African Origins of Monotheism

African Origins of Monotheism
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 117
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ISBN-10 : 9781620323106
ISBN-13 : 1620323109
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Book Synopsis African Origins of Monotheism by : Gwinyai H. Muzorewa

Download or read book African Origins of Monotheism written by Gwinyai H. Muzorewa and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Origins of Monotheism recasts an African knowledge of God in a new and original way. It aims to recapture concepts of God as originally reflected upon by pristine African religious thinkers. Muzorewa is seeking after the traditional African understandings of the Divine, which trace their origins back before the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Monotheism, he maintains, is the ancient view of God, ubiquitous across the continent of Africa; indeed, monotheism comes "out of Africa." The book challenges the way that the idea of God has been manipulated by Eurocentric agendas, by colonizers, enslavers, and empire builders, all of whom were using God-talk to achieve their own personal ends. In African thinking, the God concept is guided by a sense of the presence of the all-pervasive and omnipresent God, which has instilled in the people a sense of respect for life at all costs. Thus, respect is not based on a commandment or on fear but on a propensity for affinity.


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