Nouvelles d'ATW
Theologie africaine à travers le monde est régulièrement mise à jour avec des ressources nouvelles et révisées. Ce mois-ci, une bibliographie a été mise à jour.
Title: Africans in Diaspora and Diasporas in Africa
Editor: Bulus Galadima and Sam George
Imprint: Langham Global Library
L'article « Théologies locales sur le Web mondial : divers usages d’Internet pour l’étude de la théologie en Afrique » a été publié dans la revue Missiologie évangélique, vol. 12, n° 1, 2024.
Excitement is building for the inaugural event of the ACTS 11 Project: Centre for Global Witness and Human Migration!
Theologie africaine à travers le monde est régulièrement mise à jour avec des ressources nouvelles et révisées. Ce mois-ci, une nouvelle bibliographie a été ajoutée.
Titre : Le leadership chrétien en Afrique : Réalités, possibilités et impact
Directeurs de la rédaction : Robert Priest et Kirimi Barine
Éditeur : Langham Global Library
Theme: The Church and Governance in the Nigerian Context
Location: Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
Date: 18-21 November 2024
The Editorial Board of African Theology Worldwide is engaged in a search for a Regional Project Coordinator and future Regional Project Leader.
SATS is proud to announce the 2025 full PhD scholarship for emerging African theologians interested in Biblical Hermeneutics. This PhD scholarship opens an exciting opportunity for emerging scholars to make an original contribution by engaging with the field of biblical hermeneutics in Africa.
Theologie africaine à travers le monde est régulièrement mise à jour avec des ressources nouvelles et révisées. Ce mois-ci, un nouvel article de guide a été ajouté.
Théologie Chrétienne Africaine (ISSN imprimé : 3006-1768 ; ISSN en ligne : 3007-1771) est la revue scientifique de l’Association Chrétienne de Théologie et d’Éducation en Afrique (ACTEA). La mission d’ACTEA est de renforcer l’éducation théologique par l’accréditation, la recherche et les services de soutien afin de servir l’église et de transformer la société. La revue est l’un des moyens par lesquels ACTEA stimule et implique les enseignants en théologie et les responsables d’église à aborder les questions pertinentes auxquelles sont confrontées l’église et la société en Afrique.
Theme: Mission as Vulnerability in the African Context
Location: Stellenbosch University, Cape Town
Date: 28-30 August 2024
Theme: The Bible, African Spirituality and Post-Modernity
Location: West African Advanced School of Theology, Owerri, Nigeria
Date: 4-6 December
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month the Internet Portal has been updated with 86 new English resources and 20 new French resources.
Theme: Witnessing for Christ in a New Age of Migration
Location: Acts 11 Centre, Church Mission Society, Watlington Rd, Oxford OX4 6BZ
Date: 26-27 September 2024
Theme: Youth as agents of justice: Christian theological reflection and action
Location: Rwanda
Date: 2-5 September 2025
Speakers: Diane Stinton, Chukwuemeka Anthony Atansi and David Lewis
Location: Zoom (register at https://bit.ly/patrs)
Date: Tuesday 11 June 2024, 19.00 BST
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month a new bibliography has been added and one bibliography has been updated.
Theme: African Christian Preaching and Decolonisation
Location: Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Date: 1-4 November 2024
Theme: Eschatology: Doctrine of Last Things in African Christianity
Location: TBA
Date: 14-15 March 2025
Theme: Mission as Vulnerability in the African Context
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Date: 28-30 August 2024
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month a new bibliography has been added (with special thanks to Joshua Robert Barron for his contributions), two encyclopaedia articles have been revised, and two bibliographies have been updated.
The Lamin Sanneh Research Grants are named in honor of the late Yale Professor Lamin Sanneh, pioneer in the study of World Christianity, OMSC trustee, and contributing editor to the IBMR. Each year OMSC@PTS will award two prizes of $10,000 each, distributed across the two-year duration of the grant, in support of research proposals by Christian scholars from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Oceania.
Speaker: Harvey Kwiyani
Location: Zoom (register at https://bit.ly/patrs)
Date: Tuesday 9 April 2024, 19.00 BST
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month two new bibliographies have been added and one bibliography has been updated (with special thanks to Joshua Robert Barron and Akua Bie for their contributions).
