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by Ikenna Ugochukwu Okafor (Author), Kurt Appel (Foreword by)
In this book, Ikenna Okafor tackles an interesting and timely topic and demonstrates competence and maturity in developing his insight into Igbo humanism--to make liberation theology from an African perspective into a theology of solidarity and fraternity. With a good narrative style, Okafor critiques the Latin American liberation theological project. And inspired by the hermeneutical implications of "UBE NAWANNE," the evangelical positioning of material poverty and pathos for the poor as defining Christian discipleship is persuasively presented. The potent nwanne idiom guides his critical evaluation of the social teachings and praxis of the Catholic Church. In fact, it is clear that Okafor embarked on a subject matter that is of theological moment and has creative pastoral implications for the Church of Nigeria, the Churches of Africa, and the World Church.
Author Biography
Ikenna Ugochukwu Okafor is a presently a postdoctoral research scholar at the University of Vienna, where he obtained both his master's and doctorate degrees in Catholic theology and lectured on Intercultural Theology. The present work is a revised version of his doctoral dissertation. He also works as a pastor in the archdiocese of Vienna.
