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Ogbu Kalu and Africa’s Christianity: A Tribute

2010; Brill; Volume: 32; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1163/027209610x12628362887712

1570-0747

Clifton Clarke,

Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies

Abstract In this review article some of the key ideas presented in the scholarship of Ogbu Kalu on African Christianity generally, and African Pentecostalism specifically, are discussed. The review commends Professor Kalu for broadening the historiography of Pentecostalism beyond North America and Europe to global phenomena with multiple access points. It further praises Kalu for pioneering the role of cultural moorings upon the shape of African Christianity. The review however highlights the limitations of a purely contextual and historiographical approach, and invites the discourse to participate in the broader global historical and theological Pentecostal conversation.