Christianity and African Gods
Author : Yusufu Turaki
Publisher : Potchefstroomse Universiteit Vir Christelike Hoeer Onderwys
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Yusufu Turaki
Publisher : Potchefstroomse Universiteit Vir Christelike Hoeer Onderwys
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Africa
ISBN :
Author : Mark Shaw
Publisher : Langham Global Library
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 28,99 MB
Release : 2020-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 183973020X
African Christianity is not an imported religion but rather one of the oldest forms of Christianity in the world. In The Kingdom of God in Africa, Mark Shaw and Wanjiru M. Gitau trace the development and spread of African Christianity through its two-thousand year history, demonstrating how the African church has faithfully testified to the power and diversity of God’s kingdom. Both history students and casual readers will gain greater understanding of how key churches, figures and movements across the continent conceptualized the kingdom of God and manifested it through their actions. The only up-to- date, single-volume study of its kind, this book also includes maps and statistics that aid readers to absorb the rich history of African Christianity and discover its impact on the rest of the world.
Author : Thomas C. Oden
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830837051
Thomas C. Oden surveys the decisive role of African Christians and theologians in shaping the doctrines and practices of the church of the first five centuries, and makes an impassioned plea for the rediscovery of that heritage. Christians throughout the world will benefit from this reclaiming of an important heritage.
Author : Leonard Nyirongo
Publisher : Authentic Christianity
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781719927413
Our problem on the African continent at the moment is the following: Western people in general and Christian missionaries in particular, were mostly uncritical about their own (European) culture and over-critical about African culture. In reaction, African Christians in general and theologians in particular are today, on the one hand, very critical about the Western type of Christianity which has been transplanted to the continent, but, on the other hand, not critical enough about their own African culture and traditional religion. Many African theologians, for instance, claim that before the Gospel came to our continent, Africans already correctly worshiped the true God. They say that the Gospel was not the beginning of the true knowledge of God, but merely a continuation or fulfillment of true faith that already existed in the pre-Christian African's heart. Some even go so far as to suggest that the African's method of approaching God is as valid as the way of salvation through the Gospel. Such ideas are emphatically denied in this book. The whole book is more than an attempt to present African indigenous beliefs in a systematic manner, comparing it with Biblical teaching. It is not only against Western secularism, but also strongly opposed to the very strong syncretistic tendency in African church life and in African theology. It convincingly argues that the idea of adaptation should be replaced by the idea of transformation in the light of God's Word. We cannot have a peaceful accommodation but only a powerful confrontation between traditional African religion and real Biblical Christian faith. This clash of irreconcilable spiritual powers becomes clear on every page - a struggle between life and death, a struggle for control of the hearts and minds of the African people. The writer pleads with his fellow African to make a definite choice (either the Gospel or traditional beliefs) and not to opt for a
Author : Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0199790582
This book connects traditional religions to the thriving religious activity in Africa today.
Author : John A. T. Robinson
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334053501
On first publication in the 1960s, "Honest to God" did more than instigate a passionate debate about the nature of Christian belief in a secular revolution. It epitomised the revolutionary mood of the era and articulated the anxieties of a generation.
Author : Cornelius Olowola
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN :
This book provides a new, constructive and critical approach to African traditional religion, from the standpoint of Christian faith.
Author : Anne Stamm
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN :
In African cultures, the spiritual and the physical exist in close communion. This relationship explains many aspects of African societies. Here, Daniel Laine presents a vivid photographic portrayal of men and women as they perform exorcisms, dances and other ritual of African mysticism.
Author : Emefie Ikenga Metuh
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN :
Author : Lartey Emmanuel Y
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0334051541
Postcolonializing God examines how African Christianity can be truly a postcolonial reality and explores how people who were colonial subjects may practice a spirituality that bears the hallmarks of their authentic cultural heritage, even if that makes them distinctly different from Christians from the colonizing nations.