Theme: Religion, Humanity and Artificial Intelligence
Location: ASUU Secretariat, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria
Date: 5-8 November 2024
Speaker: Tyler Horton
Location: Zoom (register at https://bit.ly/patrs)
Date: Tuesday 19 March 2024, 19.00 GMT
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month two new bibliographies have been added (with special thanks to Joshua Robert Barron and Harvey Kwiyani for their contributions) and one bibliography has been expanded to include French resources.
Special Issue Editors:
Dr. Kevin Muriithi Ndereba Head of Department, Practical Theology, St. Paul’s University
Prof. Kyama Mugambi Assistant Professor, World Christianity, Yale Divinity School
Speaker: Dr. Michael Kodzo Mensah
Location: Zoom (register at https://bit.ly/patrs)
Date: Tuesday 13 February 2024, 19.00 GMT
Speaker: Dr. Ingrid Reneau Walls
Location: Google Meet (click here to join https://meet.google.com/pds-reqb-swb)
Date: Thursday 8 February 2024, 14:00-16:30 GMT
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month two new bibliographies have been added (with special thanks to Joshua Robert Barron, Harvey Kwiyani and Jeremiah Agbeshie for their contributions) and one bibliography has been updated.
Established in 1995, the Global Research Institute (GRI) at Fuller Theological Seminary offers a fellowship to postdoctoral non-Western Christian scholars, enabling them to undertake final-stage research at Fuller Theological Seminary and complete texts for the teaching ministry in their context in the Majority World. The GRI program operates out of Fuller's Center for Missiological Research (CMR).
Theme: Religion, Politics and Environmental Sustainability
Location: Faculty of the Social Sciences Hall, University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Date: 27-29 February 2024
The Polin Institute at Åbo Akademi University invites applications for fixed-term salaried positions as Doctoral Researcher in Theology, Postdoctoral researcher in Biblical studies, and Postdoctoral researcher in the Study of Religions.
Title: Humble Confidence: A Model for Interfaith Apologetics
Authors: Benno van den Toren and Kang-San Tan
Imprint: IVP Academic
Theme: Spirit and the spiritual: Ancestors, Deities and the Holy Spirit in Church, and Mission
Location: Yale Divinity School, New Haven CT
Date: 26-28 June 2024
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month one new bibliography has been added and one bibliography has been updated.
Theme: African Women Theologians and Synodality
Location: Hekima University College, Nairobi, Kenya
Date: 7-11 March 2024
Location: Zoom (register at https://bit.ly/patrs)
Date: Tuesday 14 November 2023, 19.00 GMT
Theme: The Person of the Holy Spirit: Biblical and Contextual Perspectives
Location: An e-conference hosted by the South African Theological Seminary
Date: 12-14 March 2024
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month a new encyclopaedia article, a new blog and a new bibliography have been added.
Location: Zoom (register at https://bit.ly/patrs)
Date: Tuesday 10 October 2023, 19.00 BST
The South African Theological Seminary (SATS) is proud to announce a full PhD scholarship for emerging African theologians interested in Pneumatology. This scholarship opens an exciting opportunity for emerging scholars to make an original contribution by addressing the work of the Holy Spirit.
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month a new blog and a new bibliography have been added (with special thanks to Joshua Robert Barron for his contributions), and one bibliography has been updated.
Location: Zoom (register at https://bit.ly/patrs)
Date: Tuesday 12 September 2023, 19.00 BST
Theme: Revisiting Women and Gender in World Christianity
Location: University of Ghana, Legon
Date: 11-15 March 2024
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month one new bibliography has been added and one bibliography has been updated, with special thanks to Joshua Robert Barron for his contributions.
Theme: African Theological Education: Retrospect and Prospect
Location: KCB Leadership Centre, Nairobi
Date: 25–29 September 2023
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month a new blog and two new bibliographies have been added and one bibliography has been updated.
Location: Zoom (register at https://bit.ly/patrs)
Date: Tuesday 13 June 2023, 19.00 BST
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month five new bibliographies have been added.
Even though research in Missiology, World Christianity and cognate disciplines have long alerted the academy about the growing presence of African founded and led church congregations in the West, little research has ascertained what specific church growth principles these congregations have used to establish and grow their congregations in secular Western contexts.
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month a new blog and a bibliography have been added, and a bibliography has been expanded to include French resources. The entire website has also been migrated to a new version of Joomla. We are very grateful for all Inxpact has done to ensure a successful migration.
Theme: The Mission of God and God's Church: Missiology in African Christianity
Location: Pan Africa Christian University
Date: 8–9 March 2024
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month a new blog and bibliography have been added, and five bibliographies have been expanded to include French resources.
