A New History of African Christian Thought: From Cape to Cairo / Edition 1

by David Ngong

Overview

David Tonghou Ngong offers a comprehensive view of African Christian thought that includes North Africa in antiquity as well as Sub-Saharan Africa from the period of colonial missionary activity to the present. Challenging conventional colonial divisions of Africa, A New History of African Christian Thought demonstrates that important continuities exist across the continent. Chapters written by specialists in African Christian thought reflect the issues—both ancient and modern—in which Christian Africa has impacted the shape of Christian belief from the beginning of the movement up to the present day.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415857543
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/23/2016
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

David Tonghou Ngong (Ph.D., Baylor University) is originally from Cameroon, Africa, and is currently Associate Professor of Religion and Theology at Stilman College, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA. In addition to many published articles in international journals, he is author of The Holy Spirit and Salvation in African Christian Theology (2010) and Theology as Construction of Piety (2013).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Theological Significance of Africa and Africans in the Bible

Section I: Early African Christian Thought

Chapter 2. Alexandrian Theology and Contemporary Africa Christian Thought

Chapter 3. Africa and the Christian doctrine of God.

Chapter 4. Martyrs and Martyrdom in Coptic Christianity

Chapter 5. Augustine and the Donatist Movement

Chapter 6. Augustine’s Analysts: Reflections on the Psychological Reception History of the Confessions

Section II: Modern African Christian Thought

Chapter 7. Inculturation Theology in Africa

Chapter 8. African Liberation Theology

Chapter 9. South African Black Theology of Liberation

Chapter 10. African Evangelical Theology

Chapter 11. The Conception of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians: Is It African Or Western?

Chapter 12. African Roman Catholic Theology

Chapter 13. Contemporary African Christian Thought and Homosexuality: Issues and Trajectories

Index

Editorial Reviews

"This volume offers an excellent overview of the width and depth of African Christian thought as it has developed throughout the centuries and across the continent. Its originality is that it considers a wide variety of historical and contemporary traditions as authentic African articulations of Christian faith: from early church fathers such as St Tertullian and St Augustine, to the centuries-old but still living Egyptian Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodox Churches, to the modern discourses of African liberation, inculturation, feminist, black, evangelical and catholic theologies. The contributions serve to demonstrate the critical point that Africa has been, and still very much is, a crucial part of Christian history, and that African agency continues to shape and reshape Christian thought."

- Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, UK

"As a collection of essays, this book brings together some intriguing themes and issues that make the reader ask if there is a greater geographic unity to the history of African Christianity than has previously been considered."

- JESSE ZINK, MONTREAL DIOCESAN THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE

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