A Missiological Analysis of Selected Bemba Proverbs on Marriage
Author : Patrick Allen Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Bemba (African people)
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Author : Patrick Allen Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Bemba (African people)
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Author : Joe M. Kapolyo
Publisher : Langham Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1907713557
Human beings are complex. For all our contemporary knowledge and ability, however wonderful and widely available, people around the world face a crisis of human identity that calls into question the meaning of existence and the basis of moral behaviour. Responding to these challenges, Joe Kapolyo recognizes both the authority of the Bible, which teaches that people are created in the image of God but also corrupted by rebellion and sin, and the relevance of distinctly African perspectives on what it means to be human. Although he reads these perspectives critically, they lead him to reaffirm the biblical vision of redeemed human life in community in Christ. This vision offers a solution to the crisis of identity experienced by people who have forgotten who they are - and whose they are.
Author : Chitando, Ezra
Publisher : University of Bamberg Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3863098110
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)
Author : Samuel Waje Kunhiyop
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310107083
This is an introduction to African Christian ethics for Christian colleges and Bible schools. The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the theory of ethics, while the second discusses practical issues. The issues are grouped into the following six sections: Socio-Political Issues, Financial Issues, Marriage Issues, Sexual Issues, Medical Issues, and Religious Issues. Each section begins with a brief general introduction, followed by the chapters dealing with specific issues in that area. Each chapter begins with an introduction, discusses traditional African thinking on the issue, presents an analysis of relevant biblical material, and concludes with some recommendations. There are questions at the end of each chapter for discussion or personal reflection, often asking students to reflect on how the discussion in the chapter applies to their ministry situation.
Author : Deborah van den Bosch-Heij
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,58 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1920382186
There is a great need for healing in Africa. This need is in itself no different elsewhere in the world, but it is greatly determined by the involvement of religious communities and traditions. Faith communities and religious institutions play a major role in assisting African believers to find health, healing and completeness in everyday life.
Author : M. A. Hamutyinei
Publisher :
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Folklore
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Author : Joseph Healey
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1608331873
Reflects what traditional proverbs used in Christian catechetical, liturgical, and ritual contexts reveal about Tanzanian appropriations of and interpretations of Christianity.
Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780852552032
What is the meaning of Africa and of being African? What is and what is not African philosophy? Is philosophy part of Africanism? These are the kind of fundamental questions which this book addresses. North America: Indiana U Press
Author : Lechion Peter Kimilike
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 28,24 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781433103278
Western interpretations of poverty proverbs in the Old Testament Book of Proverbs have tended to see a status quo acceptance in the ancient texts, thus neglecting existential challenges of the poverty issue. In contrast, Lechion Peter Kimilike argues that African proverbial material on poverty may - when used comparatively to interpret the corresponding Old Testament poverty proverbs - create a more dynamic analysis. The author's new and thought-provoking interpretation suggests «an African transformational hermeneutic» that balances between the questions and methodology of the «global [i.e., western] guild» and the concerns of the African interpretative context.
Author : Eric Lindland
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 999606042X
Combining history, ethnography, and culture theory, this book explores how residents in northwestern Malawi have responded over time to the early missionary assertion that local religious and healing practices were incompatible with Christianity and western medicine. It details how local agents, in the past and today, have constructed new cultural forms that weave facets of ancestral spiritualism and divination with Christianity and biomedicine. Alongside a rich historical review of the late-19th century encounter between Tumbuka-speakers and the Scottish Presbyterians of the Livingstonia Mission, the book explores the contemporary therapeutic dance complex known as Vimbuza and considers two case studies, each the story of a man confronting illness and struggling to understand the roots and meaning of his a?iction. In the process, the book considers the enduring missiological and anthropological topics of conversion and syncretism, and questions the assertion by some scholars that Western missionaries in Africa have been successful agents of religious hegemony.