In this book, Ikenna Okafor tackles an interesting and timely topic and demonstrates competence and maturity in developing his insight into Igbo humanism–to make liberation theology from an African perspective into a theology of solidarity and fraternity. With a good narrative style, Okafor critiques the Latin American liberation theological project. And inspired by the hermeneutical implications of ‘UBE NAWANNE, ‘ the evangelical positioning of material poverty and pathos for the poor as defining Christian discipleship is persuasively presented. The potent nwanne idiom guides his critical evaluation of the social teachings and praxis of the Catholic Church.
In fact, it is clear that Okafor embarked on a subject matter that is of theological moment and has creative pastoral implications for the Church of Nigeria, the Churches of Africa, and the World Church.
Mengenai Pengarang
Ikenna U. Okafor is a Nigerian-born adjunct professor of intercultural theology at the University of Vienna and a pastor in the Archdiocese of Vienna. His research interests are in themes related to fraternity, intercultural and interreligious relations, and African theology. He is the author of Toward an African Theology of Fraternal Solidarity: UBE NWANNE (Pickwick, 2014) and the co-editor of volumes 2 and 3 of Faith in Action, also published by Pickwick.