No Condition Is Permanent: Time as Method in Contemporary African Christian Theology
This article argues that contemporary African Christian theology has largely understood time from a modern, linear perspective, which sees history as progress. Interestingly, the perception of history as progress is the straitjacket into which the story of Africa in the modern world has been told, o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The Pennsylvania State University Press
[2021]
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 9, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-41 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Africa
/ Theology
/ Time
/ Interpretation of
/ Palimpsest (Motif)
/ Transitoriness
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| RelBib Classification: | CA Christianity CF Christianity and Science FA Theology KBN Sub-Saharan Africa NBD Doctrine of Creation |
| Further subjects: | B
John Mbiti
B Inculturation B Achille Mbembe B Musa Dube B palimpsestic time B Mercy Amba Oduyoye B African Theology |
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Volltext (Verlag) |