Re-imagining African Christologies : conversing with interpretations and appropriations of Jesus Christ in African Christianity /

Ezigbo, Victor I.

Re-imagining African Christologies : conversing with interpretations and appropriations of Jesus Christ in African Christianity / Victor I. Ezigbo; [foreword by Andrew F. Walls]. - Eugene, Or. : Pickwick Publications, c2010. - xviii, 337 p. ; 23 cm. - Princeton theological monograph series ; 119 . - Princeton theological monograph series ; 132. .

Based on of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Edinburgh, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-334) and index.

Major presuppositions of African Christologies -- Constructive Christologies of contemporary African Christianity -- Grassroots Christologies of contemporary African Christianity : a case study of Nigeria -- A revealer Christology for the African contexts -- Revealing divinity : the significance of Jesus for God-talk in African Christianity -- The malevolent spirits in the Christologies of African Christianity -- Revealing humanity : the significance of Jesus for rethinking the understandings of human beings in Africa.

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Jesus Christ--Person and offices.


Theology, Doctrinal--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

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