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THE INCULTURATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA - J...

This book demonstrates that the encounter between Christianity and various African cultures
gives rise to a number of problems for Africans who become Christians. It draws attention to
certain traditional African beliefs and practices that seem to be incompatible with
Christianity and create problems for Africans who embrace Christianity. Against this background
it argues for the need to inculturate Christianity. It contends that in this exercise African
Christianity can learn from the attempts at inculturation found in the New Testament times and
in the early church. It offers examples of how the early church sought to make use of
non-Christian categories of thought and elements in its articulation of the Christian message
and in worship. It suggests a few areas of Ghanaian and African life where inculturation could
and should take place. These include funeral rites  widowhood rites  child-naming rites  the
rites of marriage  libation and christology. It concludes by offering some guidelines for use
in the process of the inculturation of Christianity in Africa today.

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