The Sacrifice of Africa

The Sacrifice of Africa
Author: Emmanuel Katongole
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2011
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802862683

In The Sacrifice of Africa Emmanuel Katongole confronts this painful legacy and shows how it continues to warp the imaginative landscape of African politics and society. He demonstrates the real potential of Christianity to interrupt and transform entrenched political imaginations and create a different story for Africa ù a story of self-sacrificing love that values human dignity and "dares to invent" a new and better future for all Africans. --

Christian Zionism in Africa

Christian Zionism in Africa
Author: Cynthia Holder Rich
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2021-01-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1978711743

Christian Zionism—a movement based on the belief that support of Israel, and Israeli ownership of and residence in Jerusalem, is a prerequisite for Christ’s return—has been a significant substratum within theologies and ecclesiologies of many churches in the US and Europe for centuries. Since the 1970s, US-based Christian Zionism organizations, encouraged by and collaborating with the Israeli government, have used a significant amount of resources to spread the movement into other regions of the world, including Africa. In many African countries, Christian Zionism combines perniciously with Prosperity Gospel preaching, interpreting Genesis 12:3 as a divine map to gain blessings—material and otherwise—through complete and uncritical support for the modern-day State of Israel. Many African governments have come to understand that this support is lucrative--and coercive. African officials working with Israel learn that openly supporting Palestine will result in their partnerships with Israel being discontinued. Contributors to this interdisciplinary volume analyze the meaning and ramifications of the emergence of Christian Zionist ideologies in Africa and its churches, in interfaith work, in politics, in law, and in the use and abuse of power between peoples of different races, histories, economic strength, and influence on the international stage.

A Call to Solidarity with Africa

A Call to Solidarity with Africa
Author: Catholic Church. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Publisher: USCCB Publishing
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781574554649

Heeding the growing cries for help, this statement calls on the Catholic community in the United States to stand in solidarity with the Church and the peoples of Africa.

The Face of Africa

The Face of Africa
Author: Stan Chu Ilo
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2012-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1725232480

"A technical insight to Africa's development." -- United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva "This book is good news and a compelling work of our times. It creates hope, challenges despair, re-establishes authentic human development and original African values." --Prof. Obiora Ike, Catholic Institute for Development, Justice and Peace, Nigeria "A very precious contribution to Christian conversation on the future of Africa by a young African researcher." --Prof. Benezet Bujo, Chair, Centre for Moral Theology and Social Ethics, University of Freibourg, Switzerland "This book is a stirring manifesto for social reconstruction and interior transformation in Africa." --Prof. James H. Olthuis, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto "This is a bold attempt at contextual theology." --Dr. Joseph Faniran, Catholic Institute for West Africa "Stan Chu Ilo is one of Africa's bright stars and provides a Christian socio-ethical compass for navigating life in Africa for generations to come." --Prof. Uche Uguwueze, Professor of African Studies, California State University, Long Beach "A fascinating discourse on the trials and hope of the African continent." --Milwaukee Community Journal, USA

Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa

Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa
Author: Elias Kifon Bongmba
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 597
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1134505779

The Routledge Companion to Christianity in Africa offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of the Christian tradition across the African continent and throughout a long historical span. The volume offers historical and thematic essays tracing the introduction of Christianity in Africa, as well as its growth, developments, and effects, including the lived experience of African Christians. Individual chapters address the themes of Christianity and gender, the development of African-initiated churches, the growth of Pentecostalism, and the influence of Christianity on issues of sexuality, music, and public health. This comprehensive volume will serve as a valuable overview and reference work for students and researchers worldwide.

African Catholicism and Hermeneutics of Culture

African Catholicism and Hermeneutics of Culture
Author: Joseph Ogbonnaya
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2014-08-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 163087504X

The study of Christianity in the non-Western world reveals a demographic shift in the center of Christianity from the Northern Hemisphere to the South. But the contradictory aspect of the massive African conversion to Christian faith is the grinding poverty level in Africa. This condition raises important theological and ecclesiological questions that demand urgent answers. Therefore, the research objectives of this book are to examine African Catholicism's involvement in human promotion and to seek a new way of theologizing Christianity that moves sub-Saharan African peoples to action against the massive injustices that keep them poor. Drawing on Africae Munus, the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation of the Second African Synod (2011), and Bernard Lonergan's notion of culture, African Catholicism and Hermeneutics of Culture argues that to truly be "the spiritual 'lung' of humanity," African Catholicism must appropriate the Christian message to transform African attitudes and personhood and so foster a self-reliant commitment to integral African development.

The African Methodist Episcopal Church

The African Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Dennis C. Dickerson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 615
Release: 2020-01-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521191521

Explores the emergence of African Methodism within the black Atlantic and how it struggled to sustain its liberationist identity.