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The Holy Spirit and Salvation in African Christian Theology

Imagining a More Hopeful Future for Africa

Produktform: Buch / Einband - fest (Hardcover)

challenges the dominant understanding of the Holy Spirit in African Christian salvific discourse. The most prevalent approach in reflections on the Holy Spirit and salvation in African Christian theology insists that these doctrines be made to address the spiritualized African traditional religious cosmology. This dominant approach to the Holy Spirit and salvation have therefore led to the baptism of African traditional religious cosmology in African Christian theology. Baptizing the African cosmology has, in turn, brought about the emphasis on the miraculous in African pneumatology and soteriology. further argues that such stress on the miraculous blocks other ways by which the Holy Spirit might be understood in African soteriological discourse. In addition, this study proposes that the Holy Spirit be perceived as enabling critical philosophical rationality and the development of science and technology in Africa, features that are crucial to enhancing the well-being of the continent and its peoples.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4331-0941-6 / 978-1433109416 / 9781433109416

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 24.08.2010

Seiten: 174

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): David Tonghou Ngong

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