Giving Account of Faith and Hope in Africa
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Giving Account of Faith and Hope in Africa

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
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Giving Account of Faith and Hope in Africa

About this book

What is African theology? What are its distinctive traits and characteristics, modes of investigation, and style of expression? Can African theology reach wider and run deeper than simple propositional articulation? What concerns and special circumstances have shaped its outlook? What unique burdens or hurdles imposed by the past must African theology surmount? What challenges and opportunities lie before it?What are African theology's prospects? As a field of Christian engagement, is it condemned to be only an appendage to theology imported from the West and the North? Or does it have a distinctive contribution to make and gifts to share, not just within the continent of Africa, but also with the Christian world at large? These questions exercise the mind and soul of the African church. A worthy capstone to a lifetime of service as a theologian, educator, and ecumenical leader, this volume offers John Samuel Pobee's considered and mature reflections on issues he raised nearly forty years ago when he published Toward an African Theology.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Abbreviations
  5. Chapter 1: Taking the Land
  6. Chapter 2: Africa
  7. Chapter 3: Culture
  8. Chapter 4: And What Is Theology?
  9. Chapter 5: Residuum Evangelium
  10. Chapter 6: Many Designations, One Gospel
  11. Chapter 7: Is There an African Theology and What Is It?
  12. Chapter 8: Multitudes before the Lamb: Pluralism and Theology
  13. Chapter 9: I Am an African Christian
  14. Chapter 10: God and the Social Order
  15. Chapter 11: Sex: Uncovering the Nakedness of the Other
  16. Chapter 12: Our Mothers and Sisters
  17. Chapter 13: The Altar and the Polis
  18. Chapter 14: The Altar in the Marketplace
  19. Chapter 15: Human Dignity—Human Rights
  20. Chapter 16: African Initiatives in Christianity
  21. Bibliography