Towards an African narrative Theology

by Joseph Healey (Editor), Donald Sybertz (Editor)

Overview

The fruit of decades of collecting the proverbs and wisdom sayings of the peoples of East Africa, Towards an African Narrative Theology shows how they offer a new way to look at and understand the Christian mysteries and the Christian life in an African cultural context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781570751219
Publisher:	Orbis Books
Publication date:	02/20/1997
Series:	Faith and Cultures
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Joseph G. Healey, M.M., a Maryknoll priest, has taught at colleges in Nairobi, Kenya. Author of Once Upon a Time in Africa and Small Christian Communities Today, he is a member of the St. Charles Lwange Small Christian Community in Dar es Salaam and the St Jude Thaddeus SCC in Musoma.

Donald F. Sybertz, M.M., is a Maryknoll missionary priest who has worked in Tanzania sincce 1955. He has studies, researched, and written about Sukuma cultura and traditions for many years, especially Sukuma proverbs, sayings, riddles, songs and stories and is a long-term advisor and animator of the Sukuma Research Committee headquartered in Bujora, Mwanza, Tanzania.

Editorial Reviews

"Carve with your friends; alone, you cut yourself." (Luvale, Zambia)

"A book which really attempts to produce a narrative theology in practice. Not only a highly practical aid to pastoral work in Africa, it should be a stimulus for others to do likewise."--Aylward Shorter

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