Postcolonializing God: An African Practical Theology

Postcolonializing God: An African Practical Theology

Postcolonializing God examines how African Christianity especially as a practical spirituality can be truly a postcolonial reality. The book offers thoughts as to how African Christians and by that token others who were colonial subjects, may practice a spirituality that bears the hallmarks of their authentic cultural heritage, even if that makes them distinctly different from Christians from the colonizing nations.
There are themes in both the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Scriptures in which Godâ€™s activities result in shattering hegemony, overthrowing the powerful, diversifying communities and affirming pluralism. These have by and large been ignored or downplayed in the formation of Christian communities by western and westernized Christians in Africa. The effect of this is that much of the practice of African Christians imitates that of a European Christianity of bygone times. Postcolonializing God charts a different course uplifting these ignored readings of scripture and identifying how they are expressed again by Africans who courageously seek through the practices of mysticism and African culture to portray a God whose actions liberate and diversify human experience.
Postcolonializing God seeks to express the human diversity that seems to be the Creatorâ€™s ongoing desire for the world and thereby to continue to manifest the manifold and diverse nature and wisdom of God. It is only as humans refuse to be created in the image of any other human beings, that the richness and complexity of the divine image will be more closely viewed throughout the world.
Country USA
Brand SCM Press
Manufacturer SCM Press
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2013-08-30
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780299315801

Country	USA
Brand	SCM Press
Manufacturer	SCM Press
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2013-08-30
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780299315801

Postcolonializing God: An African Practical Theology

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