Acculturation of Christian Message in Africa: The 21stcentury Challenges
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2011
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Journal Of Philosophy And Nature (JPN)
Abstract
The Western missionary approach to African Christianity was generally done in
such a way that African culture and way of life were somewhat denigrated and
negated In this approach, missionary Christianity did not develop a relevant
theological and musicological link between African traditional religions and
cultures and the Christian Gospel. Hence, Western missionaries failed to
develop a relevant Biblical theology of African religions, cultures and society.
This then made African theologians and scholars reacted and responded to
these apparent failures and weaknesses of the missionary approach and legacy
by developing their own African Biblical Theology. A theology that is
indigenous to Africa, is the one said to have been produced using African
thoight, religion and cultural categories. It is a theology produced within
context, which reject the richness of the pre- Christian African heritage. This
paper therefore made an attempt at examining the challenges facing the 2 r
century African Theologians with the view to recommend how best to
acculturate the Christian message in an acceptable way for African Christians.