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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The African Experience of Jesus | |
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| Cry Jesus! Christian theology and presence in modern Africa | |
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| Modern Africa as a heartland of the Christian religion | |
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| Christian Africa: The surprise factor in the modern missionary story | |
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| Africa and the future of Christianity | |
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| Jesus of the deep forest: Theology from where faith must live | |
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| African theology: The quest and the discovery | |
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| Theology as witness | |
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| References | |
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| Jesus in African culture: A Ghanaian perspective | |
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| Christian faith and African traditional religion in retrospect | |
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| Jesus as divine conqueror in the African world | |
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| Jesus and the ancestors in Akan world-view | |
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| The university of Jesus Christ and our adoptive past | |
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| The Good News as our story | |
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| Jesus as 'Ancestor' and sole Mediator | |
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| The epistle to the Hebrews as OUR epistle! | |
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| Reading and hearing the Word of God in our own language | |
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| References | |
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| How is Jesus Christ Lord? Evangelical Christian apologetics amid African religious pluralism | |
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| Introduction: The biblical records as the fruit of engagement | |
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| My route to the problem | |
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| Christ, unique in relation to 'other lords' | |
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| Christian affirmations--as recognition, not assertion | |
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| The unique Christ (1): Religions as traditions of response | |
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| The unique Christ (2): What is it that, in Christ, confronts us? | |
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| Christian apologetics and the possibility of new theological idioms | |
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| Conclusion: Christian apologetics amid other religious faiths--the continuing encounter | |
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| References | |
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| Theology and Culture | |
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| Understanding African theology in the twentieth century | |
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| African Christian thought in the post-missionary era: Liberation and integration | |
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| An early shared concern: the African religious past as a prime theological issue | |
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| African theology and the shaping of a method--theology as the hermeneutic of identity | |
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| A range of responses--indigenisers, biblicists and translators | |
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| The 1990s--into new directions | |
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| African theology--a feeling after new languages? | |
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| African theology--a relevance beyond Africa? | |
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| References | |
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| Africa and the Fathers: The relevance of early Hellenistic Christian theology for modern Africa | |
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| 'Continuity' and 'discontinuity': Problems of meaning | |
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| Some specific areas of relevance | |
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| The possibility of Synthesis | |
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| The challenge of Pluralism | |
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| Theology as Indigenisation | |
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| The pre-Christian heritage as a 'tradition of response' | |
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| Agenda for the future | |
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| African theology and its African critics | |
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| The Christian faith as 'a historical category' in the African experience | |
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| References | |
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| One Song in Many Tongues | |
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| References | |
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| Africa and the History of Christianity | |
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| The Primal imagination and the opportunity for a new theological idiom | |
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| Introduction: Prophet Harris | |
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| The nature of the primal world view--H. W. Turner's six-feature analysis | |
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| The African world and the problem of unresolved multiplicity | |
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| Towards a fresh approach | |
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| References | |
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| Christian religion and African social norms: Authority, desacralisation, and democracy | |
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| Introduction: Christianity's significance in African political history | |
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| A new political task: From independence to democracy | |
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| The religious roots of African post-independence political authoritarianism | |
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| Christianity and the de-sacralisation of authority and power in history | |
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| References | |
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| Towards a new understanding of Christian history in the post-missionary era | |
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| Introduction: The new global impact of the Third World Church | |
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| Theologies of the South: a new way of doing theology | |
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| Christian History: its new shape | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| References | |
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| Publications of Kwame Bediako | |