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In the last fifty years, the history of World Christianity has been disproportionally shaped, if not defined, by African Pentecostalism. The objective of this volume is to investigate and interrogate the critical junctures at which World Christianity invigorates and is invigorated by African Pentecostalism. The essays of the thinkers gathered here examine the general relationships between World Christianity and Africa and the specific interplays between World Christianity and African Pentecostalism. Scholars from multiple disciplines, continents, and countries evaluate how the theological scholarship and missional works of eminent African intellectual Johnson Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu have contributed to the scholarly understanding of how Global Christianity has been mediated by its reception in Africa. They also investigate how African Pentecostalism has been shaped by its contact with the diverse forms of Christianity in Africa and the rest of the world.
With contributions from:
Opoku Onyinah
Harvey C. Kwiyani
Kirsteen Kim
Craig S. Keener
Charles Prempeh
Kenneth R. Ross
Trevor H. G. Smith
Vivian Dzokoto
Chammah J. Kaunda
Felix Kang Esoh
Patrick Kofi Amissah
Caleb Nyanni
Marleen de Witte
Oluwaseun Abimbola
Philomena Njeru Nwaura
Faith Lugazia
Dietrich Werner
Allan H. Anderson
About the author
Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University. He is the author of
Nigerian Pentecostalism (2014).
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Adeshina Afolayan teaches philosophy at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is a coeditor of
The Palgrave Handbook of African Philosophy (2017),
Pentecostalism and Politics in Africa (2018), and the author of
Philosophy and National Development in Nigeria (2018).
