La théologie et l’anthropologie de la Parole chez Oscar Bimwenyi Kweshi​

AUTEUR : ALAIN MUTELA KONGO

ABSTRACT

The present essay sets to be a necessary clarification of the characteristics of which the divine and human word are invested from an African promontory. The author is inspired by cultural and religious African traditions, and to strengthen his argument he relies particularly on the writings of Congolese theologian Oscar Bimwenyi Kweshi. The thrust that the author offers to male and female readers can be summarized as follows : “reality is in essence verbal, that is, it is through the divine Word (or Logos) uttered by the Riser since the mists of times that everything that exists was made”. Moreover, the author insists that existing means answering the call issued by the Caller, that is, God. Indeed, according to Oscar Bimweny Kweshi, word from that God bears five characteristics that make up the base of the theology and anthropology of the Word. The latter is (1) creative, (2) an integral part of everything it created, (3) a promoter of ethics, (4) prophetic, especially when it intervenes to clear some locked situations to which human beings are confronted, (5) calling and recalling, meaning that it intervenes to put an end to the subsolar existence of every human being.