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dc.contributor.advisorConradie, Ernst M.
dc.contributor.authorFischer, John Hugo
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-24T10:47:38Z
dc.date.available2014-07-24T10:47:38Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11394/3506
dc.descriptionPhilosophiae Doctor - PhDen_US
dc.description.abstractReconstruction theology is widely regarded as one of the most influential approaches to contemporary African Christian theology – alongside others such as inculturation theology, liberation theology, African women’s theology, evangelical theology and Pentecostal theology. In this thesis I offer a critical assessment of one of the main exponents of such reconstruction theology, namely the Kenyan theologian Jesse Mugambi. I explore the question of how his position on the notion of reconstruction should be understood. One point of entry into understanding Mugambi’s views on reconstruction is to explore his position on the relationship between the church and the coming reign of God. In the history of Christianity this relationship has been understood in widely divergent ways. The task of this thesis will therefore be to examine, position, analyse and assess Mugambi’s particular view in this regard. This will be done on the basis of a close reading of Mugambi’s publications such as African Christian Theology: an Introduction (1989), From Liberation to Reconstruction: African Christian Theology after the Cold War (1995), Christian Theology and Social Reconstruction (2003), and numerous chapters in publications by African theologians.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectReconstructionen_US
dc.subjectChurchen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Churchen_US
dc.subjectReign of Goden_US
dc.subjectMugambien_US
dc.subjectRelationshipen_US
dc.subjectStateen_US
dc.subjectCivil Societyen_US
dc.subjectEcclesiologyen_US
dc.subjectEcumenismen_US
dc.subjectEschatologyen_US
dc.titleThe relationship between the church and the reign of God in the reconstruction theology of JNK Mugambi: a critical analysisen_US
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