TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kombo,James Henry Owino
TI  - The doctrine of God in African Christian thought: the Holy Trinity, theological hermeneutics, and the African intellectual culture 
T2  - Brill eBook titles 2007
SN  - 9789047420224
AV  - BT109 .K65 2007
U1  - 231/.044096 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Afrikanische Theologie
KW  - swd
KW  - Gottesvorstellung
KW  - Inkulturation
KW  - idszbz
KW  - Inkarnation
KW  - Religion
KW  - Trinitätslehre
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - African
KW  - Trinity
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Africa
N1  - Originally presented as the author's thesis (D. Th.)--University of Stellenbosch, 2000; Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and indexes; Preliminary Material; Kombo --; Prologue; Kombo --; Chapter One. An Analysis Of The Biblical Roots Of The Doctrine Of The Trinity; Kombo --; Chapter Two. The Emergence Of The Doctrine Of Immanent Trinity; Kombo --; Chapter Three. God As Essence; Kombo --; Chapter Four. God As An Absolute Subject; Kombo --; Chapter Five. God As Community In Unity; Kombo --; Chapter Six. Issues In The Western Reinterpretations; Kombo --; Chapter Seven. The African Conceptual Framework; Kombo --; Chapter Eight. The Notion Of God Among The African Peoples: The Accounts Of B. Idowu, J.S. Mbiti, And G.M. Setiloane; Kombo --; Chapter Nine. Moving Beyond The African Notion Of God: Clearing Ground For The Doctrine Of The Trinity; Kombo --; Chapter Ten. God As The ‘Great Muntu’ Manifested; The Son and The Holy Spirit --; Chapter Eleven. Fostering The View Of God As ‘Great Muntu’ Manifested; The Son and The Holy Spirit --; Selected Bibliography; Kombo --; Index Of Names; Kombo --; Index Of Subjects; Kombo; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - The Christian faith knows and worships one God, who is revealed in the Son and in the Holy Spirit. This is the meaning of the doctrine of the Trinity in Christian thought. Although Christian orthodoxy defines the doctrine of the Trinity, the intellectual tools used to capture it significantly vary. At different times and in different places, Western Christianity has, for instance, used neo-Platonism, German Idealism, and the conceptual tools of the second-century Greeks. Taking elements from the known African intellectual framework, this book argues that for African Christians, the respective pre-Christian African understanding of God and the Ntu -metaphysics, in particular, function as conceptual gates for an attempt towards articulating the Trinity for African Christian audiences
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004158047.i-298
ER  -