For Freedom or Bondage?
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For Freedom or Bondage?

A Critique of African Pastoral Practices

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

For Freedom or Bondage?

A Critique of African Pastoral Practices

About this book

In Ghana today, many people who suffer from a variety of human ills wander from one pastor to another in search of a spiritual cure. Because of the way cultural beliefs about the spiritual world have interwoven with their Christian faith, many Ghanaian Christians live in bondage to their fears of evil spiritual powers, seeing Jesus as a superior power to use against these malevolent spiritual forces.In For Freedom or Bondage? Esther Acolatse argues that Christian pastoral practices in many African churches include too much influence from African traditional religions. She examines Ghana Independent Charismatic churches as a case study, offering theological and psychological analysis of current pastoral care practices through the lenses of Barth and Jung. Facilitating a three-strand conversation between African traditional religion, Barthian theology, and Jungian analytical psychology, Acolatse interrogates problematic cultural narratives and offers a more nuanced approach to pastoral care.

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Information

Publisher
Eerdmans
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780802869890
eBook ISBN
9781467439855
Topic
Teologia e religione
Subtopic
Teologia cristiana

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. The Church in Ghana: A Window intoContemporary African Pastoral Practice
  5. 2. African Cosmology and African Christian Theology
  6. 3. Barth’s Theological Anthropology: An Overview
  7. 4. African Theological Anthropology in theLight of Barth’s Theological Anthropology
  8. 5. African Theological Anthropology:A Jungian Perspective
  9. 6. Toward a Model for Pastoral Counseling
  10. Selected Bibliography
  11. Appendix
  12. Index of Names and Subjects
  13. Index of Scripture References