Vital force as a triangulated concept of nature and s(S)pirit

Nalwamba, Kuzipa; Buitendag, Johan

doi:10.4102/hts.v73i3.4506

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“…The term ‘universe’ is used to mean both the known and unknown physical and metaphysical spaces conceived as an absolute totality. The vitalistic God has been widely discussed by scholars like Metz and Molefe, Tempels, and Nalwambaand Buitendag (2017). Metz and Molefe, Tempels, and Nalwamba and Buitendag identify the vitalistic God with the theistic God.…”

Section: The Existence Of Godmentioning

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Rethinking the concept of God and the problem of evil from the perspective of African thought

Agadá

2022

Rel. Stud.

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In this article, I show that: (1) There is a transcendence strain in African Traditional Religion (ATR) and traditional African thought that agrees perfectly with traditional monotheism and legitimizes the question of the relation of God with evil in the world. (2) There is incontrovertible evidence of the conception of God as a limited deity that subverts the categories of omnipotence and omniscience. (3) African philosophers of religion must show how a transcendent or, conversely, a limited God is related to the evil that exists in the world, since the overwhelming stance of ATR is that God is the creator of the world and wields effective power. I substitute the categories of omnipotence and omniscience with the novel categories of power and glory and argue that while a powerful and glorious God is not the author of evil and cannot eliminate evil in the world, such a God can be conceived as working to reduce the evil in the world through the instrumentality of human moral agency.

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Section: The Existence Of Godmentioning

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Rethinking the concept of God and the problem of evil from the perspective of African thought

Agadá

2022

Rel. Stud.

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“…People claim encounters with their dead ones in dreams, visions and even physically in activities and functions. And in these encounters, these living-dead are said to appear just the way they were before their physical death (Nalwamba and Buitendag 2017:90). This is the origin of necromancy, a practice which is silently spread in Igbo culture.…”

Section: Ontological Mutation and The Immortality Of The Soul Among T...mentioning

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Immortality of the soul in classical western thought and in Igbo-African ontology: A discourse in existential metaphysics

Ukwamedua¹

2022

Ethnicities

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In Orphism, through Pythagoras to Plato, the soul survives the death of the body. But for Aristotle it is the form of the body, and this makes its immortality unlikely, since form cannot exist without an individuating matter. Exploring synthesis, the soul is for Aquinas an incarnate spirit whose union with the body creates a unique union. This paper then employing the critical-analytic model argued that these traditions were quite myopic; and this informed the interrogation of another cultural position which is, the immortality of the soul in Igbo-African ontology. The intention is to brace the classical positions towards a holistic idea of the immortality of the soul. This is because, in Igbo ontology, there is no distinction between body and soul, as the attention is on man as a complete being, who at death experiences what this paper called ontological mutation.

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“…In Africa, as everywhere, climate change 43 and environmental sustainability 44 has become a cross-cutting issue 45 and therefore a legitimate item on the theological agenda of ecumenical theology. 46 Most, if not all, theological reflections on this theme, given its multidisciplinary nature, are necessarily ecumenical in their approaches.…”

Section: Ecumenical and Environmental Issuesmentioning

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The Ecumenical Factor in African Theology and Ecclesiology

Maluleke¹

2022

The Ecumenical Review

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In addition to the continental and national councils of churches and ecumenical theological institutions, Black and African theologies are some of the most ecumenical initiatives in Africa. This article explores the ecumenical factor in the emergence and the continued flourishing of Black and African theologies. Notably, these theologies have, from their earliest days, endeavoured to include indigenous religions and cultures as well as environmental issues. This essay also outlines a sample of the most prominent types of ecumenical theologies in contemporary Africa, arguing that these theologies are simultaneously the result of an ecumenical outlook and the greatest advocates for ecumenism in Africa.

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Vital force as a triangulated concept of nature and s(S)pirit

Cited by 24 publications

References 8 publications

Rethinking the concept of God and the problem of evil from the perspective of African thought

Rethinking the concept of God and the problem of evil from the perspective of African thought

Immortality of the soul in classical western thought and in Igbo-African ontology: A discourse in existential metaphysics

The Ecumenical Factor in African Theology and Ecclesiology

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