Toward an African theology of fraternal solidarity : UBE NWANNE / Ikenna U. Okafor ; foreword by Kurt Appel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Okafor, Ikenna U., author.

Series:

African Christian studies series ; 7.

African Christian studies series ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology--Africa.

Theology.

Church and social problems.

Liberation theology.

Africa.

Liberation theology--Africa.

Solidarity--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Solidarity.

Jesus Christ--Person and offices.

Jesus Christ.

Church and social problems--Africa.

Christianity--Africa.

Christianity.

Igbo (African people)--Religion.

Igbo (African people).

Physical Description:

xv, 217 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2014]

Summary:

In this book, Ikenna Okafor tackles an interesting and timely topic and demonstrates competence and maturity in developing his insight into Igbo humanism-to make liberation theology from an African perspective into a theology of solidarity and fraternity. With a good narrative style, Okafor critiques the Latin American liberation theological project. And inspired by the hermeneutical implications of "USE NAWANNE" the evangelical positioning of material poverty and pathos for the poor as defining Christian discipleship is persuasively presented. The potent nwanne idiom guides his critical evaluation of the social teachings and praxis of the Catholic Church. In fact, it is clear that Okafor embarked on a subject matter that is of theological moment and has creative pastoral implications for the Church of Nigeria, the Churches of Africa, and the World Church. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

History and tenets in African liberation theology

The centrality of christology in liberation discourse: hopes and impediments

The church and the poor: on the magisterial responses to the problem of poverty

Africa: the crucibles

The secular and theological liberation struggles in Africa

An exigent hermeneutic shift

Christology of fraternity

Mysticism of compassion

Conclusion: Philadelphia in Ecclesiae.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781625645937

1625645937

OCLC:

892879093

Publisher Number:

99967804302