Re-Imaging Modernity: A Contextualized Theological Study of Power and Humanity Within Akamba Christianity in Kenya: 16 (American Society of Missiology Monograph) - Softcover

Okesson, Gregg A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610977416 ISBN 13: 9781610977418

Publisher: Pickwick Publications, 2012

Synopsis

This is a book about Christianity in one particular region in Kenya. It walks into churches, listens to sermons, dances to music, and interviews the people sitting in the pews, all with the aim of understanding how spiritual power enables these churches to function as agents within their contemporary society. Ecclesiastical communities in Africa draw upon divine power in order to engage in modernity-related topics. Humans are not unresponsive to global flows of meaning; they are integrative agents who fashion their world by living in it. The kind of modernity arising from these churches does not blindly follow Western forms, but flows from its own internal logic in which spiritual power occupies central hermeneutical function. Theological resources contribute to the formation of sociological expressions. Divine power pertains directly to human constructs, which then allows the churches to actively "image" God for the development of unique forms of modernity arising on the continent

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About the Author

Gregg A. Okesson taught at Scott Christian University, Kenya, for thirteen years. He holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, UK, in the field of African Christianity and is currently an associate professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610977416
• ISBN 13: 9781610977418
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 274