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Early African Christianity–A Thematic Analysis [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2020 This article is devoted to a thematic analysis of early or ancient African Christianity and its influence on ecclesial practices and thinking in contemporary Africa.
Aidan Kwame Ahaligah
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Afua Kuma’s Prayers and Praises as Evidence of a Vibrant Primal Substructure in African Christianity [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2021 Following from the assertion that there exists a symbiosis between Christianity and the Primal Substructure in Africa, this paper sets out to examine Afua Kuma’s Jesus of the Deep Forest using Harold Turner’s six feature analysis of primal religions ...
Joseph Awuah Gyebi
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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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Double Identities and Identity Struggles in Kongolese Catholicism of the 1700s: Vita Kimpa, Antonian Movement, and a Kongolese Interpretation of Christianity [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 Among many Central, West, and East African countries, Kongo/Angola was the earliest to have modern European missionaries. Portuguese catholic missionaries arrived in the Kingdom of Kongo in the 1400s during European exploration, conquest, colonialism ...
Kefas Lamak
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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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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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Subjugated knowledges, contested spaces and African Christianity: An appraisal
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2023 Religion mediates and shapes how people negotiate and navigate their existential realities. Christianity accentuates the belief in Jesus Christ and prescribes how that belief should influence the worldview and actions of people.
Ebenezer Akesseh
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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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The Church and Cultural Reconstruction for Development in Sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2023 Increasingly, Christianity is becoming the majority religion in many Sub-Saharan African countries. The impressive number of adherents of the faith however, in most cases, is at odds with the cultural beliefs and practices of the peoples of these nations.
Komi Ahiatroga Hiagbe
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A Hermeneutic Analysis of Selected Yorùbá Pentecostal Songs
Yoruba Studies Review, 2023 The Christianity that reached Africa, especially the sub-Saharan region, had undergone several stages of inculturation and re-organization. The changing social, political, and cultural situation of the people had a tremendous impact on the Christian ...
George Olusola Ajibade
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