This book is an attempt at a critical, constructive, and creative theological praxis of social transformation in Africa. The authors apply a multi-disciplinary approach to examining how Christianity in Africa is engaging the problems of Africa's challenging social context. This is a prophetic work that applies the symbols of --salt-- and --light-- as ecclesiological images for reenvisioning the path towards procuring abundant life for God's people in the African continent through the agency of African Christianity. The contributors to this volume ask these fundamental questions: What is the...

At once prophetic, pastoral, and personal, this book applies the symbols of "salt" and "light" as ecclesiological images for reimaging the African Church for today and tomorrow. The proposal of this book is to reconsider the path towards abundant life for God's people in the challenging context of African continent, and through the agency of African Christianity. The contributors stress the necessity of de-Westernizing African Christianity and ask these fundamental questions: What is the face of Jesus in African Christianity? What is the face and identity of the Church in Africa? What...

Endorsements: ""A technical insight to Africa's development."" -- United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva ""This book is good news and a compelling work o four times. It creates hope, challenges despair, re-establishes authentic human development and original African values."" --Prof. Obiora Ike, Catholic Institute for Development, Justice and Peace, Nigeria ""A very precious contribution to Christian conversation on the future of Africa by a young African researcher."" --Prof. Benezet Bujo, Chair, Centre for Moral Theology and Social Ethics, University of...

This volume fills the gap in current scholarship on African Christian religions, Pentecostalism, and the so-called prosperity gospel within the broader search for abundant life through the Christian faith and churches in Africa.