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Author : Robert J. Schreiter
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608331741
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Faces of Jesus in Africa written by Robert J. Schreiter and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert J. Schreiter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780334025160
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Faces of Jesus in Africa written by Robert J. Schreiter and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diane B. Stinton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jesus of Africa written by Diane B. Stinton and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lamin O. Sanneh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195177282
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book The Changing Face of Christianity written by Lamin O. Sanneh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The questions and answers about Christianity and its contemporary mission now being formed in the African churches will have enormous influence in the years to come. This volume offers nine new essays addressing this sea-change and its importance for the future of Christianity.
Author : M. E. Brinkman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317490436
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Non-Western Jesus written by M. E. Brinkman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The centre of gravity of contemporary Christianity has shifted to the southern hemisphere where, with the exception of Latin America, almost all Christians are minorities in their home countries. Christians in Asia live amongst Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Shamanist or Taoist majorities and this context shapes the local Christian theology. The same is true in Africa where traditional religions and beliefs influence African Christians. Central to this change in both Africa and Asia is the creation of a new Jesus, one who accretes local beliefs and concerns and who, in that process, is transformed. 'The Non-Western Jesus' reveals how a new theology - with its own images and concepts - is coming into being. A wide range of embodiments of Jesus is examined: Jesus as 'Avatara' and 'Guru' in the Indian context; as 'Bodhisattva' in the Buddhist context; and Jesus within Asian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, African and Indonesian religious contexts.
Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0465066925
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Many Faces of Christ written by Philip Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are often told that early Christianity comprised a vast multitude of strange sects, and that this diversity was wiped out in the fourth century when the Church canonized the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. But how, then, can we explain that the scene of the baby Jesus in the mangerthe central image of the Christmas storyshows the influence of the Protevangelium,” or that our belief that the Serpent in Eden is Satan comes from another so-called Lost Gospel? In [Title TK], Philip Jenkins offers a revelatory new history of Christianity, showing that hundreds of these supposedly lost alternate gospels were never suppressed by the early Church, but instead remained widely influential until the Reformationand continue to play major roles in Christian belief to this day. An authoritative account of the formation of the biblical canon and the evolution of modern faith,[Title TK] restores the Lost Gospels” to their proper place in history and in belief.
Author : Martin Ott
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book African Theology in Images written by Martin Ott and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2007 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revised and updated edition of the comprehensive study of the role of art in the process of inculturation in Africa, first issued in 2000. The study is a substantial contribution toward a theology of inculcation in Africa, and enriches the debate on indigenous African and Christian artistic traditions. It represents the first systematic theology constructed in and from Malawi that establishes a theology of symbolic expression in Africa.
Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198041160
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The New Faces of Christianity written by Philip Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins's phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the future of Christianity. In that volume, Jenkins called the world's attention to the little noticed fact that Christianity's center of gravity was moving inexorably southward, to the point that Africa may soon be home to the world's largest Christian populations. Now, in this brilliant sequel, Jenkins takes a much closer look at Christianity in the global South, revealing what it is like, and what it means for the future. The faith of the South, Jenkins finds, is first and foremost a biblical faith. Indeed, in the global South, many Christians identify powerfully with the world portrayed in the New Testament--an agricultural world very much like their own, marked by famine and plague, poverty and exile, until very recently a society of peasants, farmers, and small craftsmen. In the global South, as in the biblical world, belief in spirits and witchcraft are commonplace, and in many places--such as Nigeria, Indonesia, and Sudan--Christians are persecuted just as early Christians were. Thus the Bible speaks to the global South with a vividness and authenticity simply unavailable to most believers in the industrialized North. More important, Jenkins shows that throughout the global South, believers are reading the Bible with fresh eyes, and coming away with new and sometimes startling interpretations. Some of their conclusions are distinctly fundamentalist, but Jenkins finds an intriguing paradox, for they are also finding ideas in the Bible that are socially liberating, especially with respect to women's rights. Across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, such Christians are social activists in the forefront of a wide range of liberation movements. It's hard to overstate how interesting, how eye-opening, how frequently surprising (and sometimes disturbing) Jenkins' findings are. Anyone interested in the implications of these trends for the major denominations, for Muslim-Christian conflict, and for global politics will find The New Faces of Christianity provocative and incisive--and indispensable.
Author : Volker Küster
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Many Faces of Jesus Christ written by Volker Küster and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers a compendium of different christologies from Africa, Asia and Latin America, and in so doing provides a good introduction to the theologies of the Third World generally. But it is more than an encyclopaedic account; it asks what these christologies have in commone and where they differ, and what they mean for ecumenism. Some of the figures discussed here, like M.M. Thomas and Stanley Samartha from India or C.S. Song from Taiwan and Kosuke Koyama from Japan, Leonardo Boff and Jon Sobrino from Latin America, James Cone from the USA and Alan Boesak from South Africa, may be familiar. But there are also many new and significant names, particularly from Africa, where new titles for Christ are being created which seek to express the significance of Jesus in the categories of African thought. There are also accounts of Korean Minjung theology, Indian Dalit theology and Japanese Burakumin theology, expressing the pictures of a suffering Christ created by a suffering people.
