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21 - Jesus of Africa

from Part IV - The Global Jesus Today

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2024

By
Diane B. Stinton  and
Victor I. Ezigbo
Edited by
Markus Bockmuehl
Markus Bockmuehl
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Summary

Christianity is often misconceived as a Western/white religion Europeans imported to Africa. In contrast, this chapter outlines Africans’ participation in the story of Jesus from the first century to the twenty-first. Four episodes from Acts serve heuristically in surveying Christ-devotion in African Christianity, integrating formal and informal expressions of Christology. With Africa now a heartland of the gospel, the contributions of African Christians demonstrate the universality of the gospel translated into African thought-forms and contextual realities.

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African Christologyancestor ChristologyChrist-devotioncontextualizationinformal/“lived” Christology
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The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus , pp. 346 - 362
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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Further Reading

Atansi, Chukwuemeka A., Lewis, David M. M. and Stinton, Diane B.. 2023. “Christology.” In Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of African Theology, https://african.theologyworldwide.com/encyclopaedia/227-christology.Google Scholar
Bediako, Kwame. 2004. Jesus and the Gospel in Africa: History and Experience. Maryknoll: Orbis.Google Scholar
Clarke, Clifton R. 2011. African Christology: Jesus in Post-Missionary African Christianity. La Vergne: Wipf and Stock Publishers.Google Scholar
Manus, Ukachukwu Chris. 1993. Christ, the African King: New Testament Christology. Frankfurt: P. Lang.Google Scholar
Mugambi, J. N. Kanyua and Magesa, Laurenti, eds. 1989. Jesus in African Christianity: Experimentation and Diversity in African Christology. Nairobi: Initiatives Ltd.Google Scholar
Nyamiti, Charles. 2006. Studies in African Christian Theology: Jesus Christ, the Ancestor of Humankind – An Essay on African Christology. Nairobi: CUEA.Google Scholar
Oduyoye, Mercy A. and Kanyoro, M. R. A., eds. 1992. The Will to Arise: Women, Tradition, and the Church in Africa. Maryknoll: Orbis Books.Google Scholar
Pobee, John S., ed. 1992. Exploring Afro-Christology. Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums 79. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.Google Scholar
Schreiter, Robert J., ed. 1991. Faces of Jesus in Africa. Maryknoll: Orbis Books.Google Scholar
Stinton, Diane B. 2004. Jesus of Africa: Voices of Contemporary African Christology. Maryknoll: Orbis Books.Google Scholar

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