Christianity in Africa : the renewal of non-Western religion /

Bediako, Kwame,

Christianity in Africa : the renewal of non-Western religion / [print] Kwame Bediako. - Edinburgh University Press ; Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, (c)1996. - xii, 276 pages.

Includes bibliographical references.

Christianity in African Life: Some Concerns and Signs of Hope. 'Is Christianity Suited to the African?': The Legacy of Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Resurgence of a Nineteenth-century Intellectual Problem. African Identity: The Afrikania Challenge. Christianity and African Liberation: Reaffirming a Heritage. 'How Is It That We Hear in Our Own Languages The Wonders of God?': Christianity as Africa's Religion. 'Here We Have no Abiding City': The Perennial Challenge -- Christianity as a Non-Western Religion: Issues Arising in a Post-missionary Setting. The Primal Imagination and the Opportunity for a New Theological Idiom. Translatability and the Cultural Incarnations of the Faith. Christianity as the Religion of the Poor of the Earth. Towards a New Understanding of Christian History in the Post-missionary Era. The Gospel and the Transformation of the Non-Western World -- Into the Twenty-first Century - Africa as a Christian Continent: The Prospects and Challenges. The Making of Christian Africa: The Surprise Story of the Modern Missionary Movement. Christian Religion and the African World-view: Will Ancestors Survive? Christian Religion and African Social Norms: Authority, Desacralisation and Democracy. The Place of Africa in a Changing World: The Christian Factor.



9780748606252 9781570750489

95024225


Christianity--Africa.
Christianity and culture.

BR1360 BR1360.B412.C475 1996