A Way Forward for Christian Thought in Africa: Four Proposals
Africans once made major contributions to Christian thought across the globe. Sadly that isn’t the case today. How can we change that?
Africans once made major contributions to Christian thought across the globe. Sadly that isn’t the case today. How can we change that?
This way of thinking says the best protection against evil is to identify the sender or source and curse it back.
Africans are not strangers to suffering and loss, grief or despair. But we often struggle with knowing the place of lament before God.
Across cultures people remember and honour their dead. But ancestral veneration goes further, believing the deceased can affect the living.
The spirits play a huge role in traditional African religions. But God made them. He rules over them. So we need not fear or serve them.