Pushing the Naked Envelop Further: A Missiological Deconstruction of the Empire and Christianity in Africa

In re-visiting issues of empire and African Christianity, this article sought to provide a missiological deconstruction of empire and Christianity in Africa, and to draw some missiological lessons that can help shape the agenda of Christianity in Africa moving to the future. Using a liberating praxi...

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Main Author: Mashau, Thinandavha Derrick 1970- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of South Africa [2020]
In: Missionalia
Year: 2020, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 41-57
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
CH Christianity and Society
KAA Church history
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Christian Mission
B Deconstruction
B African Christianity
B Empire
B Pushing
B Naked truth
B Missiological
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Summary:In re-visiting issues of empire and African Christianity, this article sought to provide a missiological deconstruction of empire and Christianity in Africa, and to draw some missiological lessons that can help shape the agenda of Christianity in Africa moving to the future. Using a liberating praxis of engagement with available literature, this article concluded that the relationship between empire and Christianity is not only historical, but a present reality - it can be traced back from early Christianity, Roman Empire, colonial and imperial era, to post-colonial and independent/democratic Africa. The article discovered that while the empire dominates and enslaves, Christianity in Africa could be liberated to liberate the rest of the world from the stronghold of the empire. Optics - in the form of various hermeneutic lenses - should be used to unmask the empire for what/who it is. The theology of ubuntu and other life-affirming African theologies should be used as liberating tools, not only from the empire but also from the myth that Christianity is a Western religion.
ISSN:2312-878X
Contains:Enthalten in: Missionalia
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.7832/48-1-384