Stan Chu Ilo

This book uses the common saying in Africa, "suffering and smiling" popularized by the Afrobeat musician, Fela, as a framework for doing theology, or rather for telling the story of popular theodicy in Africa. How are everyday Africans 'coping' with life in a continent where faith is growing while poverty is also increasing. I seek in this work so demonstrate the intelligibility and rationality of Christian religious faith in Africa through the lived faith and actual faith of African Christians. I attempt in this work to bring together knowing God on one hand and applying this knowledge to responding to the daily challenges and opportunities of life in Africa in an authentic, credible, faithful and fruitful way.

Hoy en d a, muchas personas se preguntan c mo podr a crearse un nuevo mundo sobre los cimientos de una humanidad com n, el respeto de los derechos y las libertades de las personas, y su autonom a propia y de grupo. C mo puede el mundo liberarse de las ideolog as destructivas que fomentan el conflicto en lugar de la amistad entre los pueblos, las naciones y los diferentes grupos de la sociedad contempor nea? Este volumen de Concilium asume la tarea teol gica de profundizar y dise ar un retrato del mensaje evang lico de la hospitalidad y la amistad como una forma de ser humano, y cristiano, as como una forma de ser Iglesia.

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. A road map for scholars in following the development of African Christian thought, the current state of research in specific areas, and methodological approaches being employed in understanding the Christian movement as it crosses different cultural, religious, and social frontiers in Africa.

Someone Beautiful to God conveys the commonality of our human experience and the spiritual bond that holds us together as one family. †

In African Women and the Shame and Pain of Infertility: An Ethico-Cultural Study of Christian Response to Childlessness among the Igbo People of West Africa, Okoro discusses the shipwreck that is associated with infertility in marriage in Africa. Within this space, childlessness places a big question mark on a woman's femininity and the self-esteem of the man. The stigma of infertility most often leads to social isolation and humiliation, particularly of married women, even when the source of infertility may not have come from them. Unfortunately, this situation goes against the highly valued Igbo ethical principle of onye aghala nwanne ya, meaning ""no kith or kin should be left behind."" Therefore, the purpose of the book is to help married people in Igbo land and Africa at large to appropriate this indigenous principle in their response to the problem of infertility. To attain this, the author critically evaluates discrimination and oppression of infertile couples, particularly women, and shedding light on the paradoxes found in Igbo cultural expressions. He employs a constructive, ethical, cultural, religious, contextual, and theological approach that explores important Igbo religious paradigms like Chi (an Igbo religio-cultural understanding of personal destiny) and Ani (the feminine deity in-charge of the land and fertility) to argue the case for the liberation and integration of infertile couples.