Sources of Social and Political Theology: Interrogating the African experience
This paper analyses selected recent African theological works on the conceptual relationships between church and society. The author highlights what can be universally learned from the African writings with reference to debates about faith and its relationship to ideals of social and political justi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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| In: |
Transformation
Year: 2008, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 169-194 |
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| Summary: | This paper analyses selected recent African theological works on the conceptual relationships between church and society. The author highlights what can be universally learned from the African writings with reference to debates about faith and its relationship to ideals of social and political justice. Some recent books by African theologians have taken up the challenge of directly confronting questions that arise from the relationships between Africa's religions and their wider social and political environment. The paper shows how according to these theologians the church in Africa must be judged by what it does and by what it does not do vis-à-vis the larger societies of which it is a part. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8931 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Transformation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/026537880802500401 |