Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesia in Africa...
| Author | : Giovanni Paolo II |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 104 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9788820988418 |
The African Synod
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Communion Ecclesiology and Social Transformation in African Catholicism
| Author | : Idara Otu |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 300 |
| Release | : 2020-05-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 153265748X |
In this book, Idara Otu, one of the new theological voices from Africa, rethinks ecclesiology in the changing context of a wounded and broken world. What does the Catholic Church in Africa look like post-Vatican II? This book creatively illuminates the intrinsic connections between ecclesial communion and social mission in the changing face of the church in Africa. The multiple levels of dialogue in African Catholicism, especially in the reception and contextualization of conciliar teachings, is redefining world Christianity. The author explores how dialogue, synodality, inculturation, leadership, human security, social issues, and social transformation are shaping the identity and mission of the church in Africa. This book also engages recent magisterial teachings and diverse theological voices in developing the praxis for the emergence of particular churches in Africa that are defined by the joys and sorrows of God’s people. The book calls for a Triple-C church, revitalized through Conversion, Communality, and Conversation, as well as fostering integral and sustainable social transformation in Africa’s contested march toward modernity.
The African Synod
| Author | : Maura Browne |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
From its announcement in 1989 until its convening in Rome in 1994 the African Synod of Bishops became a focus for hope and tension in the region where Catholicism is growing the most quickly. The African Synod is the first comprehensive treatment of this historic event. It provides an up-to-the-minute portrait of the African church, its needs for inculturation, its search for an African ecclesial expression, and its relation to Rome.
The African Synod
| Author | : Chukwudum Barnabas Okolo |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Africa |
| ISBN | : |
A Listening Church
| Author | : Elochukwu Eugene Uzukwu |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2006-12-05 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1597528986 |
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.
Africae Munus. Esortazione Apostolica. Ediz. Inglese
| Author | : Benedetto XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9788820986599 |
The Church as Salt and Light
| Author | : Stan Chu Ilo |
| Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2011-06-16 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1630879614 |
This book is an attempt at a critical, constructive, and creative theological praxis of social transformation in Africa. The authors apply a multi-disciplinary approach to examining how Christianity in Africa is engaging the problems of Africa's challenging social context. This is a prophetic work that applies the symbols of "salt" and "light" as ecclesiological images for reenvisioning the path towards procuring abundant life for God's people in the African continent through the agency of African Christianity. The contributors to this volume ask these fundamental questions: What is the face of Jesus in African Christianity? What is the face and identity of the Church in Africa? How can one evaluate the relevance of the Church in Africa to African Christians who enthusiastically embrace and celebrate their Christian faith? In other words, what positive imprint is Christianity leaving on the lives and societies of African Christians? Does the Christian message have the potential of positively affecting African civilization as it once did in Europe? What is the relevance and place of African Christianity as a significant voice in shaping both the future of Africa and that of world Christianity?
The African Synod
| Author | : Aylward Shorter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : African Synod |
| ISBN | : |
African Saints, African Stories
| Author | : Camille Lewis Brown |
| Publisher | : Franciscan Media |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
This is a book designed for personal prayer, reflection and possible retreat time, but basically it is a text for all to commune with the saints. It includes four parts in each of its forty chapters. These sections have a brief biography of each holy person, a relevant passage from Scripture, a brief prayer and a few reflection questions. The first thirty chapters of this book address hoy men and women that the church has already officially recognised as a saint, blessed or venerable. The final ten chapters of the book celebrate the lives of mena nd women who have contributed to the Catholic church but remain without one of these titles. (Adapted from page 2).
African Church Fathers - Ancient and Modern
| Author | : Hans S. A. Engdahl |
| Publisher | : African Sun Media |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 2021-01-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1928480896 |
This critical and close reading of two African theologians, Origen (185 – 254) and Mbiti (1931 – 2019), focuses on the following areas: philosophy (African philosophy and religion and Platonic cosmology), ecclesiology and eschatology; a parallel presentation of these three themes leads to a fourth theme, that of the resurrection, where it is argued that there exists a consensus and a convergence between the two. This reading also highlights two convictions that partly have caused strong criticism: Mbiti has suggested that African philosophy and religion have a conception of time of their own, Origen that all and everything is gradually moving towards an apokatastasis, at which point all will be saved. Yet, the contention is that even more important to both Mbiti and Origen is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. In order to establish the impact of the resurrection on their lives as Christians and as theologians, a contrast reading has been undertaken, i.e. texts are identified which underline the need to forge a link between the resurrection and the earthly ministry of Jesus. These texts also underwrite the conviction of Mbiti as well as Origen of the resurrection as something which must be lived in church and society, corporately as well as in personal devotion. The fact of resurrection creates a new mode of life.
