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 U. Iheanacho
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Religions, 2017 The move towards contextual Christianity in Africa is an essential venture if Christianity is to communicate with the African cultural heritage. As a universal religion, Christianity has to find an expression within the cultural context.
Joel Mokhoathi
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Towards Developing African Christianity: An Overview on how the Christian Faith was Handed Down by Western Missionaries to Africans [PDF]
African Journal of Culture, History, Religion and Traditions, 2023 The Christian faith continues to enter different cultures and finds its clothing in the new land it enters. This has resulted in what is known as Jewish Christianity, Greco-Roman Christianity, and European Christianity.
Asamoah E.F., Kpalam E.T.
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Doing Public Theology in African Christianity: A Reflection on Communiques by Churches in Ghana
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2021 Faith in public life can be associated with Christianity in Ghana from the days of the early Western missionaries. Christian faith perspectives on matters of public concerns however, assumed a wider scope with the practice of regular issuance of ...
Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong
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In die Skriflig, 2016 Some African Christians continue to rely on traditional spiritual powers as a means of addressing their spiritual insecurity. In their perception Christ is regarded as being foreign to African spirituality and treated accordingly with the gospel seen as ...
Raymond Potgieter, Christopher Magezi
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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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Reincarnation Christology in African Christian Theology [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2023 The subject of reincarnation has been considered a reserve of primal (esoteric) religions or cultures. Therefore, it has not been thoroughly studied to decipher the philosophical and theological issues thereof. Notwithstanding, what seems to be the total
Edward Agboada , Francis Appiah Kubi
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Pragmatism in the lenses of African Christianity: An emic approach to lived religions [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 African Christianity, as the synthesis of Christianity and African Traditional Religion, is often perceived as an ideal form of belief and practice that informs religious worship and ethics for nominal Christians.
Joel Mokhoathi
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From Saul the Pharisee to Paul the Apostle: The Conversion of Paul, a Prototype for Africans’ Conversion to Christianity? [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2021 This article grapples with the question of the relevance of Paul’s conversion in Acts 8-9 in relation to the current African conversion to Christianity.
Elia Shabani Mligo
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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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