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The Bible and African culture : mapping transactional inroads / Humphrey Waweru.

By: Publisher number: MWT11582256Publication details: Eldoret, Kenya : Zapf Chancery, 2011.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789966040091
  • 9966040099
  • 9789966040077
  • 9966040072
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bible and African culture.DDC classification:
  • 261.096 23
LOC classification:
  • BR115.C8
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: African culture and the Bible -- Chapter Two: Kikuyu people -- Chapter Three: Mapping the transaction between African culture and the Bible -- Chapter Four: Methodologies for transaction between African culture and the Bible -- Chapter Five: Inter-religious transaction between African culture and the Bible -- Chapter Six: African culture and the Bible transact in worship and mission -- Chapter Seven: The place of women in this transaction with reference to John's Gospel -- Chapter Eight: Dowry: African or Christian? Another inter-religious transaction -- Chapter Nine: Revelation.
Summary: How can African theology survive the self-repetition of mere cultural apologia or contextualization-stereotypes, and mature into a critical theoretical discipline responding to the challenges of the postmodern world-order? Dr. Humphrey M. Wawe contributes here a sound theological reflection using the hitherto unused methodological paradigm of mapping the inroads in the "transaction" between the Bible and African culture.
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How can African theology survive the self-repetition of mere cultural apologia or contextualization-stereotypes, and mature into a critical theoretical discipline responding to the challenges of the postmodern world-order? Dr. Humphrey M. Wawe contributes here a sound theological reflection using the hitherto unused methodological paradigm of mapping the inroads in the "transaction" between the Bible and African culture.

Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One: African culture and the Bible -- Chapter Two: Kikuyu people -- Chapter Three: Mapping the transaction between African culture and the Bible -- Chapter Four: Methodologies for transaction between African culture and the Bible -- Chapter Five: Inter-religious transaction between African culture and the Bible -- Chapter Six: African culture and the Bible transact in worship and mission -- Chapter Seven: The place of women in this transaction with reference to John's Gospel -- Chapter Eight: Dowry: African or Christian? Another inter-religious transaction -- Chapter Nine: Revelation.

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