Kwame Bediako : African theology for a world Christianity /

Kwame Bediako : African theology for a world Christianity /

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Author / Creator:Hartman, Tim, Dr., author.
Imprint:Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2022]
©2022.
Description:xvi, 209 pages ; 22 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Bediako, Kwame.
Bediako, Kwame.
Theology -- Africa.
Christianity -- Africa.
Christianity.
Theology.
Africa.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13245625
Related Items:Also issued as: Kwame Bediako : African theology for a world Christianity.
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ISBN:9781506480459
1506480454
Notes:Includes bibliography (pages 181-193) and index.
"Chronological list of Kwame Bediako's writings": pages 195-204.
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Summary:"Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako presses all Christians to question their own theological commitments. He does so by rethinking Christian identity in light of cultural identity and the shortcomings of colonialism. Bediako's quest to be both African and Christian informs what it means to be Christian in a secularized Europe and North America. Far more than just chronological and biographical, Tim Hartman's analysis of the arc of Bediako's theology demonstrates that Bediako's vision of Christianity as a non-Western religion allows it to serve as a resource for World Christianity amid the exponential growth of Christianity in the Global South."--Publisher.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Identity: "In Becoming Christian, I Was Becoming African Again"
  • 2. Translatability: "Relevance without Syncretism"
  • 3. History: "Christianity as a Non-Western Religion"
  • 4. Mother-Tongue Scriptures and Indigenous Translations: "The Word of God Is Always Vernacular"
  • 5. Contextual Theology: "A Struggle with Culturally Related Questions"
  • 6. Remaking Christian Theology: "Africa ... Leads the Way"
  • 7. Politics: A Theology of "Nondominating Power"
  • Conclusion: Challenges to Western and African Theologies
  • Bibliography
  • Chronological List of Kwame Bediako's Writings
  • Index

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