Faith and Culture

Jude Ezimakor Lic. theol.

doi:10.5771/9783828877702

Summary

How do faith and culture interact? Using the example of the Igbo tribe in Nigeria, Jude Ezimakor explains their interplay and shows how the Christian faith can connect with human culture to give an authentic testimony of faith in concrete everyday experience.

In particular, he explores the question of who Jesus Christ is for a particular community of believers and what meaning he can convey in their contemporary lives and their particular cultural life situations. In this way, Christology begins to merge Orthodoxy and Orthopraxis with the question: How does faith come alive in a particular social-cultural context in order to develop it?

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8288-4687-6
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8288-7770-2
Publisher: Tectum, Baden-Baden
Language: English
Pages: 128
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages I - XXII
1. Chapter 1: Jesus Christ in the Old Testament No access
2. Chapter 2: Jesus Christ in the New Testament No access
3. 1. 3.1 Theology of Incarnation as a Paradigm towards Contextualizing Jesus Christ in Human Experience No access
  2. 1. 1. 3.2.1.1 Drawing a Distinction between the Gospel Message and the Culture No access
      2. 3.2.1.2 Preservation of the Church’s Identity No access
      3. 3.2.1.3 Unity and Pluralism No access
      4. 3.2.1.4 Discernment and Investigation No access
  3. 3.3 Applying Inculturation in Human Experience and Culture No access
4. 1. 1. 4.1.1 What are these External Factors? No access
    2. 4.1.2 What can be understood as Internal Factors? No access
  2. 4.2 Contextual Christology as the Bedrock of Authentic Christian Witnessing No access
1. 1. 5.1 A Brief Historical Background of Igbo Traditional Society No access
  2. 5.2 The Igbo and the Image of the Igbo Traditional Religion No access
2. Chapter 6: Reconciling Igbo Traditional Religion with the Christian Faith No access
3. 1. 1. 7.1.1 Igbo Traditional Religion No access
    2. 7.1.2 Igbo Myths, Proverbs and Parables No access
    3. 7.1.3 The Historical Experience of the Igbo as a Group No access
4. 1. 8.1. Jesus as Healer No access
  2. 8.2 Jesus as King No access
  3. 8.3 Christ as Victor No access
  4. 8.4 Christ as the Giver of Life No access
  5. 8.5 Christ as Chi No access
  6. 8.6 Assessing Igbo Contextual Christology in the Light of the Models No access
5. 1. Final Remarks No access
  2. Recommendations No access
Acronyms and Abbreviations No access Pages 121 - 122
1. Primary Sources No access
2. Secondary Sources No access
Abstract No access Pages 127 - 128

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