Description - African
This section is devoted to the study of the Bible from African perspectives, and focuses on African issues. A diversity of methods reflecting the social-cultural diversity of Africa is used in reading the Bible. The emphasis is on encouraging readings of the Bible that are shaped by African perspectives and issues, and giving voice to African biblical scholars as they contribute to global biblical scholarship.
Biblical Studies
Africa Bible Commentary by
The first one-volume Bible commentary produced in Africa by African theologians to meet the needs of African pastors, students and lay leaders. It furnishes powerful and relevant insights into the biblical text that transcend Africa in their significance.
The Africana Bible by
The Africana Bible features a critical commentary on every book of the Hebrew Bible, the Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha that are authoritative for many in African and African-diasporan communities worldwide. It highlights issues of concern to the global Black community (such as globalization and the colonial legacy) and the distinctive norms of interpretation in African and African Diasporan settings.
African and European Readers of the Bible in Dialogue by
Far too long, the relationship between European and African biblical scholarship has been a non-relationship. Divergent insights into how biblical texts should be interpreted and made fruitful for the current context, cultural differences, colonial past and post-colonial future, radically different social situations - this all made companionship and real interaction difficult. This rich and multilayered volume (result of a Stellenbosch conference 2006) attempts to disclose new modes of dialogue between readers of the Bible from those two worlds. More than twenty theologians from Africa and Euro.
The Rebirth of African Orthodoxy by
Part 1. Africa's gift. Return to the fountain -- The awakening of a giant -- Africa's gift to global Christianity -- Orthodox remembering -- Why orthodoxy persists -- One faith: concord as the gift of the spirit -- Part 2. Signs of new life. The new birth of African orthodoxy -- Reclaiming the sacred texts -- Consensus recognition -- Rediscovering classic ecumenical method.
Theology
The Doctrine of God in African Christian Thought by
Noting the relationship between philosophy and the doctrine of the Trinity, this book offers the African pre-Christian understanding of God and the NTU-metaphysics as theoretical gateways for African reflections on the doctrine of the Trinity.
Theology Brewed in an African Pot by
An intriguing introduction to Christian doctrine from an African perspective. Using a framework of excerpts from Chinua Achebe's well-known novel, Things Fall Apart, the author introduces the major themes of Christian doctrine: God, Trinity, creation, grace and sin, Jesus Christ, church, Mary, the saints, inculturation, and spirituality. While explaining basic Christian beliefs, Theology Brewed in an African Pot also clarifies the differences between an African view of religion and a more Eurocentric understanding of religion. Very accessible and engaging, each of the eleven short chapters ends with three discussion questions followed by one or two African prayers
Christian Theology in African Context by
Foreword / Rev. Dr. Alemseged A. Hagos -- Introduction / Samuel Yonas Deressa -- The church, culture, and ethnicity : a theological view -- Human sexuality and AIDS : an Ethiopian church perspective -- Battle for justification by faith in the African context -- The theology of the cross in the African context -- Confessing Christ in the Apostles' Creed -- Christian faith in the new millennium.
Interface Between Igbo Theology and Christianity by
Interface between Igbo Theology and Christianity is a timely book that provides new scholarly thinking concerning the convergence of Christianity and Igbo Traditional Religion taking place in the Igbo culture area. This book, a fruit of multidisciplinary conversation among Igbo scholars and Igbophiles, offers concepts, themes, issues, and case studies with deep ethnographic details, some of which do not exist anywhere else in print. It is a major statement of how modern Igbo scholars, social scientists, philosophers, theologians, liturgists, and active pastors and parish priests, understand the intersection of Igbo Traditional Religion and Christianity in postcolonial Nigeria.