CHRISTOLOGIE PAULINIENNE EN PH 2, 1-11 RECEPTION AFRICAINE

AUTEUR : PAULIN POUCOUTA

ABSTRACT

The current study examines the Christ hymn of Philippians (Ph 2, 1-11) and provides an African reception. Writing this hymn from his hard prison in Ephesus, the apostel Paul intends to exhort the community of Phillipi to unity. This community he loves very much – it is the first he evangelised in Europe – is suffering internal as well as external dissensions and divisions, though it isn’t very turbulent. Many critiques see in this hymn essential elements of Paul’s christology. The author examines this already abondantly studied hymn in two times. Firstly, it introduces to the text. Secondly, it highlights the kenosis Christology, the Christology of exaltation and the Christification of Christian action, as they are developed in the hymn. The author ends with an African reception which shows how Paul shows how an African Christology could proceed.