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By Victor I. Ezigbo

ISBN-10: 149825408X

ISBN-13: 9781498254083

ISBN-10: 160608822X

ISBN-13: 9781606088227

"Who do you assert that i'm" (Mark 8:29) is the query of Christology. via asking this query, Jesus invitations his fans to interpret him from inside of their very own contexts-history, adventure, and social situation. consequently, all responses to Jesus's invitation are contextual. yet for too lengthy, many theologians rather within the West have endured to determine Christology as a common exercise that's with out any contextual affects. This figuring out of Christology undermines Jesus's expectancies from us to visualize and applicable him from inside of our personal contexts. In Re-imagining African Christologies, Victor I. Ezigbo provides a positive exposition of the original ways in which many African theologians and lay Christians from a number of church denominations have interpreted and appropriated Jesus Christ of their personal contexts. He additionally articulates the optimistic contributions that those African Christologies could make to the advance of Christological discourse in non-African Christian groups.

"Throughout the heritage of Christian concept, believers have struggled to appreciate the determine of Jesus Christ within the context of numerous varied cultures, and this day, Africa is the scene of a few of the main demanding and inventive reconstructions. In his erudite and wide-ranging ebook, Victor Ezigbo deals a legitimate consultant to those bold new Christological ventures."
--Philip Jenkins
author of the subsequent Christendom: the arrival of world Christianity

"A completely researched booklet on African Christology. one of many overlooked questions in African Christianity is how you can current Christ in ways in which resolution questions Africans are asking. Victor Ezigbo tackles this subject brilliantly."
--Allan Anderson
author of Spreading Fires: The Missionary Nature of Early Pentecostalism

"What might 'freedom in Christ' seem like for Africans while it displays care to various and complicated contexts? attractive with this many years outdated theological query, Victor Ezigbo's first-class learn will gift the reader with a typology of African Christologies; a feeling of the complexity of the theological activity; an exhibition of the destructiveness of ill-formed wisdom of either the density of the manifold Christian traditions and the irreducible richness of residing historic cultures; and a refusal to minimize contextualization to a phenomenology that under-appreciates the theological job of examining the deep particularities of texts and contexts contemporaneously."
--John C. McDowell
Morpeth Professor of Theology
University of Newcastle

Victor I. Ezigbo is affiliate Professor of Contextual and Systematic Theology at Bethel collage in St. Paul, MN. He got his PhD from the college of Edinburgh, Scotland, and is the writer of numerous articles on African theologies and Christologies.

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