Theology brewed in an African Pot

Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, author

Orbis Book

Using a framework of excerpts from Chinua Achebe's acclaimed novel, Things Fall Apart, Orobator introduces the major themes of Christian doctrine: God, Trinity, creation, grace and sin, Jesus Christ, church, Mary, the saints, inculturation, and spirituality. While explaining basic Christian beliefs, Theology Brewed in an African Pot also clarifies the differences between an African view of religion and a more Eurocentric understanding of religion offering a wider perspective on theology and culture.

Each of the eleven short chapters ends with three discussion questions followed by one or two African prayers, providing an accessible and engaging introduction for students and study groups alike.

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Bejond Jihad

The Pacifist Tradition in West African Islam

Lamin Sanneh, author

Oxford University Press

Over the course of the last 1400 years, Islam has grown from a small band of followers on the Arabian peninsula into a global religion of over a billion believers. How did this happen? The usual answer is that Islam spread by the sword-believers waged jihad against rival tribes and kingdoms and forced them to convert. Lamin Sanneh argues that this is far from the whole story. Beyond Jihad examines the origin and evolution of the African pacifist tradition in Islam, beginning with an inquiry into the faith's origins and expansion in North Africa and its transmission across trans-Saharan trade routes to West Africa. The book focuses on the ways in which, without jihad, the religion spread and took hold, and what that tells us about the nature of religious and social change.

At the heart of this process were clerics who used religious and legal scholarship to promote Islam. Once this clerical class emerged, it offered continuity and stability in the midst of political changes and cultural shifts, helping to inhibit the spread of radicalism, and subduing the urge to wage jihad. With its policy of religious and inter-ethnic accommodation, this pacifist tradition took Islam beyond traditional trade routes and kingdoms into remote districts of the Mali Empire, instilling a patient, Sufi-inspired, and jihad-negating impulse into religious life and practice. Islam was successful in Africa, Sanneh argues, not because of military might but because it was made African by Africans who adapted it to a variety of contexts.

Perspectives in African Theology

Volume Two

Je'adayibe Dogara Gwamna, author

Africa Christian Textbook

This is a collection of articles addressing significant contemporary Biblical and theological issues in African Christianity. These include; the Church, culture and Gospel in Africa, Pentecostalism and the Challenge of Hermeneutics and Application in Nigeria. The book calls for evangelical theological responses in keeping with the intellectual traditions of early African Christian theology. The book is relevant for students, lecturers, pastors and academic researchers.

Forrás: https://www.dymocks.com.au/book/perspectives-in-african-theology-by-jeadayibe-dogara-gwamna-9789789052110

Two Works on Trebizond

Michael Panaretos Bessarion

Scott Kennedy, editor

Harvard University Press

This volume presents translations from the Greek of two crucial primary sources published together for the first time: On the Emperors of Trebizond and Encomium on Trebizond. In the fourteenth century, Michael Panaretos, the emperor’s personal secretary, penned the only extant history of the ruling dynasty, including key details about foreign relations. The encomium by Bessarion (1403–1472), here in English for the first time, praises the author’s native city and retells Trapezuntine history from antiquity to his own moment. It provides enlightening perspectives on Byzantine identity and illuminating views of this major trading hub along the Silk Road.

Forrás: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674986626

Teologia Morale

A cura di Paolo Benanti, Francesco Compagnoni, Aristide Fumagalli, Giannino Piana

Edizioni San Paolo

A quasi trent’anni dalla pubblicazione del Dizionario di teologia morale, il Gruppo Editoriale San Paolo ha deciso di realizzare un nuovo testo, completamente rinnovato. Il volume accoglie l’invito di papa Bergoglio al rinnovamento sapiente e coraggioso che è richiesto dalla trasformazione missionaria di una Chiesa in uscita.

UN NUOVO DIZIONARIO che si rifà ai criteri indicati dalla Veritatis gaudium di papa Francesco per la ricerca e lo studio della teologia.

UN’OPERA ENCICLOPEDICA che fornisce adeguate chiarificazioni e precisi orientamenti di fronte alle complesse e inquietanti questioni che assillano la coscienza dell’uomo di questo nostro tempo.

OLTRE 80 AUTORI, 140 VOCI, 1272 PAGINE

ARRICCHISCONO IL DIZIONARIO una proposta di lettura sistematica e una mappa concettuale, una bibliografia essenziale e un dettagliato indice analitico. L'opera è a cura di Paolo Benanti, Francesco Compagnoni, Aristide Fumagalli, Giannino Piana.

