Vol. 2 (2014) - Issue 1

Vol. 2 (2014) - Issue 1

March 28, 2024 2024-06-03 10:13

ABSTRACTS

Droits humains et tabous africains: De la métaphorisation à la re-description

This article describes a framework of an inter-cultural communication that would allow a re-description or a re-conceptualization of the meaning and implications of the language of human rights in light of African taboos. In fact, it provides a method centered on metaphors as a hermeneutical and a dialogical tool for a re-description of meaning. After presenting the language of African taboos as a metaphor for the one of human rights, this article draws, from the perspective of holistic and relational dimensions of African taboos, the outline of the re-description and re-conceptualization of the meaning and the implications of the language of human rights in light of the one of African taboos.

Genèse de la présence jésuite en République Dé-mocratique du Congo après la restauration de la Compagnie de Jésus : La mission du Kwango (1879-1935), Munus Suavissimum1 ?

As we celebrate the bicentunary of the restoration of the So-ciety of Jesus, this article would like to commemorate, that is to remember the time of the Jesuit pioneers, and builders. All those who sew the seeds of Evangelization in the DR Congo, as they laid down the foundation of the first missionary sta-tions Kisantu, Wombali and Kwilu, beginning in 1879 and ending in 1935. What ways and pains did they endured, with courage and zeal! Moving from the proto-genesis to the gene-sis and the expansion of Jesuit presence in DR Congo after the restoration, this narrative is the expression of our gratitude, and the awareness of our own responsability vis-à-vis the Je-suit legacy in this part of Africa. Let this be a token to the bi-centunary of the restoration of the Society of Jesus: our ad multos annos! As heirs of a tradition to be recreated with im-petus, and an unquenched fervor, we invite the upcoming ge-nerations of Jesuits to live up to the call Ite, Inflammate Om-nia.

Phénoménologie du Christianisme africain Une réflexion théologique sur la réception du christianisme en Afrique postcoloniale

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.

L'idée de dualité dans la civilisation de l'Egypte pharaonique d'après une analyse des chapitres du Livre de la sortie vers la lumière

Since Narmer’s unifaction of Egypt, Pharaonic Egypt has been described as a double land where theology tries to recon-cile the opposites, while proclaming Life (good) victorious over death (evil). The Egyptian country is made up of two na-tural regions. It indeed bears all the meanings of a double land. This paper aims at sorting and analysing all the chapters of the Book of Rising to Light, where duality is mentioned, in order to get a wider overview of ancient Egyptian civilisation.

Le premier synode africain célèbre ses 20 ans (1994-2014) : bilan et perspectives

This article recalls the steps of the special Assemblee of the Synod of Bishops for Africa, celebrated in April 1994 in Ro-me. It is the voice of a theologian who does not intend to provide a scientific review of the event and its aftermath. He dwells on the preparatory phase of the event, and then moves to the following ones that led to the final document: Ecclesia in Africa, the post-synodal apostolic exhortation. The author’s voice becomes local when he shares the experience of his ho-me diocesis: Diébougou.

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