Overview

One of the most important developments of Christianity in the twentieth century was its transformation in South Africa, where it became a vibrant religion rooted in African idioms and cultures. The church also became engaged in the struggle against social and political injustice, and church leaders employed the vocabularies of faith to secure civil liberty. This hard-hitting book focuses on post-apartheid Christian character and establishes the theological and spiritual authority of African Christians, calling contemporary Christians to renew their faith and Christian identity. It shows, too, that one cannot seriously consider contemporary Christianity apart from the African experience.

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« Caleb Oluremi Oladipo's theological reflection on the demolition of apartheid documents how the contextualized Christian faith worked with non-Christian faiths in South Africa to bring about this demise. In his view, this colossal achievement bears testimony to the unintended spiritual, moral, and political time bomb impregnated in the gospel seed, planted by the missionaries, waiting to be detonated by historical events. In the process of his reflection, Oladipo not only revives the controversial delicate act of theological balancing between exclusivism and inclusivism, but also raises questions on the appropriateness of the traditional concept of Christian conversion vis-a-vis what he calls 'transformation' or 'cross-fertilization.' These are foods for thought for theologians to chew on. -- Reverend Professor Osadolor Imasogie

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The Author: Caleb Oluremi Oladipo, from Nigeria, is the Duke K. McCall Professor of Mission and World Christianity at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals that explore the character of Christianity in Africa, he is the author of The Development of the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Yoruba (African) Indigenous Christian Movement (Peter Lang, 1996).

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