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Contents Acknowledgements vii Foreword ix Introduction 1 Chapter One: African Christianity: The Stranger Within 4 Introduction 4 Christian but … 4 Historical Origins:An Overview 7 The Pitfalls of Missionary Christianity 12 Why did Africans accept Christianity in the first place? 18 African Christianity: ‘the stranger within’ 23 Conclusion 29 Chapter Two: Mission 31 Introduction 31 A Different way of doing Mission 31 Mission begins with self 33 Mission is missio Dei, not missio homo 36 Christianity as we know it must die, that faith may live 41 Mission is not about power, but about charisma 44 Conclusion: Re-thinking Mission 47 Chapter Three: Theological Education 49 Introduction 49 x i African Christianity: Phenomenal Numerical Strength 49 A Good Theological Education is needed for a Good theology 52 Models of Theological Education inAfrica 54 Structural Models 56 The Academic or Curricular Model 60 The Hermeneutical Model 63 What is the future of Western theological Models in the African context? 65 Contextualization: Theology for God’s People 65 The Doctrine of God: A Sketch 68 Conclusion 71 Chapter Four: African Christianity: Prospects and New Directions 73 Introduction 73 Is Christianity too heavenly oriented and largely irrelevant for life here and now? 73 Images of Jesus 76 Pentecostalism: The Christianity of the Future? 80 Heavenly Vision for Earthly Glory: The ‘faith-gospel’ Doctrine 82 Faith Gospel and its implications for Eschatology 91 Future Directions: “Nothing Sells Like God” 95 Conclusion: Quo Vadis? 97 Chapter Five: Towards A Conversational Model 99 Introduction 99 A Conversational Model 99 The Gospel in Conversation with the Context 101 The Academy in Conversation with the Church 102 An Inter-Church Conversation 104 Conclusion 105 xii [18.209.209.28] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 19:48 GMT) Chapter Six: Conclusion 107 Bibliography 109 Index 115 xiii ...