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For Freedom or Bondage?

A Critique of African Pastoral Practices

  • Paperback
  • 224 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
  • 15.4 x 22.8 x 1.6 cm

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In Ghana today, many people who suffer from a variety of human ills wander from one pastor to another in search of a spiritual cure. Because of the way cultural beliefs about the spiritual world have interwoven with their Christian faith, many Ghanaian Christians live in bondage to their fears of evil spiritual powers, seeing Jesus as a superior power to use against these malevolent spiritual forces. In For Freedom or Bondage? Esther Acolatse argues that Christian pastoral practices in many African churches include too much influence from African traditional religions. She examines Ghana Independent Charismatic churches as a case study, offering theological and psychological analysis of current pastoral care practices through the lenses of Barth and Jung. Facilitating a three-strand conversation between African traditional religion, Barthian theology, and Jungian analytical psychology, Acolatse interrogates problematic cultural narratives and offers a more nuanced approach to pastoral care
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  • Author

    Esther E. Acolatse

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Eerdmans Publishing Company

  • Published

    March 2014

  • Weight

    332g

  • Page Count

    224

  • Dimensions

    15.4 x 22.8 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780802869890

  • ISBN-10

    0802869890

  • Eden Code

    4269133

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