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Abstract / Summary

Given the largely Eurocentric nature of moral theology in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, what will it take to invest the theological community in the history and moral challenges of the Church in other parts of the world, especially Africa? What is to be gained for the whole Church when this happens in a deep and lasting way? In this timely and important study, Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor brings greater theological clarity to the issue of the relationship between Christianity and African tradition in the area of ethical foundations. He also provides a constructive example of what fundamental moral theology done from an African and Christian (especially Catholic) moral theological point of view could look like. Following a brief history of the development of African Christian theology, Odozor examines responses of African theologians to African tradition and Christian responses to the reality of non-Christian religions. In a context where the African religious experience and heritage are powerful sources of meaning and identity, Christian evangelization raises questions both about the African primal religions and about Christianity itself and its claims. Odozor takes up the subject of moral reasoning in an African Christian theological ethics and concludes with case studies that show how the African Church has tried to inculturate moral discourse on a religiously pluralistic continent and relate the healing gospel message to African situations. Students and scholars of moral theology and ethics and church leaders will profit from the issues raised in Morality Truly Christian, Truly African.

Field of Interest

Religion & Thought

Author

Paulinus Ikechukwu Odozor, fl. 1990

Copyright Message

Copyright © 2014 by The University of Notre Dame

Content Type

General reference book

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Original Publication Date

2014

Page Count

385

Publication Year

2014

Publisher

University of Notre Dame Press

Place Published / Released

Notre Dame, IN

Subject

Religion & Thought, Social Sciences, Theology, Ethics, نظام اللاهوت, Théologie, al-Kalām, Theologie, תֵאוֹלוֹגִיָה, Teologia, Teología, الأخلاق, Éthique, Ethik, אֶתִיקָה, Ética, Africa, Christian, Roman Catholic, Theology, Christianity, Christian Ethics, Africans

Keywords and Translated Subjects

نظام اللاهوت, Théologie, al-Kalām, Theologie, תֵאוֹלוֹגִיָה, Teologia, Teología, الأخلاق, Éthique, Ethik, אֶתִיקָה, Ética