After the pope ended his Africa swing on Monday, my wife and I remained in Cameroon for most of this week, pondering the impact of the trip and taking stock of the African church. The experience ...

Boston College theology professor M. Shawn Copeland. (Credit: Boston College.) Listen ROME — The women of Africa need to claim their space in the field of theology. This was one of the conclusions as ...

Theologian Kwame Bediako, who died in 2008, explored the intersections of identity, culture, and gospel by challenging long-standing assumptions about how to write theology. He modeled an African ...

On Nov. 1, Pope Francis gave a new mandate to the Pontifical Academy of Theology to "develop" the theological discipline to embody "a culture of dialogue and encounter between different traditions and ...

Recently a friend told me about an experience he and his wife had as students at a flagship evangelical seminary in the early 1980s. “The black church,” one of their professors explained, “is not ...

Africa’s theological landscape is changing significantly and rapidly. The pace and scope of this transformation came into focus at the first regional conference of the global network of Catholic ...

Recently I taught theology in South Africa, at St. Joseph’s Theological Institute in Pietermaritzburg. Hot and humid in late summer, 50 miles from the Indian Ocean, Pietermaritzburg in the state of ...

The multidisciplinary work of new faculty members Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones and Kyrah Malika Daniels has brought to Boston College a unique expertise on religion and the African Diaspora. Their ...

Journal of Africana Religions, Vol. 7, No. 2, Special Issue: James. H. Cone and Black Theology in Africana Perspective (2019), pp. 255-272 (18 pages) https://doi.org ...

Let me start with a declaration from start: I am a Pentecostal Christian who has often been curious about the trajectory of both mainstream Christianity (be it evangelical or Pentecostal) and African ...

The multidisciplinary work of new faculty members Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones and Kyrah Malika Daniels has brought to Boston College a unique expertise on religion and the African Diaspora. Their ...