Titre :	Christianity in Africa : The renewal of a non-Western religion
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Kwame Bediako, Auteur
Editeur :	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books
Année de publication :	c1995
Collection :	Studies in world Christianity
Importance :	xii, 276 p.
Format :	22 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-1-57075-048-9
Note générale :	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Catégories :	Africa Christianity Christianity and culture
Index. décimale :	BR 1360
Résumé :	Christianity's centre of gravity has shifted in the modern world from the Northern continents to the South, with Africa playing a dominant role in the resurgence of the faith. This work examines this global transformation of the faith from an African perspective and surveys the new role of African Christianity. Beginning with the intellectual legacy of the 19th-century "Black Spokesman", Edward Wilmot Blyden, who questioned the suitability of Western Christianity to Africa, and its resurgence in the 20th century in the Afrikania Movement of the late Ghanaian ex-Roman Catholic priest, Kwabena Damuah, the author examines the deep mother-tongue roots of large portions of African Christianity and shows how the faith has remained a vital and influential force in the continent even after the waning of Western dominance. He then goes on to discuss the prospects of this modern African experience of the faith, in the future shape of Christian theological discourse, in the understanding of the nature of Christian history and in Christianity's continuing social and cultural impact in the world, as well as in a reassessment of the place of the African continent itself in world history.
Note de contenu :	pt. 1. Christianity in African Life: Some Concerns and Signs of Hope. I. 'Is Christianity Suited to the African?': The Legacy of Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Resurgence of a Nineteenth-century Intellectual Problem. II. African Identity: The Afrikania Challenge. III. Christianity and African Liberation: Reaffirming a Heritage. IV. 'How Is It That We Hear in Our Own Languages The Wonders of God?': Christianity as Africa's Religion. V. 'Here We Have no Abiding City': The Perennial Challenge -- pt. 2. Christianity as a Non-Western Religion: Issues Arising in a Post-missionary Setting. VI. The Primal Imagination and the Opportunity for a New Theological Idiom. VII. Translatability and the Cultural Incarnations of the Faith. VIII. Christianity as the Religion of the Poor of the Earth. IX. Towards a New Understanding of Christian History in the Post-missionary Era. X. The Gospel and the Transformation of the Non-Western World.

Christianity in Africa : The renewal of a non-Western religion [texte imprimé] / Kwame Bediako, Auteur . - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, c1995 . - xii, 276 p. ; 22 cm. - (Studies in world Christianity) .
ISBN : 978-1-57075-048-9
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Langues : Anglais (eng)

Catégories :	Africa Christianity Christianity and culture
Index. décimale :	BR 1360
Résumé :	Christianity's centre of gravity has shifted in the modern world from the Northern continents to the South, with Africa playing a dominant role in the resurgence of the faith. This work examines this global transformation of the faith from an African perspective and surveys the new role of African Christianity. Beginning with the intellectual legacy of the 19th-century "Black Spokesman", Edward Wilmot Blyden, who questioned the suitability of Western Christianity to Africa, and its resurgence in the 20th century in the Afrikania Movement of the late Ghanaian ex-Roman Catholic priest, Kwabena Damuah, the author examines the deep mother-tongue roots of large portions of African Christianity and shows how the faith has remained a vital and influential force in the continent even after the waning of Western dominance. He then goes on to discuss the prospects of this modern African experience of the faith, in the future shape of Christian theological discourse, in the understanding of the nature of Christian history and in Christianity's continuing social and cultural impact in the world, as well as in a reassessment of the place of the African continent itself in world history.
Note de contenu :	pt. 1. Christianity in African Life: Some Concerns and Signs of Hope. I. 'Is Christianity Suited to the African?': The Legacy of Edward Wilmot Blyden and the Resurgence of a Nineteenth-century Intellectual Problem. II. African Identity: The Afrikania Challenge. III. Christianity and African Liberation: Reaffirming a Heritage. IV. 'How Is It That We Hear in Our Own Languages The Wonders of God?': Christianity as Africa's Religion. V. 'Here We Have no Abiding City': The Perennial Challenge -- pt. 2. Christianity as a Non-Western Religion: Issues Arising in a Post-missionary Setting. VI. The Primal Imagination and the Opportunity for a New Theological Idiom. VII. Translatability and the Cultural Incarnations of the Faith. VIII. Christianity as the Religion of the Poor of the Earth. IX. Towards a New Understanding of Christian History in the Post-missionary Era. X. The Gospel and the Transformation of the Non-Western World.