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Must God Remain Greek?

By Robert Earl Hood

Must God Remain Greek?
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    Preface
    Introduction

    PART ONE: PROPHETS, HEALERS, AND LIBERATORS

  1. African Indigenous Churches
    The Church of the Lord (Aladura)
    The Cherubim and Seraphim Church
    The Church of Jesus Christ on Earth (Zaire)
    Zionist Churches in South Africa
    Church of Christ in Africa (Kenya)
    Ingigenous Elements of Worship

  2. Caribbean Indigenous Religions and Churches
    Haitian Voodoo
    Cuban Santeria
    Trinidadian Shango
    Jamaican Churches and Traditional Religions
    ° Native Baptists
    ° Myalism
    ° Kumina
    ° Jamaican Revivalism

  3. Liberation Theologies in Afro Cultures
    South Africa's Apartheid Culture
    South African Liberation Theology
    Caribbean Liberation Theology (Rastafarianism)

    PART TWO: AN AFRO GRAMMAR OF FAITH

  4. Christian Theology and Afro Cultures
    Culture and the Grammer of Faith
    Salvation, Sin, and Death in Afro Cultures

  5. God: Traditional Motifs
    God in African Traditional Religion
    Attributes of God
    ° Divine Ubiquity
    ° Divine Creator
    ° Divine Pastoral Care

    The Religious Worldview of Africans

  6. Christ: A Son Out of Egypt
    Boundaries of Christology
    Christ as the Anointment One
    Christ as Lord of the Heavens
    Christ as Healer
    The Liberator and the Liberated

  7. Spirit and Spirits: Pneumatology and Afro Cultures
    The Biblical Tradition
    The Dogmatic Tradition
    The African Tradition
    Evil Spirits and Lordship in Afro Cultures
    The Spirit and Black American Religion
    Spirits in Black Culture

  8. Ancestors and Saints
    Hagiolatry and the Ancestors
    ° Ancestorship in the Caribbean
    ° Ancestors and Black American Religion
    Hagiography: Christian Saints and the Ancestors

    Epilogue
    Selected Bibliography
    Index
    Acknowledgments

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