This book demonstrates that the encounter between Christianity and
various African cultures gives rise to a number of problems for
Africans who become Christians. It draws attention to certain
traditional African beliefs and practices that seem to be
incompatible with Christianity and create problems for Africans who
embrace Christianity. Against this background it argues for the
need to inculturate Christianity. It contends that in this exercise
African Christianity can learn from the attempts at inculturation
found in the New Testament times and in the early church. It offers
examples of how the early church sought to make use of
non-Christian categories of thought and elements in its
articulation of the Christian message and in worship. It suggests a
few areas of Ghanaian and African life where inculturation could
and should take place. These include funeral rites, widowhood
rites, child-naming rites, the rites of marriage, libation and
christology. It concludes by offering some guidelines for use in
the process of the inculturation of Christianity in Africa today.
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