Community and Trinity in Africa / Ibrahim S. Bitrus.

Author
Bitrus, Ibrahim S. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
  • ©2018
Description
xiv, 197 pages ; 24 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Chapter 1: Introduction
    • Background to community and Trinity
    • Purpose, significance and procedure adopted
    • Scope and limitation of the book
    • The African tradition of community: what it is?
    • Evolution of Nigeria as a nation-state
    • Bibliography
    • Chapter 2: Major African communal structural evils
    • Destructive patriarchal complex
    • The "big man" syndrome
    • Ethnic and religious nepotism
    • Summary and conclusion
    • Chapter 3: The "amazing history" of the Trinity
    • Mainline eastern Trinitarian thinkers
    • Mainline western Trinitarian thinkers
    • Eclipse and renaissance of Trinitarian theology in the early modern period
    • Contemporary African hermeneutics of the Trinity
    • Chapter 4: The new hermeneutics of the Trinity
    • Starting point of the new Trinitarian theology
    • Hermeneutics of Trinitarian mutual relations of the triune God
    • Hermeneutics of the unity of the triune God
    • The Trinitarian communion: a moral ideal
    • Chapter 5: An authentic African tradition of community
    • The Lord's Supper and the perichoretic life of God
    • Dismantling the patriarchal complex
    • The true big man: Newariga Diksen
    • The gift of ethnic and religious diversity
    • Perichoretic theological education
    • Suggestions for further research.
    ISBN
    • 9781138240643 ((hardback))
    • 1138240648 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    2017014516
    OCLC
    1004229136
    Other standard number
    • 40027459851
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