Are you aspiring to pursue a PhD in the field of theology at an important theological university in the Netherlands? The PThU in the Netherlands is inviting applications for its open PhD scholarship position.
Are you preparing for a teaching ministry or doctoral studies in Theology? PThU offers a one-year, English-taught Master of Theology programme with four different tracks. Come and enjoy the combination of a climate of academic excellence and the great atmosphere in our home right in the centre of the lively university city of Groningen. With students from all over the world, our accredited programme offers you a truly international and intercultural academic experience.
How can a decolonial history of the Malawian church be written? This question is important because for too long the story of the church in many African countries has been written both from the perspective of non-African actors and is largely intended for audiences outside of Africa. Dr Felix Chimera Nyika contests this approach by proposing to write Malawian church historiography in ways that re-centre African agency in the story line. Please join the conversation on Tuesday 14 March 2023 at 19:00 GMT. The Zoom meeting details are: Meeting ID: 209 633 4620 Passcode: 495590 If you encounter any problems, please email Paul Ayokunle – paul@missionafricanus.com
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month four new bibliographies have been added and one bibliography has been expanded to include French resources.
Theme: On this Rock I Will Build My Church: Ecclesiology in Africa
Location: St. Paul's University and Online
Date: 3-4 March 2023
African Theology Worldwide is regularly updated with new and revised resources. This month a new blog and three new bibliographies have been added.
Across sub-Saharan Africa, adherents of various Christian traditions have not only lived with religious plurality, increasingly they are now been challenged to re-tell the message of the unchanging gospel of Christ’s offer of salvation for humanity and become apologetic Christian witnesses amidst circumstances of plurality. Most often than not, the focus of such apologetic witness has been to address other religions – such as Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, etc. – but rarely about addressing those who espouse primal spiritualities premised on African traditional religious cosmologies.
The Polin Institute at Åbo Akademi University invites applications for a fixed-term salaried position as Doctoral Student. The position is placed in any of the theological disciplines at the Faculty of Arts, Psychology and Theology (FHPT) in Turku, Finland.
The Pan-African Theological Roundtable is a project that is jointly coordinated by Missio Africanus and African Theology Worldwide. Established to serve as a platform where scholars, researchers and practitioners of issues related to African Christianity and mission can meet to share research and discuss issues, the platform organizes monthly virtual sessions on themes related to African Christianity and its diasporas.
As African Christianity continues to expand, scholars interested in understanding the theological embroidery offered by African Christianity are now challenged to provide the academy with concrete examples of just how Christianity is doing in each of the 54 sovereign and independent countries that make up the African continent. At African Theology Worldwide, we have taken up this challenge to showcase just how diverse Christianity is across Africa and what this means for our understanding of Africa’s place in World Christianity.
Launched at the Cape Town 2010 Congress of the Lausanne Movement, the Global Diaspora Network is organizing an online event on Tuesday 23 August 2022.
The research group Modernity and Society of the research unit of History and the Research Unit Systematic Theology and the Study of Religions of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), are offering two fully-funded PhD positions, each for a duration of four years. Successful candidates are expected to conduct research on the project theme: “The Decolonization of the Roman Catholic Church in the DRC / Zaire, 1960s-2000s.”
As Christianity continues to expand across the African continent and among the African diaspora, scholars interested in understanding the theological embroidery offered by African Christian constituents have gathered pace. More often than not, the scholarly initiatives to study recent African Christian developments have come from non-African voices and sources.
The Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark is offering two PhD positions.
African Christianity is usually presented as being closer to the world of the Bible than originally thought. However, the question that is often not explored is how does hermeneutics functions within African Christianity and the specific theologies it produces?
The Universitair Centrum Sint-Ignatius Antwerpen (UCSIA) at the University of Antwerp announces a call for papers for the 2022 Summer School. The new extended deadline is on 25 May 2022.
Dear ATW users, dear friends,
For many Christians who follow the western (Latin) calendar of the church, the period of Lent which began a little over a month ago will end today, Friday 15th April. Celebrated as Good Friday, the church marks the vicarious death of Christ at the hands of his own people in the first century. This event will be followed by Easter, when the church celebrates the resurrection of Christ from the dead.
ATW announces an exciting position at Calvin University’s Nagel Institute.
Brill recently released an open access publication titled - Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity in a Global Context.
