Jesus Christ as Logos Incarnate and Resurrected Nana (Ancestor)

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Biblical studies & exegesis

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Wordery

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Wipf & stock publishers

Jesus Christ as Logos Incarnate and Resurrected Nana (Ancestor) : Wipf & Stock Publishers : 9781725252868 : 1725252864 : 16 Oct 2020 : This book seeks to demonstrate the significance of Ancestor Christology in African Christianity for christological developments in World Christianity. Ancestor Christology has developed in the process of an African conversion story of appropriating the mystery of Christ (Eph 3:4) in the category of ancestors. Logos Christology in early Christian history developed as an intricate byproduct in the conversion process of turning Hellenistic ideas towards the direction of Christ (A. F. Walls). Hellenistic Christian writers and modern African Christian writers thus share some things in common and when their efforts are examined within the conversion process framework there are discernible modes of engagement. The mode of Logos Christology that one finds in Origen, for example, is an innovative application of the understanding of Jesus Christ as Logos (incarna

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