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Folk Christology in Africa: the Dialectics of the Nganga Paradigm

Folk Christology in Africa: the Dialectics of the Nganga Paradigm FOLK CHRISTOLOGY IN AFRICA: THE DIALECTICS OF THE NGANGA PARADIGM BY MATTHEW SCHOFFELEERS (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) "ethnologie et la christologie sont-elles nécessairement exclusives?" Richard Kearny (1985: 44) "...all the separatist churches-and even the African sections of the mission churches-are syncretistic... All their Christian ideas are edited by the religious ideas they bring with them from their cultural upbringing". Absalom Vilakazi et al. (1986: 156). Introduction We are regularly told by missiologists, social scientists and African writers that Africans find it difficult to integrate the person of Jesus Christ in their belief system, either because he is automatically associated with the west and the colonial past, or because his very essence is supposed to be incompatible with autochthonous religious conceptions.' That view seems implicitly confirmed by African Theology which has remained remarkably silent about this pivotal symbol of the Christian faith.2 At one time it has even been authoritatively stated that in traditional African cultures christological conceptions are non-existent. All this has led some authors to conclude that African Theology experiences some- thing in the nature of a christological crisis which urgently needs to be attended to (Appiah-Kubi 1977:55; Setiloane 1979:64). Although several christological studies have appeared http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

Folk Christology in Africa: the Dialectics of the Nganga Paradigm

Schoffeleers, Matthew
Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 19 (2): 157 – Jan 1, 1989
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© 1989 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0022-4200
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10.1163/157006689X00161
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FOLK CHRISTOLOGY IN AFRICA: THE DIALECTICS OF THE NGANGA PARADIGM BY MATTHEW SCHOFFELEERS (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) "ethnologie et la christologie sont-elles nécessairement exclusives?" Richard Kearny (1985: 44) "...all the separatist churches-and even the African sections of the mission churches-are syncretistic... All their Christian ideas are edited by the religious ideas they bring with them from their cultural upbringing". Absalom Vilakazi et al. (1986: 156). Introduction We are regularly told by missiologists, social scientists and African writers that Africans find it difficult to integrate the person of Jesus Christ in their belief system, either because he is automatically associated with the west and the colonial past, or because his very essence is supposed to be incompatible with autochthonous religious conceptions.' That view seems implicitly confirmed by African Theology which has remained remarkably silent about this pivotal symbol of the Christian faith.2 At one time it has even been authoritatively stated that in traditional African cultures christological conceptions are non-existent. All this has led some authors to conclude that African Theology experiences some- thing in the nature of a christological crisis which urgently needs to be attended to (Appiah-Kubi 1977:55; Setiloane 1979:64). Although several christological studies have appeared

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