Handbook of African Catholicism by
Provides a disciplinary map for understanding African Catholicism today by engaging some of the most pressing and pertinent issues, topics, and conversations in diverse fields of studies in African Catholicism.
African Catholicism: Essays in Discovery by
Analyses aspects of African Catholicism today, the prophetic role of the christian church in Africa, and other topics.
The African Synod: Documents, Reflections, Perspectives by
A comprehensive treatment of the 1994 African Synod of the bishops of the Catholic Church. It provides an up-to-the-minute portrait of the African church, its needs for inculturation, its search for an African ecclesial expression, and its relation to Rome.
The Church in the African City by
Overview at various African cities and the impact of the Catholic Church. Gives historical viewpoint of early missions and their converts and resulting changes in fabric of community from literacy as much as faith.
Christianity, the Papacy, and Mission in Africa by
A study of the papacy and Africa based on essays from the author compiled after his death.
Church-State Relations in Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by
This edited collection examines church-state relations in the European colonies in Africa during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Competing Catholicisms: The Jesuits, the Vatican and the Making of Postcolonial French Africa by
Explores the impact of Jesuit missions on the development of Christianity in postcolonial French Africa, which found itself at the centre of major shifts and struggles within global Christianity and world politics.
The Church and Development in Africa: Aid and Development from the Perspective of Catholic Social Ethics by
Offers an integral theology of development and creatively lays the groundwork for Christian humanitarian and social ministry in Africa.
Church As a Communion: An African Christian Perspective by
Presents Vatican II's self-understanding of the Church from a global perspective and demonstrates how local Churches in Africa can find their realization in the communion of the universal Church.
Foundations, Theology and Mission of the Church in Africa: Conversations on Ecclesiology by
Broken into four parts: “The African Church in the Vision of Pope Francis;” “Scriptural, Theological, Spiritual, and Cultural Foundations of the Church;” “Ecclesia of Women and the Church in Africa;” and “The Church in Contemporary Social and Ecumenical Contexts."
A Listening Church: Autonomy and Communion in African Churches by
To heal Africa, Spiritan Father Elochukwu Uzukwu argues that the church in Africa must become a credible and effective agent of change by making full use of African resources - natural and socio-historical - including traditional patterns of social organization.
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