Keywords
Black theology
African theology
liberation theology
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Abstract
With the shift of the centres of Christianity towards the South it has
been increasingly noticeable that talking about Christian theology characterized by
a geographical adjectives different from “European /Western” becomes acceptable.
However, Christianity in Africa has still been considered by many Europeans as
a hybrid of secondary importance. It will take some time before the European
Christians will come fully to terms with accepting the contribution of African
theology to the world Christianity.
In describing African theology, especially its origins, quite a lot depends on the
initial assumptions taken by the researcher – whether one would consider only
academic theology as theology as such (then there is no African theology before
1960s) or one would consider as theology also African oral and ritual input (then
the Africans have been theologizing almost from the moment they became Christians).
Application of European standards and perceptions led to seeing two major trends
in African theology – black theology and African theology (cultural/inculturation theology). With the work of African theologians of the younger generations one can discover that both trends have not been so much antagonistic to each other as rather complementary because both have been concerned with liberation, though approached from different angles and understood in different ways.
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