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The Inculturation of Christianity in Africa

Antecedents and Guidelines from the New Testament and the Early Church

  • Paperback
  • 132 pages
  • Publisher: Peter Lang AG
  • 14.9 x 21.1 x 0.9 cm

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For church leaders and students of missiology

Shows how to adapt faith for modern African life

Guides you in honouring culture and tradition

This book offers essential guidelines for bringing the gospel into the heart of African culture.

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This book demonstrates that the encounter between Christianity and various African cultures gives rise to a number of problems for Africans who become Christians. It draws attention to certain traditional African beliefs and practices that seem to be incompatible with Christianity and create problems for Africans who embrace Christianity. Against this background it argues for the need to inculturate Christianity. It contends that in this exercise African Christianity can learn from the attempts at inculturation found in the New Testament times and in the early church. It offers examples of how the early church sought to make use of non-Christian categories of thought and elements in its articulation of the Christian message and in worship. It suggests a few areas of Ghanaian and African life where inculturation could and should take place. These include funeral rites, widowhood rites, child-naming rites, the rites of marriage, libation and christology. It concludes by offering some guidelines for use in the process of the inculturation of Christianity in Africa today.
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  • Title

    The Inculturation of Christianity in Africa

  • Author

    Joseph Osei-Bonsu

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Peter Lang AG

  • Published

    October 2005

  • Weight

    187g

  • Page Count

    132

  • Dimensions

    14.9 x 21.1 x 0.9 cm

  • ISBN

    9783631537909

  • ISBN-10

    3631537905

  • Eden Code

    4073226