Wyzwolenie czy inkulturacja? – zbieżne czy rozbieżne nurty afrykańskiej teologii?
Liberation or Inculturation – convergent or divergent trends of African Theology?

Summary/Abstract: With the shift of the centres of Christianity towards the South it has been increasingly noticeable that talking about Christian theology characterized by a geographical adjectives different from “European /Western” becomes acceptable. However, Christianity in Africa has still been considered by many Europeans as a hybrid of secondary importance. It will take some time before the European Christians will come fully to terms with accepting the contribution of African theology to the world Christianity. In describing African theology, especially its origins, quite a lot depends on the initial assumptions taken by the researcher – whether one would consider only academic theology as theology as such (then there is no African theology before 1960s) or one would consider as theology also African oral and ritual input (then the Africans have been theologizing almost from the moment they became Christians). Application of European standards and perceptions led to seeing two major trends in African theology – black theology and African theology (cultural/inculturation theology). With the work of African theologians of the younger generations one can discover that both trends have not been so much antagonistic to each other as rather complementary because both have been concerned with liberation, though approached from different angles and understood in different ways.

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