Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Referencing and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II The Diversity of Reception
- Part III Ethics, Theology, and Critical Scholarship
- Part IV The Global Jesus Today
- 17 The Jewish Jesus in Christian and in Jewish Memory
- 18 The Racial Jesus
- 19 Jesus, Power, and the Global Poor
- 20 The Asian Faces of Jesus
- 21 Jesus of Africa
- Part V Outlook
- Bibliography
- Ancient Sources Index
- Subject Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
21 - Jesus of Africa
from Part IV - The Global Jesus Today
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2024
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Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Referencing and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Origins
- Part II The Diversity of Reception
- Part III Ethics, Theology, and Critical Scholarship
- Part IV The Global Jesus Today
- 17 The Jewish Jesus in Christian and in Jewish Memory
- 18 The Racial Jesus
- 19 Jesus, Power, and the Global Poor
- 20 The Asian Faces of Jesus
- 21 Jesus of Africa
- Part V Outlook
- Bibliography
- Ancient Sources Index
- Subject Index
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- References
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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- The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus , pp. 346 - 362Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024
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Further Reading
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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
Stinton, Diane B. 2004. Jesus of Africa: Voices of Contemporary African Christology. Maryknoll: Orbis Books.Google Scholar