Umunthu Theology: An Introduction

Umunthu Theology: An Introduction PDF Author: Augustine Musopole
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9996060977
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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What is the key to understanding in a truly Malawian way? After a lifetime's theological reflection the author finds the answer in the concept of uMunthu (personhood or human-ness). Drawing on Malawi's cultures and languages, the biblical text and the evangelical faith, he casts a theological vision that can be transformative for church and nation.

Umunthu Theology: An Introduction

Umunthu Theology: An Introduction PDF Author: Augustine Musopole
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9996060977
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Book Description
What is the key to understanding in a truly Malawian way? After a lifetime's theological reflection the author finds the answer in the concept of uMunthu (personhood or human-ness). Drawing on Malawi's cultures and languages, the biblical text and the evangelical faith, he casts a theological vision that can be transformative for church and nation.

Umunthu Theology

Umunthu Theology PDF Author: Augustine Chingwala Musopole
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789996060960
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Book Description
What is the key to understanding in a truly Malawian way? After a lifetime's theological reflection the author finds the answer in the concept of uMunthu (personhood or human-ness). Drawing on Malawi's cultures and languages, the biblical text and the evangelical faith, he casts a theological vision that can be transformative for church and nation.

Umunthu Theology

Umunthu Theology PDF Author: Gerard Chigona
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783838325880
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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The Spirit With Us

The Spirit With Us PDF Author: Clifford Owusu-Gyamfi
Publisher: LIT Verlag
ISBN: 3643853351
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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In this volume, the author shows how the Akan concepts of sunsum and honhom offer a degree of Christian pneumatological similarity, providing the avenue for translating and contextualizing the doctrine of the Holy Spirit within the context of the Akan people of West Africa.

Decolonizing the Theological Curriculum in an Online Age

Decolonizing the Theological Curriculum in an Online Age PDF Author: Chimera Nyika
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9996009211
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Book Description
The second annual conference of the Theological Society of Malawi was held at the historic Ekwendeni Campus of the University of Livingstonia from 14 to 16 September 2021. It took up the urgent theme of the decolonization of the theological curriculum. Though Malawi has been an independent country for 58 years, coloniality still stalks the land. This book calls theologians to take a lead in decolonization, while navigating the educational task in an online age. With more than twenty institutions teaching theology at tertiary level in Malawi, and now united in the Theological Society of Malawi, there is huge potential to learn from each other in developing the theological curriculum in the country. While the primary audience is unashamedly a Malawian one, this book might also prove relevant in other contexts where there is a reckoning with past and present experience of colonialism. The book is a call to action and is published in the hope that it will have lasting impact on the teaching and learning of theology in Malawi and beyond.

UMunthu Theology

UMunthu Theology PDF Author: Gerald Chigona
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Beyond Impunity

Beyond Impunity PDF Author: R. Ross
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9996076083
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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This comprehensive, compelling, accessible and timely volume should be compulsory reading to academics, policy makers, social activists, and the general public in Malawi and elsewhere on the continent. The accounts the authors present of the pervasive dysfunctions of Malawi's troubled experiment with multiparty democracy since the mid-1990s, and the endlessly deferred dreams of development, are often dispiriting. Yet, their bleak diagnoses are often accompanied by ameliorative prescriptions that are simultaneously bold and pragmatic. The book exudes a sense of hope that the struggles for a better future will continue. In itself the book represents a testament to the possibilities of the country's democratic dispensation, the need to unflinchingly confront the country's debilitating political and socioeconomic pathologies. Such a text would have been unthinkable during the dictatorship of the founding president, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda.

The Bible and the Public Square

The Bible and the Public Square PDF Author: Hermann Mvula
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9996076385
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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For too long Africa has presented a conundrum as its profound reception of the Bible is juxtaposed with a public life that often seems devoid of biblical values. In this highly original analysis Mzee Hermann Mvula boldly seeks to bridge this ugly chasm by showing what biblical teaching can mean for many different aspects of social and political life. —Kenneth R. Ross,Professor of Theology and Dean of Postgraduate Studies, Zomba Theological University

Singing and Dancing for God

Singing and Dancing for God PDF Author: Chingwala Musopole
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 999606669X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 477

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No sooner had northern Malawians started to become Christians in the late 19th century, than they began to compose hymns. Rather than attempting rational discourse or literary production, their first instinct was to sing and dance their faith. In this book Augustine Musopole offers us the first comprehensive analysis of the theology found in the hymns - a ground-breaking contribution to our understanding of African Christianity.

An Introduction to Theology in Africa and the Kpelelogical Foundations of Christian Theology

An Introduction to Theology in Africa and the Kpelelogical Foundations of Christian Theology PDF Author: Charles Amarkwei
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666711888
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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In this book, African Christian theology is introduced as a Kpelelogical reflection about life in the context of Africa, which exists in the context of the cosmos. Kpelelogy is the ontological mode of being grasped by the agape of God in Christ by grace through faith in the power of the Holy Spirit. By this mode, African theology is introduced by way of a definition, a principle of paradox, and a description, as well as a critical view of the works of African theologians. It examines the issues of method, criteria, and sources of doing theology in Africa and introduces the method of Kpelelogy as an African theological method. This is explored further as a holistic theological method that is conscious of its being in existence, and its life in history, that is driven by faith in the triune God in a pneumatic experience that has been termed in this book as the Kpelelogical ontological mode. The book is ecumenical in view of its engagement with Christian tradition. It presents a Kpelelogical theology that is concretely African and universally Christian in the Okpelejen Wulormor—the cosmic Jesus Christ who is and was, but beyond the munus triplex (Priest, King and Prophet, threefold office of Jesus Christ) that is to come. Hence it is a theology which embraces elements of Reformed, Lutheran, Methodist, Pentecostal, Charismatic, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox theological insights in the African context.