Kevin's Theogrimage

An Introduction I had began a series on the question "is there one way to God?" and this post has been long overdue. It is a second part following up on  Part 1 .   In the first part, I had given the cultural context that the dilemma in asking this question finds itself in. In summary, our postmodern context seems to reduce the fundamentals of a given worldview and strongly appeals to emotion. That is why it is commonplace in our culture to say things like "you only live once" or in dissecting moral issues, "what's right for you may be wrong for me." It is such responses that form the basis of a relativistic view on reality and life. In this post we shall analyze such a worldview and see how it is at odds with understanding the biblical message. Aren't you being too exclusive? We are living in a world and continent that is globalizing. Despite the fact that there are some nuances towards the perspectives and applications of...

1. Introduction What is the kind of   anthropology that is beneficial for the global man today? The 21 st Century African man is faced with a variety of influences that inform his humanity and his interpretation of the world and God. The 21 st Century African man finds himself in a metropolis, where no singular and objective foundation of meaning is accorded to him. The African Scholar J. N. K. Mugambi observes “the greatest evidences of anarchical tendencies is in the urban centres – which, sociologically and universally, are associated with individual freedom from, anonymity, mobility, opportunity, flexibility and plurality.” [1] Mugambi observes that other scholars see this plurality of phenomenon as a success. Yet, a quick observation of the daily news articles paints a different picture: Religious wars, political and social anarchy, economic and health deprivation, capitalism, broken relationships and death. How then is man to find meaning in this cacophony of human e...

Let me begin by saying I write from an African context. I was raised up in a religious home, like many of my peers. It became a sort of tradition, and the concept of God was something that I held on to because of such an upbringing: They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. In my campus years, my curiosity resorted to some new tricks, in a simple statement, a quest to find my own imprint of this religion that had been passed down. The situation was further complicated by my working in a multi-cultural environment among the youth students, in areas of leadership, cultural exchange and social action. Here I was in a pot of simmering soup containing various religious beliefs (or lack thereof), philosophies and 'spirituality.' Needless to say, as an African, the general attack to what some would call "foreign religions" necessitated my distance towards an appreciation of the Christian faith. In fact, I cast it to the background, imbibed in youth culture and the...