Towards an understanding of the implication and challenge of the emerging church movement for ecclesiology in post-colonial Africa : an evangelical perspective
Date
2012-03
Authors
Odejayi, Abiodun Oladipupo
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Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
Abstract
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, we seek to highlight the possible implications, challenges and opportunities
postmodernism has for evangelical ecclesiology. Informed by the ongoing conversation between
the emerging church movement and mainstream evangelicals, we seek to determine how we
account for our being and becoming the ecclesial people of God in Christ by the Spirit in the
light of emerging postmodern realities. Taking postmodernism as an ally of post-colonialism and
seeing negritude as its antecedent, we also seek to highlight the implications and opportunities
these paradigms may have for our understanding of evangelical ecclesiology in our post-colonial,
multi-ethnic African contexts. Perhaps these paradigms may enable a nuanced understanding of
the theological motifs that inform our understanding of being the ecclesial community of God
and enable an innovative space for articulating Afro-centric evangelical ecclesial expressions
that are biblically faithful, theologically coherent, contextually relevant and socio-economically
informed.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: "Geen opsomming"
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: "Geen opsomming"
Description
Thesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.
Keywords
Post-colonial African, Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity, Dissertations -- Systematic Theology, Theses -- Systematic Theology