African spirituality set in a context of Batswana Christians

Segami, Tom Mogorogi

dc.contributor.advisor	Lombaard, C.J.S. (Dr.)
dc.contributor.author	Segami, Tom Mogorogi
dc.date.accessioned	2010-03-11T12:24:33Z
dc.date.available	2010-03-11T12:24:33Z
dc.date.issued	2008-11
dc.identifier.citation	Segami, Tom Mogorogi (2008) African spirituality set in a context of Batswana Christians, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3174>	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3174
dc.description.abstract	In transmitting the Gospel, Western missionaries passed on their portrayal of Christ as a European. Conversion to Christianity was aimed more at promoting Western cultural, moral and spiritual issues. Western culture has thus been an obstacle or hindrance to effective cross-cultural communication of the Christian message. Batswana believers are challenged to peel the Western cultural layers off Christianity, in order to reclaim Christ. Batswana Christians will have to dress Christianity in the Tswana cultural heritage if it is to be of any lasting significance to them. Christian spirituality is centred on Jesus Christ, in the worldview of all Christians. Jesus joins faith and culture together. If Christianity is truly universal, then every culture should surrender to Jesus Christ and not to any other culture. Jesus’ question “who do you say that I am?” (Mk 8: 29), challenges Batswana Christians to write their own fifth Gospel.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Christian Spirituality	en
dc.subject	African Spirituality	en
dc.subject	Cross-cultural communication	en
dc.subject	African traditional	en
dc.subject	Tswana traditional religion	en
dc.subject	African Christology	en
dc.subject	African theology	en
dc.subject	Contextualisation	en
dc.subject	Ancestors	en
dc.subject	Supreme Being	en
dc.subject	Christian Spirituality	en
dc.subject	Incarnation	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Tswana (African People) -- Religion
dc.subject.lcsh	Ancestor worship -- Africa
dc.subject.lcsh	Spirituality -- Africa
dc.subject.lcsh	Africa -- Religious life and customs
dc.title	African spirituality set in a context of Batswana Christians	en
dc.type	Thesis	en
dc.description.department	Christian Spirituality Church History and Missiology
dc.description.degree	Thesis (M. Th. (Christian Spirituality))