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Contemporary African perspectives on Jesus' cross and human suffering : a critical comparison of African christologies
Akper, Godwin (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research investigates the problem: do contemporary African Christologies reflect the portrayal of the personhood and the significance of the Cross of Christ in the New Testament? It explores the ... -
An ethos of hospitality as public morality in the face of the disorderly process in Nigeria today?
Akper, Godwin (Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2015)Nigeria, a highly populated country in West Africa, has for the past five years been embroiled in turmoil. Agitation arising from displacement of a large number of people coupled with alienation in their own ancestral lands ... -
Glocalisation in the service of resistant discourses : towards reading with Volker Kuster
Akper, Godwin (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2018)‘Talking back’ in a non-confrontational way, this essay engages the German theologian Volker Küster’s ‘reading’ of what it views as resistant discourses from the global South. In the first instance, the essay attempts to ... -
Is God in Nigeria? : land dislocation and the challenge of confessing Belhar in Nigeria today
Akper, Godwin (Pieter de Waal Neethling Trust, 2018)Of the view that “in the land full of enmity, God is in a special way the God of the destitute and the wronged”, the essay explores the challenge of confessing the third article in the Confession of Belhar in Nigeria today. ... -
We the poor must abandon our wheelchairs and begin to walk unaided : on African agency discourse
Akper, Godwin (Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Theology, 2009)After mapping the current notions of African agency discourse, the article suggests a more dialogical approach to the discourse, the partnership notion of African agency discourse. This suggestion is based on the view that ...