Re-imagining African Christologies: Conversing with the Interpretations and Appropriations of Jesus Christ in Contemporary African Christianity
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Description
"Who do you say that I am" (Mark 8:29) is the question of Christology. By asking this question, Jesus invites his followers to interpret him from within their own contexts-history, experience, and social location. Therefore, all responses to Jesus's invitation are contextual. But for too long, many theologians particularly in the West have continued to see Christology as a universal endeavor that is devoid of any contextual influences. This understanding of Christology undermines Jesus's expectations from us to imagine and appropriate him from within our own contexts. In Re-imagining African Christologies, Victor I. Ezigbo presents a constructive exposition of the unique ways that many African theologians and lay Christians from various church denominations have interpreted and appropriated Jesus Christ in their own contexts. He also articulates the constructive contributions that these African Christologies can make to the development of Christological discourse in non-African Christian communities.
Department(s)
Biblical and Theological Studies
ISBN
9781606088227
Publication Date
2010
Publisher
Pickwick Publications
City
Eugene
Keywords
Jesus Christ, African theology, Christology
Disciplines
Christianity
Recommended Citation
Ezigbo, Victor I., "Re-imagining African Christologies: Conversing with the Interpretations and Appropriations of Jesus Christ in Contemporary African Christianity" (2010). Faculty Books. 31.
https://spark.bethel.edu/faculty-books/31
Comments
Princeton Theological Monograph Series