Theology and Literature in African Christian Faith: Hearers of the Word in Africa
This essay argues that African theological productions employ multiple methodologies and genres which combine both literature and orature. The essay demonstrates the richness of African theological representations in stories, cultural symbols, liturgical music, dance, mimetics, poetics and biographi...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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SCM Press
[2017]
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| In: |
Concilium
Year: 2017, Issue: 5, Pages: 119-130 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Bible
/ Theology
/ Literature
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HA Bible KBN Sub-Saharan Africa |
| Further subjects: | B
African Theology
B Religious Literature B Sacred vocal music |
| Summary: | This essay argues that African theological productions employ multiple methodologies and genres which combine both literature and orature. The essay demonstrates the richness of African theological representations in stories, cultural symbols, liturgical music, dance, mimetics, poetics and biographies. These media of theological communication emerge both within formal and informal settings in both the academy, as well as outside of it. African theologians are now harvesting the text for theological reflection in multiple sites and stories of actual faith of African Christians in shrines, healing homes, war fronts, social ministries, political campaigns, social media etc. The Bible is presented in this essay as the most important Christian literature in Africa. The essay shows the relationship between biblical narratives, their composition, literary style, content, and the social world of this Christian literature and the African social context and world of faith. African theologies are taking the form of the biblical text, and are reading the momentum of Christian expansion in Africa as a text which like the Bible reveals the footprints of God in history. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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