TEOLOGIA FORMAL AFRICANA

Abstract

Despite the colonial experience of depersonalization and cultural invasion, African cultures still have their vitality.  This actual cultural vitality is the basis of the African people in their struggle for full liberation and the construction of a more humane society.  Nevertheless, we cannot forget the maintenance of the position of domination that results from colonialism.  This model still also exists in a religious level.  The organizational model imported from West is still proposed and accepted.  This is particularly true in theology.  The organization and practice of churches is dominated by a theology based in western values. The methodology, worldview and conception of humanity is imbued in Western categories.  Meanwhile, an African theology has borned and it is growing.  Among the different approaches in African theology, there is: a) a theological approach which, recognizing the values ​​inherent in traditional religions, discovers there a preparation for Gospel;  b) a critical theology that is born from contact with the Bible, from openness to African realities and from dialogue with non-African theologies;  c) a black theology that takes into account the experience of oppression and the struggle for liberation and finds its inspiration in biblical faith, expressed in the language and categories of Africa.