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Community and Trinity in Africa / Ibrahim S. Bitrus.
Author
Bitrus, Ibrahim S.
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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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Firestone Library - Stacks
BT109 .B58 2018
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Subject(s)
Trinity
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History of doctrines
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Communities
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Africa
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Communities
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Nigeria
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Communities
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Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Equality
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Africa
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Equality
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Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Patriarchy
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Africa
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Power (Social sciences)
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Africa
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Series
Routledge studies on religion in Africa and the diaspora ; 1.
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Routledge studies on religion in Africa and the diaspora ; 1
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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.
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ISBN
9781138240643 ((hardback))
1138240648 ((hardback))
LCCN
2017014516
OCLC
1004229136
Other standard number
40027459851
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