Must God Remain Greek?

By Robert E. Hood

Book Overview

Preface
Introduction

PART ONE: PROPHETS, HEALERS, AND LIBERATORS

African Indigenous Churches
The Church of the Lord (Aladura)
The Cherubim and Seraphim Church
The Church of Jesus Christ on Earth (Zaire)
Zionist Churches in South Africa
Church of Christ in Africa (Kenya)
Ingigenous Elements of Worship

Caribbean Indigenous Religions and Churches
Haitian Voodoo
Cuban Santeria
Trinidadian Shango
Jamaican Churches and Traditional Religions
Native Baptists
Myalism
Kumina
Jamaican Revivalism

Liberation Theologies in Afro Cultures
South Africa's Apartheid Culture
South African Liberation Theology
Caribbean Liberation Theology (Rastafarianism)

PART TWO: AN AFRO GRAMMAR OF FAITH

Christian Theology and Afro Cultures
Culture and the Grammer of Faith
Salvation, Sin, and Death in Afro Cultures

God: Traditional Motifs
God in African Traditional Religion
Attributes of God
Divine Ubiquity
Divine Creator
Divine Pastoral Care

The Religious Worldview of Africans

Christ: A Son Out of Egypt
Boundaries of Christology
Christ as the Anointment One
Christ as Lord of the Heavens
Christ as Healer
The Liberator and the Liberated

Spirit and Spirits: Pneumatology and Afro Cultures
The Biblical Tradition
The Dogmatic Tradition
The African Tradition
Evil Spirits and Lordship in Afro Cultures
The Spirit and Black American Religion
Spirits in Black Culture

Ancestors and Saints
Hagiolatry and the Ancestors
Ancestorship in the Caribbean
Ancestors and Black American Religion
Hagiography: Christian Saints and the Ancestors

Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0800624491
• ISBN13: 9780800624491
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.7"