Author : Emmanuel M. Katongole
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532631812
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book A Future for Africa written by Emmanuel M. Katongole and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil war, famine, genocide, AIDS--the peoples of Africa have endured horrific human tragedies. Those crises plus widespread economic, political, and social instability have combined to produce what some consider a dire and nearly hopeless situation. Even as this book was going to press, the leaders of the G-8 nations were meeting to talk about what could be done to "aid Africa" in these critical times. A careful look at history would indicate that the answer must come from within Africa and from the African people themselves, not from other nations or the economic programs and solutions they propose. The rapid rise of a Christian social ethics movement as an alternative perspective focused precisely on addressing Africa's challenges using the spiritual resources of its own people is providing a hopeful solution and a timely and powerful coping mechanism for African peoples. One of the leaders of this movement is Emmanuel Katongole, a Catholic priest from Uganda. In A Future for Africa, Katongole wrestles with concrete problems like the AIDS epidemic and widespread military conflicts, as well as fundamental, systemic ones, like poverty, corruption, and tribalism. He then offers faith-filled solutions based on the power and example of Christian community and Christian moral imagination. Katongole's radical message is that a political ethic based on Christian principles as taught in the Scriptures is the necessary foundation for healing, reconciliation, and rebuilding the continent.
Author : Kwame Bediako
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782723506106
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Jesus in Africa written by Kwame Bediako and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick S. Cheng
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596272392
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (962 download)
Download or read book From Sin to Amazing Grace written by Patrick S. Cheng and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of Christianity, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (“LGBT” or“queer”) people have been condemned as unrepentant sinners who are in dire need of God’s saving grace. As a result of this condemnation, LGBT people have been subjected to great spiritual, emotional and physical abuse and violence. This issue takes on a particular urgency in light of the ongoing harassment and bullying of LGBT young people by their classmates. Cheng argues that people need to be liberated from the traditional legal model of thinking about sin and grace as a violation of divine and natural laws in which grace is understood as the strength to refrain from violating such laws. Rather Cheng proposes a Christological model based upon the theologies of Irenaeus, Bonaventure and Barth, in which sin and grace are defined in terms of what God has done for us in Jesus Christ. This book serves as a useful resource for all people who struggle to make sense of the traditional Christian doctrines of sin and grace in the context of the 21st century.
Author : Njongonkulu Ndungane
Publisher : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book A World with a Human Face written by Njongonkulu Ndungane and published by Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the fall of Apartheid, many people in South Africa expected the Kingdom of God to arrive immediately; what they are now realising is that rebuilding and developing the country is not easy and will not bring instant rewards. The Archbishop of Cape Town is deeply involved in this difficult task, encouraging others to work for the future with hope and intelligence. The author of this text begins by telling his own life story; he then addresses the World Bank, the international community, the people of Britain and South Africa and most of all the church - showing what people are doing and what they can do to rebuild South Africa.
Author : George W. Stroup
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611640903
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Why Jesus Matters written by George W. Stroup and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2011-03-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no topic is more central to Christianity than the fundamental study of who Jesus Christ is and what he has done. This illuminating and necessary book on Christology considers "why Jesus matters." It offers a thoroughly accessible discussion of central issues about Jesus Christ. The author takes into account important issues from the last three decades, incorporating new and diverse voices of theologians and thinkers from around the globe who all consider from their own unique perspectives: does Jesus matter?
Author : Tokunboh Adeyemo
Publisher : WordAlive Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9966805133
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Is Africa Cursed? written by Tokunboh Adeyemo and published by WordAlive Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa's heartrending picture begs the question: Is Africa cursed? In this book, the author conveys a winning message - that there can be hope for Africa. He unwraps Africa's place in the Bible, wards off superstition and advocates Christians' active engagement in transforming Africa.
Author : Gene L. Green
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830831819
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Majority World Theology written by Gene L. Green and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Christians now live in the Majority World than in Europe and North America. Yet most theological literature does not reflect the rising tide of Christian reflection coming from these regions. If we take seriously the Spirit's movement around the world, we must consider how the rich textures of Christianity in the Majority World can enliven, inform, and challenge all who are invested in the ongoing work of theology. Majority World Theology offers an unprecedented opportunity to enter conversations on the core Christian doctrines with leading scholars from around the globe. Seeking to bring together the strongest theological resources from past and present, East and West, the volume editors have assembled a diverse team of contributors to develop insights informed by questions from particular geographic and cultural contexts. This book features a comprehensive overview of systematic theology, with sections on the Trinity, Christology, pneumatology, soteriology, ecclesiology, and eschatology contributors including Amos Yong, Ruth Padilla DeBorst, Victor I. Ezigbo, Wonsuk Ma, Aída Besançon Spencer, Randy S. Woodley, Munther Isaac, and Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen explorations of how Scripture, tradition, and culture fit together to guide the church's theological reflection scholars demonstrating how to read the Bible and think theologically in light of contextual resources and concerns inside views on what doing theology looks like in contributors' contexts and what developments they hope for in the future When we learn what it means for Jesus to be Lord in diverse places and cultures, we grasp the gospel more fully and are more able to see the blind spots of our own local versions of Christianity. Majority World Theology provides an essential resource for students, theologians, and pastors who want to expand their theological horizons.
Author : Kwame Bediako
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1570755426
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Jesus and the Gospel in Africa written by Kwame Bediako and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jesus and the Gospel in Africa collects writings by Kwame Bediako and is the best source for his insights into the Christ of present-day African history and the Jesus of African faith. Bediako shows how intimately bound together are such elements as the message of Jesus and the struggle to give birth to African democracy." --Book Jacket.
