African Pentecostalism and World Christianity

Essays in Honor of J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu

Nimi Wariboko, Adeshina Afolayan, Nimi Wariboko, Adeshina Afolayan

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781725266353
  9781725266360
• eBook ISBN:
  9781725266377
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Church

In the last fifty years, the history of World Christianity has been disproportionally shaped, if not defined, by African Pentecostalism. The objective of this volume is to investigate and interrogate the critical junctures at which World Christianity invigorates and is invigorated by African Pentecostalism. The essays of the thinkers gathered here examine the general relationships between World Christianity and Africa and the specific interplays between World Christianity and African Pentecostalism. Scholars from multiple disciplines, continents, and countries evaluate how the theological scholarship and missional works of eminent African intellectual Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu have contributed to the scholarly understanding of how Global Christianity has been mediated by its reception in Africa. They also investigate how African Pentecostalism has been shaped by its contact with the diverse forms of Christianity in Africa and the rest of the world. With contributions from: Opoku Onyinah Harvey C. Kwiyani Kirsteen Kim Craig S. Keener Charles Prempeh Kenneth R. Ross Trevor H. G. Smith Vivian Dzokoto Chammah J. Kaunda Felix Kang Esoh Patrick Kofi Amissah Caleb Nyanni Marleen de Witte Oluwaseun Abimbola Philomena Njeru Nwaura Faith Lugazia Dietrich Werner Allan H. Anderson

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Bird’s-Eye View of Contemporary Christianity in Africa
• Chapter 2: Independent, Enthusiastic, and African
• Chapter 3: From/To the Ends of the Earth
• Chapter 4: The First Non-Jewish Christian Was from Africa112
• Chapter 5: Religious Reforms and Notions of Gender in Pentecostal Christianity
• Chapter 6: World Christianity and the Global Leadership Crisis
• Chapter 7: Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
• Chapter 8: Sighs and Signs of the Mind?
• Chapter 9: “One of the Greatest Prayer Weapons . . . ”
• Chapter 10: Proclaiming Good News to the Poor (Isa 61:1–2; Luke 4:18–19)
• Chapter 11: Second Generation Africans and the New Media as Agents of Demystification in the African Diaspora Church
• Chapter 12: Mass Media and the Dynamics between African Pentecostalism and African Neo-Traditionalism597
• Chapter 13: Hallelujah Testimonies
• Chapter 14: “Rise Up and Walk!” The Role of Pentecostals in Economic Development and Poverty Eradication
• Chapter 15: The Need for Theologizing from the Experience of the “Other”687 in Contemporary Christianity in Africa
• Chapter 16: Religion and Development in European-African Dialogue
• Chapter 17: African Pentecostalism and Prosperity
• Bibliography