Whereas Africa is an incredibly diverse continent with a fine embroidery of cultures and ethnicities, the theme of sacrifice is often one on which Africans tend to find common ground. The major faiths and religious traditions across the African continent have offered deep reflections grounded in their holy books and sacred traditions about the role of sacrifice in their belief systems and practices. For this reason, Christianity’s emphasis on the finality and sufficiency of Christ’s sacrifice for human salvation has been used as a means of engaging the peoples of Africa with the gospel of Jesus Christ.
In other to diversify our growing collection of bibliographic resources, ATW is happy to announce the addition of a new category of bibliographies to the Collaborative Bibliography of African Theology. We specifically want to highlight the work of influential African theologians and point to their freely available online resources. We have just completed assembling bibliographies concerning the works of Kwame Bediako, Musa Dube and Tite Tiénou. We would like to point our users to the fact that there are quite a lot of free resources included in these bibliographies: for Kwame Bediako, there are 39 items freely available, for Musa Dube, 47 items, and for Tite Tiénou, 27 items.
The Overseas Ministries Study Center at Princeton Theological Seminary (OMSC@PTS), invites proposals for two two-year “Lamin Sanneh Research Grants” for the 2021–2023. These grants honor the late Yale Professor who pioneered the field of World Christianity and served as an OMSC Trustee and IBMR Contributing Editor.
There is no denying that the global Covid-19 pandemic has not only obstructed social contact among people, the crisis has undoubtedly impacted the nature and conduct of teaching and academic research at universities and theological institutes around Africa. Whereas the use of online resources was slowly edging its way into the mainstream research, teaching and learning activities of academics at African universities, there are many resources waiting to be discovered. Amid this critical health crisis, the ATW team provides a series of webinars intended to introduce professors, researchers and students from African universities and theological institutions to the wide range of materials on the internet and discusses how to use them most appropriately in teaching and research. The African Theology Worldwide website was set up to address this critical need and provide training to professors, researchers and graduate students of African Theology. We will offer two webinars in June 2021. Each webinar is intended for a select group of academics, researchers and students.
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