Theology of Presence in African Christianity: A Transforming Missiological Factor for Women in Contemporary Pentecostal Churches in Africa
Following the independence of many African countries, Christianity has been gaining freedom through indigenizing the church. Christian churches in Africa are self-indigenizing, self-innovating, and self-criticizing their practices and theologies. However, women in African churches remain in an uncom...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | Drawer...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Wiley-Blackwell
[2017]
|
| In: |
International review of mission
Year: 2017, Volume: 106, Issue: 2, Pages: 307-321 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KDG Free church NBE Anthropology RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
Women
B Transformation B Theology of Presence B Witnessing B Indigenization B Culture B Contemporary Pentecostalism |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | Following the independence of many African countries, Christianity has been gaining freedom through indigenizing the church. Christian churches in Africa are self-indigenizing, self-innovating, and self-criticizing their practices and theologies. However, women in African churches remain in an uncomfortable zone. African, biblical, and missionary cultures have been named as sources of discrimination of women in the church. This paper deploys a theology of presence to claim that contemporary Pentecostal Christianity (CPC) in Africa, with some continuity in African worldview and biblical cultures, has touched upon and answered women's complex and challenging questions that for a long time have been denied by Christian missionaries. The paper shows how theology of presence, in the witnessing and healing practised by CPC, has been transforming the missiological factor for women. The paper suggests learning from other models for transformation than policies and gender mainstreaming tools, since these have had little impact. The paper recommends research on hermeneutical reading of the Bible and providing more innovative skills to help women break the silence of being violated. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1758-6631 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International review of mission
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/irom.12188 |