Celebrating Jesus Christ in Africa: Liturgy and Inculturation

Description: F. Kabasele Lumbala teaches liturgy at the Catholic Faculty of the University and at the theologate of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, both in Kinshasa, Congo. He shows how liturgy, baptism and confirmation, eucharist, marriage, annointing of the sick, and ordination have all been influenced by African life and culture. Black Africans consider themselves as "oaks grown from ancient stumps." Everything falls under the sway of the ancestors. Lumbala discusses new rituals of penance growing out of the view that repairing wrongs is a community affair. Those separated by a fight or a long-standing enmity must give a publ ... (more)

Manufacturer: Orbis Books
Release date: 10 July 1998
ISBN-10 : 0883449714 | ISBN-13: 9780883449714

Tags: Christianity (1), Forgiveness (1), Community (1), Catholic (1), Spirit (1), SnP (1), African Religions (1), Ritual/Practice (1)

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