Towards an understanding of the implication and challenge of the emerging church movement for ecclesiology in post-colonial Africa : an evangelical perspective

[摘要] ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis, we seek to highlight the possible implications, challenges and opportunitiespostmodernism has for evangelical ecclesiology. Informed by the ongoing conversation betweenthe emerging church movement and mainstream evangelicals, we seek to determine how weaccount for our being and becoming the ecclesial people of God in Christ by the Spirit in thelight of emerging postmodern realities. Taking postmodernism as an ally of post-colonialism andseeing negritude as its antecedent, we also seek to highlight the implications and opportunitiesthese paradigms may have for our understanding of evangelical ecclesiology in our post-colonial,multi-ethnic African contexts. Perhaps these paradigms may enable a nuanced understanding ofthe theological motifs that inform our understanding of being the ecclesial community of Godand enable an innovative space for articulating Afro-centric evangelical ecclesial expressionsthat are biblically faithful, theologically coherent, contextually relevant and socio-economicallyinformed.

[发布机构] Stellenbosch University