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Towards an African Narrative Theology
(Orbis Faith and Cultures Series)
by Joseph Healey and Donald Sybertz. Robert J. Schreiter (General Editor and Writer of the Foreword)

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Paperback - 400 pages (March 1997)
Orbis Books; ISBN: 1570751218 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.81 x 8.24 x 5.64

Review Comment: This book is the fruit of many years of collecting African proverbs, wisdom sayings and stories that are both paradigmatic expressions of traditional African self-understanding and the best place to begin a study of African Christian theology. It explores how proverbs and stories reveal the shape of Christianity's inculturation in Africa. The book alerts readers everywhere in the world to the need to open minds and hearts to new contextualized ways of looking at the Christian mysteries.

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Celebrating Jesus Christ in Africa: Liturgy and Inculturation
(Orbis Books Faith and Cultures Series)
by Francois Kabasele Lumbala.

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Paperback - 128 pages (July 1998)
Orbis Books; ISBN: 0883449714 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.42 x 9.26 x 5.99

Review Comment: This insightful and informative book explores the Africanization of Catholic worship in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African countries and its implication for the World Church. African Christians are forging a synthesis between the Christian mystery, the Roman form of celebration and their own culture. The author asks challenging questions that affect the inculturation of the liturgy everywhere in the world.

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African Religion: The Moral Traditions of Abundant Life
by Laurenti Magesa

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Paperback - 296 pages (October 1997)
Orbis Books; ISBN: 1570751056 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.79 x 8.24 x 5.40

Review Comment: African Religion is now considered a World Religion on the same level with the other great World Religions. African moral teachings delineate values so that life might be abundant for all. Included in this book are teachings on educating children, marriage, family, sexuality, wrongdoing, healing, divination, reconciliation and social organization. These African values are relevant for people everywhere in our Global Village.

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St. Francis and the Foolishness of God
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Paperback - 184 pages (September 1993)
Orbis Books; ISBN: 0883448998 ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.49 x 8.18 x 5.35

Review Comment: To those who long to do something about inequity and poverty, about consuming consumerism and spiritual emptiness. The mystical and the earthly, liberations and faithfulness, literal poverty as well as the blessed poverty of the spirit.

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The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
by Michael Novak

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Hardcover - (February 1993) 334 pages

Preface

Introduction: More Than the Protestant Ethic

Max Weber's Limits

The Human Spirit

Toward a Catholic Ethic

A Preview

Pt. 1. Which System? Leo XIII to Pius XI (1891-1931)

1. Catholics Against Capitalism Fanfani's Italy Mean, Petty, Selfish, and Materialistic Wealth Is a Means, Not an End The Catholic Spirit Slowly Awakens
2. Socialism, No! Capitalism? Maybe: Leo XIII Why Did Socialism Fail? Workers, Yes! Capitalism? Maybe Toward the Future
3. Social Justice Redefined: Pius XI Rescuing a Virtue Conceptual Fog A Brief Historical Overview A Way Out The Civil Society: Five Further Steps From 1931 to 1991
Pt. 2. A New Birth of Freedom: John Paul II (1978- )
4. The Second Liberty
Two Concepts of Liberty
Order in the Ancien Regime
A Great Year, 1989
The Anticapitalist Bias of Intellectuals
Reconciling Economics and Religion
Convergence on Choice
Dynamic Order
In the Direction of Mind
The Three Spheres of Liberty
One Root, Two Liberties

5. Capitalism Rightly Understood
Background Reflections
Outline of Centesimus Annus
A Christian Social Anthropology
Capitalism, Yes
The Limits of Capitalism
Toward a More Civil Debate

Pt. 3. Next? Poverty, Race, Ethnicity, and Other Perplexities of the 21st Century
6. War on Poverty: "Created Goods Should Abound"
The Universal Destination and the Way
Reconstructing the World Order
International Poverty
Domestic Poverty
Social Invention

7. Ethnicity, Race, and Social Justice
International Perspectives
The "Civil Society" Project

8. Against the Adversary Culture
Against Nihilism
Culture and Character
American Founding Principles, Current Practice
The Pope's Challenge to the U.S.
Protecting the Moral Ecology
The Institutional Task

Epilogue: The Creative Person
Seven Moral Themes
The Right Stuff
Latin America
The New Virtues Required
The Heart of the Matter: Creativity
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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