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Understanding African Theology in the 20th Century

Bediako, Kwame, author
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African Theology
20th Century
African Christians
African religious
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Intercultural and contextual theologies
African theologies
Christian denominations
Biblical Theology
Dogmatics
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African Christianity / Theologies
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"It has become well known that two distinct trends have emerged in African Christian thought in the post-independent and post-missionary era, from the late 1950s to the late 1980s. has been the theological dimension to the struggl social and political transformation of the conditions of ineq ity and oppression in South Africa. This is what produced B Theology, a theology of liberation in the African setting, in response to the particular circumstances of southern Africa. The other has been the theological exploration into the indigenous cultures of African peoples, with particular stress on their preChristian (and also pre-Islamic) religious traditions. This trend has been more closely associated with the rest of tropical Africa, where political independence seemed to have taken away a direct regular experience of the kind of socio-political pressures which produced Black Theology in South Africa."
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1994
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