Christianity and Suffering: African Perspectives

by Rodney L. Reed

Publisher:

Langham

, 2017

Overview

We often hear these days that the center of Christianity is moving toward the Global South and Africa is a key player in that movement. This makes the study of African Christianity and African realities important-even more so when it is being done by Africans themselves in their own context. The Africa Society of Evangelical Theology (ASET) was created to encourage research and sustained theological reflection on key issues facing Africa by and for African Christians and those working within African contexts. The volumes in the ASET series constitute the best papers presented at the annual conferences of ASET and together they seek to fill this important gap in the literature of Christianity. Africa is all too familiar with suffering. Yet there is a dearth of sustained theological reflection on suffering by Africans, or for Africans. Christianity and Suffering: African Perspectives addresses this need and is the fruit of the 5th Annual Conference of the Africa Society of Evangelical Theology. The contributions address age-old issues like why God does not prevent or relieve human suffering; they wrestle with causes of suffering including witchcraft, poverty, curses, and war; and they also explore appropriate Christian responses to suffering, all from within the African context.

Product Details

• Title: Christianity and Suffering: African Perspectives
• Author: Rodney L. Reed
• Series: ASET Series
• Publisher: Langham
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Suffering › Religious aspects--Christianity--Congresses; Theology › Africa--Congresses
• ISBNs: 9781783683604, 9781783683611, 9781783683628, 9781783683635, 1783683600, 1783683619, 1783683627, 1783683635
• Resource ID: LLS:CHRSTNTYSFFRNG
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:42:16Z

About Rodney L. Reed

Rodney L. Reed is a missionary educator who has been serving at Africa Nazarene University in Nairobi, Kenya, since 2001. Currently, he is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Academic Affairs, a position he has held since 2010. Prior to that, he served as the Chair of the Department of Religion for nine years. He holds a PhD in Theological Ethics from Drew University and is an ordained minister in the Church of the Nazarene.