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Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion

The Search for Abundant Life

By: Stan Chu Ilo

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Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion

The Search for Abundant Life

By: Stan Chu Ilo

Wealth, Health, and Hope in African Christian Religion offers a portrait of how contending narratives of modernity in both church and society play out in Africa today through the agency of African Christian religion. It explores the identity and features of African Christian religion and the cultural forces driving the momentum of Christian expansion in Africa, as well as how these factors are shaping a new African social imagination, especially in providing answers to the most challenging questions about poverty, wealth, health, human, and cosmic flourishing. It offers the academy a good road map for interpreting African Christian religious beliefs and practices today and into the future.

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1498561284

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The Church and Development in Africa, Second Edition

By: Stan Chu Ilo

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The Church and Development in Africa, Second Edition

By: Stan Chu Ilo

In this book, Stan Chu Ilo offers an integral theology of development and a critical social analysis of different development theories and practices in the world, especially in Africa. Ilo offers a comprehensive biblical, anthropological, and theological foundation of the principles and praxis of Catholic social ethics from the Second Vatican Council to Pope Francis. Drawing from the social encyclical Charity in Truth, Ilo shows how Catholic social teaching responds to some of the challenging questions and concerns of our times in relation to human rights, ecology, globalization, international cooperation, development and aid, human and cultural development, business ethics, social justice, and the challenges of poverty eradication. He creatively applies these principles to the social context of Africa, and lays a groundwork for sustainable Christian humanitarian and social justice initiatives in Africa. ""Ilo focuses particularly on the importance of African traditional culture, especially the Ubuntu sense of community, at the heart of the ability of Africans to control their own development. He emphasizes the need for the church to recognize the deep roots of traditional religious cultures of Africa and to find ways that the gospel can enrich, not replace, those traditions."" --James R. Stormes, SJ, Theological Studies ""The thorough, broad perspective Ilo provides on development in Africa, particularly from a Catholic perspective, makes this book an invaluable resource. It is a significant contribution to development literature. The author's outlook is starkly realistic and refreshingly hopeful for the future of Africa."" --W. Jay Moon, International Bulletin of Missionary Research ""What an epic book! This is a profound and important book. Stan Chu Ilo takes us on a powerful journey through Catholic theology to Africa, its history and the development challenges of today. It is a book full of both personal passion and systematic rigor. It interweaves personal story, deep theological reflection, and robust academic analysis to reach workable and practical principles for aid today. It brings a fresh, African and Catholic perspective to an aid literature, populated largely by defunct Western prescriptions."" --Rich James, co-author of Capacity-Building for NGOs: Making it Work ""Imagine a Western church leader or church member interested in donating to an overseas cause, in a judicious way. Or, imagine a politically minded person, wanting to think through the relationship between Christian faith and aid and development. Then again, perhaps the reader simply wants to learn more about Catholic social ethics, African theology, or the link between dogmatics and social justice. There are many sorts of reader to whom this book would appeal, and that wide-ranging application is part of its appeal."" --Stephanie Lowery, Wheaton College ""Theologically, the book converses mainly with Catholic theology and social ethics. But its topic and message, like that of Catholic social teaching as a whole, can be appreciated by all those working toward a 'civilization of love' and particularly animated by Christian faith."" --William P. Gregory, writing in Missiology Stan Chu Ilo is a research fellow at the Center for World Catholicism and Inter-Cultural Theology, and Assistant Professor of Catholic Studies and World Christianity at DePaul University, Chicago, USA. He is also the founder of a registered Canadian Charity, Canadian Samaritans for Africa which is actively involved in social justice initiatives and poverty eradication programs and projects in four African countries. He is the editor of African Christian Studies Series for Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers.

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The Church and Development in Africa, Second Edition

Aid and Development from the Perspective of Catholic Social Ethics

By: Stan Chu Ilo

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Aid and Development from the Perspective of Catholic Social Ethics

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A Poor and Merciful Church

The Illuminative Ecclesiology of Pope Francis

By: Ilo, Stan Chu

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A Poor and Merciful Church

The Illuminative Ecclesiology of Pope Francis

By: Ilo, Stan Chu

This important text addresses three key questions which face modern Catholicism, especially in Africa: What is the ecclesiology of Pope Francis? How does this ecclesiology meet the challenges facing the universal church in today's complex world? And how can one translate the practices of this new approach into a theological aesthetics to meet the challenges and opportunities of the African social context?

