African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions: Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti's Contribution

In African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions: Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti's Contribution, contributors explore John Samuel Mbiti's contributions to African scholarship and demonstrate how he broke through the western glass ceiling of scholarship and made African-informed and African-shaped scholarship a reality.

Contributors examine the far-reaching implications of Mbiti's scholarship, arguing that he shifted the contemporary African Christian landscape and informed global expressions of Christianity.

African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions analyzes Mbiti's scholarship and shows that his theories are malleable and fluid, allowing a new generation of scholars to reinterpret, reconstruct, and further develop his theories.

This collection brings together contributors from a wide range of disciplines to study John Samuel Mbiti as the father of contemporary African theology and grapple with questions Africans face in the twenty-first century.