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SALVATION IN AFRICAN CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY: A TYPOLOGY OF EXISTING APPROACHES Gerrit Brand 1. Introduction Although soteriology, or the doctrine of salvation, has always occupied a central place in Christian theology, the 'shape of soteriology'' has changed many times as Christianity's centre of gravity shifted to new cultural contexts, from Palestine, to the Hellenic and Roman, and eventually the Celtic and Germanic worlds. The most recent 'shift' from the First to the Third world has been characterised by a similar pattern: Salvation has retained its centrality in African, Latin American and Asian Christian theology, but the ways in which it is being conceptualised in these new contexts are often vastly different from more traditional Western approaches. One of the characteristics of this rethinking of salvation in Third World theology generally, and African Christian theology' in particular, has been the renewed interest in the nature of salvation. Although such interest has never been completely absent from traditional soteriological discussions, one may safely say that the main emphases in those discussions have always been on the agent(s) of salvation, a trinitarian God (Nicea) and a two-natured Christ (Chalcedon), perhaps with the cooperation (synergy) of a free human agent (Pelagian and Reformation
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Published: Jan 1, 1999
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