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God, Spirit, and Human Wholeness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 268

God, Spirit, and Human Wholeness

The Holy Spirit provides access to relationship with and reflection on the Triune God. In West Africa, Christians approach the Triune God in a way that challenges the Jewish-Christian memory. Deeply rooted in their ancestral memory, where living is relationality, they embrace the Trinitarian faith, the economy of the relational God-Christ-Spirit, by expanding and reinventing their indigenous experience of God, deities, spirits, and ancestors. Christian faith-practice is marked by the spectacular dominance of the Holy Spirit, whose charisms reflect the operations of deities. African Initiated Churches (AICs), Protestant and Catholic charismatic movements, experience God-Spirit's liberating an...

A Listening Church
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

A Listening Church

AIDS. Famine. Ethnic strife. Refugees. Poverty. Debt. Environmental degradation. These form the wounded face of Africa today, the reality confronting the church of Africa. To heal Africa, Spiritan Father Elochukwu Uzukwu argues that the church in Africa must become a credible and effective agent of change by making full use of African resources--natural and sociohistorical--including traditional patterns of social organization. In order to renew itself, the church must remember that it does not exist for itself but for the people--to bear witness in Africa to the risen Lord. Focusing on the Catholic Church in Africa today, A Listening Church proposes a fresh approach to ecclesiology. Following closely on the African Synod of Bishops, Uzukwu proposes the initiation of serious theological discussion on the structure of the Church in Africa that came out of that historic occasion. Simply speaking, the African churches must listen to their people, and the Church in Rome must listen to the churches in Africa.

Worship as Body Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

Worship as Body Language

The "body language" or gestures of praise, adoration, contemplation, ritual dance, and care of the neighbor are meaningful to the ethnic group; African Christians tune into these body motions to express the one Christian faith. In "Worship as Body Language", Father Uzukwu details how the patterns of the African ritual assemblies and sacred narratives have merged with Jewish, Gospel, and early Church traditions to create living Christian communities and liturgies.

The Eucharist and World Hunger
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 549

The Eucharist and World Hunger

Hunger is a menace in different parts of the globe. It has more unnatural than natural causes. Though efforts have been made towards alleviating its causes and consequences, more actions still need to be taken for its genuine alleviation and eventual eradication in the world. For Joseph Grassi, painful hunger is a daily occurrence that must be countered by ongoing effective programs that enter into the lives of every Christian. Such position not only recognises the frequency and excruciating nature of hunger but also suggests that Christians and other religious groups have a very important role to play in order to eradicate hunger and its devastating effects. This book explores the nuances of hunger, its causes, dimensions and approaches, as well as its connection to the Eucharist. It argues that hunger can be eradicated and that the Eucharist stands out as a veritable model.

Compassion - A Pastoral Paradigm for Integral Salvation and the Growth of the Church
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Compassion - A Pastoral Paradigm for Integral Salvation and the Growth of the Church

Compassion is the dynamic force of all pastoral engagement. Without it, Salvation is impossible. With it, the salvation of the human person both spiritually and materially is assured. It is a deep natural, philosophical, theological, and religious value. The proper assimilation of this value, with all its implications, marks a turning point in one's life. It opens up one, not only to love and to be loved, but also to see things, not as they are, but as they should be. It marks one's entry into the crusade of the universal- pastor-hood; a heart-driven crusade that abhors all forms of exploitation and abuses. A crusade of socio-political wellbeing realized through politics of compassion.

Identity and Ecclesiology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

Identity and Ecclesiology

Questions of identity continue to intrigue theologians in Africa, and African intellectuals often note communal emphases in African thought. This raises the question, How do ecclesiologies in Africa engage with identity concerns, and how do they envision the Christian identity? Stephanie Lowery argues in this book that theologians in Africa provide theological and biblical arguments regarding Christian identity that are relevant to individual Christians and ecclesiologies in all contexts. She also proposes the social identity approach as a tool that can both further articulate and advance these discussions.

Bodies of Worship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Bodies of Worship

Bodies of Worship explores how the ecclesial, ritual, individual, and cultural bodies engaged in the Church's worship contribute to the theory and practice of both liturgical theology and pastoral ministry. The authors bring solid historical and theoretical scholarship to bear on the practice and experience of the liturgy and spirituality of the Church.

Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 443

Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda

The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Church’s role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliation From April to July 1994, more than a million people were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Tutsi men, women, and children were slaughtered by Hutu extremists in churches and school buildings, and their lifeless bodies were left rotting in these sacred places under the deep silence of church authorities. Pope Francis’s apology more than twenty years later presents the opportunity to reimagine the essence of the Church, the missionary enterprise, theology in its multiple dimensions, the purification of memory, and the place of human di...

THE SONS OF LUGARD
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 84

THE SONS OF LUGARD

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-02-18
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

The book is a work of fiction that has the following as its themes: treachery, patriotism, unity, colonialism and the much predicated collapse of the nation called Nigeria. The book's overall setting is within Nigeria and the United Kingdom.The main character is one Lord Lugard who happened to be the son of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth. This noble man studied at Oxford, joined the services of Her Majesty and married a lady known as Brunette. The new couple met with disappointment in their marital life because the wife of Lord Lugard was unable to conceive. Lord Lugard's wife suggested that they adopt three babies who must be of African descent. They should also not be more than one year old. The husband conserved and three babies were adopted. Their names were: AREWA, AFENIFERE and OHANEZE. Lord Lugard started a business known as Nigeria Holdings.Tragedy occurred when the three children collaborated and overthrew Lord Lugard from the leadership of the business.

The Understanding of Family in Ghana as a Challenge for a Contextual Ecclesiology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223

The Understanding of Family in Ghana as a Challenge for a Contextual Ecclesiology

The life and nature of the Church are better understood in terms of a self-identity that relies on the language and cultural framework of the stakeholders. Since theological reflections do not take place in a vacuum, the socio-cultural context gains importance. The question is: How much culture can the Church, as a whole, accommodate without losing its universal character? With a focus on the West African country of Ghana, this book analyzes the potential trade-offs and conflicts between the Church and culture in a pluri-religious and multi-cultural society. Further, it shows the dangers of exclusion within the Church and offers possible solutions. (Series: Studien zur systematischen Theologie und Ethik - Vol. 64)