Learning & Inquiry 4

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Learning & Inquiry 4: Global Issues

Students will be able to:

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Anibueze, Mary-Reginald

Postcolonial African Christianity: Encounters with Mission and Modernity

"How dare we adopt a hostile or scornful or even indifferent attitude to any person of another color or culture if our God is the God of 'all the families on the earth'? We need to become global Christians with a global vision, for we have a global God." [John R. W. Stott]

This course considers Christianity from historical, theological, and contemporary perspectives with particular attention to African Christianity in the era of post-colonialism and missionary encounter. Students will examine how European and American missionary movements shaped African Christian communities; how African societies received, resisted, and reinterpreted Christian faith; and how indigenous religious traditions interacted with missionary Christianity in colonial and post-colonial contexts. Special attention will be given to African Independent Churches, African Christologies, and the ongoing legacies of colonialism in African Christian thought and practice, so that students can analyze African Christianity as "truly Christian and truly African" in a post-colonial world.