Ancestor Christologies

The image is “The Resurrection of Jesus“, station 15 of the Stations of the Cross located in Lodwar Cathedral, Kenya

Afeke, B., and P. Verster. “Christianisation of Ancestor Veneration Within African Traditional Religions: An Evaluation.” In die Skriflig 1 (2004): 47-61.

Bediako, Kwame. “Jesus in the African Culture: A Ghanaian Perspective.” In Emerging Voices in Global Christian Theology, edited by William A. Dyrness, 93–121. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1994.

Beyers, Jaco, and Dora N. Mphahlele. “Jesus Christ as Ancestor: An African Christian Understanding.” HTS 65, no. 1 (2009): 1-20.

Clark, Jawanza Eric. “Reconceiving the Doctrine of Jesus as Savior in Terms of the African Understanding of an Ancestor: A Model for the Black Church.” Black Theology 8, no. 2 (2010): 140–59.

Clarke, Clifton R. African Christology: Jesus in Post-Missionary African Christianity. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2011.

Kabasélé, François. “Christ as Ancestor and Elder Brother,” in Faces of Jesus in Africa, edited by Robert J. Schreiter, 116–27. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995.

King, Fergus. “Angels and Ancestors: A Basis for Christology.” Mission Studies 11, no. 1 (1994): 10–26.

Lundström, Klas. “Some Recent Christological Approaches of African Theologians on the Ancestor Motif.” Svensk missionstidskrift 84, no. 3 (1996): 66–80.

Magezi, Christopher, and Jacob T. Igba. “African Theology and African Christology: Difficulty and Complexity in Contemporary Definitions and Methodological Frameworks.” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies; Vol 74, No 1 (2018) 74, no. 1 (2018): 1–7.

Mbiti, John S. “Some African Concepts of Christology.” In Christ and the Younger Churches, edited by Georg F. Vicedom, 51–64. London: SPCK, 1972.

Mokhoathi, Joel. “Jesus Christ as an Ancestor: A Critique of Ancestor Christology in Bantu Communities.” Pharos Journal of Theology 99 (2018): 1–16.

Muzorewa, Gwinyai H. “Christ as our Ancestor, Christology from an African Perspective, by C. Nyamiti, 1985: A Review Essay.” Africa Theological Journal 17, no. 3 (1988): 255–64.

Nürnberger, Klaus. The Living Dead and the Living God: Christ and the Ancestors in a Changing Africa. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa: Cluster, 2007.

Nyamiti, Charles. “African Christologies Today.” In Faces of Jesus in Africa, edited by Robert J. Schreiter, 3–23. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1991.

Palmer, Timothy P. “Jesus Christ: Our Ancestor.” Africa Journal of Evangelical Theology 26, no. 2 (2007): 65–75.

Phan, Peter C. “The Christ of Asia (An Essay on Jesus as the Eldest Son and Ancestor).” Studia Missionalia 45 (1996): 25–55.

Pobee, John S. Toward an African Theology. Nashville, TN: Abingdon, 1979.

Reed, Rod, and Gift Mtukwa. “Christ Our Ancestor: African Christology and the Danger of Contextualization.” Wesleyan Theological Journal 45, no. 1 (2010): 144–63.

Wanamaker, Charles A. “Jesus the Ancestor: Reading the Story of Jesus from an African Christian Perspective.” Scriptura 62 (1997): 281–98.

Posts in this Series

• The Diverse, Rich, and Critical Imaging of Jesus Christ
• Ancestor Christologies
• Asian Christologies 
• Black Christologies
• Christology and Colour Symbolism
• Critiques of Western Representations
• Indigenous Christologies
• Latin American Christologies
• Liberationist Christologies
• Migrant Christologies
• Pasifika Christologies