The living dead and the living God: Christ and the ancestors in a changing Africa
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Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Cluster Publ.
2007
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-263) and index |
| Beschreibung: | VIII, 312 S. graph. Darst. 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781875053612 1875053611 |
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Christ and the ancestors in a changing Africa
Klaus Nurnberger
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Contents
Preface v
Foreword by Archbishop Buti Tlhagale vii
1 What this book is all about 01
The aim 1 The context of the author 1 Why I deal with the topic 4 Current worldview assumptions 8
Traditionalism 9 Modernity 10 Postmodemity 11 The Christian faith 12 How real are the spirits? 14
Terminology 15 Summary 17
Parti
Traditionalism - Submission to authority 18
2 Let us listen to African spirituality 20
The approach 20 I African spirituality 21 Dynamism 21 Community 22 The living dead 24
Authority 25 Vitality 26 Sin and evil 27 The Supreme Being 29 (Mythological personification 29
Weight 31 Communicative competence 31 Peak of the hierarchy 32 The underlying experience 33
Qualifications 35 ) Uncanny forces 35 Presence 37 Ritual 38 Past orientation 39 II The deficient
impact of the gospel 40 Case study 41 Life in its fullness 43 Community 44 Authority 45 Power 45
Theology of the cross 46 Presence 47 Familiarity 49 Too small a God 50 Ritual 51 Past orientation
52 Mourning 52 Appreciation of the missionary venture 53 Summary 54
3 Let us listen to the biblical witness 56
The task 56 1 Ancestors in the OT and NT 57 Importance of history for Israel 57 Family ancestors
58 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob 59 Ancestry in the NT 60 The bottom line 62 n The rationale of
biblical exclusivism 63 Divine-human relationships 63 Family religion 64 Public religion 65 Fate of
the family cult 67 Was monotheism situational and temporary? 67 Religious imperialism? 69 Taking
other convictions seriously 70 Ill Authority and community 71 In Africa 71 In the OT 72 In the NT
73 Authority 74 IV Otherworldly salvation 76 Biblical origins 76 In the church 77 V Institutional
authority 78 The provisional nature of authority 80 Leaving the past behind 811 VI The communion
of saints 83 Unconditional acceptance 83 Fate of non-believers 84 The authority of the deceased 85
(Paul 85 Revelation 86 Col and Eph 87 Hebrews 88 John 89 ) VII Death and resurrection 89
Similarities 91 (Spiritual reality 93 Bodily reality 94 ) Differences 95 VIII Enculturation 96
Absorption or syncretism? 98 Maintaining the meaning 99 Speculation 99 African metaphors 100
Logical consistency 101 The ongoing task 104 Summary 105
4 Let us listen to the Reformation 108
The task 108 Why Luther? 109 1 Who God wants to be for us 110 Experiential approach 110 Who
or what is your God ? 110 God in daily life 113 God for us 114 Faith and human predicaments 115
God uses earthly means 116 Also the ancestors? 116 II What God says to us 118 Only Christ 118
Only grace 118 The law (structures 119 exposure of sin 121) The gospel 121 Suffering acceptance 123
The fellowship of believers 124 Only faith 124 Good fruit 126 Traditionalist reactions 127 Righteous
yet sinner 128 m How God speaks to us 128 Only the Scriptures 128 External word 129 Baptism
131 Lord s Supper 131 Ancestral presence 133 Sacred substances? 133 Obsolete sacrifices 135 IV
Public responsibility 136 God s reign on the left and the right 137 Devils, angels and saints 138
Deceased believers belong to Christ 138 but have been taken out of action 139 The risen Christ 141 V
Lutheran deficiencies 141 Individualism 141 Truncated concept of salvation 142 Gospel turned into
law 143 Doctrine vs redemptive response 144 Socio-political impotence 145 Passive Christians 146
Conclusion 147 Summary 148
Taking stock: Traditionalism and the Christian faith 152
Part II
Modernity - Rejection of authority 161
5 Let us listen to modernity 162
The task 162 I Emergence of modernity 163 Collapse of Western traditionalism 163 Roots of
individualism 166 Diffusion of modernity 167 Resistance to modernity 167 Lure of modernity 168
Socio-economic repercussions 169 n Sketch of the interaction 170 The colonisation of
consciousness 171 Complexity of the interaction 172 (The rationale of traditionalism 173 Security
rather than freedom 173 Traditionalist responses 175 The inescapable choice 177) Interests and
innovation 178 Traditionalist Christianity 179 The Westernised elites 181 Identity crisis 183 The
abrasiveness of modernity 185 ILL Handicaps of traditionalism in the modern world 186
Appreciation of traditionalism 186 Dominance of modernity 187 Past and future 188 Authority and
performance 190 Solidarity and initiative 191 Sharing and competition 193 Consensus and harnessed
conflict 194 Checks against corruption 194 Indirect and direct communication 195 Progeny and life
chances 196 Community and society 198 Dynamistic and mechanistic worldview 199 IV Gender 200
Appreciation of females 202 Female subservience 203 Women in modernising society 204 V
Religious responses to modernity 206 New spiritual formations 207 Mainline churches 207 Summary
6 Let us listen to the global future 212
The task 212 I Where is modernity leading us? 212 Economic discrepancies 213 Marginalisation
214 Ambition and competition 215 Consumerism 215 Population growth and ecological constraints
216 Modern weaponry 217 Loss of responsibility 218 Loss of the sense of the whole 219 II
Postmodernity 219 Kinds of postmodemity 220 Poslmodernity a child of modernity 221
Achievements 222 Traditionalism in a postmodern context 224 III Dangers of current trends 225
Lack of criteria 228 Indispensable scrutiny 229 Western witchcraft as example 230 Is there no truth?
231 IV Religious responses to the emerging future 234 Christian traditional authority 234 The
paralysis of traditionalism 236 Can we ignore modernity as believers? 237 Can we ignore religion as
modern people? 238 Responsibility for the whole 238 Necessity of a dynamic theology 239 The
mission of the church 241 Summary 242
Taking stock: Modernity and the Christian faith 246
7 Let us engage each other 248
The task 248 Finding common ground 249 Liberation of the Christian faith 249 Christian responses to
traditionalism 252 Christian responses to modernity 254 The office of the parent 256 Concluding
remarks 257
Bibliography 259
Endnotes 264
Index 305
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