The Challenge of a Theologically Fruitful Method for Studying African Christian Ethics:

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" The Challenge of a Theologically Fruitful Method for Studying African Christian Ethics: "
Simon Kofi Appiah

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1066990
Doc. No	:	LA110619
Call No	:	‭10.1163/157254312X617132‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Simon Kofi Appiah
Title & Author	:	The Challenge of a Theologically Fruitful Method for Studying African Christian Ethics: [Article] : The Role of the Human Sciences\ Simon Kofi Appiah
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Exchange
Date	:	2012
Volume/ Issue Number	:	41/3
Page No	:	254–278
Abstract	:	There are attempts from different theological circles to keep the debate on inculturation ethics alive. Such attempts seek to contribute towards the development of inculturation ethics as an important area of study and its acceptance as a valuable source of Christian moral sensibility and practice. This essay joins the discourse by focusing on the methodological challenges involved in the study of inculturation ethics and proposes that a ‘critical appropriation’ of knowledge from the social sciences could yield a fruitful theological method for the study of African Christian ethics. Inculturation itself presupposes certain social scientific questions which cannot be ignored. The essay therefore suggests that the challenges and suspicions associated with attempts to adapt knowledge from the social sciences for the study of philosophical and theological questions dwindle in the face of the theological fruitful method that such an approach can generate. There are attempts from different theological circles to keep the debate on inculturation ethics alive. Such attempts seek to contribute towards the development of inculturation ethics as an important area of study and its acceptance as a valuable source of Christian moral sensibility and practice. This essay joins the discourse by focusing on the methodological challenges involved in the study of inculturation ethics and proposes that a ‘critical appropriation’ of knowledge from the social sciences could yield a fruitful theological method for the study of African Christian ethics. Inculturation itself presupposes certain social scientific questions which cannot be ignored. The essay therefore suggests that the challenges and suspicions associated with attempts to adapt knowledge from the social sciences for the study of philosophical and theological questions dwindle in the face of the theological fruitful method that such an approach can generate.
Descriptor	:	African
Descriptor	:	ethics
Descriptor	:	inculturation
Descriptor	:	method
Descriptor	:	social sciences
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/157254312X617132‬