Christianity, like many of Africa’s indigenous and other religions, is a religion of sacrifice. At the heart of the Christian gospel is the message of God who sacrifices his only begotten son for the forgiveness of human sin. Therefore, at conversion, African Christians who have found salvation in the cross of Christ, seek ways by which they can understand the meaning of Christ’s sacrificial and vicarious death on a cross.
Our partner university, the PThU Amsterdam/Groningen, Netherlands advertises a fully funded PhD position that might be of interest to you.
KADOC, the Interfaculty Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society at the Catholic University (KU) Leuven, Belgium invites applications for its 2022 Fellowship Program. As one of the leading cultural heritage institutions in Belgium, KADOC is an international research centre focusing on the societal legacies of religion and its material and immaterial manifestations in modern society.
On the 1st April every year, the Global Research Institute at Fuller Theological Seminary, accepts application for a six-month residential fellowship for post-doctoral scholars from the Global South.
The Zukunftskolleg Konnect announce fellowships that support early career researchers from Africa, Asia and Latin America who wish to conduct a short research stay associated with one of the thirteen departments at the University of Konstanz.
In keeping with its primary aim of serving as the foremost platform where issues relating to African Theology could be shared to a much wider audience, African Theology Worldwide has assembled a 248-item bibliography on the theme of forgiveness and reconciliation in South Africa.
For many people across the globe who follow the western calendar of the Christian church, advent is that period when they celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ at Christmas and also prepare for the Second Coming of Christ.
In an increasingly interconnected world where diversified cultures, religions and philosophies are seeking to forge new or re-negotiate existing relationships, Religious Education (often called RE) has gained attention and has been placed at the heart of political debates and educational agendas of nations.
The Faculty of Education and International Studies at Oslo Metropolitan University in the Norwegian capital Oslo, announces one Ph.D.-scholarship affiliated with the research project “RomForsk: Teaching and learning religion and ethics in virtual spaces.”
As ATW moves closer to celebrating its first anniversary, we are proud of the emerging status of our website as the primary avenue promoting research in African Theology. For this reason, we would like to spotlight for the attention of our users, the Internet Portal section of ATW’s website.
The Gospel of Matthew not only present the salvation story of Jesus using primarily the Jewish cultural background in which the Christ child was born, this gospel presents the reaction of people in cultures which, in many ways, are similar to the cultural experiences of Christians across Africa.
The Protestant Theological University (PThU) with campuses in the cities of Amsterdam and Groningen in the Netherlands, a core partner of African Theology Worldwide, is offering two Junior Research Fellowship positions for the year 2022. One of the positions is tenable in the spring (January – August 2022) and the second position will be filled in the autumn. The maximum duration for the research stays of each fellow appointed to the Junior Research Fellowship is for a period of 1 month. During this time, the research fellow will participate fully in activities organized by the department to which they are accepted at the university.
The Africa Society of Evangelical Theology, ATW's paertner in Africa, which brings together a diversified group of members who represent Evangelicals scholars and church practitioners in Africa and beyond, recently issued this call for papers for its 2022 Annual Conference on the theme: Salvation in African Christianity.
Every now and again, ATW receives notifications about the availability of fully funded doctoral scholarship positions at prestigious universities. Recently, we received two such positions that ATW would like to share with our users and the public.
On the 12th of August, the worldwide Church lost a leader and scholar who, possibly more than anyone else, transformed the understanding of the changes in world Christianity in the twentieth century. Born in Scotland, his Christian and theological development is inseparably interwoven with the African continent. After graduate studies in the history of the Early Church, Walls started his teaching career in 1957 at Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone when the colonial era was coming to an end. From 1962 till 1965, he helped start the Faculty of Religious Studies at the University of Nigeria, in Nsukka, Enugu State, in the newly independent Federal Republic of Nigeria.
In the discourses of both World Christianity and Intercultural Theology, Pentecostalism has emerged as the prime cite which engenders tremendous potential to assists scholars in their striving to understand the various local appropriations of the Pentecostal shades of Christianity across the globe. While Pentecostalism in Africa has received wider analysis beyond the two fields identified earlier, Pentecostal theology continues to generate exciting debates among scholars.
Part of the work we do at African Theology Worldwide is to provide the scholarly community with sample teaching and learning materials on a wide variety of themes related to African Christian Theology. In our recently published “Local Theologies on the World Wide Web: Learning Exercises”, we provide learning exercises which are intended to be used alongside our article “Local Theologies on the World Wide Web: Various Uses of the Internet for the Study of Theology in Africa.” We believe that while there are lots of freely available, peer-reviewed and academic journals online, such materials are still outside the research scope of professors, researchers and students of African Theology.
