Post-colonialism
Is the global church following the Western church over the edge?:
Phil Wood, who writes an Anabaptist blog from the UK, made this comment yesterday in response to The Church is dead?:
I was talking a little while ago with a friend who has a senior role in an American Mennonite Conference. We had a long discussion when I said that in Britain we were...
(23 Jun. 2011)
Post-Christendom and the global church:
A substantial gain to be had from reading the New Testament narratively rather than simply theologically is that the approach allows us to describe a meaningful continuity between the outlook of the New Testament and the subsequent history of the people of God. So, for example, it seems to me that...
(22 Nov. 2010)
Katongole: How postmodernism hurts Africa:
In ‘Postmodern illusions and performances’, the fourth essay in A Future for Africa, Emmanuel Katongole argues that postmodernism is unlikely to prove the blessing for Africa that many had hoped. He accepts that it continues to have some usefulness as an intellectual style that casts...
(3 Jun. 2009)
Katongole: Communities of memory:
In the first essay, ‘Remembering Idi Amin’, Katongole explores his own childhood memories of Idi Amin in an attempt to understand how the present condition of Africa has been shaped by memories of colonial and post-colonial brutality. He notices that his ‘happy’ memories of...
(21 May. 2009)
Emmanuel Katongole and A Future for Africa:
I have started reading Emmanuel Katongole’s A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination as preparation for the Amahoro conference in Johannesburg in a couple of weeks. Katongole is a Catholic priest from Uganda who is now associate professor of theology at Duke...
(21 May. 2009)
