Abstract
The church in Africa experienced a tremendous growth during the twentieth century but is still in search of a true African identity. How can the church, in a process of enculteration, remain genuinely African and genuinely biblical? The role of African Traditional Religion, African Theology and the African Independent Church in the search for identity is described. In the end an effort is made to answer the question how the identity crisis in Africa can be solved.
Highlights
The church in Africa has experienced a miraculous growth during the twentieth century
The question to answer is whether the Independent Churches have found a recipe for the inculturation of the Gospel in Africa? Is African Church and African theology that we find today genuinely African but in the same time genuinely biblical? 1 THE ORIGIN OF THE IDENnTY CRISIS Christianity was brought to Africa by Western missionaries who for most of the time had a very negative approach to African culture
Professor Oduyoye is a native of Ghana and member of the Methodist Church. She studied theology in Ghana and at Cambridge and is a lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. She participated in the activities of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) and the Ecumenical Association of African Theologians (EAAT); was the first women to serve as president of the World Student Christian Federation; worked for the All Africa Conference of Churches and has been Deputy General Secretary of the World Council of Churches
Summary
Muzorewa can be regarded as a bridge figure between liberation theology and inculturation theology. Muzorewa accepts traditional religion as a viable source for African theology, he emphasizes strongly the fact that God is only fully and clearly revealed through Jesus Christ. He pleads for an African hermeneutical principle in which Scripture can be interpreted from the context of African culture and applied in a relevant way to the African context of poverty and suffering. Professor Mbiti, born in Kenya, educated in Uganda, the United States and England can be regarded as doyen of African theologians and one of the most prolific writers from Africa A num ber of M biti’s im portant writings are African religions and philosophy (1970); Concepts o f God in Africa (1970); New Testament eschatology in an African background (1971) and African and Asian contributions to contemporary theology (WCC 1977)
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