Kwame Bediako

• Verfasst von: Hartman, Tim [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Kwame Bediako
• Titelzusatz: African theology for a world Christianity
• Verf.angabe: Tim Hartman
• Verlagsort: Minneapolis
• Verlag: Fortress Press
• E-Jahr: 2022
• Jahr: [2022]
• Umfang: xvi, 209 Seiten
• Format: 22 cm
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliography (pages 181-193) and index -- "Chronological list of Kwame Bediako's writings": pages 195-204
• ISBN: 978-1-5064-8045-9
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Hartman, Tim: Kwame Bediako. - Carlisle : Langham Creative Projects, 2021. - 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 167 Seiten)
• Sach-SW: Christianity
• Sach-SW: Theology
• Geograph. SW: Africa
• K10plus-PPN: 1804292702

Abstract

Identity : "In becoming Christian, I was becoming African again" --Translatability : "Relevance without syncretism" --History : "Christianity as a non-Western religion" --Mother-tongue scriptures and indigenous translations : "The word of God is always vernacular" --Contextual theology : "A struggle with culturally related questions" --Remaking Christian theology : "Africa ... leads the way" --Politics : A theology of "nondominating power" --Conclusion: Challenges to Western and African theologies --Chronological list of Kwame Bediako's writings.

Abstract

"Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako presses all Christians to question their own theological commitments. He does so by rethinking Christian identity in light of cultural identity and the shortcomings of colonialism. Bediako's quest to be both African and Christian informs what it means to be Christian in a secularized Europe and North America. Far more than just chronological and biographical, Tim Hartman's analysis of the arc of Bediako's theology demonstrates that Bediako's vision of Christianity as a non-Western religion allows it to serve as a resource for World Christianity amid the exponential growth of Christianity in the Global South."--Publisher