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  • 21 - Jesus of Africa

  • from Part IV - The Global Jesus Today
  • Edited by Markus Bockmuehl, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus
    Published online:
    15 November 2024
    Print publication:
    05 December 2024, pp 346-362

  • 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.