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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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African Christianity: The search for an African Personality [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2020 African Christianity, as the synthesis between Christianity and African Traditional Religion, seems to evoke an inquiry relating to the issue of African personality.
Joel Mokhoathi
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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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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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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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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
J. Mokhoathi
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Eschatological Christology in African Christianity: A Reflection on Relevance and Implication
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2022 Eschatological Christology in African Christianity is an attempt to appreciate the concept of eschatology (beliefs about death, judgement and the final destiny of individual souls and humankind) in African Christianity and decipher its significance and ...
Edward Agboada
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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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New Horizons in the Study of Early African Christianity
Vox Patrum, 2022 Teaching early Christianity in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa since 2002, has convinced this author how important it is for African Christians to know of the deep roots of Christianity in Africa, and recognize the important early African theologians ...
Wendy Elgersma Helleman
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