J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
Theology
“The phenomenal growth of Christianity as a non-Western religion has made theological studies on the interface between faith and culture even more imperative. In this study Charles Aye-Addo has served the African church and theological academy well by building excellently on the theological christological traditions of stalwarts like Kwame Bediako. This book is a welcome and timely contribution to the important literature on Christology from African perspectives.”
An Introduction to Theology in Africa and the Kpelelogical Foundations of Christian Theology
Theology
Foreword
(wrote the foreword)
“In this volume on the intersection between biblical prophetism on the one hand and African Pentecostal gifts of the Spirit on the other, Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh treats us to the nuances of a phenomenon that has come to define pneumatic Christianity in Africa: the prophetic. This is a great addition to the material on biblical perspectives of African Christianity generally, and African Pentecostalism in particular.”
“Wesley Granberg-Michaelson's From Times Square to Timbuktu is a timely and discerning interpretation of current developments in world Christianity. His observation that the shift in Christian presence from the global North to the South and East 'is not simply about geography, with new maps revealing the changing global presence of the Christian community' but 'also a shift in the culture and mindset shaping the expressions of Christian faith' is an important one. Knowing that a process is under way and coming to terms with it are two different things. . . . This volume interprets not just what God may be doing with the Christianity of the global South and East but also how Granberg-Michaelson expects interest groups like the WCC to respond. It will definitely be listed as mandatory reading for my students of non-Western Christianity.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“In the Future Faith Wesley Granberg-Michaelson offers a refreshingly new perspective on current developments, contours and dynamics of world Christianity. The case he makes that Christianity is experiencing dynamic growth, especially through its non-Western pneumatic forms, with that change bringing “fresh spiritual vitality and relevant social impact” together with the challenge for Christians in the West not to be locked into a parochial story of gradual demise but be liberated by a glorious story of restoration of new life into the church is a very compelling one. The combination of real experiential narratives with solid academic evidence in the volume makes this work a truly remarkable one for the church, theologians and ordinary readers with interest in the study of world Christianity today.”
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Giving Account of Faith and Hope in Africa
Theology
“Giving Account of Faith and Hope in Africa is a virtual magnum opus from a pioneering authority on Christian theology in Africa. . . . Pobee bridges the gap between generations regarding the development of African Christian theology as both a church and academic endeavor. This volume tells the story regarding where we have come from, where we are now, and how things are likely to unfold as far as Christian theology as an African Christian enterprise is concerned.”
Kwame Bediako and African Christian Scholarship
History & Biography
“A number of studies have appeared on Africa’s late twentieth-century Ghanaian theologian Kwame Bediako’s contribution to Christian theology in Africa. Sara Fretheim’s work promises to be one of the most innovative contributions. It has depth and a wider contextual orbit than most. . . . Fretheim’s novel approach to the work of one of Africa’s most influential theologians will serve the theological academy on world Christianity for generations and help in immortalizing his heritage.”
Pastoral Care, Health, Healing, and Wholeness in African Contexts
Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
“In this timely volume the authors demonstrate that it is impossible to talk about practical theology in an African context without discussing the issues of health, healing, and wholeness. Tapiwa Mucherera and Emmanuel Lartey assemble an impressive, important, and incisive collection of essays that deal with practical theological concerns and serve to illuminate the African experience. The essays speak to each other in ways that will greatly enhance the teaching, study, and practice of contextual pastoral care and counseling with a focus on Africa and the African Diaspora experiences.”
Paul Tillich and His System of Paradoxical Correlation
Science & Faith
“Paul Tillich helped to shape the tenor of theological thought in twentieth-century Protestant Christianity. This book is one of only a handful in which an African theologian audaciously attempts to draw out the implications of Tillich’s thought for a context that has developed as a major hub of world Christianity. Tillich’s lessons on the paradoxes between faith and science as outlined here move significantly forward an emerging interest in the study of theology and science in Africa.”
Theology
“Defined as the capacity to resist conventional wisdom in personal decision-making, Wariboko’s The Pentecostal Hypothesis offers deep and astounding insights into the critical-theological implications of the hypothesis for private decisions and social actions. . . . Pentecostals foreground knowledge in spiritual reflection, he argues here, but this is not inconsistent with human rationality. This is a very lucid and brilliant work that passes as one of the most cogent to be written on Pentecostal philosophical thought.”
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