Corso
Elenco corsi a.a. 2023/2024
Anno accademico 2023/2024

Teologia per l'Africa: temi e lettureRA0306

3 ECTS
Sede di Gerusalemme
Primo semestre

FINALITÀ

To study numerous case studies and practical examples of significant contemporary African realities and to discern various pastoral options.

ARGOMENTI

1. Pastoral issues in contemporary Africa: e.g., spirits, devil, power, deliverance, prayer, ritual, witchcraft, Satanism, inculturation, Pentecostal Churches, the charismatic Church, etc. 2. Presentation and discussion of various possible pastoral responses.

TESTI

Udelhoven, Bernard. Unseen Worlds: Dealing with Spirits, Witchcraft and Satanism. Lusaka: FENZA Publications, 2016; Udelhoven, Bernard. Christianity in the Luangwa Valley. Lusaka: FENZA Publications, 2015; Rosner, Gotthard, Bernhard Udelhoven, and Patrick Mumbi. Dreams: Where Do Biblical, Zambian, and Western Approaches Meet? Lusaka: FENZA Publications, 2013.

NOTE

Upon completion of the course, students are expected to have an adequate portrait of some contemporary African beliefs and practices; to show some of the lessons learned not only for the academy but also for pastoral life, education, and social ministries; to better understand, interpret, and judge the intercultural and interdenominational context of diverse Christian African communities; to address as future pastoral leaders topics such as salvation and eschatology, health and healing, prosperity and poverty, suffering and death, fear and faith, despair and hope, etc.

ORARIO

Primo semestre
Giorni 8.45-9.30 9.35-10.20 10.35-11.20 11.25-12.10 12.15-13.00 15.00-15.45 15.50-16.35 16.40-17.25 17.30-18.15
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