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In this critical study, Dr Turbi Luka uses historical-theological methodology to engage in detail with Christologies of key African theologians and conventional theological sources for Christology, including the church fathers Tertullian and Athanasius as well as modern theologians. Turbi argues that existing African Christologies, specifically ancestor Christologies, are inadequate in expressing the person of Christ as Messiah and saviour, the fulfilment of Old Testament prophesies. Providing a new approach, Turbi proposes an African Linguistic Affinity Christology that explicitly portrays Jesus as Christ in a contextually relevant way for Africans in everyday life. This crucial study highlights the need for biblically rooted Christology and for sound theological understanding and naming of Jesus at every level. This book also warns the church in Africa, and elsewhere, to avoid repeating the dangerous christological heresies of the ancient church by remaining faithful to a biblical interpretation and orthodox theology of Christ.

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Publié par	Langham Creative Projects
Date de parution	31 août 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781783687176
Langue	English

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Jesus Christ as Ancestor provides an engaging analysis of different genres of ancestor Christology in African theological discourse. Readers will find fresh insights into the phenomenon of ancestral mediation in African thought and also the varying ways some Christian theologians have appropriated it for their Christian contexts. Though it is tailored for African evangelical communities, Jesus Christ as Ancestor will appeal to theologians interested in African Christian theology.
Victor I. Ezigbo, PhD
Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies,
Bethel University, St Paul, Minnesota, USA
The book is well written, and clearly articulates the issues in contention with deep insight. As a valuable resource for teachers and students of theology, the book provides a useful background to ongoing christological discussion by providing the conversation on the subject in the early church and modern African theological input.
Rev Musa Gaiya, PhD
Professor of Church History,
University of Jos, Nigeria
Dr Reuben Turbi employed a theological method which enabled him to do a historical, biblical and systematic study of all the major players in the ancestor theology discourse. Engaging and critiquing major and primary scholars in a field of study is always very fundamental in serious scholarly discussion. Though a very broad and wide subject, the author subjected all the major proponents of the ancestor Christology models to a historical, biblical, theological, evangelical and well-grounded theological summation. This important section alone sets up and prepares the ground for articulating his important contribution to the field of study.
The major contribution of this highly exciting book is an “African Linguistic Affinity Christology that uses the Greek Yesus to formulate Yesu / Jesu Christology in Africa.” Yesu or Jesu as used in many African languages captures the real essence and meaning of Jesus Christ and is to be preferred to the ancestral Christology. This proposal as Dr Turbi has vigorously and persuasively done will find acceptance not only among grassroots believers, but will provide food for thought in theological and academic discussions.
In my mind, Dr Turbi has contributed immensely in providing yet another addition to the search for a contextualized theology that sticks very close to the inspired Scriptures. Congratulations!
Rev Samuel Waje Kunhiyop, PhD
Head, Postgraduate School,
South African Theological Seminary, Bryanston, South Africa
Author, African Christian Ethics and African Christian Theology

Jesus Christ as Ancestor
A Theological Study of Major African Ancestor Christologies in Conversation with the Patristic Christologies of Tertullian and Anthanasius
Reuben Turbi Luka

© 2019 Reuben Turbi Luka
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Dedication
In loving memory of my dear Father, Pa Luka Turbi Tagwai
(27 June 1900 – 3 October 1997)
Contents

Cover

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Abstract

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Introduction

Background to the Study

Statement of the Research Problem

Purpose and Contribution of the Study

Research Methodology

Summary

Chapter 2 Jesus as an Ancestor: A Paradigm Shift in African Christology and Theological Method

Introduction

Colonial and Missionary Invasion of Africa between the Eighteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Setting the Stage for the Emergence of Ancestor Christology

African Theology and the Cult of the Ancestors: The Problem of Definition, Terminology, Language and Historical Trends

Major African Schools of Thought on Christ’s Ancestorship

The Problem with the Ancestorship Emblem

Summary

Chapter 3 Historical and Theological Foundations of Christology: Conversing with the Christologies of Tertullian and Athanasius

Introduction

Jesus in the Life and Thought of the First-Century Church

Apostolic Proclamation of Christ

The Issues Inherent in the Apostolic Christology: African Apologists Defending Apostolic Christology

Summary

Chapter 4 African Ancestor Christological Interpretation and Formulation as Rooted in African Worldview and Traditional Belief: Connecting Christ to Africa’s Pre-Christian Category

Introduction

Man in African Cosmology

Death in African Cosmology: The Journey to Ghi Dhen Derrhe (The Hereafter)

The Perceived Role of an Ancestor

Factors for Change: From African Ancestors to Christ as Ancestor

Connecting the Communion of the Dead Saints in Christian Tradition with Africa’s Ancestral Cult

Summary

Chapter 5 Theological Sources of African Ancestor Christologies: Exploring Inculturation and Contextualization as Theological Methods

Introduction

Church and Missions in Global Christianity: The Quest for Contextual Theology

Motivation from Pre-Vatican II Ecclesial Declarations

Vatican II and Its Aftermath: A Turning Point in Global Christian Movement – Toward Inculturating Christianity in the Various Cultures of the World

Contextualization and Inculturation as Contextual Theological Methods

The Theological Framework of Vatican II, Church Magisterium and Inculturation and African Ancestor Christology

African Symbols and Christian Beliefs: Towards Comparing African Pre-Christian Model of Ancestor and Christian Model of Christ

Inculturating Christian Faith through the Ancestor Model: Church Magisterium and Vatican II and the Theological Implications of Inculturating Christian Model through the Ancestor Model

Summary

Chapter 6 Theological and Biblical Interpretations of African Ancestor Christologies: Exploring African Linguistic Affinity Christology

Introduction

Presuppositions of the Ancestorship of Christ

The Significance of Ancestors in African Cosmology

Ancestors as the Channel of Interacting with the Supreme Being

The Cult of the Ancestors as a Theological Meeting Point for Christianity and African Indigenous Religions

Ancestors in the Jewish Worldview: An Overview of the Adamic Covenant of Redemption and the Abrahamic Covenant of Promise

The Relationship between the Role of Jewish Ancestors and the Role of African Ancestors

Summary

Chapter 7 Towards Yesu /Jesu Christology: Conversing with Ancestor Christology and Some Christological Models in the New Testament

Introduction

Background and Theological Significance of New Testament Christological Models

Relationship between African Pre-Christian Models and New Testament Christological Models: Biblic