The Centre for Theology and Christianity Worldwide (CTCW) was recently launched at the Protestant Theological University, Groningen/Amsterdam, Netherlands. It exists as an academic centre that offer courses, seminars, conferences and webinars that interface the broad themes related to global expressions of theology and Christianity worldwide. To do so, CTCW presently work on the following three thematic areas: (i) Migration, Mission and Theology in Contemporary Europe; (ii) Science and Religion in Intercultural Perspective; and (iii) Pentecostal Theology Worldwide. Potential students who would like to pursue PhD’s in these or related themes are encouraged to contact the centre for guidance in the admission procedures at the university.
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.
Background and Need
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.
Established in 2016, Impact: Journal of Transformation is a multidisciplinary international, peer reviewed journal published in English by the Institute for the Study of African Realities (ISAR), at Africa International University, Nairobi, Kenya. It is a scholarly journal that publishes cutting edge research and offers scholarly opinions in the theological, Business, Humanities and Social Sciences that benefit the African community. Published twice a year (February and September), the journal addresses issues that intersect the African conditions of religion, politics, economics and society in a more holistic manner.
In May 2021, Langham Partnership formally welcomed its new International Director, Rev. Tayo Arikawe. The commissioning ceremony held on the 6th May, saw the global Langham family from around the world tuning in to welcome him. Hosted by Jill McGilvray, the Chair of the Langham Partnership International Council, and Christopher Wright, Global Ambassador and Ministry Director of Langham, Tayo was joined by his family, as well as a good friend and former colleague, Rev. Moses Onwuibiko, who led the prayer for the commissioning.
The Centre for Primal and Christian Spirituality at Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission & Culture, Ghana is organizing a two-day conference which explores the intersection of Theology and the Arts. African Christian thought forms are often expressed in artistic beauty.
The question of Africa’s religiosity along with the entry of secularization in African public sphere continues to generate heated debates among researchers in various disciplines. Rarely however is this question explored specifically in relation to the discipleship models adopted by the African church. In a recently published book coedited by Benno van den Toren, Joseph Bosco Bangura and Richard E. Seed, Is Africa Incurably Religious? Secularization and Discipleship in Africa, this question is explored.
Established in 2003, Global Missiology is an open access e-journal that facilitates the widest availability possible of crucial resources and scholarship on/about mission produced by researchers who are working in the field. Global Missiology - English is one of several language versions, each with its own unique contents. Researchers from around the world are invited to submit their work for possible publication at GM-E. By making critical research scholarship in the discipline of missiology and its related cognates freely accessible to researchers around the world, Global Missiology – English is a useful meeting point for researchers, teachers and students working in the field.
Organized jointly by African Theology Worldwide and the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies
Tuesday 27th April 14.00 BST / 15.00 CET for the occasion of the book launch of
Benno van den Toren, Joseph Bosco Bangura and Richard E. Seed (eds), Is Africa Incurably Religious? Securalization and Discipleship in Africa, Oxford, Regnum, November 2020.
The Protestant Theological University in the Netherlands has vacancies for two post-docs and one PhD candidate. The two post-doc positions are offered for six months from 1 July 2021 and allow candidates to prepare an independent research application to be submitted, for example to Rubicon or Veni. For the PhD position, the candidate is offered a full-time contract starting 1 July 2021 and is expected to work on issues bordering the impact of global processes on the religious identity formation of people and the contribution of Christian practices and beliefs to 'good life'. Requirements, deadlines and further details can be found here on the PThU website.
The Ecclesial Futures Journal, in partnership with the IAMS Christian Communities in Mission Study Group, are hosting an online Workshop, 8-10 June, to nurture research, and publishing that research, in mission. The Missional Research Workshop is designed to encourage research and networking. Each session will share skills in writing and publishing and provide opportunities for presentation of work in progress, along with generative feedback from experienced researchers.
We are grateful that the african.theologyworldwide.com website was formally launched at the online conference of the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology (ASET) from the 5th-6th of March 2021. This ten-minute introductory video contains a presentation of the website and its central components by Dr Benno van den Toren and Dr Bosco Bangura, and recommendations by three members of the Editorial Board, Dr Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Dr Liz Mburu, and Dr Diane Stinton.
