culture and development. This book is relevant for contemporary religious and cultural appreciation, what it is to be Christian and African no less than the proper training of the clergy that befits the African society before they are “shipped” to Africa or any other developing country with different cultural orientation for adaptation.
Download or read book African Initiated Christianity and the Decolonisation of Development written by Philipp Öhlmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this volume seeks to elucidate how these churches reshape the very notion of sustainable development and contribute to the decolonisation of development. Fostering both overarching and comparative perspectives, the book includes chapters on West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, and Burkina Faso) and Southern Africa (Zimbabwe and South Africa). It aims to open up a subfield focused on African Initiated Christianity within the religion and development discourse, substantially broadening the scope of the existing literature. Written predominantly by scholars from the African continent, the chapters in this volume illuminate potentials and perspectives of African Initiated Christianity, combining theoretical contributions, essays by renowned church leaders, and case studies focusing on particular churches or regional contexts. While the contributions in this book focus on the African continent, the notion of development underlying the concept of the volume is deliberately wide and multidimensional, covering economic, social, ecological, political, and cultural dimensions. Therefore, the book will be useful for the community of scholars interested in religion and development as well as researchers within African studies, anthropology, development studies, political science, religious studies, sociology of religion, and theology. It will also be a key resource for development policymakers and practitioners.
Download or read book Interpreting the New Testament in African Perspective written by Olu E. Alana and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anthology of African Christianity written by Isabel Apawo Phiri and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the beginning of the twenty-first century, Christianity has taken shape and established roots in all areas of African reality. It has come to stay. Therefore, we welcome Christianity afresh in Africa, where it has arrived to continue the ancient and vibrant Christianity in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. It is appropriate that the Anthology of African Christianity presents, in valuable detail, this new reality that describes its African landscape in totality.
Download or read book New Testament Eschatology in an African Background written by John S. Mbiti and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book That all may live written by Chitando, Ezra and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of BiAS/ ERA is a Festschrift honouring Nyambura J. Njoroge. She is an outstanding woman theologian whose work straddles diverse fields and disciplines. Inspired by her rich and impressive œuvre, in this volume friends and colleagues of her (among them celebrities like Musa Dube, Gerald West, Fulata Moyo, Ezra Chitando, and others) explore how religion and theology in diverse contexts can become more life giving. Contributors from many countries and different continents explore themes such as African women's leadership, theological education, HIV/ AIDS, lament, the Bible and liberation, adolescents and young women, sexual diversity and others. Collectively, the volume expresses Nyambura's consistent commitment to the full liberation of all human beings, in fulfilment of the gospel's promise that all may have life and have it to the full (John 10:10)
Download or read book IziHlabelelo ZamaNazaretha written by Isaiah Shembe and published by University of Natal Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The texts comprise the original isiZulu hymns as well as English translations, and are brought to life with an accompanying compact disc of song, story and interview excerpts. These include detail about the seminal moment of change and controversy in the 1990s, when the organ was introduced by church member and ethnomusicologist, Bongani Mthethwa, to accompany the Shembe hymnal repertory. The initiative gave birth to dozens of youth choirs who sang the hymns in a new style, and began to compose their own repertory about Shembe in a more `gospel-inflected' musical version of their faith. --
Download or read book Zionism and Faith healing in Rhodesia written by M. L. Daneel and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Multiplying in the Spirit written by Ezra Chitando and published by University of Bamberg Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biblical Healing in African Context written by S. O. Abogunrin and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gospel and Tradition written by Nene Sakite II and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is deeply rooted in the African cultural realism in which the concept of Mawu or God existed before the arrival of the missionaries from Europe. Krobo culture has always accepted and expressed the presence of the Supreme Creator in all (without exception) aspects of social, occupational, emotional engagements of life. Throughout the book, there are illustrations depicting the essence of God in Krobo traditional religion before the arrival of Christian missionaries from Europe. The only new concept my ancestors acquired from the missionaries was the story of the life and teaching of Christ and the doctrine as the Savior and Mawu (second person in the Trinity) at the same time. Krobo culture eloquently and sincerely found expression in names like Mawulede (God's wish); Mawulepee (God did it); Mawu le ha nor (it is God who provides); and in sentences expressing hope, as in Mawu nge (God lives), Mawumaalewor (God would care for us), and others all of which existed before the story of the cross. The book is the manifestation of what is happening today with the gospel and tradition on the continent with the self-acclaimed preachers of the gospel and how they have misrepresented the whole doctrine of Christianity to acquire wealth rather than preaching salvation to the people of Africa. These "preachers" I refer to as false prophets and mostly blasphemers who have taken undue advantage of the ignorance of the people of Africa wisely because religion is part and parcel of life in the African society. This book goes at length to delineate Christian influence on the cultural values in Africa using the Krobo experience and to display cultural traits and interaction with the missionaries. It will also go into Christian tradition and the African tradition, which apparently would lead us into the training of the clergy and show why Christianity is being represented deceptively by "false prophets" in Africa and sometimes at the expense of our tradition. There will be a discussion on Krobo culture and the gospel as well as cultural norms that affect Christians the most. A full discussion depicts the world of blasphemy which preachers and people call it Christianity but which I term "victims of Christianity." It is very important to admire our traditional saints and show the similarities with the religious saints. And who are the traditional saints anyhow? In the end, I conclude with a discussion on poverty, spelling out the tradition that must be reformed to diminish poverty which is portrayed in the book as the enemy of culture and development. This book is relevant for contemporary religious and cultural appreciation, what it is to be Christian and African no less than the proper training of the clergy that befits the African society before they are "shipped" to Africa or any other developing country with different cultural orientation for adaptation.
Download or read book Bantu Prophets in South Africa written by Bengt Sundkler and published by James Clarke & Co.. This book was released on 1961 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious and Social Backgrounds of the Zulus -- Rise of the Independent Church Movement -- Government Policy -- Church and Community -- Leader and Follower -- Worship and Healing -- New Wine in Old Wineskins.
Download or read book Apartheid and the Church Report written by Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society. Church Commission and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report commenting on the implications of Apartheid legislation for the Protestant Church in South Africa R and on racial discrimination within the Church - includes recommendations to Church authorities for the social integration of Africans, and explains Christian doctrine with regard to basic human rights.
Download or read book Created in God s Image written by Anthony A. Hoekema and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1994-09-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ccording to Scripture, humankind was created in the image of God. Hoekema discusses the implications of this theme, devoting several chapters to the biblical teaching on God's image, the teaching of philosophers and theologians through the ages, and his own theological analysis. Suitable for seminary-level anthropology courses, yet accessible to educated laypeople. Extensive bibliography, fully indexed.
