The Kingdom of God and the Poor

The Bible Reading of the Economically Underprivileged Christians in Tanzania
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-525-50365-2
Verlag: Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, gebunden, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

Reihe: Research in contemporary religion

Meshack Edward Njinga explores the kinds of Bible study reading of the economically underprivileged Christians of southwest of Tanzania. He researched how economically underprivileged Christians read and interpret the text about poverty, themselves being poor people. Moreover, the study looked on how Christians move from the text to their context. As a result of research, the study has found that the economically underprivileged Christians use their context to inform the text rather than moving from text to the context.
In the CBS, the economically underprivileged Christians do theology. The kind of theology they are doing is a theology from below, the theology of the economically underprivileged. This is a practical theology which includes all people regardless of their academic background within African, specifically, Tanzanian Christianity. It involves all kinds of people regarding how they understand, communicate and live their Christian faith under perilous circumstances under which they are living in the community.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Njinga, Meshack Edward

Weitere Mitwirkende

Danani, Carla

Gruber, Judith

Heimbrock, Hans-Günter

Knauss, Stefanie

Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria

Wiberg Pedersen, Else Marie

Sander, Hans-Joachim

Wyller, Trygve

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Wiberg Pedersen, Else Marie
Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen is Professor for Systematic Theology at the Department for Culture and Society, Arts, at the University of Aarhus.

Njinga, Meshack Edward
Meshack Edward Njinga received his doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo.

Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria
Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati ist Professorin für Religionswissenschaft und Religionsgeschichte an der Evangelisch-Theologischen Fakultät der Universität München.

Heimbrock, Hans-Günter
Dr. päd. Hans-Günter Heimbrock ist Professor für Praktische Theologie am Fachbereich Evangelische Theologie der J. W. Goethe Universität Frankfurt a. M.

Gruber, Judith
Dr. Judith Gruber ist Dozentin für Systematische Theologie an der Katholischen Universität Leuven, Belgien.

Danani, Carla
Dr. Carla Danani ist Professorin für Politische Philosophie und Philosophie des Wohnens an der Universität von Macerata, Italien.

Knauss, Stefanie
Dr. Stefanie Knauss ist zur Zeit Associate Professor für Theologie an der Villanova University (USA).

Wyller, Trygve
Trygve Wyller is Professor Emeritus in Diaconal Studies and Systematic Theology at the Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo and Honorary Professor, School of Religion, Philosophy and Classics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has written extensively on space, ecclesiology, migration, phenomenology, ethics
and relevant Scandinavian Creation Theology-issues. Some of his recent publications are Diaconia/Empowering/Social Development, in the International Handbook of Practical Theology (2022); and Liberating, Spatial Theology. Some Reflections on How Theology Can Transform, in Dialogue with Gerald West (2024).
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Sander, Hans-Joachim
Dr. Hans-Joachim Sander ist Professor für Dogmatik an der Universität Salzburg.