Community and Trinity in Africa

Cover — Title — Copyright — Dedication — Contents — Foreword — Preface — 1 Introduction — Background to community and Trinity — Purpose, significance, and procedure adopted — Scope and limitation of the book — The African tradition of community: what is it? — Evolution of Nigeria as a nation-state — Bibliography — 2 Major African communal structural evils — Destructive patriarchal complex — The “Big Man” syndrome — Ethnic and religious nepotism — Summary and conclusion — Bibliography — 3 The “amazing history” of the Trinity — Mainline Eastern Trinitarian thinkers — Mainline Western Trinitarian thinkers — Eclipse and renaissance of Trinitarian theology in the early modern period — Contemporary African hermeneutics of the Trinity — Summary and conclusion — Bibliography — 4 The new hermeneutics of the Trinity — Starting point of the new Trinitarian theology — Hermeneutics of Trinitarian mutual relations of the Triune God — Hermeneutics of the unity of the Triune God — The Trinitarian communion: a moral ideal — Summary and conclusion — Bibliography — 5 An authentic African tradition of community — The Lord’s supper and the perichoretic life of God — Dismantling the patriarchal complex — The true Big Man: newariga diksen — The gift of ethnic and religious diversity — Perichoretic theological education — Summary and conclusion — Suggestions for further research — Bibliography — Index