Byzantioς. Studies in Byzantine History and Civilization (SBHC 13)

Byzantine Hagiography: Texts, Themes & Projects

A. Rigo, M. Trizio, E. Despotakis (eds.)

Brepols Publishers

An introduction to the current Byzantine hagiographical studies and projects

In recent years Byzantine hagiography has attracted renewed interest of the international community of Byzantine scholars and not only thanks to studies dedicated to this subject and critical editions of individual texts, but also because hagiography has been the main focus of numerous major research projects: databases, new repertories, a new version of the Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca and some very useful handbooks dedicated to this literary genre during the Byzantine Empire. These researches have analysed Byzantine hagiography in relation to the hagiographic writings composed in neighbouring areas, the West, the Syriac and Arabic Middle East, the Southern Slavs, etc. but also the relations between the hagiographical texts and other literary genres.

This volume introduces the current developments of hagiographical studies and on-going projects on the subject, and investigates a variety of texts and authors from the Patristic period to the end of Byzantium.

Antonio Rigo is Professor of Byzantine Philology and Christianity at Ca' Foscari - University of Venice. His research focuses on religious life in Byzantium, with special emphasis on ascetical and mystical literature, heresiology, and theology during the Paleologan period.

Table of Contents

Bernard Flusin, L’hagiographie byzantine et la recherche : tendances actuelles

Xavier Lequeux, La Bibliotheca Hagiographica Graeca : origine, développements et mise à jour

Donatella Bucca, «Codices hymnographici Byzantini antiquiores»: descrizione del database

Francesco d’Aiuto, Il «Menologio Imperiale» un secolo dopo (1911-1912) l’editio princeps di Vasilij Latyšev

Andrea Luzzi, Un canone «giambico» per Basilio di Cesarea e la circoncisione del Signore e il suo raffinato acrostico tetrastico fra critica filologico-letteraria e teologia

Darya Penskaya, Hagiography and Fairytale Paradise and the Land of Blessed in Byzantium

Yulia Mantova, Space Representation in the Life of St Gregentios and the Life of St Nikon the Metanoite

Marina Detoraki, Récits édifiants et hagiographie. À propos du Pré spirituel

Sophie Métivier, Peut-on parler d’une hagiographie aristocratique à Byzance (VIIIe-XIe siècle) ?

Denis Kashtanov, Alexander Korolev, Andrej Vinogradov, The Chronology Relating to the Hagiographic Tradition of St Clement of Rome

Sergey Ivanov, The Vita of the Patriarch John the Faster as a Historical Source

Vincent Déroche, Les deux Vies de Théodose le cenobiarque

Katerina Nikolaou, The Depiction of Byzantine Woman in Hagiographical Texts (Eighth-Eleventh Centuries)

André Binggeli, La réception de l’hagiographie palestinienne à Byzance après les conquêtes arabes

Sergey Frantzouzov, La réception et le développement de l’hagiographie byzantine dans le milieu arabe orthodoxe (d’après un recueil hagiographique arabe de la Bibliothèque de l’Académie Roumaine)

Albrecht Berger, Serienproduktion oder Autorenwettbewerb? Einige Bemerkungen zu Byzantinischen hagiographischen Texten des zehnten Jahrhunderts

Alice-Mary Talbot, Some Observations on the Life of St. Basil the Younger

Dmitry Afinogenov, Integration of Hagiographic Texts into Historical Narrative. The Cases of the Lives of St. Stephen the Younger and Niketas of Medikion

Lev Lukhovitsky, Perception of Iconoclasm in Late Byzantine Hagiographical Metaphraseis

Nike-Ekaterini Koutrakou, Τhe Hagiographers’ Pen. Painting Social Unrest and Civil Strife in Late Byzantium

Eleonora Kountoura-Galake, Ideological Conflicts in Veiled Language as Seen by the Palaiologan Hagiographers. The Lives of St. Theodosia as a Case Study

Andrea Babuin, Il dittico di Cuenca e l'Epiro in epoca tardo-medievale

Smilja Marjanović-Dušanic, Le changement de la fonction du genre anachorétique : l’hagiographie balkano-slave dans le cadre de la fin du XIIIe siècle

Antonio Rigo, Marco Scarpa, The Life of St Theodosius of Trnovo reconsidered     

Review

“(…) this collection will be of interest to scholars of Byzantine hagiography and related fields.” (Lucy Parker, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 09/07/2019)

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