Bitrus Community and Trinity in Africa

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-28312-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies on Religion in Africa and the Diaspora

Community and Trinity in Africa recasts the African tradition of community from a theological perspective. Ibrahim S. Bitrus explains the new Trinitarian hermeneutics of God as the fundamental framework for constructing an authentic African tradition of community.

Firstly, the book explores the tripartite structural evils of the patriarchal tradition, the Big Man/Woman syndrome, and ethnic-religious nepotism, which distort the African tradition of community. It then goes on to analyze Trinitarian proposals that liberate the distorted African tradition of community and concludes that an authentic African tradition of community is a tradition that embodies individuality without libertarian individualism, communality without patriarchy, and mutual multi-ethnic and religious relations without nepotism and domination.

Arguing that the communion of the Triune God is not a moral ideal, but a gift for restructuring the church and society, this book is an essential read for scholars of African religion and Christian theology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bitrus, Ibrahim S.

Bitrus, Ibrahim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Major African Communal Structural Evils 3. The "Amazing History" of the Trinity 4. The New Hermeneutics of the Triune God 5. Eucharist, Authentic African Tradition of Community, and Perichoretic Theological Education

Über Autor(innen)

Ibrahim S. Bitrus earned his PhD in Systematic Theology at the Luther Seminary, USA and is currently the Nigerian Theologian in Residence for the Minneapolis Area Synod.