Phénoménologie du Christianisme africain

AUTEUR : CESAR MAWANZI

ABSTRACT

The call for a new dialogue between Christianity and modern African culture in postcolonial Black Africa proves to be for our time an absolute imperative of African theology. Indeed, the picture of the socio-political and economic life requires a reinterpretation of the Christian message of liberation. This study has four parts. First, it provides a systematic basis through two authors, thinkers and theologians: one, Vincent Mulago, a staunch protagonist of the current theology of iden-tity; the other, Jean-Marc ELA, defender of justice, a new so-cial order and the liberation of the African. The second and third parts offer insights into two major areas of African theo-logy: the hermeneutics of symbol and the gospel message of liberation. The fourth component seeks to elucidate the impact and the challenge of Cassirian philosophy of symbolic forms in African theology. Finally, the faith of the African raises the question of the ambivalent relationship between clashes and rejection, between stigma and dynamism, and between trans-formations and traditionalism. Therefore, “the cry of the Afri-can man” remains a valid way of prompting to explore ways of thinking and perspectives of faith "rooted" in African cul-ture.