Christianity in Africa: The Renewal of non-Western Religion

By:

Bediako, Kwame

Series: Studies in world ChristianityPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c2014.Description: xii, 276 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

1570750483 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

276 20

LOC classification:

BR1360 .B39 1995
BR1360 .B39 1995

Contents:

pt. 1. Christianity in African Life: Some Concerns and Signs of Hope. I. 'Is Christianity Suited to the African?': The Legacy of Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Resurgence of a Nineteenth-century Intellectual Problem. II. African Identity: The Afrikania Challenge. III. Christianity and African Liberation: Reaffirming a Heritage. IV. 'How Is It That We Hear in Our Own Languages The Wonders of God?': Christianity as Africa's Religion. V. 'Here We Have no Abiding City': The Perennial Challenge -- pt. 2. Christianity as a Non-Western Religion: Issues Arising in a Post-missionary Setting. VI. The Primal Imagination and the Opportunity for a New Theological Idiom. VII. Translatability and the Cultural Incarnations of the Faith. VIII. Christianity as the Religion of the Poor of the Earth. IX. Towards a New Understanding of Christian History in the Post-missionary Era. X. The Gospel and the Transformation of the Non-Western World -- pt. 3. Into the Twenty-first Century -- Africa as a Christian Continent: The Prospects and Challenges. XI. The Making of Christian Africa: The Surprise Story of the Modern Missionary Movement. XII. Christian Religion and the African World-view: Will Ancestors Survive? XIII. Christian Religion and African Social Norms: Authority, Desacralisation and Democracy. XIV. The Place of Africa in a Changing World: The Christian Factor.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa	Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa	General Stacks	BR 1360 .B39 2014 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Not For Loan (Restricted Access)			11488
Books	Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa	Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa	Reserve	BR 1360 .B39 1997 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	2	Not For Loan (Restricted Access)	Donated by Jonathan Bonk, 768		25612

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Christianity in African Life: Some Concerns and Signs of Hope. I. 'Is Christianity Suited to the African?': The Legacy of Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Resurgence of a Nineteenth-century Intellectual Problem. II. African Identity: The Afrikania Challenge. III. Christianity and African Liberation: Reaffirming a Heritage. IV. 'How Is It That We Hear in Our Own Languages The Wonders of God?': Christianity as Africa's Religion. V. 'Here We Have no Abiding City': The Perennial Challenge --
pt. 2. Christianity as a Non-Western Religion: Issues Arising in a Post-missionary Setting. VI. The Primal Imagination and the Opportunity for a New Theological Idiom. VII. Translatability and the Cultural Incarnations of the Faith. VIII. Christianity as the Religion of the Poor of the Earth. IX. Towards a New Understanding of Christian History in the Post-missionary Era. X. The Gospel and the Transformation of the Non-Western World --
pt. 3. Into the Twenty-first Century --
Africa as a Christian Continent: The Prospects and Challenges. XI. The Making of Christian Africa: The Surprise Story of the Modern Missionary Movement. XII. Christian Religion and the African World-view: Will Ancestors Survive? XIII. Christian Religion and African Social Norms: Authority, Desacralisation and Democracy. XIV. The Place of Africa in a Changing World: The Christian Factor.

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