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The Church and Development in Africa, Second Edition

Aid and Development from the Perspective of Catholic Social Ethics

By: Stan Chu Ilo

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The Face of Africa

Looking Beyond the Shadows

By: Stan Chu Ilo

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Looking Beyond the Shadows

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This book is a call on Africans and non-Africans to once more believe in the possibility of a better future for Africa. In these pages, Stan Chu Ilo writes of his experience and the experiences of many young Africans like himself who are disturbed by the present condition of Africa. He writes about the challenges facing most Africans who are growing up in the African continent without any hope of quality education, without any guarantee of adequate food, water, housing, and clothing; without any hope of getting a job, and without any prospect of living in peace with their neighbors. He writes of the sad situation of millions of young Africans who are dying of malaria and HIV/AIDS, and the African women whose fate and fortune have been shackled by a male-dominated society. He questions the bases of the existence of the failed states of Africa, who are caught up in a cycle of violence and disorder and who are not asking the right questions about the future of their nations. He argues that corruption, excessive authoritarianism, a stubborn hold on power, and lack of openness to consensus-building among some African leaders insult the cultural value of Africans with regard to a sense of community, love and solidarity. He also writes of the pain of globalization, the debt burden, immigration and trade restrictions on Africans and African countries, exploitation of ordinary Africans by fellow Africans and Western governments and business conglomerates. He wonders why many Western nations should turn their backs on Africa, when they all share some responsibility in bringing Africa to her knees. However, even though many Africans have become exhausted in the battle for national survival and fora living space to pursue their ordered ends, this book proposes that Africans should not claim perpetual victimhood, rather they should stand up once more and work for a better tomorrow, which is possible, and within their reach. Ilo insists that the imposing mountains of economic and social ruin; the rising moans and groans of numberless Africans, should not weaken the inner energy and ardent hopes of millions of Africans struggling against the untested assumption, that the cracking social, political, and economic foundations of present day Africa, are incapable of supporting the structures of a new Africa. The face of Africa today is ugly, but behind the ugly face is the beauty that has been distorted by historical and cultural factors. The present condition of Africa is only the sign of the urgent need for the peoples of Africa to brace up for the long and hard journey to reclaim their future. Ilo outlines how non-Africans who are interested in the African condition can be involved with the peoples of Africa. A proper understanding of the African continent and her peoples, her history and cultural evolution is a necessary first step for those who wish to be engaged with the Africans. His total picture approach model as the key to interpreting the African condition and in comprehensively addressing the challenges facing Africa, offers a helpful and original tool in understanding Africa. It helps to overcome the stereotypes, prejudices and paternalism which non-Africans apply in their reading of African history and their relation with the African reality. With masterly skills, a keen sense of history, a balanced perspective and objectivity, Ilo identifies the constraints to growth andinnovation in Africa in terms of the low stocks in the human-capital and cultural development. He introduces a new concept in the interpretation of the African condition: homelessness in terms of cultural and existential crises that confront Africans today. His conclusion is that cultural and human development is the irreducible decimal in any proposal for the transformation of the continent; that grassroots village-based action should be preferred over bogus and unworkable national approaches to African development.

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160899936X

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Someone Beautiful to God

Finding the Light of Faith in a Wounded World

By: Chu Ilo, Stan

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Someone Beautiful to God

Finding the Light of Faith in a Wounded World

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Someone Beautiful to God conveys the commonality of our human experience and the spiritual bond that holds us together as one family.

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The Face of Africa

Looking Beyond the Shadows

By: Stan Chu Ilo

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Looking Beyond the Shadows

By: Stan Chu Ilo

A technical insight to Africa's development." -- United Nations Conference for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva "This book is good news and a compelling work of our times. It creates hope, challenges despair, re-establishes authentic human development and original African values." --Prof. Obiora Ike, Catholic Institute for Development, Justice and Peace, Nigeria "A very precious contribution to Christian conversation on the future of Africa by a young African researcher." --Prof. Benezet Bujo, Chair, Centre for Moral Theology and Social Ethics, University of Freibourg, Switzerland "This book is a stirring manifesto for social reconstruction and interior transformation in Africa." --Prof. James H. Olthuis, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto "This is a bold attempt at contextual theology." --Dr. Joseph Faniran, Catholic Institute for West Africa "Stan Chu Ilo is one of Africa's bright stars and provides a Christian socio-ethical compass for navigating life in Africa for generations to come." --Prof. Uche Uguwueze, Professor of African Studies, California State University, Long Beach "A fascinating discourse on the trials and hope of the African continent." --Milwaukee Community Journal, USA

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Someone Beautiful to God

Finding the Light of Faith in a Wounded World

By: Stan Chu Ilo

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Finding the Light of Faith in a Wounded World

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Someone Beautiful to God conveys the commonality of our human experience and the spiritual bond that holds us together as one family. Author Stan Chu Ilo considers three central spiritual insights: Who are you? Where are you headed in life? And how can you find healing from pain and wounds? And by addressing these, he offers a Christian vision for looking at the gift and value of life, as well as resources-daily spiritual practices-for living a life of beauty and purpose"--

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0809154935

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A Poor and Merciful Church

The Illuminative Ecclesiology of Pope Francis

By: Stan Chu Ilo

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The Illuminative Ecclesiology of Pope Francis

By: Stan Chu Ilo

In this insightful text, Stan Chu Ilo addresses key questions that face modern Catholicism, particularly in Africa. He shows how two key themes of Pope Francis--the church of the poor and the church of mercy--have deep roots in biblical, patristic, and diverse ecclesial traditions. In Ilo's focus on Africa, he offers a "Triple A ecclesiology" of accountability, accompaniment, and action guided by some of the practices and theological aesthetics of Pope Francis. The result is a road map and guide for the mission of God in history beyond the papacy of Pope Francis.

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