Christianity in Transformation: The rise of African Christianity among the AmaXhosa of the Eastern Cape [PDF]
Acta Theologica, 2021 This article explores the roots and expansion of African Christianity – that is, the synthesis of Christianity and African Traditional Religion among the amaXhosa tribes of the Eastern Cape. This form of synthesis appears to have been an age-old problem
Joel Mokhoathi
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African Christianity and healing: Implications for pastoral care
In Die Skriflig, 2023 The rapid rise of Christianity in the developing world, and specifically in Africa, has asked renewed questions about pastoral theology and pastoral care.
John S. Klaasen
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The significance of African oral tradition in the making of African Christianity
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2021 As religious systems are intertwined with social systems, change and continuity in thought and practice constitute a significant feature of Christianity. Thus, African Christianity embodies a distinct socio-cultural stamp of the continent.
Valentine Ugochukwu Iheanacho
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Reformation & African Christianity: Mapping the Transitional Movement of African Christianity from the Margin of Classical Reformation to the Centre of Modern Reformation [PDF]
Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2020 Celebrating the five hundred years of reformation, there is the need to reengage the missionary character of the reformation and its significant impact on African Christianity because African Christianity at the moment appears to house the reformational ...
Michael, Matthew
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Eschatology in African Traditional Religion and African Christianity: Implications for Biblical and Theological Scholarship in Africa [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2023 African traditional religion has many concepts that present alternative and a variety of contexts for Christianity, theology and biblical scholarship in Africa which can also provide appropriate answers to the many questions of African Christians. One of
Edward Agboada
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Toward an African-Christian Demonology: The Demonologies of African Traditional Religion, African Christianity, and Early Christianity in Dialogue [PDF]
Missionalia: Southern African Journal of Missiology, 2017 Christian interactions with the spirit-world of African traditional religion (ATR) have remained problematic due, in part, to the failure of Christian missionaries to understand in detail the cosmology of ATR and the angelologies and demonologies of ...
Moscicke, Hans
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A case for organic indigenous Christianity: African Ethiopia as derivate from Jewish Christianity
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies, 2019 From its inception to the 4th century CE, Christianity experienced a formative process composite of three catalytic phases characterised by distinctive events (i.e. Jewish-Christian Schism, Hellenism and imperial intervention).
Rugare Rukuni, Erna Oliver
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Leave Her Alone, She Speaks the Truth [PDF]
African Journal of Gender and Religion (AJGR)Most feminist debates, including Western Feminism and postcolonial strands of feminism such as African Feminisms, place emphasis on religion – specifically Christianity – as an oppressive structure dominating women, and justifiably so.
Noxolo Matete
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From Christianity to African Religion and back again
Verbum et Ecclesia, 2005 This article passes from Christianity to African Religion and back again, in order to gain new insight on reconciliation. Traditional Christian reconciliation models are valuable but also contextual and limited; thus new models should be sought.
A M Meiring
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REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH? ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE AND SALVATION THEOLOGY IN AFRICAN CHRISTIANITY
Scriptura, 2013 The growth and development within African Christianity have attracted the attention of Christian theological researchers in recent decades. However, this has obviously not witnessed a corresponding growth in environmental theology. This paper argues that
Ben-Willie Kwaku Golo
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