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Decolonial Pentecostalism : A PostNicene Theology from Africa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kaunda, Chammah J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- God (African religion).
- Pentecostalism.
- Africa--Church history.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (445 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.
- Summary:
- Presents an exploration of how Pentecostal theology can be revitalized by critically engaging with the Nicene Creed through the lens of African spirituality and decolonial thought.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface I: The dance of bones
- Preface II: At the edges of God
- Introduction: Is classical Nicene Creed still relevant?
- Introduction
- Centring local grammars and idioms
- Nicenism as a decolonial challenge
- PostNicene imaginations
- (Un)tangling the threads and coils of the divine cobweb
- Is classical Nicene relevant?
- Claims and structure of the book
- 1 Theology-making from Africa
- Writing from …
- Matricultural-linguistic analysis
- Decolonialpentecostal epistemology?
- Insurrection of subjugated spirit
- A view from below
- Theo pistemic disobedience
- 'From' as creative tension
- Conclusion
- 2 Na-nyi-na
- God in theology from Africa
- Thinking with and against monotheistic logic
- The maternal metaphysical architecture of ontological relationality
- Ntu : N(tu)rinitarian principle
- Matri-relationality and generativity
- 3 Mwa-na Lesa
- Dancing in the Spirit: 'Jesus come into my life'
- Beyond 'the faces of Jesus'
- Within-yet-and-beyond: the Christoscape in Africa
- Into uncharted terrain: knitting Mwa-na Lesa (Christ)
- -na -carnation
- 4 The Nyi, the giver of life
- Ntu procession
- Pneumbilical bondedness
- Mupashi and metacultural pneumatology
- Pneumbilical epistemology
- Pneumato-logic bondedness of life
- 5 The expecting God
- The coming fulfilled reality
- Unconditional generosity
- Creative split
- A promise
- An Metanatal event
- The image of things to come
- The always-already in the not-yet
- Epilogue: PostNicene theology
- Index
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- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 0-567-72278-3
- 0-567-72276-7
- 0-567-72277-5
- OCLC:
- 1574805457
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