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Conversion and Contextual Conceptions of Christ: A Missiological Study among Young Converts in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo

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Author

  • Carl Sundberg

Summary, in English

This study presents contextual conceptions of Christ among young urban converts, within the Evangelical Church of Congo (EEC). The basic data consists of interviews, conversion stories, gathered during fieldwork in 1995-1997. From the data explicit and implicit conceptions of Christ were deducted and accounted for in the study. The main analytical questions are: How do young people (aged 17-35) conceive of Jesus Christ when they witness in church that they "want to leave sin and follow Jesus," and how do these conceptions relate to the context. In order to produce answers to these questions the interview data have been related to the context of the young, including the Kongo traditional worldview, life in a society in crisis, traditional church life, charismatic prayer groups and the christologies of three African theologians, namely Bénézet Bujo, Kä Mana and Raymond Buana Kibongi. The study ends with a concluding chapter describing Jesus Christ as the true fulfiller of contextual offices: Yaya (the older brother) and Nganga (the traditional priest).

Publishing year

2000

Language

English

Document type

Dissertation

Publisher

Swedish Institute of Missionary Research

Topic

  • Religious Studies

Keywords

  • History of the Christian church
  • Kä Mana
  • Buana Kibongi
  • B.
  • Bujo
  • Kongo
  • Ta Kimbangi
  • Brazzaville
  • Republic of Congo
  • Conversion/ conversion stories
  • Christology/Africa
  • Missiology/Congo Brazzaville
  • Eglise Evangélique du Congo
  • African Traditional Religion
  • Africa/youth
  • African Independent Churches
  • Nganga
  • Ndoki
  • Kindoki
  • Kristna kyrkans historia

Status

Published

Supervisor

  • [unknown] [unknown]

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 91-85424-59-5
  • ISRN: LURED/REME-2000/1005-SE+335

Defence date

21 October 2000

Defence time

10:15

Defence place

Edens Hörsal, Paradisgatan 5, Lund

Opponent

  • Werner Ustorf (Prof.)