Elijah Mahlangu – Centre for Faith and Community

Author: Elijah Mahlangu

Children, Faith, and Society, Special Editions, Theology Disrupted: Doing Theology with Children in African Contexts

Theology disrupted: Doing theology with children in African contexts

Elijah Mahlangu July 31, 2020

The thrust of this article is an attempt to respond to the question whether we can read and interpret the bible in Africa from the child theology vantage point. The author’s answer is in the affirmative in two ways: Firstly, it is that the majority of children in Africa are facing abuses of unprecedented proportions...

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