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Ype Schaaf, On Their Way Rejoicing. The History and role of the Bible in Africa. Translated by Paul Ellingworth, with a Foreword by André Karamaga and an epilogue by Kwame Bediako. African Challenge series of the AACC nr. 5. Carlisle, UK: The Paternoster Press, in association with the All Africa Conference of Churches, Nairobi, Kenya, 1994, 254pp. UK ISBN 0-85364-561-2 / AACC ISBN 9966-886-84-2.

Ype Schaaf, On Their Way Rejoicing. The History and role of the Bible in Africa. Translated by... transforming the miserable villages and the popular sectors into a vast religious market where the Great Capital does not hesitate to finance sects and manipu- late the credulous in order to control the galley slaves of famine.." (p. 33). Luther's defence is secured by Simon Maimela from South Africa, who finds it "unfair to expect Luther's theology of the cross to give answers to the prob- lems of suffering.." (46). Still, Maimela, finds some reference to "God's preferential option for the oppressed" in his commentary on Psalm 50, speaking about the God of the poor (47). Luther's theology of the Cross is in contrast to the theology of Glory, coined by the protagonist of scholastic theology, celebrating the excellence of divine and also human nature. Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel in an eminent article "Is there a Feminist Theology of the Cross?" declares: "A God who is only pleasure, love and joy, and the promise of a Jesus-like happiness arouses in me the suspicion that Barbara Sichtermann once ... called 'cup-a-soup sexuality': an all-too easy agreement of bodies in an exchange of affirmations." (91). Andreas Yewangoe from Indonesia wrote about "an Asian Perspective on the Cross and Suffering". The concept of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Exchange Brill

Ype Schaaf, On Their Way Rejoicing. The History and role of the Bible in Africa. Translated by Paul Ellingworth, with a Foreword by André Karamaga and an epilogue by Kwame Bediako. African Challenge series of the AACC nr. 5. Carlisle, UK: The Paternoster Press, in association with the All Africa Conference of Churches, Nairobi, Kenya, 1994, 254pp. UK ISBN 0-85364-561-2 / AACC ISBN 9966-886-84-2.

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Exchange , Volume 24 (1): 86 – Jan 1, 1995
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© 1995 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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transforming the miserable villages and the popular sectors into a vast religious market where the Great Capital does not hesitate to finance sects and manipu- late the credulous in order to control the galley slaves of famine.." (p. 33). Luther's defence is secured by Simon Maimela from South Africa, who finds it "unfair to expect Luther's theology of the cross to give answers to the prob- lems of suffering.." (46). Still, Maimela, finds some reference to "God's preferential option for the oppressed" in his commentary on Psalm 50, speaking about the God of the poor (47). Luther's theology of the Cross is in contrast to the theology of Glory, coined by the protagonist of scholastic theology, celebrating the excellence of divine and also human nature. Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel in an eminent article "Is there a Feminist Theology of the Cross?" declares: "A God who is only pleasure, love and joy, and the promise of a Jesus-like happiness arouses in me the suspicion that Barbara Sichtermann once ... called 'cup-a-soup sexuality': an all-too easy agreement of bodies in an exchange of affirmations." (91). Andreas Yewangoe from Indonesia wrote about "an Asian Perspective on the Cross and Suffering". The concept of

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